The mutual admiration formed so early by the director and the writer resulted in their several notable collaborations, including 1949's “The Fallen Idol,” which Bosley Crowther, in The New York Times, called “a major delight of the season, a wonderful new film,” and added:
“The suave and incisive Carol Reed. . has added another cubit to his stature. . .For not only has he got excitement of a most sharp and urbane sort in this film, but he has got in it one of the keenest revelations of a child that we have ever had on the screen.”
Juli Windsor: The runner with dwarfism who stands 3'9" tall, on what it takes to run a marathon, and why she wouldn't let the Boston bombers put her off: http://bbc.in/1GotIRc
In the laboratory where he works, Dr. Charlier opened the blue-topped vial numbered R01131 to reveal red-orange flecks: samples of Henri IV’s cervical muscles. “Looks like saffron, no?” he said.在他工作的實驗室里，沙利耶博士開啟了編號為R01131的藍蓋小瓶，露出橘紅色的小顆粒：亨利四世的頸部肌肉。“看起來像藏紅花的顏色，不是嗎？”他說。
Ronald Reagan’s Blood To Be Auctioned
An auction house is selling what it claims is an empty vial with "residue" from blood drawn from the former president.
The cubit is an ancient unit of length that had several definitions according to each of the various cultures that used the unit. These definitions typically ranged between 444 and 529.2 mm (17.48 and 20.83 in), with an ancient Roman cubit ...
bonobo
n., pl., -bos.
An anthropoid ape (Pan paniscus) of north-central Congo (formerly Zaire), having black hair and more arboreal habits than the common chimpanzee (P. troglodytes). Also called pygmy chimpanzee.
vial
- 発音記号[váiəl]
pour out vials of wrath on ...
…に復讐(ふくしゅう)する；…に怒りをぶちまける〈《聖書》黙示録16：1〉.pygmy
also
n., pl., -mies, also -mies.
- Greek Mythology. A member of a race of dwarfs.
- also pygmy A member of any of various peoples, especially of equatorial Africa and parts of southeast Asia, having an average height less than 5 feet (152 centimeters). Not in scientific use.
- pygmy
- An individual of unusually small size.
- An individual considered to be of little or no importance.
- also pygmy Of or relating to the Pygmies. Not in scientific use.
- pygmy
- Unusually or atypically small.
- Unimportant; trivial.
[Middle English pigmie, from Latin Pygmaeī, the Pygmies, from Greek Pugmaioi, from pugmē, cubit, fist.]
[名]（複-mies）
1 《人類》ピグミー：アフリカなどの小人族.
2 ((p-))小人（のような人）, 一寸法師(dwarf)；ごく小さい物［動物, 植物］.
3 ((p-))無知［無能］な人.
4 《ギリシャ神話》ピュグマイオイ：アフリカなどにいると想像された矮人(わいじん)族.
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1 ((しばしばp-))ピグミーの.
2 ((p-))小形の, 非常に小さい；取るに足らない；無能な.
［ラテン語←ギリシャ語pygmaîos （pygmé13½インチ, ひじからこぶしまでの長さ＋-aios形容詞語尾）］
-moid
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