pearly, breeze, breeze through, cinch, pushover, multitasking/supertasker, out-of-favour

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet laureate of Coney Island, cofounder of perhaps America’s most famous bookstore, wrote of his adopted city:

The changing light / at San Francisco / is none of your East Coast light

none of your / pearly light of Paris

The light of San Francisco / is a sea light / an island light

The New Yorker

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Supertaskers: Why Some Can Do Two Things at Once

By Alice Park

Researchers say multitasking is a myth: when people try to do two things at once, performance on both tasks drops. But for a tiny group of supertaskers, new research finds, doubling up on duties is a breeze

South Asians, nearly a quarter of the world's population, are no pushovers. Some 1.6 billion people, the entire region, now live within civilian-led democracies, however imperfect. South Asian voters are ever readier to eject out-of-favour rulers. In the year to May 2014, governments in six out of seven South Asian countries are likely to change http://econ.st/17vAJlX

Robots Dazzle at Japanese Exhibit

By HIROKO TABUCHI – 7 hours ago

TOKYO (AP) — A robot math whiz breezes through a Rubik's Cube, using metal hands to twist and turn the colorful toy. A panda robot uses sensors to detect when people are laughing, and joins in. A dentistry student peers into the mouth of a new patient — a humanoid practice robot with a complete set of pearly white teeth...

The Prisoner of Chillon 錫雍的囚徒、第13節

(Chillon 在瑞士日內瓦湖北端一個名為「錫雍」(chillon)的古堡，在宗教改革時代，曾是囚禁「異端份子」的所在，而死於錫雍的囚徒，自十六世紀後期開始，到十七世紀，計有超過 ...)

故事詩《錫雍的囚徒》（1816）查良錚譯

The select poetical works of Lord Byron: containing The ...

https://books.google.com.tw/books?id=tPxWzq3VNn0C

Baron George Gordon Byron Byron - 1836

And o'er it blew the mountain breeze ; And by it there were waters flowing , And on it there were young flowers growing Of gentle breath and hue. The fish swam  ...

郭宏安談breze ：有微風之義，若加形容詞，似以"清涼的"、"清冽的"、"凜冽的"為妥，以山間之風論，更不可加"柔和的"，否則於理不通。.....法譯本"凜冽的北風"也。(《訪錫雍古堡》，收入《塞納河 萊蒙湖》北京：三聯，2007，頁231

Full Definition of pearly

pearl·i·erpearl·i·est

1. 1:  resembling, containing, or adorned with pearls or mother-of-pearl
2. 2:  highly precious

hc按：breeze 語源而已：［古スペイン語briza（北東風）. 原義は「北東から吹いてくる冷たい風」］

breeze through

The verb breeze through has one meaning:

Meaning #1: succeed at easily

Synonyms: ace, pass with flying colors, sweep through, sail through, nail發佈文章

pushover

Pronunciation: /ˈpʊʃəʊvə/

Translate pushover | into German | into Italian | into Spanish

noun

• 1 informal a person who is easy to overcome or influence:Colonel Moore was benevolent but no pushover
• a thing that is very easily done:this is going to be a pushover

2 (also pushover try) Rugby a try in which one side in a scrum pushes the ball over the opponents' goal line.

breeze

n.

1. A light current of air; a gentle wind.
2. Any of five winds with speeds of from 4 to 27 knots (5 to 31 miles per hour; 7 to 50 kilometers per hour), according to the Beaufort scale.
3. Informal. Something, such as a task, that is easy to do.

informal

a thing that is easy to do or accomplish.

"travelling through London was a breeze"

intr.v., breezed, breez·ing, breez·es.

1. To blow lightly.
2. Informal. To progress swiftly and effortlessly: We breezed through the test.
3. To sprint around a racetrack as a means of exercise. Used of a racehorse.

idiom:
shoot the breeze Slang.

1. To engage in idle conversation.

[Perhaps from Old Spanish briza, northeast wind.]

SYNONYMS breeze, cinch, pushover, snap. These nouns denote something easily accomplished: The exam was a breeze. Chopping onions is a cinch with a food processor. Winning the playoffs was no pushover. The new computer program was a snap to learn.

1. [名]
2. 1 そよ風，微風；《気象》時速4-28海里（1.6-13.8m/s）の風. ⇒WIND¹[類語]
   • a stiff breeze
   • かなり強い風.
3. 2 ((主に英略式))ごたごた，けんか.
4. 3 ((略式))容易なこと，楽なこと
   • The test was a breeze.
   • 試験は簡単だった.
5. 4 ((略式))風聞，うわさ.

1. bat [shoot, fan] the breeze
   • ((米俗))おしゃべりする，だべる，ばか話をする；大げさに言う.

1. burn the breeze
   • ((米俗))すごいスピードで走る.

1. ━━[動](自)
2. 1 ((通例itを主語として))そよ風が吹く
   • It breezed from the east all day.
   • 終日東から微風が吹いた.
3. 2 すいすいと［軽快に，さっそうと］動く；((略式))滑るように進む((along))；（仕事を）楽にやり遂げる((through ...))
   • He breezed through the homework.
   • 宿題をさっさとすませた.
4. 3 ((米略式))不意に立ち寄る，乱入する((in))；不意に立ち去る((out, off)).