curtain, lieutenant, big-ticket, brief, in brief

1. Well: My Brief Life as a Woman

The Wall Street Journal leads its world-wide newsbox with the doubts surrounding whether the Group of Eight will be able to agree on any of the big-ticket items on the agenda as world leaders arrived in Japan for the annual summit of major industrialized nations.



Xerox's Anne Mulcahy is stepping down as CEO after an eight-year run, and named her lieutenant, Ursula Burns, to the job.


Mr. Yang made a lengthy presentation, using Microsoft’s PowerPoint software, that ended with a page stating, in bold letters, that Microsoft’s offer “substantially undervalues” Yahoo. But when Mr. Ballmer asked what price would value the company properly, Mr. Yang refused to even discuss the subject, according to a person at the meeting.
As the Microsoft team left, this person said, one of Mr. Ballmer’s lieutenants whispered, “They are going to burn the furniture if we go hostile. They are going to destroy the place.”

lieutenant 類似老總的特助

 lieu・ten・ant

, 〈陸〉,〈海〉  
━━ n. 上官代理, 副官; 〔米〕 陸［空］軍中［少］尉, 海軍大尉; 【海軍】大尉; 〔英〕 陸軍中尉, 海［空］軍大尉; 〔米〕 警部補, （警察の）副署長; 〔米〕 消防副隊長; 代理.
 first [second] lieutenant　〔米〕 陸［空］軍中［少］尉; 海軍大［中］尉.
 lieu・ten・an・cy　━━ n. lieutenantの職［地位，任期］.
 lieutenant colonel　【米陸空軍・英陸軍】中佐.
 lieutenant commander　海軍少佐.
 lieutenant general　【米陸空軍・英陸軍】中将.
 lieutenant governor　州副知事; 〔英〕 （植民地の）副総督.
 lieutenant junior grade　【米海軍】中尉.



big-ticket

IN BRIEF: Something expensive.

 The new car was the big-ticket item at the raffle.

adj. Informal.
Having a high price or cost: big-ticket items such as cars and stereos; a big-ticket government program.


brief
adj., brief·er, brief·est.

1. Short in time, duration, length, or extent.
2. Succinct; concise: a brief account of the incident.
3. Curt; abrupt.

n.

1. A short, succinct statement.
2. A condensation or an abstract of a larger document or series of documents.
3. Law.
   1. A formal outline listing main contentions along with supporting evidence and documentation.
   2. A document containing all the facts and points of law pertinent to a specific case, filed by an attorney before arguing the case in court.
4. Roman Catholic Church. A papal letter that is not as formal as a bull.
5. A briefing.
6. briefs Short, tight-fitting underpants.

tr.v., briefed, brief·ing, briefs.

1. To summarize.
2. To give instructions or preparatory information to: briefed the astronauts before the mission.

idiom:

in brief

1. In short.

[Middle English bref, from Old French, from Latin brevis. N., Middle English bref, written communication, from Old French, from Medieval Latin breve, from Latin, neuter of brevis, short.]

The Curtain is a seven-part essay by Milan Kundera, along with The Art of the Novel and Testaments Betrayed composing a type of trilogy of book-length essays on the European novel.
The Curtain was originally published as "Le Rideau", in French in April 2005 by Gallimard. It is also available in Spanish as "El Telón", in German as "Der Vorhang", in Portuguese as "A Cortina" in Polish as "Zasłona", in Greek as "Ο πέπλος" (O peplos) and in Croatian as "Zavjesa". It was published in English on January 30, 2007 by HarperCollins [1].


歐巴桑 留言：「關於昆德拉的窗簾，從法國網站上找到的：
『《帷幕》是對小說的禮讚，是某種對世界、對藝術、對生活與對文學的看法，是倫理與美學不可分割的表達。

昆德拉說：「第一個撕毀這條『以神話編織而成的神奇帷幕』的就是塞萬提斯，這條帷幕遮蓋了派唐吉訶德去旅行的所有情事。而「世界在此遊俠騎士赤裸裸的滑稽散文面前得以開展」。』」


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hc查其英文curtain
----yahoo！與Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
【物】 簾,窗簾；幕狀物；(幕狀的)間隔,遮蔽物

《例句》 draw the curtain 拉窗簾(指拉開、拉上均可).

【事】 開幕,閉幕;幕啟;幕落;落幕前的效果[台詞,場面]

【事】 落幕後觀眾要求演員謝幕的呼聲 ； 【俚】 末日,死

【物】 (舞台上的)幕,帷幕
《例句》
• The curtain rises [falls]. 幕啟[落],開演[演出結束];(事情)開始[結束]
• The curtain has fallen on this matter. 那件事情已結束了
• raise [drop] the curtain 啟[落]幕,開演[演出結束];公佈[隱瞞](某件事情).

Curtain To ring down the curtain. To bring a matter to an end. A theatrical term. When the act or play is over, the bell rings and the green curtain comes down.
"A few more matters of routine will be accomplished, and then the curtain will be rung down on the Session of 1891." - Newspaper Paragraph, July 27th, 1891.

. 【物】 【軍】 彈幕

Curtain (The). In fortification, the line of rampart which joins together the flanks of two "bastions" ( q.v.). 【城】 (連接兩個稜堡、塔樓等的)幕牆

-----curtain或veil等等，即約櫃之幔子
The sacred curtain, separating the holy of holies from the sanctuary, is designated by a different Hebrew word (peroketh). It is described as a "veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work" (Ex. 26:31; Lev. 16:2; Num. 18:7).


出 埃 及 記 Exodus 26:30 [hb5] 要照著在山上指示你的樣式、立起帳幕。
[kjv] And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was shewed thee in the mount.
[bbe] And you are to make the House from the design which you saw on the mountain.

26:31 [hb5] 你要用藍色紫色朱紅色線、和撚的細麻、織幔子．以巧匠的手工繡上基路伯。
[kjv] And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made:
[bbe] And you are to make a veil of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with designs of winged ones by a good workman:

26:32 [hb5] 要把幔子挂在四根包金的皂莢木柱子上、柱子上當有金鉤、柱子安在四個帶卯的銀座上。
[kjv] And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver.
[bbe] Hanging it by gold hooks from four pillars of wood, plated with gold and fixed in silver bases.

26:33 [hb5] 要使幔子垂在鉤子下、把法櫃抬進幔子內、這幔子要將聖所和至聖所隔開。
[kjv] And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.
[bbe] And you are to put up the veil under the hooks, and put inside it the ark of the law: the veil is to be a division between the holy place and the most holy.

26:34 [hb5] 又要把施恩座安在至聖所內的法櫃上。
[kjv] And thou shalt put the mercy seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy place.
[bbe] You are to put the cover on the ark of the law, inside the most holy place.

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利 未 記 Leviticus16:2 [hb5] 要告訴你哥哥亞倫、不可隨時進聖所的幔子內、到櫃上的施恩座前、免得他死亡、因為我要從雲中顯現在施恩座上．
[kjv] And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.
[bbe] The Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron, your brother, that he may not come at all times into the holy place inside the veil, before the cover which is on the ark, for fear that death may overtake him; for I will be seen in the cloud on the cover of the ark.
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民 數 記 Numbers 18:7 [hb5] 你和你的兒子要為一切屬壇和幔子內的事、一同守祭司的職任、你們要這樣供職、我將祭司的職任給你們當作賞賜、事奉我．凡挨近的外人必被治死。
[kjv] Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest's office for everything of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest's office unto you as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
[bbe] And you and your sons with you are to be responsible as priests for the altar and everything on it, and everything inside the veil; you are to do the work of priests; I have given you your position as priests; and any other man who comes near will be put to death.