Huntington’s disease is awful. It slowly robs its victims of mobility, wits and emotions. And there is no cure. Yet a small band of neuroscientists who have been studying it suggest the underlying cause of Huntington’s might also be one of the driving forces behind the expansion of the human brain. Huntington’s, these people suspect, may be a price humanity pays for being clever
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Could the key to the evolution of the human brain be found in a dreadful illness?
1927
戲神田都元帥拿著劇本
God of the Theatre, Chief Marshall Tian, holding a libretto
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The landmark musical "Show Boat" - with music by Jerome Kern and libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II - opened at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York City.
Orpheus in the Underworld. Opera in two acts by Offenbach to a libretto by Crémieux and Halévy (1858, Paris); Offenbach expanded it into four acts (1574, Paris).
He then moved to England, and through his friendship with his publisher
Virginia Woolf, entered the London literary circles. He became an
important literary editor, for Faber and Faber, and was a reader and
literary adviser to Jonathan Cape, where he edited a number of Ian
Fleming's James Bond series. Fleming dedicated Goldfinger to Plomer. He
was active as a librettist, with Gloriana, Curlew River, The Burning
Fiery Furnace and The Prodigal Son for Benjamin Britten.
li·bret·to (
lĭ-brĕt'ō)
n.,
pl.,
-bret·tos, or
-bret·ti (
-brĕt'ē).
- The text of a dramatic musical work, such as an opera.
- A book containing such a text.
[Italian, diminutive of libro, book, from Latin liber, libr-.]
Spotlight
On this date in 1859,
Charles Gounod's opera,
Faust, premiered in Paris. Though it got off to a rocky start, after delays and rejections (because it wasn't "showy" enough), the opera became a mainstay of many of the opera theaters over the years. New York's
Metropolitan Opera House opened with a production of
Faust in 1883. Gounod based his opera on the German
alchemist who, according to legend, sold his soul to the devil in exchange for youth, power and knowledge. The opera's
libretto was written by
Jules Barbier and
Michel Carré.
opera（L.）：工作；勞動；行為。
歌劇
Ur-Faust = "prototype of Faust"
film was found in the
Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary at the entries listed below.
noun
1a
thin flexible strip of plastic or other material coated with
light-sensitive emulsion for exposure in a camera, used to produce
photographs or motion pictures:he had already shot a whole roll of film a new range of films and cameras
material in the form of a thin flexible sheet:clear plastic film between the layers of glass
a thin layer covering a surface:she quickly wiped away the light film of sweat
archaic a fine thread or filament:films of silk
2a motion picture; a movie:a horror film [as modifier]:a film director
movies considered as an art or industry:a critical overview of feminist writing on film
verb
1 [with object] capture on film as part of a series of moving images; make a movie of (a story or event):she glowered at the television crew who were filming them
[no object] (
film well/badly)
be well or badly suited to portrayal in a film:an adventure story that would film well
2 [no object] become or appear to become covered with a thin layer of something:his eyes had filmed over
Origin:
Old English filmen 'membrane'; related to
fell5
n. (名詞 noun)
-
軟片;膠捲[U][C]
我要買一捲快速軟片。
-
電影[C]
那部影片是誰主演的?
-
薄層;薄膜,薄皮[S1][U]
鏡子蒙上了一層灰塵。
-
薄霧[S]
vt. (及物動詞 transitive verb)
-
把...拍成電影
他將婚禮拍錄下來。
-
在...上覆以薄膜
她塗一層薄薄的奶油在一片麵包上。
vi. (不及物動詞 intransitive verb)
-
生薄膜;變得朦朧
她一雙眼睛因淚水而模糊不清。
-
攝製電影
-
適於拍成電影[Q]
他不適於上電影鏡頭。
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