Blockheads & Sissies. In 318 years, there have been other aspects to the job. “If any man wishes to be humbled and mortified,” said President Edward Hoiyoke on his deathbed in 1769. “let him become president of Harvard College.”
She has none of the bravura or bluster of a famous writer,
Chiesa di San Moisè façade
Campo San Moisè, Venice, Italia
Date: 17th century ( around 1668 )
Architect: Alessandro Tremignon ( 1635-1711 )
Architectural style: baroque
Campo San Moisè, Venice, Italia
Date: 17th century ( around 1668 )
Architect: Alessandro Tremignon ( 1635-1711 )
Architectural style: baroque
The three men who overpowered the Paris train attacker on what it's like to take on an armed man.
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What he found was inspectors overpowered with fear. They had taken the idea into their heads that if the customer found an item to be faulty, the inspector ...
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Unfortunately, consensus in inspection or anywhere else may only mean that one head overpowered the other, and the consensus is only one man's opinion. ...
Like an episode of “Seinfeld,” “Elsewhere, U.S.A.” tends to move from one baroquely awkward social experience to the next. At an upscale restaurant, Conley is mortified to discover that the waiter is an old dorm mate from his “elite public university.”
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| Definition: |
| 1. subdue somebody physically: to use superior strength or force to defeat somebody, especially to make somebody physically helpless and unable to fight |
| 2. overwhelm somebody mentally: to have so strong an effect on somebody that he or she is unable to resist or control it |
| 3. give excessive power to something: to supply something, especially a car, with more power than necessary |
・ing ━━ a. 無念な; 苦行の.verb [T]
1 to defeat someone by having greater strength or power:
The gunman was finally overpowered by three security guards.
2 If a smell or feeling overpowers you, it is so strong that it makes you feel weak or ill:
The smell of gas/heat overpowered me as I went into the house.
━━ vt. 打勝つ; 圧倒する; 打ちひしぐ, まいらせる.
overpowering
adjective
too strong:
Firefighters were driven back by the overpowering heat of the flames.
There's an overpowering smell of garlic in the kitchen.
He's suffering from overpowering feelings of guilt.
(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
over・power・ing ━━ a. 圧倒的な, 抵抗できない; 強い性格の.Emma by Jane Austen
"Thank you. I should be mortified indeed if I did not believe I had been of some use; but it is not every body who will bestow praise where they may. _You_ do not often overpower me with it."
末句翻譯比較有意思
這overpower 懷疑有古義...
(本段翻譯取第二義)
遊目族版：「謝謝你。如果我不相信自己還能有所作為的話
人民文學版：你在這方面就經經常對我極其嗇刻。(這版本you 字體不同)
上海譯文版：你也不大肯多贊楊我。
南京譯文版：你就不肯多誇獎我。
2008年1月9日 星期三
baroque, woo, moxie, mum (SECRET)
Many of the top ones combine the same game show/reality TV elements, in increasingly baroque combinations: participants who jostle for viewers' affection by singing, cooking, having sex, eating grubs, etc; presenters and pantomime judges to oversee their humiliation; and premium-rate voting by the audience to determine the winners.
woo, moxie, mum (SECRET)
Norway's Think Global plans to sell a small electric car in the U.S. with the help of U.S. venture capitalists, evidence that the race to woo American consumers with electric cars is heating up.
Brand-Name Food Makers Woo Retailers With Displays
The retailer is about to find out how many men are left in New York with the money, and the moxie, to pay more than $7,000 for an off-the-rack suit, or as much as $21,025 for the made-to-order version.
“The first observation that one must make about the new CBS headquarters,” Ada Louise Huxtable wrote in 1966, “is that it is a building.”
It takes a lot of moxie to open a piece of serious criticism with such a lofty declaration of the obvious, offered in praise, without sarcasm or irony. But then Huxtable, who was the architecture critic for The New York Times from 1963 to 1982 and still, at 87, tosses out the occasional bravura essay for The Wall Street Journal, has never lacked nerve.
Circuit City CEO Mum on Buyout
Circuit City stayed mum at its annual meeting about whether a buyout is in the future for the retailer, but an activist investor expects an announcement of a possible sale within the next month.
adj.
Not verbalizing; silent.
interj.
Used as a command to stop speaking.
idiom:
mum2 (mŭm)
intr.v., mummed, mum·ming, mums.
WordNet: moxie
Meaning #1: (informal) fortitude and determination
Synonyms: backbone, grit, guts, sand, gumption
moxie
n. Slang.
Moxie was created in
Accor
marketed
woo
verb [T] wooing, wooed, wooed
1 to try to persuade someone to support you or to use your business:
The party has been trying to woo the voters with promises of electoral reform.
The airline has been offering discounted tickets to woo passengers away from their competitors.
2 OLD-FASHIONED If a man woos a woman, he gives her a lot of attention in an attempt to persuade her to marry him:
He wooed her for months with flowers and expensive presents.
wooer
noun [C]
baroque
adjective
relating to the heavily decorated style in buildings, art and music that was popular in Europe in the 17th century and the early part of the 18th century:
baroque architecture/painters
woo, moxie, mum (SECRET)
Norway's Think Global plans to sell a small electric car in the U.S. with the help of U.S. venture capitalists, evidence that the race to woo American consumers with electric cars is heating up.
Brand-Name Food Makers Woo Retailers With Displays
The retailer is about to find out how many men are left in New York with the money, and the moxie, to pay more than $7,000 for an off-the-rack suit, or as much as $21,025 for the made-to-order version.
“The first observation that one must make about the new CBS headquarters,” Ada Louise Huxtable wrote in 1966, “is that it is a building.”
Eddie Hausner/The New York Times (1965)
Black Rock: The CBS building, by Eero Saarinen.
It takes a lot of moxie to open a piece of serious criticism with such a lofty declaration of the obvious, offered in praise, without sarcasm or irony. But then Huxtable, who was the architecture critic for The New York Times from 1963 to 1982 and still, at 87, tosses out the occasional bravura essay for The Wall Street Journal, has never lacked nerve.
Circuit City CEO Mum on Buyout
Circuit City stayed mum at its annual meeting about whether a buyout is in the future for the retailer, but an activist investor expects an announcement of a possible sale within the next month.
adj.
Not verbalizing; silent.
interj.
Used as a command to stop speaking.
idiom:
mum's the word
- Say nothing of the secret you know: Mum's the word on the surprise party.
[Middle English, perhaps imitative of closing one's lips.]
mum2 (mŭm)
intr.v., mummed, mum·ming, mums.
- To act or play in a pantomime.
- To go merrymaking in a mask or disguise especially during a festival.
[Middle English mummen, from Old French momer, to wear a mask.]
WordNet: moxie
Meaning #1: (informal) fortitude and determination
Synonyms: backbone, grit, guts, sand, gumption
moxie
n. Slang.
- The ability to face difficulty with spirit and courage.
- Aggressive energy; initiative: “His prose has moxie, though it rushes and stumbles from a pent-up surge” (Patricia Hampl).
- Skill; know-how.
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Accor
marketed
[From Moxie, trademark for a soft drink.]
woo
verb [T] wooing, wooed, wooed
1 to try to persuade someone to support you or to use your business:
The party has been trying to woo the voters with promises of electoral reform.
The airline has been offering discounted tickets to woo passengers away from their competitors.
2 OLD-FASHIONED If a man woos a woman, he gives her a lot of attention in an attempt to persuade her to marry him:
He wooed her for months with flowers and expensive presents.
wooer
noun [C]
baroque
adjective
relating to the heavily decorated style in buildings, art and music that was popular in Europe in the 17th century and the early part of the 18th century:
baroque architecture/painters
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