galley, galleon, breathtaking, by far

前幾天，錦坤兄來參加"2015紀念胡適之先生"的座談會時，送我一本繪本{頑童伐鬼記} 。對這本書，我有些牢騷和批評：

Mayor of New York City, Michael R. Bloomberg explained, " If you want to do something for your children and show how much you love them, the single best thing - by far - is to support organizations that will create a betterword (sic) for them and their children. 這段文字是紐約市長Michael R. Bloomberg 呼籲市民投入"某一慈善工作"時所發表的談話，他相信那是對自己的孩子所能展現"最好的愛"。

上段出自楊逵著、胡惠鈞圖，{頑童伐鬼記}新化：楊逵文學紀念館，2015.10。上段是該書第一頁，鄭區長的【序】之一段， 其中(sic)是我所加的 (應該是best world)，引號改成" "。

British Museum

This astonishing mechanical galleon is a marvel of craftsmanship and engineering. It is a ‘nef’ – an extravagant metal table ornament in the shape of a ship.

Made by Hans Schlottheim in German, in about 1585, the central figure of the galleon is the Holy Roman Emperor, surrounded by seven noblemen. When the clockwork mechanisms were wound, the ship moved forward over the table and they bowed in front of the Emperor. Miniature figures of the trumpeters and drummers on the deck moved in time to music that was generated by an internal organ and drum. The front canon also fired, lighting a fuse which in turn fired the canons on each side of the ship. The display finished in a cloud of smoke and must have been breathtaking to a 16th-century audience.

Find out more about this incredible object in this BBC Radio 4 podcast: http://ow.ly/uY2T305patW

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As the pillow fight ended and the stewardess ran off to the galley where a colleague pretended to haul her to safety, applause broke out and passengers rocked back and forth with laughter and slapped their thighs.
當這場枕頭戰結束時，這名空服員逃到廚房，一名同事在那裡作勢要把她拉到安全地方避難，此時乘客爆出一片掌聲，並拍著大腿、笑得前俯後仰。

Etymology[edit]

The term Galleon "large ship", comes from Old French Galion "little ship" (13c.), from Spanish (Castilian) Galeón "armed merchant ship", from Portuguese Galeão "war ship", from Byzantine Greek Galea "galley" + augmentative suffix -on.^[2] Another possible origin is the Old French word galie meaning "galley".^[3] The term was originally given to certain types of war galleys in the Middle Ages. The Annali Genovesi mentions galleons of 80, 64 and 60 oars, used for battle and on missions of exploration, in the 12th and 13th centuries. It is very likely that the galleons and galliots mentioned in the accounts of the crusades were the same vessels.^{[citation needed]} In the early 16th century, the Venetian galleoni was a new class of galley used to hunt down pirates in the Mediterranean.

Later, when the term started to be applied to sail-only vessels, it meant, like the English term "man of war", any large warship that was otherwise no different from the other sailing ships of the time

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galley

ˈɡali/

noun

1. 1.

   historical

   a low, flat ship with one or more sails and up to three banks of oars, chiefly used for warfare or piracy and often manned by slaves or criminals.
2. 2.

   the kitchen in a ship or aircraft.