2020年4月1日 星期三

purring, affect, effect, goad, converge, prod, free-roaming kitties are serious killers

With bookstores temporarily shut and other disruptions, publishing is feeling the coronavirus’s effects. Most didn’t want to release big books this fall, when the presidential election would affect TV and radio coverage of books. But now, they’re postponing books until the very time they were hoping to avoid.


David Cameron has been accused of "gossiping" about the Queen after being filmed sharing details of a private conversation:http://bbc.in/1smH3IS

He said the Queen "purred" when he told her Scotland had voted "No" to independence, adding "I've never heard someone so happy".

Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond said Mr Cameron should "hang his head in shame".
After a Journalist's Prodding, China Investigates a Top Official

By CHRIS BUCKLEY

Investigators said a senior economic policy maker, Liu Tienan, was "suspected of grave violations of discipline," accusations first raised by a magazine editor.


How Caesars Entertainment, one of the largest gaming companies in the world, expanded its sustainability efforts using the novel "CodeGreen" scorecard to guide and goad management.


Think of cats as cute purring bundles of fur? Think again. A new study says free-roaming kitties are serious killers.
你以為貓是可愛又會呼嚕呼嚕叫的小毛球嗎？再想一想吧。一項新研究發現，自由遊走的小貓咪其實是恐怖的殺手。

Spain Says Downgrade Won't Affect Plans
Spanish officials voiced defiance on Thursday after a credit downgrade left the country's rating close to junk status at two firms, saying the surprise move wouldn't affect their plans to raise money on financial markets.

Editor Who Gave Cosmopolitan Its Purr

By MARGALIT FOX 5:04 PM ET
Ms. Brown, who wrote the book “Sex and the Single Girl,” was widely credited with being the first to introduce frank discussions of sex into magazines for women.


Hutchison Telecom Trims Profit
Billionaire Li Ka-shing's company wiped away roughly US$97 million in profit from its 2008 financial results at the prodding of U.S. regulators, a move its parent company said wouldn't affect its US$545 million offer to take full control of the unit.


- Arcandor employees urge Berlin to save their jobs

As marathon and difficult talks continued in Berlin this week over the fate
of Germany’s troubled carmaker, Opel, a not-so-high profile group of
workers also held a demonstration in the German capital. Protesters
converged on the economics ministry to goad the government into action.

The DW-WORLD Article
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Pushed to the brink of collapse by the mortgage crisis, Bear Stearns Cos. agreed -- after prodding by the federal government -- to be sold to J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. for the fire-sale price of $2 a share in stock, or about $236 million.
Bear Stearns had a stock-market value of about $3.5 billion as of Friday -- and was worth $20 billion in January 2007. But the crisis of confidence that swept the firm and fueled a customer exodus in recent days left Bear Stearns with a horrible choice: sell the firm -- at any price -- to a big bank willing to assume its trading obligations or file for bankruptcy.

prod 
verb -dd-
1 [I or T] to push something or someone with your finger or with a pointed object:
I prodded her in the back to get her attention.
She prodded the cake with her fork to see if it was cooked.
He prodded at the fish with his fork a few times, but he didn't eat a mouthful.

2 [T] to encourage someone to take action, especially when they are being slow or unwilling:
He gets things done, but only after I've prodded him into doing them.

prod 
noun
1 [C] an act of pushing something or someone with your finger or with a pointed object:
He gave her a prod in the ribs.

2 [S] encouragement to do something:
She hasn't ordered that book for me yet - I must give her a prod.

prod
verb (prods, prodding, prodded)
[with object]
  • poke with a finger, foot, or pointed object:he prodded her in the ribs [no object]:she took up a fork and prodded at the food
  • stimulate or persuade (someone who is reluctant or slow) to do something:they attempted to prod the central bank into cutting interest rates

noun

  • 1a poke with a finger, foot, or pointed object:he gave the wire netting an experimental prod
  • an act of stimulating or reminding someone to do something:you need a gentle prod to remind you that life is only what you make it
  • 2a pointed implement, typically one discharging an electric current and used as a goad:a cattle prod
Phrases

on the prod

North American informal looking for trouble:a gangster on the prod

Derivatives


prodder

noun

Origin:

mid 16th century (as a verb): perhaps symbolic of a short poking movement, or a blend of poke1 and dialect brod 'to goad, prod'. The noun dates from the mid 18th century


affect[af・fect1]

[動] 〔fékt〕 (他)
1 …に影響を及ぼす, 作用する
The changes of this period affected English in its vocabulary.
この時期の諸変化は英語の語彙(ごい)に影響を与えた
The brandy affected him.
ブランデーが彼にきいてきた
Acid affects metals.
酸は金属を冒す.
[類語]affect, influenceはいずれも何か他のものに影響するということであるが, affectは影響によってなんらかの結果ないし効果(effect)が生じるということに, influenceは影響がある程度の期間にわたって及ぼされる過程に重点がある（この意味ではaffectはhave an effect onに, influenceはhave an influence onと置き換えられる）.
2 ((通例受身))〈人の〉心を動かす, 心に響く, …を感動させる(move)
be easily affected by ［with］ ...
…に感じやすい
I was badly affected.
私は深く傷ついた
The tears of women always affect me deeply.
私は女の涙に弱い.
3 〈痛み・病気などが〉…を冒す, に変調をきたす
She was affected by pneumonia.
彼女は肺炎にかかった
Worry affected his health.
気苦労が彼の体に障(さわ)った.
━━[名] 〔ǽfekt〕 [U]
1 《心理学》感情, 情緒.
2 （重大な結果をもたらす）強い感情.
［ラテン語affectus （ad-へ＋facereなす＋-tus過去分詞語尾＝へ作用された）. △AFFECT2］
[動](他)((形式))
1 ［III[名]］…の状態を装う, ふりをする；［III to do］〈…している〉ふりをする, わざと…して見せる. ⇒PRETEND[類語]
affect indifference ［ignorance］
無関心な［何も知らない］ふりをする
affect the scholar
学者気どりでいる
I affected not to understand.
理解不能を装った.
2 ((文))…を好んで用いる［身に着ける］, 愛用する
affect brightly colored clothing
はでな服装を好む
He affects a chin goatee.
彼はあごにやぎひげを蓄えている.
3 〈物が〉自然に〈ある形を〉とる, …になる.
4 〈動植物が〉…に好んですむ［はえる］.
［ラテン語affectāre （ad-へ＋facereなす＋-tāre反復を示す動詞語尾＝繰り返しする→専心する）. △AFFECT1］
af・fect・er
[名]

converge
v., -verged, -verg·ing, -verg·es. v.intr.
    1. To tend toward or approach an intersecting point: lines that converge.
    2. To come together from different directions; meet: The avenues converge at a central square.
  2. To tend toward or achieve union or a common conclusion or result: In time, our views and our efforts converged.
  3. Mathematics. To approach a limit.
v.tr.
To cause to converge.
[Late Latin convergere, to incline together : Latin com-, com- + Latin vergere, to incline.]



goad
n.
  1. A long stick with a pointed end used for prodding animals.
  2. An agent or means of prodding or urging; a stimulus.
tr.v., goad·ed, goad·ing, goads.
To prod or urge with or as if with a long pointed stick.
[Middle English gode, from Old English gād.]


The noun has 2 meanings:
Meaning #1: a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something
Synonyms: goad, goading, prodding, urging, spur, spurring
Meaning #2: a pointed instrument used to prod into motion
Synonym: goad
The verb prod has 3 meanings:
Meaning #1: to push against gently
Synonyms: nudge, poke at
Meaning #2: urge on; cause to act
Synonyms: incite, egg on
Meaning #3: poke or thrust abruptly
Synonyms: jab, stab, poke, dig

 free-ranging：形容詞，自由放養的。例句：Free-ranging pets can cause many problems.（自由放養的寵物可能造成許多問題。）



purr

Line breaks: purr
Pronunciation: /pəː /VERB
[NO OBJECT]
1(Of a cat) make a low continuous vibratory sound expressing contentment:the cat purred loudly, rubbing against her legs
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1.1[NO OBJECT, WITH ADVERBIAL OF DIRECTION] (Of a vehicle or engine) move smoothly while making a similar sound:a sleek blue BMW purred past him
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1.2Speak in a low, soft voice, especially when expressing contentment or acting seductively:[WITH DIRECT SPEECH]: ‘Would you like a coffee?’ she purred
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NOUN

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A purring sound:a contented purrwith a soft purr, the car headed out on to the road
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Origin

early 17th century: imitative.

purr[purr]

  • 発音記号[pə'ːr]
[動](自)
1 〈猫が〉（満足そうに）のどを鳴らす；〈人が〉満足げな様子を示す［で話す］.
2 〈機械などが〉ブーンという快適な音を立てる.
━━(他)…をのどを鳴らして（満足気に）表現する［小声で話す］.
━━[名]のどを鳴らす音, ごろごろ.
purr・ing・ly
[副]
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