2015年1月17日 星期六

wasp, mannequin, low- slung, to bag, bagful, trial and error

A mannequin factory in Valencia, Venezuela, where the voluptuous models are the standard.
Mannequins Give Shape to a Venezuelan Fantasy

By WILLIAM NEUMAN

Mannequins with bulging bosoms, long legs and wasp waists have become standard in the country, serving as an exaggerated, sometimes polarizing, version of the female form.

Our ‪#‎SilentPartners‬ mannequin has been making the most of his last couple of weeks in Cambridge - today he's been watching people punt along the river!


GAZA CITY — Colognes by Hugo Boss, Dunhill and Givenchy line the shelves of the cosmetics shop. One of the two women’s clothing stores features a window mannequin in a hot pink T-shirt and low-slung jeans. In the supermarket freezer is Nestlé ice cream and on its shelves are salty and cheesy chips and doodles that well-off societies consume by the bagful.

photoA dual-arm robot puts a T-shirt on a mannequin by trial and error on Oct. 24. (Hiroyuki Kobayashi)



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bag

v.tr.
  1. To put into or as if into a bag.
  2. To cause to bulge like a pouch.
  3. To capture or kill as game: bagged six grouse.
  4. Informal. To gain possession of; capture.
  5. Slang.
    1. To fail to attend purposely; skip: bagged classes for the day and went to the beach.
    2. To stop doing or considering; abandon: bagged the idea and started from scratch.


low- slung
adj. - 車體接近地面的, 不高的建築物的


mannequin

〔mǽnikin〕
[名]
1 マネキン人形;(美術家・デザイナーなどが用いる)モデル人形, マヌカン.
2 ((古風))ファッションモデル(model).
[フランス語←オランダ語manneken (man人+-ken指小辞=小さな人→人形). △MANIKIN]

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