Today's young people are held to be alienated, unhappy, violent failures. They are proving anything but. What is behind this generation of hard-working, strait-laced kids? It is hard to pin down any single explanation. Lots of interlinking factors contribute to social trends, and the changes are neither uniform within countries nor between them 0 http://econ.st/1raAQ12
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By no means, not at all, as in He is anything but ambitious for a promotion. William Wordsworth in his long poem, The Prelude (1805-1806), wrote: "Grief call it not, 'twas anything but that."
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THE NEW ISLAMISTS
Tunisian Pulpits Battle for Revolt’s Legacy
By NEIL MacFARQUHAR
In the wake of Tunisia’s revolution, a heated competition is on to redefine the nation religiously and politically. Above, a historic mosque where tensions have arisen.
Holly Grogan, 15, jumped 30ft to her death from a road bridge. She had endured a torrent of abuse posted on her Facebook page, it was disclosed. Friends said that she had been a victim of cyber-bullying.
15歲的荷莉．葛洛根從一座路橋上跳下，墜落30英尺身亡。據透露，她生前遭受一連串張貼在她Facebook網頁上的貼文辱罵。朋友說，她是網路霸凌的受害者。管淑平
Women Bullying Women at Work
By MICKEY MEECE
It’s a taboo topic in the workplace sisterhood: Women who bully usually pick on other women.
More than perhaps any painter of his great painting century, Courbet built elements of rebellion and dissent into the very forms and surfaces of his work. Some were on purpose; others were left for us to discover, to feel in our bones. Even at the end he expressed his defiance in still lifes of fruit that seem impossibly large and overbearing, like him, and in magnificent trout hooked and struggling against the line, even more like him. Since then, generation upon generation of painters have responded to his art and its challenges, but his example of stubborn nonconformity has many uses.
He ate that jam, and said it was bully, in his sinful, vulgar way; and he put in the tar, and said that was bully also, and laughed, and observed "that the old woman would get up and snort" when she found it out; and when she did find it out, he denied knowing anything about it, and she whipped him severely, and he did the crying himself. Everything about this boy was curious -- everything turned out differently with him from the way it does to the bad Jameses in the books.
bully
adj.
Excellent; splendid: did a bully job of persuading the members.
verb [T] 凌虐/霸凌
to hurt or frighten someone who is smaller or less powerful than you, often forcing them to do something they do not want to do:
Our survey indicates that one in four children is bullied at school.
Don't let anyone bully you into doing something you don't want to do.
bullying
noun [U]Wikipedia article "Bullying".
Bullying is a problem in many schools.
bully
noun [C]
someone who hurts or frightens someone who is smaller or less powerful than them, often forcing them to do something they do not want to do:
You're just a big bully!
Teachers usually know who the bullies are in a class.
pulpit[pul・pit]
- レベル：社会人必須
- 発音記号[púlpit]
bully pulpit
n.An advantageous position, as for making one's views known or rallying support: “The presidency had been transformed from a bully pulpit on Pennsylvania Avenue to a stage the size of the world” (Hugh Sidey).
A bully pulpit is a public office of sufficiently high rank that provides the holder with an opportunity to speak out and be listened to on any matter. The bully pulpit can bring issues to the fore that were not initially in debate, due to the office's stature and publicity.
This term was coined by President Theodore Roosevelt, who referred to the American presidency as a "bully pulpit," by which he meant a terrific platform from which persuasively to advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word bully as an adjective meaning "superb" or "wonderful" (a more common expression in his time than it is today). A pulpit is the elevated platform used by a preacher. The term has no relationship to the word bully in the sense of a "harasser".
Example: Cornell University's president, David Skorton, called for university presidents to use the "bully pulpit" to advance the humanities.[1]
Wikipedia article "Bully pulpit"
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.....有好多年我總以為「bully pulpit（大好講壇）」 中“bully” 指「唬人」，「仗勢欺人」，經他提醒才發現是望文生義；「詞典」有翔實生動的解說，引了粗豪的美國總統老羅斯福當年學年輕人大叫「Bully！（好極了！ 太棒了！）」。新版增引了2001年9月「紐約時報」專欄作家陶德（Maureen Dowd）的一句話「The problem with the Bush administration is that its bully pulpit is all bully and no pulpit（布希政府的毛病是百分之百強橫，百分之零講道理）。『並指出』此語妙在bully一詞也有『強橫』和『惡霸』之義。」
v., -lied, -ly·ing, -lies. v.tr.
Excellent; splendid: did a bully job of persuading the members.
interj.
Used to express approval: Bully for you!
overbearingness o'ver·bear'ing·ness n.
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Derivatives
interlinkage NOUN
A bully pulpit is a position sufficiently conspicuous to provide an opportunity to speak out and be listened to.
This term was coined by President Theodore Roosevelt, who referred to the White House as a "bully pulpit", by which he meant a terrific platform from which to advocate an agenda. Roosevelt famously used the word bully as an adjective meaning "superb" or "wonderful", a more common usage in his time than it is today. (Another expression which survives from this era is "bully for you", synonymous with "good for you".)
Its meaning in this sense is only distantly related to the modern form of "bully", which means "harasser of the weak". The word is related to the Dutch boel, meaning lover, and buhler, meaning a rival for a lady's affection. In English usage around 1700, "bully" came to be similar to "pimp", which gives us the connotation of a ruffian or harasser.[1]
Doris Kearns Goodwin used the phrase in the title of her 2013 book The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism.
n., pl. -lies.pulpit
【名】
- 〔教会の〕説教壇［台］
- 〔集合的に〕聖職者
- 〔教会の〕説教師
- 《海事》〔ヨットなどの〕安全手すり、〔捕鯨船の〕砲手台
bully pulpit
〔大衆を説得できる〕傑出した公的地位［公権力］◆【語源】ルーズベルト大統領がアメリカ大統領職を指してこう呼んだことから。高い公的権力があれば自分の政治的な考えを大衆に容易に伝えられることを意味する。bullyは「優れている」という意味の形容詞。
- A person who is habitually cruel or overbearing, especially to smaller or weaker people.
- A hired ruffian; a thug.
- A pimp.
- Archaic. A fine person.
- Archaic. A sweetheart.
v., -lied, -ly·ing, -lies. v.tr.
- To treat in an overbearing or intimidating manner. See synonyms at intimidate.
- To make (one's way) aggressively.
- To behave like a bully.
- To force one's way aggressively or by intimidation: “They bully into line at the gas pump” (Martin Gottfried).
Excellent; splendid: did a bully job of persuading the members.
interj.
Used to express approval: Bully for you!
[Possibly from Middle Dutch boele, sweetheart, probably alteration of broeder, brother.]
1 someone who hurts or frightens someone who is smaller or less powerful, often forcing them to do something that they do not want to do
恃強淩弱者，以大欺小者
You're just a big bully!你欺負人！
overbearing
adj.- Domineering in manner; arrogant: an overbearing person. See synonyms at dictatorial.
- Overwhelming in power or significance; predominant.
overbearingness o'ver·bear'ing·ness n.
interlinkage NOUN
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