2017年5月17日 星期三

barely, bookie/ bookmaker, file into, Files for Bankruptcy / Chapter 11

American Airlines Parent Company Files for Bankruptcy AMR Corporation, the parent company of American Airlines, said on Tuesday that it has filed for Chapter 11, in an effort to reduce labor costs and shed its heavy debt load.President Barack Obama marked General Motors' historic bankruptcy filing on Monday by barely mentioning it, instead focusing his remarks on the second chance G.M. will have.

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bookie
ˈbʊki/
noun
informal
  1. a bookmaker.



Bookmaker - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookmaker
bookmaker, bookie, or turf accountant is an organisation that, or a person who, takes bets on sporting and other events at agreed-upon odds.

file 

発音
fáil
fileの変化形
files (複数形) • filed (過去形) • filed (過去分詞) • filing (現在分詞) • files (三人称単数現在)
fileの慣用句
in file, on file, file and forget, (全3件)
[名]
1 (書類・手紙などの)整理保存用具, ファイル;(新聞・書籍などの)とじ込み;(…に関する)書類一式((on ...))
a ‘do later' file
未整理書類保存箱
keep a file on ...
…に関する情報を保存する.
2 (情報を記録した)フィルム, 磁気テープ;《コンピュータ》(データをいれた)ファイル.
3 ((古))目録, 名簿.
4 (書類をとじる)とじ紐(ひも), とじ金.
5 縦列(⇔rank)
walk (in) singleIndian] file
1列縦隊で歩く.
6 《軍事》
(1) ((単数・複数扱い))縦列, 縦隊;縦列を成す兵員(の一人).
(2) 進級表の一段階.
7 (チェス盤の)縦の筋.
8 《紋章》長子の身分を示す模様.
in file
1列になって, 縦列[縦隊]で;続々と.
on file/on the files/on a person's files
とじ込み整理されて, ファイルされて;〈名前などが〉記録されて.
━━[動](他)
1 〈書類などを〉ファイルに入れる[とじ込む];〈公文書などを〉正式に保存する, 記録として残す;(…の項目に)整理する((under ...));整理してしまい込む((away))
mentally file away the remark
その言葉を心のファイルにとじ込む.
2 〈原稿を〉(送信のために)整理する;〈原稿を〉(電報・電話などで)送る.
3 〈兵隊などを〉1列縦隊で行進[移動]させる((off, out)).
4 〈書類・申請・告訴などを〉正式に提出[提起]する
file a claim
請求権を申し立てる
file suit for divorce
離婚訴訟を起こす
file a formal complaint with ...
…に正式に訴える.
━━(自)
1 〈兵隊などが〉1列縦隊で進む((past, into, through ...))
file off
(単縦列で)分列行進する
file inout
列を作って繰り込む[繰り出す]
file into a bus
縦列を作ってバスに乗り込む.
2 ((米))(…を)願い出る, 申請する((for ...));訴訟を起こす
file for bankruptcydivorce
破産[離婚]を申請する.
3 (土地の所有権などを)申請する((on, upon ...)).
file and forget
とじ込んで忘れる, 問題にしない.
[中フランス語fīler(fīlum糸+-er動詞語尾=書類に糸を通す). FILAMENT
file・a・ble
[形]
fíl・er
[名]



barely
adv.
  1. By a very little; hardly: could barely see the road in the fog.
  2. In a scanty manner; sparsely: a barely furnished room.

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