2008年9月24日 星期三

mite and scabies, tabula rasa, home in on sth/sb

Personal Health


By JANE E. BRODY
Scabies is frequently misdiagnosed and mistreated, partly because its symptoms mimic so many other skin diseases.



Carly Fiorina, the woman John McCain sent out to defend Sarah Palin and rip anyone who calls her a tabula rasa on foreign policy and the economy, admitted Tuesday that Palin was not capable of running Hewlett-Packard.

Op-Ed Columnist‘Barbies for War!’


Published: September 16, 2008


Japan Party Homes In on Leader
Wall Street Journal - USABy HIROKO TABUCHI TOKYO -- Japan's ruling party picks a successor to Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda on Monday, and it looks like a thankless job. ...



home in on sth/sb phrasal verb INFORMAL
1 to aim for:
The missile homed in on the ship.

2 to find and give a lot of attention to something or someone:
The report homed in on the weaknesses in the management structure.



tabula rasa

n.pl. tab·u·lae ra·sae (tăb'yə-lē' rä'sē, -zē).
    1. The mind before it receives the impressions gained from experience.
    2. The unformed, featureless mind in the philosophy of John Locke.
  1. A need or an opportunity to start from the beginning.
[Medieval Latin tabula rāsa : Latin tabula, tablet + Latin rāsa, feminine of rāsus, erased.]

n. - 疥癬
這肇因於我在醫院首次照顧一位挪威疥(Norwegian scabies)的病人。這類病患因免疫低下,一染疥蟲,繁殖函數便囂張爬升。疥蟲約0.3mm,肉眼幾乎不見,接觸傳染,得病了叫疥瘡,以皮膚皺摺處的紅疹與劇癢為主要表現。{黃信恩
idiom:
a mite
  1. To a small degree; somewhat: That remark was a mite unfair.
It was a mite difficult to ride the bicycle in the rainstorm.
Tutor's tip: While he "might" (may) be just a "mite" (a small child or parasite) don't underestimate his "might" (power or strength).
n. - 微小的東西, 小孩, 一點點, 極少的錢
2. n. - 小蜘蛛, 小虱
日本語 (Japanese)
n. -
ダニ, ごく小さいもの, 半ファージング, 少額の金, 少量, , フランドルの小額銅貨, 小銭, 子供

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