2007年12月1日 星期六

gaunt, guerrilla, spray (Venus), beaky, fool's gold, pyrite, Sendero Luminoso, Shining Path


Ms. Birmingham points out that architectural historians who acknowledge Mahony have tended to focus on her relationships with men and on her physical appearance, often in unflattering terms. (She was frequently described as homely, though Brendan Gill, in "Many Masks," his 1987 biography of Wright, called her a "gaunt, beaky beauty.")





'Fool’s Gold'
By GILLIAN TETT
Reviewed by PAUL M. BARRETT
An account of how J. P. Morgan bankers invented dangerous new ways of dispersing risk that contributed to the present financial crisis.


Dictionary: guer·ril·la (gə-rĭl'əpronunciation
or gue·ril·la n.
A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy, as by surprise raids.
[Spanish, raiding party, guerrilla force, diminutive of guerra, war, of Germanic origin.]
 ゲリラ 1 [guerrilla]

スペイン語で、小戦争の意〕敵の後方や敵中を奇襲して混乱させる小部隊。遊撃隊
「―戦術」


浩然氏死去 中国の著名な作家

2008年2月20日 21時35分
 浩 然氏(こう・ぜん=中国の著名な作家、本名は梁金広=りょう・きんこう)北京晩報によると、20日未明、病気のため北京市内の病院で死去。75歳。
 河北省出身。49年から執筆活動を始め、文化大革命開始の66年に発表した農村の階級闘争を描いた「艶陽天」など、農村を舞台にした小説で知られる。代表作の1つ「金光大道」のスペイン語訳「センデロ・ルミノソ」(輝く道)はペルーの左翼ゲリラの名称として用いられた。
 97年5月に北京市作家協会主席、03年9月から同名誉主席。84年12月に訪日。(北京、共同)

センデロルミノソ - Wikipedia 別ウィンドウ表示
センデロルミノソ(Sendero Luminoso、スペイン語で“輝ける道”の意)は、ペルーの
極左武装組織。左翼思想家ホセ・カルロス・マリアテギが独自の革命理論を説いた理論
書『マリアテギの輝ける道』にちなんで命名された。正式名称「ペルー共産党」。 ...


Political Dictionary: Shining Path


The Communist Party of Peru (Sendero Luminoso) launched a Maoist ‘protracted people's war’ in 1980, after years of careful preparation around Ayacucho. The name comes from an early pamphlet entitled The Shining Path of José Carlos Mariátegui, the founding father of Peruvian communism. By the late 1980s Sendero was Latin America's most successful guerrilla movement, distinguished by its frequent recourse to terrorism. Sendero leader Abimael Guzman Reynoso was captured in 1992 and the movement declined sharply thereafter.
— Richard Gillespie


pyrite
n.黄鉄
A brass-colored mineral, FeS2, occurring widely and used as an iron ore and in producing sulfur dioxide for sulfuric acid. Also called fool's goldiron pyrites.
[Middle English perides, pirite, from Old French pirite, from Latin pyrītēs, flint. See pyrites.]
pyritic py·rit'ic (-rĭt'ĭk) or py·rit'i·cal (-ĭ-kəladj.


gaunt 
adjective
1 very thin, especially because of illness or hunger:
Her face was gaunt and grey.

2 LITERARY bare and unattractive:
The house looked gaunt and unwelcoming.

gauntness
noun [U]

beaky

adjective

Definition:
with big nose: having a large, long, or hooked nose ( informal )   




spray



━━ n. 水煙; 吸入器, 噴霧器, スプレー, 霧吹き; 噴霧液; (葉・花・実などをつけた)小枝, 枝模様[装飾].

spray2 (sprā)

n.
A small branch bearing buds, flowers, or berries.
Something, such as a decorative motif, that resembles such a branch.

━━ v. 水煙を立てる, 吹きかける; 浴びせる; 霧[殺虫剤]を吹く.







2.31 Venus Modestly Holding Spray

Cupid Playing Football with the World

Medium:

Wood Engraving

Date of Work: 1929
Edition Size: 300

Catalogue No.: 294

Dimensions
(inches HxW)

5.65" x 5.07"
From Engravings 1928-1933 by Eric Gill, published by Faber, 1934.
Price: £200

Price inclusive of frame, VAT & UK shipping

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