成為傑出慈善家的護士安·盧裡 (Ann Lurie) 去世，享年 79 歲
她曾經是一位對財富感到憤怒的嬉皮士，後來嫁給了一位芝加哥房地產巨頭，並在他去世後，在她的第二故鄉及其他地區捐贈了數億美元。
Ann Lurie, Nurse Who Became a Prominent Philanthropist, Is Dead at 79
A former hippie who chafed at wealth, she married a Chicago real estate titan and, after his death, donated hundreds of millions in her adopted city and beyond.
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IBMers chafed at Chinese practices such as mandatory exercise breaks and public shaming of latecomers to meetings.
Before Scandal, Clash Over Control of Libor
In
a 2008 meeting with Bank of England officials, the head of the British
Bankers' Association suggested that Libor had become too big for her
organization to manage, but her suggestion went nowhere.
MOST climbers simply chafe to reach the tops of mountains. Roger Payne was different. Although he had several first ascents to his name—Mount Grosvenor in China, Khan Tengri and Pobeda in Kazakhstan, in a career spanning 30 years—his priority was to go lightly, and leave no trace.
Brian Harkin for The New York Times
Clash of Rights on a Brooklyn Bus
By CHRISTINE HAUGHNEY
The B110 bus, which runs between Williamsburg and Borough Park, is different from other New York City buses. Most notably, women are asked to ride in the back.
A
train named Yoru no Ajisai- go runs near clusters of hydrangeas lit up
in on the Hakone mountainside on June 23. (Toshiyuki Hayashi)
Flower lovers and photographers can climb aboard a special Hakone Tozan
Railway Co. night train again to enjoy views of illuminated clusters of
colorful hydrangeas in Hakone.
Nowhere is this more true than in the field of mathematics. The most famous example is the development of imaginary numbers. The very name conveys the supposed uselessness of the concept. Square the imaginary unit, i, and you get minus one. Baffling.
在數學界，這一點最為明顯。最著名的例子便是虛數理論的發展。虛數這個名字本身就傳遞出了人們認為這一概念無用的態度。虛數單位i的平方等於-1。這真是令人費解。
French intellectuals, like those in the rest of Europe, have been vocal critics of Google Books. But France does not appear to chafe when it comes to displaying its own literature online, on its own terms.
President Nicolas Sarkozy announced Monday that the government has earmarked more than $1 billion to scan French books.
Still Chafing After 40 Years, Libyan Leader Baffles West
By MICHAEL SLACKMAN
If the world thought Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi had changed, he proved otherwise with the hero’s welcome home he gave the Lockerbie convict.
Britain is the EU's third-biggest economy, and the EU is the country's biggest trading partner, taking in about half the U.K.'s exports. The regulations that emanate from Brussels have chafed U.K. companies for years, but to many they are less scary than the loss of the country's unfettered access to the world's biggest economic bloc.
chafe (chāf)
v., chafed, chaf·ing, chafes. v.tr.
- To wear away or irritate by rubbing.
- To annoy; vex.
- To warm by rubbing, as with the hands.
- To rub and cause irritation or friction: The high collar chafed against my neck.
- To become worn or sore from rubbing.
- To feel irritated or impatient: chafed at the delay.
- Warmth, wear, or soreness produced by friction.
- Annoyance; vexation.
[Middle English chafen, from Old French chaufer, to warm, from Vulgar Latin *calefāre, alteration of Latin calefacere : calēre, to be warm + facere, to make.]
SYNONYMS chafe, abrade, excoriate, fret, gall. These verbs mean to wear down or rub away a surface by or as if by scraping: chafed
my skin; water abrading the canyon walls; metal bristles that
excoriated her scalp; rope that fretted a groove in the post; stone
steps galled by years of heavy use.
- 発音
- tʃéif
- chafeの変化形
- chafed (過去形) • chafed (過去分詞) • chafing (現在分詞) • chafes (三人称単数現在)
- chafeの慣用句
- chafe at the bit, （全1件）
[動](他)
1 〈靴などを〉すり減らす, すり切らす；〈靴・カラーなどが〉〈足・首などを〉すりむく, すりむいて［こすって］ひりひりさせる
2 〈手などを〉こすって暖める.
3 〈人・神経などを〉悩ます, 怒らせる, いらいらさせる.
━━(自)
1 〈動物が〉（…に）体をこすりつける；〈物が〉（…と）摩擦する；（…で）すり切れる；（…に）激しく当たる((against, on ...)).
3 （…に）いらだつ, じれったがる((at, against, under ...))
chafe under the restraints of social convention
社会的慣習の束縛にいらだつ.
社会的慣習の束縛にいらだつ.
4 （…を）待ちこがれる((for ...)).
5 〈海・波が〉荒れ狂う.
chafe at the bit
(1) 〈馬が〉はみにいらだつ.(2) 遅いのでじりじりする.
━━[名]
2 摩擦熱；すり切れ；すりむき傷（の痛み）.
［中フランス語←ラテン語calefacere（calēreあつい＋facereする＝あつい状態にする）］go nowhere (fast)
to not progress This debate is going nowhere - we're no closer to a solution than we were when it started. Chloë's job at the health department was going nowhere fast.
hydrangeas
繡球花，又名、紫陽花、七變化、洋繡球、粉團花，原產於中國四川一帶及日本。原學名八仙花由菲利普·弗蘭茲·馮·西博爾德根據其日本妻子的名字-楠本滝所命名。為山茱萸目繡球花科繡球屬（學名：Hydrangea）落葉灌木，花幾乎全為無性花，所謂的「花」只是萼片而已。早期「花」為白色，後變為藍色或粉紅色。
baffle
verb
noun
- [動](他)
- 1 〈人を〉まごつかせる，当惑させる
- baffled ...
- 彼女は…に当惑している
- baffled .
- 突然の質問にまごついた.
- 2 ((しばしば受身))〈望み・計画などを〉くじく；〈人を〉（企てなどで）挫折(ざせつ)させる((in ...))
- baffled .
- 彼の計画はだめになった.
- 3 〈光・音・液体などの〉流れを止める［そらす］
- baffle
- まぶしい光線をそらす.
- 4 ((主に英))〈風・天候などが〉〈進路などを〉妨げる.
- ━━(自)〈人・動物が〉もがく，あがく.
- ━━[名]（またbáf・fler）（水流・音響・気流などの）整流装置(baffle plate).
- baf・fle・ment
- [名]
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