2008年6月1日 星期日

riddle (MAKE HOLES), encore, enthusiastic, see double

When Hemming was just 26, his first full-scale expedition into the Amazon was cut short when the expedition’s leader, a friend of Hemming’s from Oxford, was ambushed by a group of Panará tribesmen. The Indians riddled the young man with eight arrows and crushed his skull with a handmade club.

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" ... enemy, whatever the cost. Recruitment to the armed services from volunteers was heavy and enthusiastic"
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" ... Villa Park, or Old Trafford attracted each week over 6o,ooo enthusiastic (and entirely peaceable) spectators. In 1951, in its last few months in office ... "






IN BRIEF: A call by an audience for a performer to perform an extra piece.

 The band was called back onto the stage by the enthusiastic audience for more than one encore.

December 8, 2008, 4:50 pm

Dell Sees Double With Data Center in a Container

By Ashlee Vance

Dell Data CenterTy Schmitt, principal thermal and mechanical architect for Dell’s Data Center Solutions group, outside of Dell’s double-stacked data center in Round Rock, Tex. (Credit: Erich Schlegel for The New York Times)
The old Dell tended to let the other guys spend their time and money building big new markets. Then Dell would jump in with its vaunted low-cost model and begin taking market share.
The new Dell is proving to be edgier. In some cases, it’s willing to go after fresh product areas before there’s a market at all, and it’s prepared to chase sales in the dozens rather than thousands of units, if it means keeping demanding customers happy.
Dell Data CenterAlbert Esser, vice president of data center infrastructure at Dell, pulls out a server inside of Dell’s new data center that comes in two shipping containers. (Credit: Erich Schlegel for The New York Times)

see double
to have a problem with your eyes so that you see two of everything, usually because you are drunk or ill:

I started seeing double, then I fainted.


Encore
A French word meaning ‘again’, cried out by English audiences (not French ones, who use bis) to demand the repetition of a piece just heard or an extra item.

An ‘encore’ now usually means an extra piece played at the end of a recital or by a soloist after a concerto.
encore

n. - 再演唱的要求, 經要求而再唱
int. - 再演唱一次!
v. tr. - 要求再演或唱

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - アンコール, 再演, アンコール曲
v. - アンコールを求める, アンコールする
int. - もう一度

任何表演都可以有"encore presentation " 譬如說
紐約時報科技版的 David Pogue 他比較兩廠牌的照片列印機 加上他的小朋友 Poguelet 來畫畫比賽"列印速度"


enthusiasm Show phonetics
noun
1 [U] a feeling of energetic interest in a particular subject or activity and an eagerness to be involved in it:
One of the good things about teaching young children is their enthusiasm.
After the accident he lost his enthusiasm for the sport.
I just can't work up (= start to feel) any enthusiasm for the whole project.

2 [C] a subject or activity that interests you very much:
One of his greatest enthusiasms was yoga.

enthuse Show phonetics
verb
1 [I] to express excitement about something or great interest in it:
He was enthusing over a wonderful restaurant he'd been to.
[+ speech] "She's the best leader that this country has ever known!" he enthused.

2 [T] to give your feeling of excitement and interest in a particular subject to other people:
He was passionately interested in classical music but failed to enthuse his children (with it).

enthusiast Show phonetics
noun [C]
a person who is very interested in and involved with a particular subject or activity:
a keep-fit enthusiast
a model-aircraft enthusiast

enthusiastic Show phonetics
adjective
showing enthusiasm:
You don't seem very enthusiastic about the party - don't you want to go tonight?


riddle (MAKE HOLES) Show phonetics
verb [T]
to make a lot of holes in something:
The anti-aircraft guns riddled the plane's wings with bullets.

riddled Show phonetics
adjective
riddled with holes full of holes:
He wore an old jacket riddled with holes.
━━ vt. ふるい分ける; 精査する; (銃弾で)穴だらけにする ((with)).
rid・dled ━━ a. 穴だらけの ((with)); (悪いことで)いっぱいの ((with)).

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