2023年1月10日 星期二

mojo, 戰爭英文：kamikaze, ‘Kamikaze Drones’ 神風號無人機, a thermobaric or vacuum bomb, lung, lunge, gutter, vanquished, tiddly, hoodoo or voodoo, voodoo economics

“We had to get our execution mojo back,” Mr. Gelsinger said. “I needed somebody who was going to run to the fire and fix this business for me.”

What is a thermobaric or vacuum bomb? - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com › news › business-60571395
A thermobaric bomb (also called a vacuum or aerosol bomb - or fuel air explosive) consists of a fuel container with two separate explosive ...




俄羅斯大規模破壞烏克蘭通訊等基礎建設，全球首富 #馬斯克 提供「星鏈」協助烏克蘭軍隊贏得無人機之戰，果讓俄羅斯遭到痛擊，甚至美國還將提供傳說中的神風無人機迎戰俄軍，據報星鏈帶來的無人機隊引發俄羅斯克里姆林宮盛怒，正積極尋找並追狙烏克蘭無人機隊，得經常移動躲避砲火。

Hypersonic Missile. 5倍音速的飛彈，較難偵測



Victim's father couldn't hold back his rage -- lunges over the table to attack his daughter's killer inside courtroom during sentencing.http://cnn.it/1t60jfQ



At the height of Sri Lanka’s parliamentary campaign, mobile phone footage went viral showing Mahinda Rajapaksa, an authoritarian former president, lunging at a member of the public, his fists clenched. His aides pulled him away. With the votes all counted, Mr Rajapaksa's lunge for power has proven equally unsuccessfulhttp://econ.st/1E6y44S
Mahinda misfires
AT THE height of Sri Lanka’s parliamentary campaign, footage taken with a mobile phone went viral. It showed Mahinda Rajapaksa, an authoritarian former president...
ECON.ST



Tokyo's bid to host the 2016 Olympic games was doomed by a lack of enthusiasm. There was no such problem this time around. In beating Madrid and Istanbul for the right to host the 2020 games, Tokyo has shown unexpected mojo http://econ.st/161s6eA

 

 

 Thanks to new digital tools, marketing is no longer voodoo

 

 

  Is Japan Risking War to Save the US-Japan Alliance?
Forbes
China's likely response, or was it a deliberate, desperate, almost kamikaze-like lunge to save the U.S.-Japan security alliance? I believe that it was the latter. That Japan—and here I mean not just the Japan Democratic Party (DPJ) Noda cabinet, but ...

 

 


The U.S. dollar lunged higher on Tuesday as China allowed its yuan to fall to three-year lows, a shift that heightened unease about the world's second-largest economy even as it promised a much-needed boost to exports.

Burberry's Sales Growth Slows

Burberry's first-quarter sales rose 11%, well off last year's pace, as the luxury-goods maker felt the effects of the sputtering global economy.

Google+ Can Never Vanquish Facebook: 10 Reasons Why
eWeek
Google's decision to try its luck one more time in the social market with its Google+ platform is somewhat surprising. Over the last several years, Google has attempted to vanquish top players in the social market with the help of Orkut and Google Buzz ...


'Evening's Empire'
By BILL FLANAGAN
Reviewed by BEN SISARIO
An epic novel of rock 'n' roll , from its glory years to the guttering and sputtering of the music industry.


In an 11th-century French codex, the Maccabees pursue their retreating foe across the gutter of a two-page spread as over adjacent hills. Line dominates, especially satisfying in its account of the lunging horses and contrasting body language of victors and vanquished.
Photo: Leiden University Library



Those numbers look tiddly beside the public-sector pension deficits.



BlackBerry Services Sputters Back to Life


After three days of disruptions, RIM's service appears to be returning to action.



Japan's economy sputters; MPs want BOJ to do more
Reuters
By Stanley White and Sumio Ito TOKYO, July 30 (Reuters) - Japan suffered the biggest fall in factory output in more than a year in June and manufacturers ...


Down but far from out

The anti-Putin demonstrations lose some of their mojo

. How Occupy Oakland Is Stealing Occupy Wall Street's Mojo

By Jason Motlagh / Oakland
Protesters shut down the country's fourth largest port on Wednesday, even as they dealt with teargas and a volatile element in their midst: anarchists

Benetton's Faded Colors

By Peter Gumbel
Italy's Benetton family knitted an empire out of hip sweaters, but competition and recession are taking a toll. Can the next generation get the aging brand's mojo back?



Bing vs. Google: Is Microsoft Losing Its Mojo?
PC World
Also of interest: Bing's lost customers, gauging from StatCounter's data, appear to have gone to Google. Google shot up from 77.83 percent of the US search ...
GM is not the only company that's sputtering right now. Motorola, Citi, NASCAR, Starbucks, Sony, United Airlines, EMI, Kodak, Alitalia, Sprint Nextel, the New York Times, Unilever, AOL and Chrysler─these are just a few of the businesses that seem to have lost their mojo. Truth is, every organization is successful until it's not─and today, there are a lot that are not.



All Maximo Merioles Jr. could think about were his two children. As the floodwaters that had swamped his neighborhood came close to submerging him, he grabbed his two kids, ages 12 and 10, and swam toward another house, clambered up to the third floor, jumped between roofs and climbed down a wall to safety across the street.


kamikaze

Pronunciation: /ˌkamɪˈkɑːzi/
noun
  • (in the Second World War) a Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target.
  • the pilot of a kamikaze aircraft.

adjective

[attributive]
  • relating to or denoting a kamikaze attack or pilot: a kamikaze attack
  • reckless or potentially self-destructive:he made a kamikaze run across three lanes of traffic  / kamikaze congress

Origin:

Japanese, from kami 'divinity' 神+ kaze 'wind'風, originally referring to the gale that, in Japanese tradition, destroyed the fleet of invading Mongols in 1281



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voodoo

Pronunciation: /ˈvuːduː/
Translate voodoo | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish
Definition of voodoo
noun

[mass noun]
  • a black religious cult practised in the Caribbean and the southern US, combining elements of Roman Catholic ritual with traditional African magical and religious rites, and characterized by sorcery and spirit possession: they can use voodoo to help people if you understand voodoo you can talk to these spirits [as modifier]:a voodoo doll a voodoo priest
  • [count noun] a person skilled in voodoo.

verb (voodoos, voodooing, voodooed)

[with object]
  • affect (someone) by the practice of voodoo: someone had voodooed her

Derivatives
voodooism
noun

voodooist
noun

Origin:

early 19th century: from Louisiana French, from Kwa vodũ

Definition of voodoo economics
noun



[often treated as singular] US informal
  • an economic policy perceived as being unrealistic and ill-advised, in particular a policy of maintaining or increasing levels of public spending while reducing taxation: the numbers do not add up - talk about voodoo economics

Origin:

1980s: popularized as a disparaging term by George Bush (see Bush, George) in his 1980 campaign for the Republican presidential nomination

mojo

n., pl. -jos or -joes.
  1. A magic charm or spell.
  2. An amulet, often a small flannel bag containing one or more magic items, worn by adherents of hoodoo or voodoo.
  3. Personal magnetism; charm.
[Perhaps ultimately from Fula moco'o, medicine man.]


mojo1

Pronunciation: /ˈməʊdʒəʊ/
noun (plural mojos)


chiefly US
  • a magic charm, talisman, or spell:someone must have their mojo working over at the record company
  • [mass noun] influence, especially magic power: the name has no mojo

Origin:

early 20th century: probably of African origin; compare with Gullah moco 'witchcraft'





tiddlypronunciation

IN BRIEF: adj. - Very drunk.



sputter
The noun has 2 meanings:
Meaning #1: the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively
Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splatter, splattering, splutter, sputtering
Meaning #2: an utterance (of words) with spitting sounds (as in rage)
Synonym: splutter
The verb sputter has 5 meanings:
Meaning #1: make an explosive sound
Meaning #2: cause to undergo a process in which atoms are removed
Meaning #3: climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
Synonyms: clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, struggle
Meaning #4: utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage
Synonym: splutter
Meaning #5: spit up in an explosive manner
Synonyms: splutter, spit out

sputter
v., -tered, -ter·ing, -ters. v.intr.
  1. To spit out or spray particles of saliva or food from the mouth in noisy bursts.
  2. To spit out words or sounds in an excited or confused manner.
  3. To make sporadic spitting or popping sounds: The fire sputtered and died.
  4. Physics. To cause the atoms of a solid to be removed from the surface by bombardment with atoms in a discharge tube.
v.tr.
  1. To eject in short bursts with spitting or popping sounds.
  2. To utter in an excited or confused manner.
  3. Physics. To coat (a solid surface) with metal atoms by sputtering.
n.
  1. The act or sound of sputtering.
  2. Matter emitted in sputtering.
  3. Excited or confused utterance.
[Probably of Low German origin, akin to Dutch sputteren.]
sputterer sput'ter·er n.
sputtery sput'ter·y adj.
動](自)
1 パチパチ［ブツブツ］音をたてる
a roast sputtering on the grill
焼き網の上でジュージュー音をたてる焼き肉.
2 （怒ったり興奮したりして）口からつば［食べ物］を飛ばす；早口に［せき込んで］しゃべりたてる.
3 〈エンジン・機関銃が〉激しい（発射）音を出す.
━━(他)
1 〈小さな物を〉ブツブツ［パチパチ］飛ばす.
2 〈つば・食べ物などを〉（興奮して）口から飛ばす；…を早口に［せき込んで］支離滅裂にしゃべる.
━━[名][U]
1 パチパチ［ブツブツ］いう音.
2 せき込んで支離滅裂にしゃべること.
3 [C]つば, 口から飛ばされた食物など.
sput・ter・er
[名]

lung
n.
  1. A sudden thrust or pass, as with a sword.
  2. A sudden forward movement or plunge.

v., lunged, lung·ing, lung·es. v.intr.
  1. To make a sudden thrust or pass.
  2. To move with a sudden thrust.
v.tr.
To cause (someone) to lunge.
[From alteration of obsolete allonge, to thrust, from French allonger, from Old French alongier, to lengthen : a, to (from Latin ad; see ad–) + long, long (from Latin longus).]

lung
n. - 刺, 躍進, 刺進
v. intr. - 刺,

lunge[lunge]

lunge 1 
Pronunciation: /lʌn(d)ʒ/ 

NOUN

1A sudden forward thrust of the body, typically with an arm outstretched to attack someone or seize something:Lucy made a lunge for Gabriel’s wrista crude lunge at United’s goalscorer
More example sentencesSynonyms
1.1The basic attacking move in fencing, in which the leading foot is thrust forward closeto the floor with the knee bent while the back leg remains straightened.
Example sentences
1.2An exercise or gymnastic movement resembling the lunge of a fencer.
Example sentences

VERB (lunges, lungeing or lunging, lunged)


[NO OBJECT, WITH ADVERBIAL OF DIRECTION]
1Make a lunge:McCulloch raised his cudgel and lunged at himJohn lunged forward and grabbed him by the throat
More example sentencesSynonyms
1.1[WITH OBJECT AND ADVERBIAL OF DIRECTION] Make a sudden forward thrust with (a part of the body or a weapon):Billy lunged his spear at the fish
More example sentences

Origin


Mid 18th century: from earlier allonge, from French allonger 'lengthen'.

  • 発音記号[lʌ'ndʒ]
[名]
1 （フェンシングなどでの）突き.
2 突っ込み, 突進.
━━[動](自)（フェンシングなどで）（…を）突く；（ボクシングで）（…に）ストレートを出す((out/at ...))；（…に）突進する((out/at, for, into, toward ...)).
━━(他)〈物を〉突き出す［刺す］, 突進させる. 沖, 撲
v. tr. - 用刺, 戳
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 急な突き, 突き, 突進
v. - 突く, 突進する




gutter
n. - 排水溝, 貧民區, 槽
v. tr. - 開溝於
v. intr. - 形成溝, 淌蠟, 流, 淌, 搖曳不定
adj. - 貧賤的, 下流的, 粗俗的, 迎合低級趣味的, 聳人聽聞的, 黃色下流的
idioms:
  • gutter out 漸漸熄滅, 無聲無息地結束或死去
  • gutter press 低級趣味刊物, 黃色書刊, 下流報刊

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 樋, 排水溝, 貧民街, どん底の境遇, 溝
v. - ろうを流す, 樋を付ける, 溝を作る
idioms:
  • gutter out 徐々に消える
  • gutter press 煽情的な低級新聞
> sputter and gutter and go to his wife to trim his wick.”—Letters (1970) of G. Meredith, 27 December, I. page 409>

Tears can gutter down your face and lava can gutter down a mountain. The guttering/sputtering connection is new to me.



sputtering[sput・ter・ing]

  • 発音記号[spʌ'təriŋ]
[形]口角泡を飛ばすような；息をつく間もない.
sput・ter・ing・ly
[副]

vanquish
(văng'kwĭsh, văn'-) pronunciation
tr.v., -quished, -quish·ing, -quish·es.
    1. To defeat or conquer in battle; subjugate.
    2. To defeat in a contest, conflict, or competition.
  2. To overcome or subdue (an emotion, for example); suppress: "She had had to wrench herself forcibly away from Katharine, and every step vanquished her desire" (Virginia Woolf). See synonyms at defeat.
[Middle English vaynquisshen, from Old French vainquir, vainquiss-, from Latin vincere.]
vanquishable van'quish·a·ble adj.
vanquisher van'quish·er n.
vanquishment van'quish·ment n.
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