2025年5月12日 星期一

ire, stipulate,wrath. praying-wheel. America’s top universities are at their most precarious moment in living memory. But one Ivy League institution has so far avoided the wrath of the Trump administration


America’s top universities are at their most precarious moment in living memory. But one Ivy League institution has so far avoided the wrath of the Trump administration https://econ.st/4j36Z6O


Ma’s chief opponent is Tsai Ing-wen, chairwoman of the Democratic Progressive Party, which officially backs the independence of Taiwan. Tsai has raised the Beijing government’s ire for her refusal to publicly support an informal, unwritten 20-year-old agreement between the two sides stipulating that there is just “one China.”

ire

(īr) pronunciation
n.
Anger; wrath. See synonyms at anger.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin īra.]


stipulate,

(stĭp'yə-lāt') pronunciation

v., -lat·ed, -lat·ing, -lates. v.tr.
    1. To lay down as a condition of an agreement; require by contract.
    2. To specify or arrange in an agreement: stipulate a date of payment and a price.
  1. To guarantee or promise (something) in an agreement.
v.intr.
  1. To make an express demand or provision in an agreement.
  2. To form an agreement.

[Latin stipulārī, stipulāt-, to bargain.]

stipulator stip'u·la'tor n.

stip·u·late2 (stĭp'yə-lĭt) pronunciation
adj.
Having stipules.


藏輪=經輪=prayer wheel

經輪是刻有經文的圓筒形物,用手轉動之可以代替唸經,屬古代高科技。 (梁永安)

佛學中另有一名相曰「輪藏」,其英義如:
Revolving scriptures, a revolving stand with eight faces, representing the eight directions, each containing a portion of the sacred canon; a praying-wheel, the revolving of which brings as much merit to the operator as if he had read the whole. (RL)

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