2009年4月23日 星期四

practice, privatize, seal, selant

Richard Li, the chairman of Hong Kong's biggest phone company, abandoned his bid to privatize it on Thursday, a day after a Hong Kong blocked the plan.

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Born in Basel, Switzerland, Mr. Zumthor as a teenager served a four-year apprenticeship with a cabinetmaker. He studied at the Basel Arts and Crafts School and spent a year at Pratt Institute in New York. In the 1970s he moved to Graubünden, Switzerland, to work for the Department for the Preservation of Monuments. He established his own practice in 1979 in Haldenstein, where he and his wife, Annalisa Zumthor-Cuorad, brought up their three children.

SEALANT

WELL

By TARA PARKER-POPE Do popular dental sealants harbor a dangerous compound?




 seal2

━━ n. 印, 印章; 印鑑, はん; 封印(紙), シール; 口どめ; 確証, 保証 ((of)); しるし, 徴候; (ガスなどの)漏れ止め(装置), 栓.
 break the seal 開封する.
 (given) under one's hand and seal 署名捺印した[して].
 put [set] the[one's] seal 決定的なものにする; 捺(なつ)印[認可・保証]する ((to, on)).
 the Great Seal 国璽(じ).
 under [with] a flying seal 開封で.
 under (the) seal of secrecy 秘密厳守の約束で.
━━ vt. 捺印[調印]する; 確認[保証・検印]する; (封ろうなどで)封印[密閉]する ((up)); (人の口を)封じる; (運命などを)決定づける.
 seal in 封じ込める.
 seal off 密閉する; 包囲する.
 seal・ant
 ━━ n. 密封剤.
 sealed ━━ a. 封印された; 判を押した.
sealed bid 密封入札, 封緘入札.
sealed book 不可解なこと.
sealed orders 封緘(ふうかん)命令.
 seal・er2 ━━ n. 捺印[封印]者[機]; 度量衡検査官; 吸込み止め ((下地用塗料)).
 sealing wax 封蝋(ろう).
 seal ring 認印付きの指輪.

practise (WORK) UKUS practice 
verb [I or T]
to work in an important skilled job for which a lot of training is necessary:
How long have you been practising as a dentist?
She practised medicine for twenty years before she became a writer.

practice 
noun [C]
a job or business which involves a lot of skill or training:
a dental/medical/veterinary/legal practice
Our practice is responsible for about five thousand patients in this part of Leeds.
She's decided to leave the Health Service and join a private practice.

practising UKUS practicing 
adjective [before noun]
actively involved in a job:
a practising doctor/lawyer
The number of practising doctors is falling even though more people are qualifying in medicine.

private (NOT OFFICIAL)
adjective
controlled or paid for by a person or company and not by the government:
private education/healthcare
a private doctor/dentist
Banks should be supporting small private businesses.
The finance for the project will come from both the government and the private sector (= private businesses).

privately
adverb
a privately-owned business

privatize, UK USUALLY privatise
verb [T]
If a government privatizes an industry, company or service that it owns and controls, it sells it so that it becomes privately owned and controlled:
I bought shares in British Gas when it was privatized.

privatization, UK USUALLY privatisation
noun [U]
The last few years have seen the privatization of many industries previously owned by the state.

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