fixture, chattel, chattelization, realty, personalities, centrist, slave trade, Microtargeting

Microtargeting — the kind of selective persuasion efforts that Reese dreamed of — has become a fixture of 21st-century campaigns. Field operatives now target swing voters house by house, carrying computer tablets loaded with polling, registration and market-research data. And everyone understands that in close presidential elections, a few thousand votes in one state or another may decide the winner.

As Job Losses Mount, Lawmakers Face a Make-or-Break Moment By JIM TANKERSLEY The United States just lost 20 million jobs. The wrong federal response could make those layoffs a permanent fixture of the U.S. economy and sentence thousands of companies to bankruptcy.

There are few examples of cruelty so appalling as the Atlantic slave trade. A rarely-noted fact, however, is that the scale of the trade in the lands of Islam was broadly similar. From the archive

Islamic law treated slaves as people, not chattel. Yet the slave trade was not benign

Islam and slavery: shades of grey

ECON.ST

She was such a fixture at the hotel that she once received a lavish gift and personal apology from Donald J. Trump himself. (via Condé Nast Traveler)

Denis Healey, Fixture in Labour Party, Dies at 98

And the AP on Vidal as a celebrity: "Along with such contemporaries as Norman Mailer and Truman Capote, Vidal was among the last generation of literary writers who were also genuine celebrities—fixtures on talk shows and in gossip columns, personalities of such size and appeal that even those who hadn't read their books knew who they were."


Berlin's iconic subculture art house faces uncertain future

Tacheles is a fixture in every guidebook of Berlin, but the iconic art
house which became a symbol of Berlin's creativity after the Berlin Wall
fell in 1989, is now in danger of being shut down.

The DW-WORLD.DE Article
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=ew9v6eI44va89pI5



Google is still in major growth mode," said Jim Beeger, a senior vice president with Colliers International, a commercial realty firm.


 Deep in California Forests, an Illicit Business Thrives
By JESSE McKINLEY
Long a fixture of public lands, marijuana “grows” are increasing in California.

Banks Face Big Losses From Bets on Chinese Realty

Anheuser-Busch agreed on Sunday night to sell itself to the Belgian brewer InBev for about $52 billion, putting control of the nation's largest beer maker and a fixture of American culture into a European rival's hands.

fixture

(fĭks'chər)
n.

1. Something securely fixed in place.
2. Something attached as a permanent appendage, apparatus, or appliance: plumbing fixtures.
3. Law. A chattel bound to realty.
4. One that is invariably present in and long associated with a place: a journalist who became a Washington fixture.
5. 1. The act or process of fixing.
   2. The condition of being fixed.

[Variant of obsolete fixure, from Late Latin fīxūra, from Latin fīxus, fixed. See fix.]

fixture

n. (名詞 noun)[C]

1. (房屋等的)固定裝置,配件,設備
bathroom fixtures
浴室內的各種裝置
The owner of the house charged us for fixtures and fittings.
房主要我們支付使用固定設施的費用。
There are two light fixtures on the ceiling.
屋頂上有兩盞固定吊燈。
2. 長期固定於某項工作(或某種活動)的人
Professor Jones seems to have become a fixture in that club.
瓊斯教授似乎已成了該俱樂部的常客了。
3. 【主英】(確定了日期的)競賽大會(或社會活動)
arrange this season's fixtures
安排這個季度的競賽項目

realty

 音節

re • al • ty

発音

ríːəlti | ríəl-

[名][U]物的財産, 不動産（⇔personalty）.

realty
noun [U]
US FOR real estate:
a realty agent
a realty company

personality[per・son・al・i・ty]

• 発音記号[pə`ːrsənǽləti][名]（複-ties）

1 [C][U]（他人の目に映じる）性格, 性質, 人格, 人柄, 人となり（⇒CHARACTER[類語]）；人間的魅力

a personality clash
2人の人間が性格的に合わないために同じ職場で働けない状況

Her personality is rather forceful.
彼女の性格はかなり強引だ.

2 （諸性質を備えた）人, 人物；名士, 有名人

a television personality
テレビタレント

personality journalism
ゴシップジャーナリズム

He is a curious personality.
彼は風変わりな人だ.

3 《心理学》
(1) 人格, パーソナリティ.
(2) 性格

a personality test
性格検査.

4 [U]人間であること；人間としての存在.

5 （場所の）雰囲気；（事物の）風格；《地理》地域の特性.

6 ((しばしば-ties))((英古風))（非難をこめた）人物批評, あら探し；人身攻撃の言葉.

centrist

 音節

cen • trist

発音

séntrist

centristの変化形

centrists (複数形)

centristの慣用句

centrism, （全1件）

[名]（特にヨーロッパ大陸で）中道派議員；（一般に）穏健な人.

━━[形]((通例限定))中道派に属する；中間派の.

-trism

[名][U]中道主義.

The New Yorker

"Can I change gender? Going back in time as a woman presents so many issues—chattelization, corsets, hygiene."

"我可以改變性別嗎?回到過去作為一名女子介紹這麼多問題 (錯誤多，不談) — — chattelization、 緊身胸衣、 衛生."

翻譯由 Bing 提供

A History of Happiness

Chopin wants to play for me again. I accept the invitation.

NYR.KR|由 LOUISE ERDRICH 上傳

 chattel 動產

chattelization

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

• n. The act or practice of chattelizing real property.
• n. The act or practice of chattelizing human beings; ownership of human beings; the fact of being chattelized. 被當成動產般使用