2022年4月4日 星期一

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Juran is raising the clarion call for businesses and agencies to refocus on customers and integrity.

Editorial

Words Not Spoken

The Democratic Party's principles are worth trumpeting, but many are going unmentioned at its convention.



Posts on social networking sites indicated the change in tone came from the Communist Party’s central propaganda department, which directs and censors coverage of major news events.
If it was a classic response, born of Leninist dogma that dictates that bad news be buried and the state’s heroism trumpeted, it was still understandable after a week of what were apparently copycat crimes.


day of recollection:退省日;避靜日:暫時放下日常工作,從容檢討精神生活、宗教問題之日。

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"The cataracts blow their trumpets from the steep





" No more shall grief of mine the season wrong;
I hear the Echoes through the mountains throng,
The Winds come to me from the fields of sleep."

William Wordsworth, Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of


Early Childhood.


Op-Ed Columnist

The Unquiet American

By ROGER COHEN
Richard Holbrooke's untimely death is a clarion call to America to set aside smallness in the name of values that can still inspire.

Pioneer is in talks with Mitsubishi Electric, Alpine Electronics and Clarion on a possible tie-up in car navigation and other auto equipment operations, the Nikkei business daily reported on Sunday.




尖音小號或小喇叭:clarion call——感人的號召或演講
trumpet call——緊急呼喚

clarion (KLAR-ee-uhn)

adjective: Loud and clear.
noun: An ancient trumpet used as a signal in war.

Etymology
From Latin clarion- (trumpet), from clarus (clear). Earliest documented use: around 1384.

Usage
"'For survivors, Tullia Zevi was a clarion voice that warned against the dangers of neo-Nazism,' said Elan Steinberg." — Prominent Anti-fascist Dies Aged 91; Belfast Telegraph (Ireland); Jan 23, 2011.





rec·ol·lec·tion (rĕk'ə-lĕk'shən) pronunciation
n.
  1. The act or power of recollecting.
  2. Something recollected.

recollection[rec・ol・lec・tion]

  • 発音記号[rèkəlékʃən]
[名]((形式))
1 [U]回想, 記憶(力)
to the best of one's recollection
記憶する限りでは
be beyondpast] recollection
思い出せない
be outside one's recollection
記憶にない, 忘れている
be withininone's recollection
記憶している
I had a dim recollection of that fuss.
あの騒ぎのことはぼんやりした記憶しかなかった.
2 [U]瞑想(めいそう);平静, 沈着.
3 ((しばしば〜s))思い出, 追憶
recollections of one's school days
学校のころの思い出.


trumpet
n.
    1. Music. A soprano brass wind instrument consisting of a long metal tube looped once and ending in a flared bell, the modern type being equipped with three valves for producing variations in pitch.
    2. Something shaped or sounding like this instrument.
  1. Music. An organ stop that produces a tone like that of the brass wind instrument.
  2. A resounding call, as that of the elephant.

v., -pet·ed, -pet·ing, -pets. v.intr.
  1. Music. To play a trumpet.
  2. To give forth a resounding call.
v.tr.
To sound or proclaim loudly.

[Middle English trumpette, from Old French trompette, diminutive of trompe, horn, from Old High German trumpa.]

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