vanity, beefy, vanity fair, vanity press, generality, All that glitters is not gold, glittering generality

One, from the People's Liberation Army Daily, cited Qi Jianguo, deputy chief of general staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, who attended, hinted at tensions but confined itself to generalities, such as: "Facing deep and complicated changes in the Asia-Pacific security situation, we must stand for and uphold a new security view of 'mutual trust, mutual benefit, equality, cooperation,' of wanting peace and not war, of wanting development and not poverty, cooperation and not enmity."《解放軍報》的一篇文章援引了與會的解放軍副總參謀長戚建國的講話，暗示有緊張局勢存在，但還是局限於泛泛而談。比如，文中寫道：“面對當前亞太安全形勢 的深刻複雜變化，我們應主張確定‘互信、互利、平等、協作’的新安全觀，要和平不要戰爭，要發展不要貧窮，要合作不要對抗。”


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All that glitters is not gold

Meaning

Not everything that is shiny and superficially attractive is valuable.

Origin

In the week of Shakespeare's birthday, it seems appropriate to include a well-known phrase that is associated with the Bard.

The original form of this phrase was 'all that glisters is not gold'. The 'glitters' version long ago superseded the original and is now almost universally used. Shakespeare is the best-known writer to have expressed the idea that shiny things aren't necessarily precious things. The original editions of The Merchant of Venice, 1596, have the line as 'all that glisters is not gold'. 'Glister' is usually replaced by 'glitter' in modern renditions of the play:

O hell! what have we here?
A carrion Death, within whose empty eye
There is a written scroll! I'll read the writing.
All that glitters is not gold...

Various different ways of expressing the idea that 'all that glitters/glisters is not gold' were in general circulation well before Shakespeare's day and it was a common enough notion to have been called proverbial by the 16th century. The 12th century French theologian Alain de Lille wrote "Do not hold everything gold that shines like gold". Geoffrey Chaucer also expressed the same idea in Middle English in the poem The House of Fame, 1380 - "Hit is not al gold, that glareth". Nevertheless, it is Shakespeare who gave us the version we now use.
The 'glitters' version of this phrase is so long established as to be perfectly acceptable - especially as 'glisters' and 'glitters' mean the same thing. Only the most pedantic insist that 'all that glisters is not gold' is correct and that 'all that glitters is not gold', being a misquotation, however cobweb-laden, should be shunned. John Dryden was quite happy to use 'glitters' as long ago as 1687, in his poem The Hind and the Panther:

For you may palm upon us new for old:
All, as they say, that glitters, is not gold.

vanity fair (VAN-i-tee fair)

noun: A place characterized by frivolity and ostentation.

Etymology
After Vanity Fair, a fair that lasted all year long in the town of Vanity, in the novel Pilgrim's Progress by writer and preacher John Bunyan (1628-1688). In the fair were traded houses, honors, titles, kingdoms, pleasures, and much more -- sounds like an early version of eBay.

Usage
"[The Millionaire Fair] was a vanity fair of thin beautiful women sporting mink fur coats and low necklines decorated with glittering jewelry and dark-suited, elegant men shadowed by beefy bodyguards." — Maria Danilova; In Moscow, A Nouveau Riche Showcase; The Associated Press; Nov 3, 2006.

"In one corner was Karl Rove, presidential adviser and global-warming denier. In the opposite corner was the An Inconvenient Truth tag team of singer Sheryl Crow and documentary producer Laurie David. Their encounter took place Saturday night in Washington at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner, a vanity fair for journalists, politicos, and celebrities." — The Lightning Round; The Philadelphia Inquirer; Apr 24, 2007.



The idea of renting out space on big machines harks back to the early era of computing, when computers were so expensive that customers bought blocks of time on them for specific tasks. Today, a number of companies, like the high-speed computing specialist Cray and the graphics-chip maker Nvidia, are building beefy systems that can sit next to a desk and replicate some of the functions handled by room-sized machines.

beef (MEAT) Show phonetics
noun [U]
1 the flesh of cattle which is eaten:
The spaghetti sauce is made with UK minced/US ground beef.
People in England often have roast beef and Yorkshire pudding for lunch on Sundays.
He is a beef cattle farmer.

2 MAINLY UK INFORMAL strength, power or force:
He said that the newly published government report didn't have much beef in it.
Push harder! Put some beef into it!

beefy Show phonetics
adjective INFORMAL
1 describes someone who looks strong, heavy and powerful:
a beefy footballer

2 powerful and effective:
I want to buy myself a beefier computer.

glitter[glit・ter]

• レベル：大学入試程度
• 発音記号[glítər]

[動](自)

1 （…で）きらきらと照り映える, 照り輝く, （反射して）きらきら光る, ぴかぴか輝く, きらめく；（特に）〈目が〉（特別な感情で）輝く((with ...))

All is not gold that glitters. ［＝All that glitters is not gold. ］
((ことわざ)) 輝くものすべてが金とは限らない.

2 ［I（[副]）］きらびやかな様相を呈する, けばけばしい, 華美である

She was glittering with gems.
宝石できらびやかに飾り立てていた.

━━[名]

1 [U][C]((通例the 〜))きらめく光［輝き］, 光輝, きらめき；[U]((通例the 〜))はなやかな美しさ, きらびやかさ, 華麗さ.

2 [U]((集合的))（衣服の飾りなどに用いる）小さな光るもの.

3 ((米俗))（ミュージシャンの）ぎんぎらファッション.

glittering[glit・ter・ing]

• レベル：社会人必須
• 発音記号[glítəriŋ]

[形]光り輝く, きらめく；（経歴・生活などが）華麗な, きらびやかな

glittering generality
（政治家・広告などの）美辞麗句.

glittering prizes
輝く栄冠, 最高の栄誉.

glit・ter・ing・ly

[副]

generality

音節

gen • er • al • i • ty

発音

dʒènərǽləti

generalityの変化形

generalities (複数形)

[名]

1 [U]((形式))一般性, 普遍性.

2 一般法則［原理］；一般論, 概説

speak in generalities
おおまかに述べる.

3 ((通例the 〜))((複数・単数扱い))((文))大部分, 大多数（の…）((of ...))

the generality of students
大多数の学生たち.

vanity

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Pronunciation: /ˈvanɪti

  

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NOUN (plural vanities)

• 1[MASS NOUN] Excessive pride in or admiration of one’s own appearance or achievements:it flattered his vanity to think I was in love with him[COUNT NOUN]: the vanities and ambitions of politicians
  

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• 1.1[AS MODIFIER] Denoting a person or company publishing works at the author’s expense:a vanity press
  

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• 2[MASS NOUN] The quality of being worthless or futile:the vanity of human wishes
  

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• 3North American A dressing table.
  

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Origin

Middle English: from Old French vanite, from Latinvanitas, from vanus 'empty' (see vain).