blood, benighted, idle tears, on a tear, legume, legumen, vale, vale of tears, Job's Tears

From late 2009 to mid-2012 the euro weakened as Europe's debt crisis deepened. But since July of last year the euro has been on a tear, and it is now back to 2007 levels. After half a decade of financial gyrations, investors seem as eager to hold euros as ever. If the European economy is still shaky, why is the euro so strong? http://econ.st/1inOwzC

Research In Motion's Stock Has Been on a Quiet Tear

Japan's Economic Woes Offer Lessons To US
NPR
In the 1980s, Japan appeared to be a world beater — the China of its day. Japanese companies were on a tear, buying up firms in the U.S. and property around the world. But these days, Japan is considered a cautionary tale for post-industrial economies ...

Forget Facebook: Google shares on a tear, gaining on Microsoft
Los Angeles Times
While shares of rival Facebook continue to struggle, Google's stock has taken off this quarter, up about 30%. Analysts say investors are shrugging off concerns about a decline in how much advertisers are paying every time users click on their ads, and ...


The world vegetable centre lobbies for legumes

Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift:

Are vegetables in competition with the meat industry for arable land? Do GM varieties offer hope for developing countries?

DW spoke to the director general of the World Vegetable Centre, Dyno Keating

legume, legumen

〔léɡju:m, liɡjú:m〕,
n.

1. 1. A pod, such as that of a pea or bean, that splits into two valves with the seeds attached to one edge of the valves.
   2. Such a pod or seed used as food.
2. A plant of the pea family.

[French légume, from Latin legūmen, bean.]

━━ n. マメ科の植物; そのさや, その豆.
le・gu・mi・nous
〔liɡjú:mənəs〕　━━ a. （さや）マメを生じる; マメ科の.

blood[blood]

• レベル：最重要
• 発音記号[blʌ'd]

[名][U]

1 血, 血液；活力の源泉；生命；樹液

a drop of blood
1滴の血

the circulation of the blood
血液の循環

let blood
放血する

shed blood
血を流す, 人を殺す（⇒BLOODSHED）

donate ［give］ blood
献血する

give ［shed］ one's blood for a cause
主義に殉じる

All the blood drained out of his face.
彼の顔から血の気が失せた.

2 血気, 激情；気質, 精神状態；適性

bad ［ill］ blood
敵意

a person of hot ［cold］ blood
情熱家［冷血漢］

in hot blood
かっとなって

in cold blood
落ち着きはらって；冷酷に

make a person's blood boil ［stir, tingle］
人を激怒させる

excite a person's blood
人の血を沸かせる

warm a person's blood
人の体を温める；((比喩))人を興奮させる；人の血をわかす

curdle ［freeze, chill］ a person's ［the］ blood ［＝make a person's blood run cold］
人をぞっとさせる

His blood was up.
彼はかんかんに怒った

After many years of war, fighting has got into their blood.
何年も戦争に明け暮れていたので戦いが彼らの習性となってしまった

Teaching is in his blood.
彼は教師に向いている.

3 血統, 家柄；血縁(lineage)；((通例the 〜))（王族などの）高貴な血統, 名門；((集合的))（家族・団体の）成員；《畜産》純血種

fresh ［new, young］ blood
若手；新進気鋭の人材

a prince ［a princess］ of the blood
王子［王女］, 親王［内親王］

a lady of (noble) blood
名門の婦人

be of mixed ［the same or one］ blood
混血［同族］である

They are not Japanese by blood.
純粋の日本人ではない

Teaching is ［runs］ in his family's blood.
彼の家は代々教師が多い

Blood will tell.
生まれのよし悪しはおのずと現れる, 血は争えぬもの

Ties of blood are heavy.
血のつながりは強い

Blood is thicker than water.
((ことわざ)) 血は水より濃い, 他人より身内.

4 流血, 殺人（罪）

a man of blood
残忍な人；人殺し

deeds of blood
殺人行為

fight one's way to power through blood
人を殺して権力の座に近づく

They demanded blood for blood.
彼らは血の報酬として血を要求した.

5 [C]((主に英))威勢のよいだて男, 冒険好きの青年；道楽者.

6 [C]((しばしば〜s))((英俗))スリラー小説.

7 ((俗))黒人（の男）；仲間の黒人(blood brother)；街の若いギャング.

after ［out for］ a person's blood

〈人を〉やっつけ［とっちめ］ようとして.

bay for a person's blood

〈人を〉やっつける.

blood and iron

（プロイセンの宰相Bismarckの）鉄血政策；（鉄と血に象徴される）軍事力.

blood on the floor

流血の跡, 感情的なしこり, 気まずい空気.

blood on the streets

(1) （戦争や殺りくの現場などの）流血の跡, 血の海.
(2) （一般に）さんたんたるありさま, ひどい状況, 目もあてられない状態.

blood, sweat, and tears

血と汗と涙；血の出るような努力；多大の犠牲.
▼第二次大戦でのChurchillの演説.

draw blood

誇り［評判］を傷つける.

get ［extract］ blood out of ［from］ a stone ［stones］

((否定文・疑問文))無理なことを引き出そうとする.

have a person's blood on one's hand

〈人の〉死［不運］に対して責任がある.

smell blood

((米略式))戦い［攻撃, 行動］のてぐすねを引く.
▼サメが血のにおいをかぐと凶暴になることから.

sweat blood

((略式))
(1) 汗水たらして働く, けんめいにがんばる.
(2) 冷や汗をかく.

taste blood

(1) 〈猟犬・野獣などが〉血の味を覚える.
(2) ((比喩))〈人が〉〈刺激の強いことを〉味わい知る, 初めて経験する；味をしめる；宿願を果たす.

too rich for one's blood

(1) 〈物・事が〉能力［資力］に余る, 及びもつかない, 手に負えない.
(2) （食物の）脂肪分が多すぎる.

with one's blood and guts

身を切るようにして, 多大の努力をして.

━━[動](他)((通例受身))

1 ((英))〈新兵に〉初めて実地の経験をさせる.

2 〈猟犬に〉獲物の血を味わわせる.

［古英語blōd（血）. △BLEED（出血する）］

on a tear

1. (slang) showing a sudden burst of energy

See tear² (sense 10)

Example Sentences Including 'on a tear'

) Final domestic demand, then, was on a tear Now plug in foreign trade, an important matter for Canada.

GLOBE AND MAIL (2003)

A call to Buckingham Palace revealed the Duchess had just had an operation on a tear duct.

SUN, NEWS OF THE WORLD (2000)

Shefflin needed surgery on a tear duct in his right eye after he was smacked in the face by Quinn's hurley.

SUN, NEWS OF THE WORLD (2004)

That sector has been on a tear lately, so the limit has weighed down her returns.

GLOBE AND MAIL (2003)

Urban Dictionary: on a tear

www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=on...tear - Cached

On a streak or series, usually a winning streak. Will sometimes be used (semi-sarcastically) to define a losing streak. When used for a positive st...



 idle tears/ on a tear,

Hong Kong Stocks: Miserable to Sizzling

Hong Kong's Hang Seng index, one of the world's worst performers last year, is on a tear, posting its best start to the year since 1991.

idle tears 無由之淚

idle

━━ a. 怠惰な; 仕事のない, 暇な; 活用していない; むだな, くだらない (〜 gossip); （恐れ・心配など）いわれ［根拠］のない; 【コンピュータ】アイドルの ((コンピュータの電源は入っているが処理を行っていない状態)).
an idle compliment　巧言.
━━ v. 怠ける, ぶらぶらする［過ごす］ ((about, around, away)); から回りする［させる］.
idle capacity　【製造】遊休生産能力.
idle character　【コンピュータ】遊び文字 ((同期維持のための制御文字)).
idle money　【金融】（有効活用されていない）余剰資金.

tear[tear¹]

• レベル：大学入試程度
• 発音記号[tíər]
• 
  

[名]

1 ((通例〜s))涙；嘆き, 悲しみ；泣く行為

in tears
泣いて

between tears
涙にくれながら

with tears in one's eyes
目に涙を浮かべて

close ［near］ to tears
泣き（出し）そうになって

grammar without tears
（涙なしに）容易に学べる文法

burst［break］ into tears
わっと泣き出す

be easily reduced to tears
涙もろい

bathe［drown, dissolve］ in tears
ぼろぼろ涙をこぼす

bring tears to a person's eyes
人の目をうるませる

blink away［back］ one's tears
まばたきして涙を抑える［隠す］

It'll (all) end in tears.
((英話))あとで泣きを見るよ.

2 （水玉などの）涙状のもの［しずく］；（樹脂のような）涙状の固形物体.

3 ガラス器中の装飾用気泡；製品の小さな傷.

4 ((米俗))真珠.

━━[動](自)〈目が〉涙であふれる.



Job's Tears are known by many different names across the world:

• Chinese: The plants are called chuān gǔ (川谷) or yì yǐ (薏苡). The grains are called yì rén (薏仁).

Scientific classification

vale of tears

the world as a place of sorrow and difficulty; the expression dates from the mid 16th century, and earlier variants are vale of woe and vale of weeping.

On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review

'And So It Goes'

By CHARLES J. SHIELDS
Reviewed by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

Kurt Vonnegut died in 2007, but one gets the sense from Charles J. Shields's sad, often heartbreaking biography, "And So It Goes," that he would have been happy to depart this vale of tears sooner.
Mr. Obama and the Rule of Law Some of the Obama administration’s statements on issues like state secrets and detainees sound a bit too close for comfort to the Bush team’s benighted ideas.

benighted	(adjective) Being in a state of moral or intellectual darkness; unenlightened.
Synonyms:	dark
Usage:	They felt it might be a being partially benighted in the vale of ignorance, but it could not be one who would willingly devote his rich natural gifts to the purposes of wanton treachery.

━━ a. 行き暮れた (a 〜 traveler); 無知な; 未開の.
be・night・ed・ly　━━ ad.
vale
1.
int. - 再見
n. - 塵世
2.
n. - 穀
idioms:

• vale of tears 現世, 塵世