pomp, harrumph, portfolio rejuvenated. BRITTANY. Breton

PAUL GAUGUIN. 1848 –1903 V Sco Jabbah  ·  Young breton by the sea, 1889 - Paul Gauguin 所有心情： 392392 Breton /ˈbrɛt(ə)n/ Learn to pronounce noun 1. a native of Brittany. 2. the Celtic language of Brittany, derived from Cornish. It has around 500,000 speakers. adjective 1. relating to Brittany or its people or language. 2. denoting a casual striped top, typically white with narrow horizontal blue stripes, of a type loosely associated with French or Breton sailors. "just pull on a classic Breton t-shirt" Explorer | Brittany Rejuvenating on France’s Wild Coast By SARAH WILDMAN The Quiberon peninsula offers wild landscapes and a water-therapy spa and diet center where the world weary can nurse themselves back to health. July 25, 2008 -- 2:39 a.m. EDT In Berlin, Obama Calls for Unity

Obama made an impassioned call for rejuvenated U.S.-European ties in a speech before an estimated 200,000 in Berlin as the senator sought to burnish his image as a global statesman ahead of the U.S. presidential election. (Text of the speech)

Arts on the Air | 28.05.2008 | 05:30
Victor Hugo's Painting and Drawings on Show in Weimar

Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Buste de Victor Hugo by Auguste Rodin

Victor Hugo was one of the great romantics, but hardly anyone knows him as a painter.

Victor Hugo was buried with almost royal pomp in the most important mausoleum that France has to offer, the Panthéon, in Paris. Today scarcely anyone reads his novels and plays but the films and operas made from them are classics, like the "Hunchback of Notre Dame "or Verdi's Rigoletto.
But an exhibition in Weimar concentrates on a much less well-known aspect of Victor Hugo's work: his paintings and drawings.


I got the typical teenager guttural sigh and Katie rolled her eyes at me as if to say, ‘Oh Dad, you are so out of it.’ ”
After that, the back-seat chattering stopped. When Mr. Hampton looked into his rearview mirror he saw his daughter sending a text message on her cellphone. “Katie, you shouldn’t be texting all the time,” Mr. Hampton recalled telling her. “Your friends are there. It’s rude.” Katie rolled her eyes again.
“But, Dad, we’re texting each other,” she replied with a harrumph. “I don’t want you to hear what I’m saying.”

harrumph
verb [I] INFORMAL MAINLY HUMOROUS
to express annoyance and disapproval, often not by speaking but making a noise:
I didn't hear what he said - he sort of harrumphed and walked off.
[+ speech] "Absolute nonsense!" harrumphed the colonel.

harrumph

(hə-rŭmf') 
intr.v., -rumphed, -rumph·ing, -rumphs.

1. To make a show of clearing one's throat.
2. To offer usually brief critical comments: harrumphed for a while over the proposal.

[Imitative.]

Report: Michael Lawtonpomp
noun [U]
splendid and colourful ceremony, especially traditional ceremony on public occasions:
The Prime Minister was received with all the traditional pomp and ceremony that is laid on for visiting heads of government.
Despite all the pomp of his office/position, he has only limited powers.


port·fo·li·o (pôrt-fō'lē-ō', pōrt-) n., pl. -os.

A portable case for holding material, such as loose papers, photographs, or drawings.
The materials collected in such a case, especially when representative of a person's work: a photographer's portfolio; an artist's portfolio of drawings.
The office or post of a cabinet member or minister of state.
A group of investments held by an investor, investment company, or financial institution. 用法如investment (credit) portfolio
[Italian portafoglio : porta-, from portare, to carry, from Latin portāre + foglio, sheet (from Latin folium, leaf).]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition 有簡單的語源說明。 這是優點，因為它可以幫助我們了解最早的用法。
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n. - 文件夾, 卷宗夾, 部長職, 公事包, 大臣職
日本語 (Japanese) n. - 折りかばん, かばんに入れた書類, 大臣の職務, 有価証券の目録, ポートフォリオ【這是日本採取的音譯：portfolio analysis；PPM表示 Product Portfolio Management】
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像portfolio這樣常用的字，包含的意思遠超過上述英文和中文。
所以必須要參考類似 Wikipedia article "Portfolio". 它告訴我們
經營、管理、行銷等領域中，portfolio 的使用情形：舉凡公司的產品、服務、品牌、專案、創新……等等的「組合」，都可以稱為portfolio。它主要是要追求多角化（或多樣化），來避免個別項目的表現起伏左右全公司的績效。

譬如說，某家著名的私人基金的資產組合；Its total office portfolio consisted of whole or partial interests in 580 buildings comprising 108.6 million square feet...

醫藥界用語: Product pipeline An outline of our drug development portfolio.
科技公司的創新領域之組合：They use metrics best in assessing the health of their company's innovation portfolio

Management and marketing
In strategic management and marketing, a portfolio is a collection of products, projects, services, or brands that are offered for sale by a company. In building up a product portfolio a company can use various analytical techniques including B.C.G. Analysis, contribution margin analysis, G.E. Multi Factoral analysis,and Quality Function Deployment. Typically a company tries to achieve both diversification and balance in their portfolio of product offerings.
參考： Wikipedia article "Portfolio Management for New Products".

***國立編譯館
市場學： portfolio foreign investment 國外投資組合 ； portfolio tests (in advertising research) 卷夾測驗(應用於廣告研究)
經濟學： portfolio 資產組合；Market portfolio 市場資產組合；portfolio diversification 資產組合多樣化 ； portfolio efficiency frontier 資產組合效率前緣；portfolio insurance 資產組合保險投資策略；portfolio-balance approach 資產平衡分析法 ； Minimum variance portfolio 最低變異數資產組合
海事： chart portfolio 海圖夾；portfolio 未滿期保險業務；再保險業務。 portfolio transfer 未滿期保險業務之轉移
工業工程名詞： application portfolio 應用投資組合
電子計算機 portfolio 選集； portfolio analysis 選集分析； portfolio selection 組合選擇。 integrated portfolio management team 整合專案管理團隊。Photo CD portfolio 攝影光碟檔案夾
普通心理學名詞： portfolio assessment 檔案評量

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新聞分析：
Palm Inc. has been struggling to compete due to a relatively small portfolio of devices. (WSJ) 公司產品（掌上電腦等）的組合比較有限。

----軟體公司的產品組合：
Google has acquired online slide presentation company Zenter, filling out its web-based office software portfolio with an application similar to Microsoft's popular PowerPoint.
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Yahoo公司重組，創辦人之一楊先生掌CEO職。可是他並沒有在各職務鍛鍊的履歷表（PORTFOLIO）：And Mr.Yang has been a member of the executive management without portfolio.
所以他是尚待考驗（UNTESTED）的吹高行政決策主管：
As Jerry Yang takes over as Yahoo’s chief executive, all eyes are on the next steps that Mr. Yang, the company’s co-founder, untested as a top executive, will take to rejuvenate the troubled business.

***習題：保險說法：
Simplified Commercial Lines Portfolio Policy (SCLP)
Policy that provides coverage through four parts:
張瑞麟：「或許是新產品的緣故，手邊現有之保險辭典尚未收錄此一詞彙。我猜大概是簡易型商業（或產物）綜合保險方面的規定」

rejuvenate

(rĭ-jū'və-nāt')
tr.v., -nat·ed, -nat·ing, -nates.

1. To restore to youthful vigor or appearance; make young again.
2. To restore to an original or new condition: rejuvenate an old sofa.
3. 1. To stimulate (a stream) to renewed erosive activity, as by uplift of the land.
   2. To develop youthful topographic features in (a previously leveled area).

[RE– + Latin iuvenis, young + –ATE¹.]

rejuvenation re·ju've·na'tion n.
rejuvenator re·ju've·na'tor (-tər) n.