2008年11月30日星期日

ciborium, zip code, classy, widely, dwindle 'Bailout'. Decollation

"My idea in designing the Memorial," Gilbert Scott wrote, "was to erect a kind of ciborium to protect a statue of the Prince; and its special characteristic was that the ciborium was designed in some degree on the principles of the ancient shrines. These shrines were models of imaginary buildings, such as had never in reality been erected; and my idea was to realise one of these imaginary structures with its precious materials, its inlaying, its enamels, etc. etc."
The Albert Memorial was not the first revivalist design for a canopied statue in a Gothic style - the Scott Monument in Edinburgh had been designed by George Meikle Kemp over twenty years earlier.

Chances Dwindle on Bailout Plan for Automakers

By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN 53 minutes ago

Democratic leaders calling for an aid package to help auto companies conceded that they would face potentially insurmountable opposition in Congress.

Merriam-Webster Announces 'Bailout' As 2008 Word Of The Year

MarketWatch - USA
The 2008 Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year list is based on users' anonymous hits to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary and Online Thesaurus. ...

America's infrastructure: The cracks are showing

A tradition of bold national projects has dwindled. Time to revive it

The magazine's significance dwindled.

'Bailout'

n.

A rescue from financial difficulties: corporate bailouts.

zip code, classy, widely, dwindle 'Bailout'. Decollation

YouTube Gets Classy: Less Sex, More Symphony: YouTube is working on an image makeover kissing up to classical music fans, parents, and maybe even Hulu users. (JR Raphael, PC World)

Winthrop Smith Jr., a former head of Merrill's international brokerage and the son of a former Merrill chief executive, told Bloomberg News that the merger is "really like the death of a friend." He said he plans to attend Friday's vote, at which shareholders are widely expected to approve the combination.

widely

adverb

1 including a lot of different places, people, subjects, etc:

They have both travelled widely.

His plays are still widely performed in the USA.

French used to be widely spoken in Kampuchea.

His work on DNA was widely admired.

This theory is no longer widely accepted.

2 differ/vary widely to be very different:

Prices vary widely from shop to shop.

classy
adj. Informal., -i·er, -i·est.

Highly stylish; elegant.

classiness class'i·ness n.

zip code noun [C]

in the US, a series of numbers that forms part of an address, and which is used to help organize post so that it can be delivered more quickly

See also postcode.

dwindle

(dwĭn'dl)

v., -dled, -dling, -dles. v.intr.

To become gradually less until little remains.

v.tr.

To cause to dwindle. See synonyms at decrease.

[Frequentative of Middle English dwinen, to waste away, from Old English dwīnan, to shrink.]

Decollation

n.
[L. decollatio: cf. F. décollation.]
1. The act of beheading or state of one beheaded; -- especially used of the execution of St. John the Baptist.
2. A painting representing the beheading of a saint or martyr, esp. of St. John the Baptist.

ciborium（L.）：聖體盒：保存聖體的金屬器皿。

2008年11月28日星期五

astrophysics

Edwin E. Salpeter, Leader in Astrophysics Study, Dies at 83

astro・physics

━━ n. 天体物理学.

astro・physical　━━ a.

astro・physicist　━━ n.

Apulée , Ovid, Ovidius

注意到法國用Apulée
可是我在Wikipedia article "Ovid". 的法文版找不到此種說法這可能是將Apuleius
Wikipedia article "Apuleius". 混淆了ㄅ
日本強調應直接從拉丁文翻譯

オウィディウス（Publius Ovidius Naso, 紀元前43年 3月20日 - 紀元17年）は古代ローマ、「アウグストゥスの世紀」に生きた詩人。オヴィディウス（ドイツ式）、オーヴィッド（英語式）とも記されることがあるが、ラテン語を日本語でカタカナ表記する方式の違いであり、どれが正しいというものではない。

日本的大學出版社仍在翻譯出版他的作品
『哀歌（悲しみの歌）』Tristia

『悲しみの歌; 黒海からの手紙』　木村健治訳、京都大学学術出版会、1998年。

Pakistani

2008年11月27日星期四

dojo

A dojo (道場 dōjō^?) is a Japanese term which literally means "place of the Way". Initially, Dojo were adjunct to temples. The term can refer to a formal training place for any of the Japanese do arts but typically it is considered the formal gathering place for students of a martial arts style to conduct training, examinations and other related encounters.

2008年11月26日星期三

be bursting (coming apart )at the seams　

Some of the mega-buyouts that private equity shops labored to assemble during the go-go years of the credit boom are coming apart at the seams, according to Breakingviews.

Go to Article from Breakingviews via The New York Times»

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seam (JOIN) Show phonetics
noun [C]
a line where two things join, especially a line of sewing joining two pieces of cloth or leather:
The bags we sell have very strong seams, so they will last for years.
My old coat is coming/falling apart at the seams (= the stitches are coming out).
FIGURATIVE Their marriage is coming/falling apart at the seams (= likely to fail).

seamed Show phonetics
adjective LITERARY
covered in lines:
The old man's face was seamed and wrinkled.

seamless Show phonetics
adjective
seamless stockings/tights

2007

Quality Times No.119, May 6, 07；品質時報第119期：07年5月6日(週日 ).

博華：「我最近看到將有英國的出版社會出版此書Bursting at the Seams by Jeffrey Sachs.

Bursting at the Seams一詞如何翻譯比較好呢? 」

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2007 Reith Lectures已第四講了：

burst at the seams（人口、問題）快撐破了......爆滿啦；超負荷運轉…..
Be filled to or beyond normal capacity. For example, On her wedding day the church was bursting at the seams, or That was a wonderful meal, but I`m bursting at the seams. This expression alludes to rupturing the seams of a garment too tight for the wearer and is generally used hyperbolically. Also see come apart at the seams.

或 burst at the seams INFORMAL
to be completely full:
When all the family come home the house is bursting at the seams.
(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)

be bursting at the seams　〔話〕はち切れそうである, （人などで）あふれている. ph. (片語 phrase) . 擠滿
There were so many people that the hall was bursting at the seams. 人多極了,會堂擠得水洩不通。

例：华尔街投行担心员工出错
STAFF SHORTAGES RAISE FEARS OF BANK ERRORS By David Wighton and Ben White in New York (FT / Wednesday, June 06, 2007 ) Top investment banks are struggling to cope with the record volume of deals and their overworked staff are in danger of making costly mistakes, according to senior executives.

The banks have failed to hire aggressively, partly because they did not think the boom would last this long, and they now privately admit they are suffering from serious staff shortages. “We are bursting at the seams. You can see the fatigue on the bankers' faces,” the head of investment banking at a leading Wall Street bank said.

“My worry is that people will start cutting corners, will not do the due diligence and will damage the brand.”

英國《金融時報》大衛•懷頓(David Wighton)、本•懷特(Ben White)紐約報導

2007年6月6日星期三譯者/何黎

投資銀行的高管們表示，目前頂級投行正疲於應對創紀錄的交易量，員工工作過度，可能會犯下代價昂貴的錯誤。

投資銀行未能進行大舉招募，部分原因是它們沒想到交易熱潮會持續如此之久，如今它們私下承認，自己正面臨嚴重的員工短缺。

一家主要華爾街銀行的投行業務主管表示：“我們在超負荷運轉。銀行職員們滿面倦容。”

“我擔心，人們會開始走捷徑，不去做盡職調查，這將有損公司品牌。”

"Daughter of the Queen of Sheba"on the Big Screen

A Reporter's Life Story on the Big Screen
Jacki Lyden (Bill O'Leary) You may know Jacki Lyden from her many on-air years reporting for NPR ... but did you know that her life is the stuff of movies? Lyden's 1997 memoir "Daughter of the Queen of Sheba" is about to get a big-screen treatment -- with Oscar nominee Amy Adams (of "Junebug" and...
(Reliable Source, washingtonpost.com)

Queen of Sheba

Born: c. 10th century B.C.
Birthplace: Sheba (now Yemen or Ethiopia)
Died: c. 10th century B.C.
Best Known As: The wealthy queen who tested Solomon

Queen of Sheba was an ancient name for Abyssinia, a kingdom on the Red Sea in the vicinity of modern Ethiopia and Yemen. The Queen of Sheba is best known for a story in the Bible's book of Kings: at the head of a caravan of riches, she visits Israel's King Solomon to test his legendary wisdom. After Solomon successfully answers her riddles, the queen showers him with gifts. According to Ethiopian tradition the queen returned to Sheba and bore a son by Solomon, Menelik I, who was the beginning of the Ethiopian royal dynasty.

certificate, token of appreciation, coin

Token of appreciation

KOHEI WATANABE

THE ASAHI SHIMBUN

2008/11/26

Token of appreciation

A priest at Nagano's Zenkoji temple displays a gift from the Dalai Lama--presented by the Tibetan spiritual leader at a Nov. 6 meeting in Tokyo--to acknowledge the temple's support prior to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Zenkoji in April withdrew from its planned role as starting point for the Japan leg of the Olympic torch relay, citing China's crackdown on Tibetan protesters. The Dalai Lama said he appreciated the action, because it placed Buddhist principles above other factors, according to a temple official.(IHT/Asahi: November 26,2008)

Chinese Families May Have 2nd Child

By JAKE HOOKER and GRAHAM BOWLEY 2:22 PM ET

Families who lost their only child in the earthquake can apply for a certificate to have another child, the government said. As many as 10,000 children died.

certificate was found in the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary at the entries listed below.