enfold

Before Stalin Lowered the Curtain

Artist Marc Chagall, who headlines an exhibit at the Jewish Museum, is only one part of a story that enfolds in the 200-plus pieces related to the Russian-Jewish theater.

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verb [T] LITERARY
to closely hold or completely cover someone or something:
He enfolded her in his arms.

go under, goes into administration, in administration

Zavvi placed into administration Music, games and DVD retail chain Zavvi goes into administration following the problems at Woolworths. Why did Zavvi go under? Last-minute discounts on offer Whittard sold to private equity

Retailer Morgan in administration

Morgan has been seeking a sale since the start of 2008

French women's clothing store chain Morgan has gone into administration, the latest retailer to be hit by the sharp fall in consumer spending.

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go under (FAIL) phrasal verb
If a company goes under, it fails financially:
The charity will go under unless a generous donor can be found within the next few months.


administration
n.

1. The act or process of administering, especially the management of a government or large institution.
2. The activity of a government or state in the exercise of its powers and duties.
3. often Administration
   1. The executive branch of a government.
   2. The group of people who manage or direct an institution, especially a school or college.
4. The term of office of an executive officer or body.
5. Law. Management and disposal of a trust or estate.
6. The dispensing, applying, or tendering of something, such as an oath, a sacrament, or medicine.

administrative ad·min'is·tra'tive (-strā'tĭv, -strə-) adj.
administratively ad·min'is·tra'tive·ly adv.

In Search of Excellence

　「卓越」(excellence)的英文字源由兩個拉丁字根結合而成；“ex”的拉丁文原意是「向外」，而“cellere”的原意為「升高」。「卓越表現」就是從原先具有潛力的狀態向外攀升，達到更上一層樓表現的實際境界。

n.

1. The state, quality, or condition of excelling; superiority.
2. Something in which one excels.
3. Excellence Excellency.

說工商界的 EXCELLENCE

日文辭書：

excellence　━━ n. 卓越, 優秀; 長所, 美点 .━━ a. 優秀な, 卓越した; （成績採点の）優の.

【這字最早的希臘文意思為"德行完全；至善"】

在1980年代初期，全世界暢銷商業書（In Search of Excellence）翻譯成{追求卓越}，所以現在大家喜歡稱卓越、 excellence。

其實那是場笑話，因為許多名列為卓越的公司，再過幾年就表現得很差。

當時創立的the Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME)，現在它的年會是全美最大的（1985年主要說法為Just-In-Time/JIT，現在改稱Lean Manufacturing）。

這風氣20年之後還沒改，所以教育部有什麼卓越計畫。

2007年6月11日 BusinessWeek有篇對於Six Sigma運動的 反彈。因為它有點惡名，所以過敏的人就改稱他們公司的活動為追求 Process Excellence。

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Excellency（主教）：可敬的：天主教對總主教、主教的尊稱；當面稱主教為 Your Excellency，第三人稱為His Excellency。

━━ n. 高位の人の尊称 (Good morning, Your ～! 閣下，お早うございます）.

Aristotelian

(ăr'ĭ-stə-tē'lē-ən, -tēl'yən, ə-rĭs'tə-)

Of or relating to Aristotle or to his philosophy.

n.

1. A follower of Aristotle or his teachings.
2. A person whose thinking and methods tend to be empirical, scientific, or commonsensical.

Aristotelianism Ar'is·to·te'li·an·ism n.

Electrical Wiring How-to-Books ,wall receptacle,panel

Description: The recall involves the 3rd Edition of Wiring a House. The paperback book's cover is white and yellow and has a photograph of a man wiring a panel. ISBN #978-1-56158-942-5 is printed on the back cover. Wiring Complete, Expert Advice from Start to Finish is paperback and has a green, black and white cover that shows hands wiring an electrical wall receptacle

1. Faulty Instructions Prompt Recall of Electrical Wiring How-to-Books by The Taunton Press; Shock Hazard to Consumers (http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml09/09078.html)

imbue sth/sb with sth

Frugal dishes imbue a sense of gratitude

I hated to agree with anything he said. But legislating monuments doesn't rectify injustices of the past, it just fumbles with the symbols of history, reminding us why we devise them in the first place. Ultimately monuments gain meaning when we imbue them with it, otherwise they join the statues of cruel monarchs and bloody generals that have become the civilized backdrop to our parks and plazas.

imbue sth/sb with sth

imbue sth/sb with sth phrasal verb FORMAL ━━ vt. ((普通受身で)) しみ込ませる; （思想・野心などを）吹込む ((with)).
to fill something or someone with a particular feeling, quality or idea:
His poetry is imbued with deep, religious feeling.

These streams form an intricate pattern, linking man and machine, inside and out.As a result, the structure is imbued with a level of dynamic energy barely imaginable by an earlier generation of Machine Age enthusiasts.



You know, when you play music, you get this peaceful quality I believe also because you are in control of something, or at least you are attempting to control something that you cannot do in the real world. You can control life and death of the sound, and if you imbue every note with a human quality, when that note dies it is exactly that, it is a feeling of death.



But legislating monuments doesn't rectify injustices of the past, it just fumbles with the symbols of history, reminding us why we devise them in the first place. Ultimately monuments gain meaning when we imbue them with it, otherwise they join the statues of cruel monarchs and bloody generals that have become the civilized backdrop to our parks and plazas.

take sb to task

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task (SPEAK ANGRILY) Show phonetics
noun
take sb to task to criticize or speak angrily to someone for something that they have done wrong:
She took her assistant to task for/over her carelessness.

self-indulgent, stoicism, overindulge, epicure

I am sure Kyoto is not the only place where people have kept their traditional family recipes for "dishes made with discards." But come to think of it, we Japanese have wasted and trashed tremendous volumes of food over the last few years, overindulging ourselves foolishly like misguided epicures. It worries me that those frugal dishes may already be on the verge of extinction.




STOICISM is something the British are world-famous for. They carry on; they make do; they seldom complain, but form an orderly line to take whatever Fate may throw at them. At very bad moments—the Blitz, for example—they laugh and tell jokes against the enemy. Modern Britons are by and large a feebler and non-queuing race, as hedonistic, wasteful and complaining as anyone else; but the stereotype persists, and a moment of crisis is sure to bring it out again. For the British are subject to two utterly random forces that regularly test their stoicism and their patience: the weather and the buses.



As our sand-castle economy washes away under the tide of bad gambles and debts, this most self-indulgent society lurches toward stoicism (even bankrupt Iceland gives us the cold shoulder and turns to a solvent superpower). It’s going to require more than giving up constant infusions of stocks, Starbucks and Botox.

Definition

stoicism

n.

1. Indifference to pleasure or pain; impassiveness.
2. Stoicism The doctrines or philosophy of the Stoics

Sto・ic









━━ n. （アテネの）ストア哲学者; （s-） 禁欲主義者.

━━ a. ストア学派の; （s-） ＝stoical.
sto・i・cal　━━ a. 禁欲［克己］の.
Sto・i・cism　━━ n. ストア哲学 ((Zenoの創始)); （s-） 禁欲主義.

lurch Show phonetics
verb
1 [I] to move in an irregular way, especially making sudden movements backwards or forwards or from side to side:
The train lurched forward and some of the people standing fell over.

2 [I + adverb or preposition] to act or continue in an irregular and uncontrolled way, often with sudden changes:
We seem to lurch from crisis to crisis.
She just lurches from one bad relationship to another.

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noun [C]
The truck gave a sudden lurch as it was hit by a strong gust of wind.
The party's lurch (= sudden change) to the left will lose it a lot of support.


overindulge
verb [I or T]
to allow yourself or someone else to have too much of something enjoyable, especially food or drink:
I wish I hadn't overindulged so much (= had so much to eat and drink) last night.
It's not good for children to be overindulged (= always given what they want).

overindulgence
noun [U]
For many Americans, Thanksgiving is a time of overindulgence (= eating and drinking too much).

self-indulgent Show phonetics
adjective
allowing yourself to have or do anything that you enjoy:
I know it's self-indulgent of me, but I'll just have another chocolate.

self-indulgence Show phonetics
noun [S or U]

resign yourself to sth

Resigned to a long wait, year-end passengers crowd JR Tokyo Station for services to start on the Tohoku and Joetsu Shinkansen lines Monday morning.(KENTA SUJINO/ THE ASAHI SHIMBUN)

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resign yourself to sth verb [R]
to make yourself accept something that you do not like because you cannot change it:
[+ ing form of verb] He resigned himself to living alone.

expunge, above-the-fold

The New York Times leads with the conflict and gives most of its above-the-fold space to a photo of a man screaming, trapped under the rubble of a bombed security compound and prison. The Wall Street Journal tops its world-wide news-box with the crisis and fronts a photo of the same bleeding man. An NYT analysis, also above the fold, is headlined, "With Strikes, Israel Reminds Foes It Has Teeth," and argues that the bombing is a way for Israel to expunge memories of the failed war against Hezbollah in Lebanon in 2006. The L.A. Times also makes the Lebanese connection.



above-the-fold報紙折疊線上方 醒目處

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verb [T] FORMAL
1 to rub off or remove information from a piece of writing:
His name has been expunged from the list of members.

2 to cause something to be forgotten:
She has been unable to expunge the details of the accident from her memory.