rainbow, bilingual, drive-in, users' group.rainbow flag.At the Met, Black Artists Salute an Enduring Affinity With Egypt

At the Met, Black Artists Salute an Enduring Affinity With Egypt

A shimmering dream on the Nile has inspired creativity from the Harlem Renaissance to Kara Walker to Beyoncé. But how much can you play with the past?

bilingual education: was voted to an end in California (1998)





drive-in: the first theater opened, in Camden, NJ (1933)

Drive-In

drive-in
adjective [before noun] MAINLY US
A drive-in bank, cinema, restaurant, etc. is one that you can use or visit without getting out of your car.

drive-in 
noun [C]
a cinema or restaurant that you can visit without getting out of your car


A users' group (also users group or user group) is a type of club focused on the use of a particular technology, usually (but not always) computer-related.
Wikipedia article "Users' group".

譬如說 Deming User Group

台灣戴明圈: A Taiwanese Deming Circle

bilingual 
adjective
(of a person) able to use two languages for communication, or (of a thing) using or involving two languages:
She works as a bilingual secretary for an insurance company.
a bilingual dictionary

Compare monolingual; multilingual; trilingual.

……對文學傳統的創造性模仿……其中偉大的、光榮的自我失敗的大師是品欽（Pynchon），其【萬有引力之虹】是60年代即弗萊和博爾赫斯（Borges）時代的完美文本……--H. Bloom【誤讀圖示】天津文學出版社，2008，頁30


A Map of Misreading 翻譯成【誤讀圖示】很勉強。


「萬有引力之虹」原書名為
Gravity's Rainbow is an epic postmodern novel written by Thomas Pynchon and first published on February 28, 1973.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity%27s_Rainbow
Rainbow 可能還有「虹」之外的意思：rainbow

「自我失敗」是self-defeating，表示「適得其反、弄巧成拙 欲蓋彌彰 反被自己的聰明所誤..... 」. [形]〈行為・計画・議論などが〉（思惑に反して）自滅的な. 自滅


misread
verb [T] misread, misread
1 to make a mistake in the way that you read something:
I was given the wrong tablets when the chemist misread my prescription.

2 to judge a situation incorrectly:
I thought he fancied me, but I'd completely misread the signals.

misreading
noun [C]
His misreading of the situation could have serious consequences.

rainbow 
noun [C]
a many-coloured arch seen in the sky when rain is falling and the sun is shining:
The tropical butterfly's wings were shimmering with all the colours of the rainbow.
表示多樣
~ of political opinion

rain・bow

━━ n., a. 虹(にじ); ゲイの人権を支持する.
all the colors of [in] the rainbow　さまざま［多彩］な色.
Rainbow Bridge　レインボー・ブリッジ ((Utah州南部の天然の石橋)).
rainbow coalition　〔米〕 虹（色）の提携 ((社会的・政治的な問題についての異人種間の連帯)).
rainbow flag　（同性愛者人権運動の旗印である）レインボー・フラッグ, 虹の旗.
rainbow trout　【魚】ニジマス.
Rainbow Warrior　（the ～） レインボーウォリアー（号） ((Greenpeace が活動に使用する船)).
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