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

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An Itchy Torment, Often Misdiagnosed

By JANE E. BRODY

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

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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.

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By MAUREEN DOWD

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. 1. The mind before it receives the impressions gained from experience.
   2. The unformed, featureless mind in the philosophy of John Locke.
2. A need or an opportunity to start from the beginning.

[Medieval Latin tabula rāsa : Latin tabula, tablet + Latin rāsa, feminine of rāsus, erased.]

scabies

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

mite

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, 少々, フランドルの小額銅貨, 小銭, 子供