2024年4月25日 星期四

hope, recover, beacon, huge, rebound, heyday, hey, beacon of hope. Berlin Was a Beacon of Artistic Freedom. Gaza Changed Everything.





"Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for." - Seamus Heaney was an Irish poet who was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is known for works such as Mid-Term Break (1966) and Death of a Naturalist (1966).


Nuggets Beat Heat to Win Their First N.B.A. Finals
Denver trailed at halftime of Game 5 but came back to win, 94-89, with the two-time league most valuable player Nikola Jokic posting 28 points and 16 rebounds.
掘金隊擊敗熱火隊贏得了他們的第一個 NBA 冠軍。 決賽
丹佛隊在第 5 場比賽的中場休息時落後,但最終以 94-89 逆轉取勝,兩屆聯盟最有價值球員尼古拉·約基奇得到 28 分和 16 個籃板。


F.B.I. Is Searching Biden’s Vacation Home in Delaware

The search was undertaken with the cooperation of President Biden and his legal team. It was not clear whether any documents were recovered at the beach house.



Mike Pompeo 

In just one year, the CCP’s National Security Law has turned Hong Kong from a beacon of hope for freedom to a prison of Beijing’s tyranny.

Some of Britain’s best-loved ales are seeing an explosion of interest from Asia. (via BBC Capital)

Norman Miller looks behind the numbers to examine their new-found popularity.
BBC.COM|由 NORMAN MILLER 上傳



Malaysia Airlines said it hadn’t replaced an expired battery on a locator beacon on Flight 370. The effectiveness of the beacon may decrease once the battery expires.
This meeting is vital because the FCC is considering policies that will likely...
Washington Post


1. on Page 23:" ... strongly Irish membership. The nonconformist chapels, moral beacons to many in the Victorian heyday, were now suffering from falling membership"

2. on Page 38:

" ... with much-needed innovation in architecture and design, without precedent since the

heyday of Norman Shaw"

3. on Page 64:

" ... best that had been generally known since the late-Victorian heyday"


4. on Page 102:

"been in the heyday of the Beatles and the `swinging sixties'. As the economy began to recover with an export-led growth in 1995-7, commentators puzzled over the apparent absence of a `feel ... "



GM's demise comes after the longest death scene in history. Its heyday was the postwar period up to the 1970s, when, to a degree unmatched before or since, this one company was management. Peter Drucker, the discipline's first and most respected chronicler, wrote the seminal Concept of the Corporation after observing the company for two years in the 1950s, and its pioneering multidivisional structure - with a separate division corresponding to each market segment, from Chevrolet to Cadillac - had a huge influence on the shape of other large firms.





recover
/rɪˈkʌvə/
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verb
  1. 1.
    return to a normal state of health, mind, or strength.
    "Neil is still recovering from shock"
    Similar:
    recuperate
    get better
    get well
    convalesce
    regain one's strength
    regain one's health
    get stronger
    get back on one's feet
    feel oneself again
    get back to normal
    return to health
    be on the mend
    be on the road to recovery
    pick up
    rally
    respond to treatment
    make progress
    improve
    heal
    take a turn for the better
    turn the corner
    get out of the woods
    get over something
    shake something off
    pull through
    bounce back
    revive
    pull round
    perk up
    Opposite:
    deteriorate
    worsen
    go downhill
  2. 2.
    find or regain possession of (something stolen or lost).
    "police recovered a stolen video"
    Similar:
    retrieve
    regain (possession of)
    get back
    win back
    take back
    recoup
    reclaim
    repossess
    recapture
    retake
    redeem
    find (again)
    track down
    trace
    claw back
    replevin
    replevy
    recuperate
    salvage
    save
    rescue
    Opposite:
    lose
noun
  1. a defined position of a firearm forming part of a military drill.
    "bring the firelock to the recover"


huge


発音
hjúːdʒ | hjúːdʒ
[形](hug・er, hug・est)

ADJECTIVE

  • 1Extremely large; enormous:
    ‘a huge area’
    ‘huge amounts of money’
    1. 1.1 Of great importance or seriousness:
      ‘she's made a huge mistake’
      ‘this could be the start of something huge for you’
    2. 1.2informal Extremely popular or successful:
      ‘while he may be unknown in the American mainstream, he's huge in Britain’

1 (かさ・形・量などの点で)非常に大きい,巨大[莫大(ばくだい)]な
a huge man
巨人
a huge pile of leaves
落ち葉の大きな山.
[類語]対象物がきわめて大きいことを表す語としては,hugeとenormousがもっとも一般的. 両者は場所の広がりや距離の長さにも用いるが,この意味ではhugeのほうがふつう. massiveは対象が巨大というだけでなく,堅くて重いという感じを,colossalは驚きの気持ちを伴う. immenseやvastは場所の広大さ,距離の長大さを表す語で,後者は特に住む人がまばら,との意味合いを含む.
2 (範囲・程度などの点で)無限の
a huge undertaking
大事業.
huge・ly
[副]大いに.
huge・ness
[名][U]巨大さ.

heyday
n.

The period of greatest popularity, success, or power; prime.

[Perhaps alteration of heyda, exclamation of pleasure, probably alteration of Middle English hey, hey.]

hey

interj.

Used to attract attention or to express surprise, appreciation, wonder, or pleasure.

REGIONAL NOTE Traditionally, hey was just an exclamation. Sometimes it expressed delight, sometimes a warning. Nowadays we find it used for emphasis as well, especially in the expression but hey. It is also a greeting. It is a short, colloquial version of How are you? and thus close kin to the informal salutation hi, which it seems to be replacing in many situations. Until recently, this greeting had a distinctly Southern flavor. The national survey conducted in the 1960s by the Dictionary of American Regional English found hey as a greeting restricted chiefly to Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas. The friendly hey has since spread throughout the United States.




beaconLine breaks: bea¦con
Pronunciation: /ˈbiːk(ə)n/

Definition of beacon in English:

noun

1fire or light set up in a high or prominent position as a warningsignal, or celebration:chain of beacons carried the newsher red hair was like a beacon in the nightfigurative the prospect of a new government was a beacon of hope for millions
1.1[OFTEN IN PLACE NAMES] British hill suitable for a beacon:Ivinghoe Beacon
1.2A light or other visible object serving as a signal,warning, or guide at sea, on an airfieldetc.
1.3radio transmitter whose signal helps to fix the position of a ship, aircraft, or spacecraft.

Origin

Old English bēacn 'sign, portent, ensign', of West Germanic origin; related to beckon.

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