【#逐字學英文國際日報】68：forest, afforest, virgule, slash, see the forest for the trees, brush, underbrush, misses the forest for a tree

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"FOR EACH CRY YOU WILL RECEIVE ANOTHER SLASH."


In some areas China is working hard to lessen its environmental footprint, for instance through vast afforestation schemes and clean-coal technologies.

Let the Trees Stand
In Brazil, Paying Farmers to Let the Trees Stand 
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
In an effort to prevent farmers from cutting down rain forest, environmental groups are offering money.

A Titan’s How-To on Breaking a Glass Ceiling

By JODI KANTOR

Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook, has written a book- slash-manifesto that she hopes will spur a women’s movement.

Jobs warned Google to slash its products
gulfnews.com
San Francisco: Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs urged Google Inc. Chief Executive Officer Larry Page to sharpen the company's focus and cut products that put it at risk of becoming like Microsoft Corp, according to a biography of Jobs. ...

Overheard

How many billable hours do you get for $35 million?

At Sino-Forest, it is how much the troubled Chinese forestry firm said it has paid for a special investigation into allegations it engaged in a fraud. For the princely sum, an independent committee of Sino-Forest's board has had the services for five months of PricewaterhouseCoopers and three law firms—one in Canada, where the company is listed, and one each in Hong Kong and mainland China.

So far, the investigation has put out two interim reports. The first said the company's cash balance was correct (though presumably a few million dollars lower because of legal and accounting bills).

The second report, out Tuesday, seemed to confirm that the company's assets and revenue weren't overstated. A final report—and presumably a final bill, too—is due in the next few weeks. Hopefully by then, investors will be able to see the forest for the trees.

misses the forest for a tree

How to Think About TARP: "It doesn't matter if TARP makes a ton of money. TARP is only one of three parts of what needed to be done, and to view it in isolation from, say, the stress tests, misses the forest for a tree."

afforest Line breaks: af¦for|est

Pronunciation: /əˈfɒrɪst/

VERB

[WITH OBJECT]

1Convert (land) into forest, especially for commercial exploitation:a grant paid to farmers who afforest agricultural land

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1.1British HISTORICAL Bring (woodland) under the jurisdiction of forest law for the purpose of hunting:a great part of the county had been afforested by Henry I

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Origin

early 16th century: from medieval Latin afforestare, fromad- 'to' (expressing change) + foresta 'forest'.

slash
v., slashed, slash·ing, slash·es. v.tr.

1. To cut or form by cutting with forceful sweeping strokes: slash a path through the underbrush.
2. To lash with sweeping strokes.
3. To make a gash or gashes in.
4. Sports. To swing a stick at (an opponent) in ice hockey or lacrosse, in violation of the rules.
5. To cut a slit or slits in, especially so as to reveal an underlying color: slash a sleeve.
6. To criticize sharply: The reviewers slashed the composer's work.
7. To reduce or curtail drastically: slash prices for a clearance sale.

v.intr.

1. To make forceful sweeping strokes with or as if with a sharp instrument.
2. To cut one's way with such strokes: We slashed through the dense jungle.

n.

1. A forceful sweeping stroke made with a sharp instrument.
2. A long cut or other opening made by such a stroke; a gash or slit.
3. A decorative slit in a fabric or garment.
4. Branches and other residue left on a forest floor after the cutting of timber.
5. Wet or swampy ground overgrown with bushes and trees. Often used in the plural.
6. Printing. A virgule.

conj. Informal
As well as; and. Used in combination and often rendered as a virgule in print: an actor-slash-writer; a waiter/dancer.

[名]

1 斜線, スラッシュ(slash)（/）：どちらの語をとってもよいことを示す

He and/or she must report to the police.
彼と彼女の2人, またはそのいずれか一方が警察へ出頭しなければならない.

2 （日付・分数・詩の行を分けるためなどに使う）分割線：例4/25/80（80年4月25日）, 2/3（3分の2）.

[Perhaps from obsolete French esclachier, to break, variant of esclater, from Old French, from esclat, splinter. See slat.]

[動](他)

1 …に（ナイフ・剣などで）深く切りつける, …をめった切りにする((with ...))（⇒CUT[類語]）；…を切り払う, 切り落とす((off))

slash one's way through the underbrush
やぶを刃物で切り開いて進む.

2 ((通例受身))〈衣服などに〉（…色の）切り込みを入れる((with ...))

a gown slashed through with green
緑の切り目のはいったガウン.

3 〈人を〉むち打つ.

4 〈予算・物価などを〉大幅に削減する

slash the budget
予算を削減する

slash the manuscript by one-third
原稿の長さを三分の一減らす

Prices are slashed.
大幅値下げ断行中.

5 …を酷評する.

6 〈剣などを〉振り回す((about)).

━━(自)

1 めった切りにする；切り払う；（…に）切りつける((at ...))；切り進む；むち打つ；さっと…する

The cat slashed at the dog's face with its claws.
猫はつめで犬の顔をさっとひっかいた.

2 〈雨などが〉（…に）激しく打ちつける((against ...)).

━━[名]

1 （剣などで）すっと切りつけること；一撃, 深い傷；（ペンなどで）一書きすること［されたもの］.

2 （衣服の）スラッシュ, 切り込み.

3 （森林地帯で）切り枝などの散乱しているあき地；((米))散乱している切り枝など.

4 削減, 節減.

5 ((米))《印刷》斜線, スラッシュ（/）(virgule).

6 スラッシュ（フィクション）(slash fiction)：特にファンジン(fanzine)で発表されるポピュラー小説のジャンル；男性キャラクター同士が同性愛行為を繰り広げる. ▼登場する男性キャラクター2人の名前またはイニシャルがスタートレックのKirk/Spock, K/Sのようにスラッシュで結ばれることから.

 underbrush

 (ŭn'dər-brŭsh')
n.
Small trees, shrubs, or similar plants growing beneath the taller trees in a forest.

[名][U]((米))（大木の下の）下ばえ.




set a burning stick to the pile of brush.

brush[brush²]

• 発音記号[brʌ'ʃ][名]

1 低木の密生地, 叢林(そうりん)；その地帯［地域］.

2 [U]しば, そだ(brushwood).

3 ((米))未開拓の奥地［森林地帯］.

4 ((豪俗))若い女, 娘.

brush・less

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