Hope you have no fresh regrets.
The eight circus artists profiled in Grazing the Sky come from all over the globe. They appear at different stages of their careers, from students ...
Scientific American
Predators and climate change have driven goat herders in Mongolia to boost the size of their flocks, which has led to overgrazing of the grassland.
Predators and climate change have driven goat herders in Mongolia to boost the size of their flocks, which has led to overgrazing of the grassland.
Saudi Arabia Warns of Economic Fallout if Congress Passes 9/11 Bill
By MARK MAZZETTI
The kingdom has bristled over a bill that would allow its government to be held responsible in American courts for any role in the Sept. 11 attacks.
'It hit my hand! It hit my hand!'
Every freshers' week at Oxford, Christ Church Cathedral fill the church with candle and disco lights to invite new students to experience the space.
Changing of the Guard
Party Bristles at Military’s Push for More Sway in China
By EDWARD WONG and JONATHAN ANSFIELD
With China’s once-a-decade leadership transition nearing, Communist
Party leaders are pushing back against what some see as military
officials’ intrusion into policy and politics.
We'll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives'
By PAUL SHAFFER
Reviewed by PETER KEEPNEWS
Paul Shaffer's memoir includes brushes with Andy Kaufman and Jerry Lewis.
After brushes with breast cancer and melanoma, Ms. Dunn was diagnosed with Stage IV ovarian cancer in January 2004. Intense chemotherapy, which lasted through August 2005, appeared to have beaten back the disease, but she later had surgery to remove cancer that had spread to her liver.
By KELLY OLSEN TOKYO—Japanese
industrial production posted weaker-than-expected growth in April,
highlighting fresh concerns about broad economic growth in the world's
third-largest economy. Output rose 0.2% from the previous month, data
released ...
Continued
concerns about Spanish banks sent the country's stock market to fresh
nine-year lows, the two-year German yield to zero and the euro to its
weakest level against the dollar in nearly two years.
BEIJING — The head of China's
$410 billion sovereign wealth fund has brushed aside a call by the
German chancellor, Angela Merkel, to buy European government debt,
saying Monday that such investments were “difficult” for long-term
investors.
Chevron sets itself apart from rival BP in the Gulf
Chevron has come out swinging in its fight to continue drilling in the
deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, arguing that not all oil firms
should be tarred with the brush of BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster.
China told personal-computer makers they must ship Web-blocking software with new PCs as of July 1, enabling censorship and creating a dilemma for the manufacturers.中國計劃要求7月1日之後在華銷售的所有個人電腦出廠時裝有阻止電腦訪問某些網站的軟件﹐此舉可能會給政府互聯網內容審查機構對中國網民訪問互聯網的方式施以前所未有的控制。
Chinese Web users bristled at state media reports of a rule requiring new PCs to be shipped with Web-filtering software.
bristle
n.
- A stiff hair.
- A stiff hairlike structure: the bristles of a wire brush.
v., -tled, -tling, -tles. v.intr.
- To stand stiffly on end like bristles: The hair on the dog's neck bristled.
- To raise the bristles: The cat bristled at the sight of the large dog.
- To react in an angry or offended manner: The author bristled at the suggestion of plagiarism.
- To be covered or thick with or as if with bristles: The path bristled with thorns.
v.tr.
- To cause to stand erect like bristles; stiffen.
- To furnish or supply with bristles.
- To make bristly; ruffle.
[Middle English bristel, probably from Old English *byrstel, from byrst, bristle.]
bristle[bris・tle]
- 発音記号[brísl]
━━[動](自)
1 〈毛・羽などが〉（怒りなどで）逆立つ；〈動物が〉毛を逆立てる((up/with ...)).
2 さっと怒りを顔に表す.
3 〈場所などが〉（…で）いっぱいである, （…が）密生する, 林立する；〈問題が〉（困難に）満ちている((with ...)).
━━(他)
1 〈毛・羽を〉逆立てる.
2 …を怒らせる, いらだたせる.
3 …に（…を）林立させる((with ...))；〈ブラシなどに〉剛毛を植える.
brís・tled
[形]
VERB
[NO OBJECT]- 1(of cattle, sheep, etc.) eat grass in a field.‘cattle graze on the open meadows’
- ‘downland areas grazed by sheep’
- 1.2with object Put (cattle, sheep, etc.) to feed on grassland.‘shepherds who grazed animals on common land’
- 1.3informal (of a person) eat frequent snacks at irregular intervals.‘advertisers should not encourage children to graze on snacks or sweets’
- 1.4North American informal Casually sample something.‘we grazed up and down the TV channels’
- 1.1with object (of an animal) feed on (grass or grassland)
Origin
Old English grasian, from græs ‘grass’.
graze 2
VERB
[ WITH OBJECT]
NOUN
Origin
Late 16th century: perhaps a specific use of graze1.
fresh[fresh]
- 発音記号[fréʃ]
[形]
1
(1) できたての, 新しい；手に入れた［得られた］ばかりの；((叙述))（…から）来た［着いた］ばかりの((from, out of ...))
(1) できたての, 新しい；手に入れた［得られた］ばかりの；((叙述))（…から）来た［着いた］ばかりの((from, out of ...))
a fresh wound
受けたばかりの傷
受けたばかりの傷
fresh tea
入れたての紅茶
入れたての紅茶
fresh news
最新のニュース
(2) 〈食品などが〉新鮮な, 保存加工をしていない, （冷凍でなく）生のままの最新のニュース
fresh eggs
新鮮な卵.
新鮮な卵.
5 色あせていない, 真新しい（⇒NEW[類語]）；（記憶などに）生々しく［あざやかに］残っている((in ...))
Fresh Paint.
((掲示))ペンキ塗りたて
((掲示))ペンキ塗りたて
a fresh handkerchief
真新しいハンカチ
真新しいハンカチ
7 〈人が〉未熟な, うぶな, 青二才の
fresh recruits
新兵
新兵
9 ((米俗))すごい, かっこいい.
10 ((俗))超然とした, クールな.
11 〈雌牛が〉子牛を産んだばかりの, 乳が出るようになった.
(as) fresh as a daisy
((略式))元気はつらつとした.
fresh out of ...
((米話))…を切らしたばかりで.
━━[名]
2 ＝freshet.
3 （一陣の）突風.
4 ((米))（大学の）新入生.
━━[動](他)(自)新しく［新鮮に］する［なる］.
fresh・ness
[名][U]新しさ；新鮮味；なまなましさ, 鮮明.
tepid[tep・id]
- 発音記号[tépid]
[形]
2 熱意に欠ける, 気乗りのしない.
te・píd・i・ty, ・ness
[名]
tep・id・ly
[副]
brush
n.
- A device consisting of bristles fastened into a handle, used in scrubbing, polishing, or painting.
- The act of using this device.
- A light touch in passing; a graze.
- An instance of contact with something undesirable or dangerous: a brush with the law; a brush with death.
- A bushy tail: the brush of a fox.
- A sliding connection completing a circuit between a fixed and a moving conductor.
- A snub; a brushoff.
v., brushed, brush·ing, brush·es. v.tr.
- To clean, polish, or groom with a brush.
- To apply with or as if with motions of a brush.
- To remove with or as if with motions of a brush.
- To dismiss abruptly or curtly: brushed the matter aside; brushed an old friend off.
- To touch lightly in passing; graze against.
v.in tr.
- To use or apply a brush.
- To move past something so as to touch it lightly.
phrasal verbs:
brush back Baseball.
- To force (a batter) to move away from the plate by throwing an inside pitch.
- To refresh one's memory.
- To renew a skill.
brusher brush'er n.
brushy brush'y adj.
SYNONYMS brush, flick, glance, graze, shave, skim. These verbs mean to make light contact with something in passing: Her arm brushed mine. I flicked the paper with my finger. The arrow glanced off the tree. The knife blade grazed the countertop. A taxi shaved the curb. The oar skims the pond's surface.
沒有留言:
張貼留言