2015年12月30日 星期三

limen, mortal sin, beam forth, wells forth


"I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth."
--from "Letters to a Young Poet" (1934) by Rainer Maria Rilke, who died on this day in 1926.




Failing to look after old folk is not just a bad habit, Pope Francis told an "audience" of 20,000 people in Rome, it is a "mortal sin." Many people, including those who admire the pope but don't much like Catholicism in general, will have a rather mixed response to his remarks this week. Nobody could deny that care for the elderly is an acute problem in Western societies, but is his use of the old-fashioned language of sin appropriate?http://econ.st/1aPMaKv


Honour thy father and mother

POPE FRANCIS made some remarks this week about a big contemporary problem—the neglect of older people by their children and younger relatives—that bore all his...
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荷蘭 Drents Museum 的千年佛像，原來是一具僧人木乃伊做成的漆器＋金箔塑身！





Arch2O.com 新增了 2 張新相片。
A recent CT scan carried out by the Netherlands-based Drents Museum at the Meander Medical Centre of this 1,000-year-old Buddha revealed the remains of a mummified monk inside!
Photos via (MMC / Jan van Esch)
mortal remains of Manet

 mortal

Pronunciation: /ˈmɔːt(ə)l/


Definition of mortal in English:

adjective

1(Of a living human being, often in contrast to a divinebeing) subject to death:all men are mortal
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1.1Relating to humans as subject to death:the coffin held the mortal remains of her uncle
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2Causing or liable to cause death; fatal:a mortal diseasefigurative the scandal appeared to have struck a mortal blow to the government
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2.1(Of a battle) fought to the death:the screams of men in mortal combat
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2.2(Of an enemy or a state of hostility) admitting orallowing no reconciliation until death:a mortal foe
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2.3(Of a feeling, especially fear) very intense:parents live in mortal fear of children’s diseases
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3informal Conceivable or imaginable:he knew every mortal thing you did
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3.1Very great:he was in a mortal hurry
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3.2dated Long and tedious:for three mortal days it rained
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4Christian Theology Denoting a grave sin that isregarded as depriving the soul of divine grace: Often contrasted with venial.mortal sin ：大罪；死罪：指與天主嚴重對抗、分裂的行為。按神學家意見，形成大罪有三條件為：在「重大」事件上，「明知」、「故犯」天主的誡命。she had committed a mortal sin
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noun


1.11A human being subject to death, as opposed to adivine being:capacities only possible of God rather than mortals
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humorous A person contrasted with othersregarded as being of higher status or ability:an ambassador had to live in a style which was notexpected of lesser mortals
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Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latinmortalis, from mors, mort- 'death'.
adj.
  1. Liable or subject to death.
  2. Of or relating to humankind; human: the mortal limits of understanding.
  3. Of, relating to, or accompanying death: mortal throes.
  4. Causing death; fatal: a mortal wound. See synonyms at fatal.
  5. Fighting or fought to the death; unrelenting: a mortal enemy; a mortal attack.
  6. Of great intensity or severity; dire: mortal terror.
  7. Conceivable: no mortal reason for us to go.
  8. Used as 




  12. limen (LY-muhn)

    noun: A threshold of response: point at which a stimulus is of sufficient intensity to generate a response.

    Etymology
    From Latin limen (threshold).


    Usage
    "Such to the dead might appear the world of living -- charged with information, with meaning, yet somehow always just, terribly, beyond that fateful limen where any lamp of comprehension might beam forth." — Thomas Pynchon; Against the Day; Penguin Press; 2006.
    〔láimn | -men〕
    [名]（複〜s, lim・i・na 〔límn〕）《心理学》閾(いき). ⇒THRESHOLD 3
    lim・i・nal〔límnl〕
    [形]
    an intensive: a mortal fool.
n.
A human.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mortālis, from mors, mort-, death.]
mortally mor'tal·ly adv.



remainsLine breaks: re¦mains
Pronunciation: /rɪˈmeɪnz/



Definition of remains in English:

PLURAL NOUN

1The parts left over after other parts have beenremoved, used, or destroyed:the remains of a sandwich lunch were on the table
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1.1Historical or archaeological relics:Roman remains
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1.2A person’s body after death:he left instructions regarding the disposal of his remains
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Origin

late Middle English (occasionally treated as singular): from Old French remain, from remaindre, from an informal form of Latin remanere (see remain).

beam[beam]

音記号[bíːm]
[名]
1 （骨組み・支柱などに用いる）長い角材, 石材, 金属材；《建築・工学》梁(はり), 桁(けた).
2 《海事》ビーム, 甲板梁(りょう)；錨幹(びょうかん)；[U]（船体の）最大幅, 船幅
on the beam
（風などが）船の真横に
abaft ［before］ the beam
（船の）真横より後ろ［前］に
on the port ［the starboard］ beam
左舷(げん)［右舷］真横に.
3 《航空》ビーム：航空機の真横方向.
4 最も広い部分；((俗))（人の）腰幅, 尻幅(しりはば)
broad in the beam
尻が大きい.
5 《機械》
(1) 動ばり, 動げた.
(2) （織機の経(たて)糸を巻く）緒巻(おまき)；（布を巻く）千巻(ちまき).
(3) （機関の）レバー.
6 （すきの）柄；（てんびんの）さお
a beam and scales
はかり.
7 光線. ▼rayより幅が広い
a beam of light
一条の光線.
8 ((比喩))（表情をよぎる）輝き, ほほえみ；（希望などの）光((of ...))
with a beam of hope
希望の光を抱いて.
9 ビーム, 方向指示電波
on ［off］ the beam
（航空機が）ビームに従って［からそれて］
fly ［ride］ the beam
（航空機が）指示電波航路に沿って飛ぶ.
10 （電子の）ビーム；（マイクロホン・スピーカーの）有効可聴範囲.
11 （シカの角の）本幹.
12 （体操の）平均台.
a beam in one's eye
自分では気づかない重大な道徳的欠陥〈《聖書》マタイ書7：3〉.
off (the) beam
(1) ⇒[名]9
(2) ((略式))〈人・考えが〉間違って, 見当はずれで(mistaken).
on the beam
(1) ⇒[名]2, 9
(2) ((略式))〈人が〉りっぱにやって；〈人・考えが〉正しく［しい］, 間違いなく［ない］.
━━[動](他)
1 〈光・熱を〉発する, 放つ(emit)((forth, out))
beam forth rays of light
光線を放つ.
2 〈喜びなどで〉顔を輝かせる
beam one's pleasure
喜びの色を満面に浮かべる.
3 〈信号電波を〉発する；〈番組を〉（…に）送る((out/to, at ...))
a program beamed (out) to the West Coast
ウェストコースト向け放送番組.
4 （SFで）…をテレポートで移動させる((down, up)).
━━(自)
1 光［熱］を発する, 輝く.
2 〈人・顔が〉（…で）輝く((with ...))；〈人が〉（…に）にっこりする((at, on, upon ...))
beam with joy
喜びに輝く
beam at ［on, upon］ a person
人にほほえみかける.
3 （SFで）テレポートで移動する((down, up)).
［古英語bēam（木→柱→光線）. 木は火の柱であり, したがって光の柱であるという初期の思想による］
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