2008年1月9日 星期三

throwback, adobe, pueblo, mesa



And even though he is in charge of developing Google's answer to the Internet phone of the future, Rubin is a throwback.


Mr Forsyth and the meaningless catchphrases he has developed during his 50 years as a television host (sample: “Nice to see you—to see you, nice!”), are cherished precisely because they are throwbacks.




pueb・lo



  
━━ n. (pl. ~s) 〔米〕 日干し粘土(adobe)や石造りのインディアン居住地; (P-) (puebloに住む)北米インディアン.

 me・sa



  
[Sp.=table] n. (頂上が平らな)岩山, メサ, 平頂丘.


Monica Almeida/The New York Times
Adobe buildings in Acoma Pueblo, which sits atop a 367-foot sandstone mesa.

Concho’s ancestors settled in Acoma Pueblo around 1150. They built their village on the mesa, 367 feet above the valley, positioned strategically to defend against raiders. (Presumably, not the ones from Oakland.)
The pueblo looks like a set for a Western movie. In fact, John Wayne made several films here. A Tim McGraw video and two Toyota commercials were also shot on the mesa.

 a・do・be



  
━━ n., a. 日干し[アドービ]れんが(の).
 Adobe Illustrator 【コンピュータ】アドビ・イラストレータ ((アドビ社のグラフィック・ソフトウェア)).
 Adobe Photoshop 【コンピュータ】アドビ・フォトショップ ((アドビ社の画像処理ソフト)).
 Adobe Systems, Inc. 【コンピュータ】アドビ社.
 Adobe Type Manager 【コンピュータ】アドビ・タイプ・マネージャ ((画面やプリンタで文字を拡大表示する際,ギザギザがでないようにするためのソフトウェア)).

Me・sa




━━ n. メーサ ((Arizona州南西部の都市)).
 Mesa Verde National Park メサ・バード国立公園 ((Colorado州南西部の国立公園;先史時代の岩窟住居跡がある)).

throwback 
noun [C usually singular] 投げ返し; (進歩などの)阻止; (動植物の)先祖返り.
a person or thing that is similar to an earlier type:
He's an unappealing throwback to the days of '80s City slickers.
In some ways the new applet technology is a throwback to the old pre-PC days.



She Aided Victims of Shootings, and She Became One
By MICHAEL WILSON and DARYL KHAN
The shooting of a nurse in a section of Crown Heights where condominiums and young professionals are becoming more commonplace was a throwback to the area’s violent past.

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Sydney Pollack’s career as a director blossomed in the 1960s and ’70s, but in many ways he was a throwback to an earlier era in American movies.