2024年1月11日 星期四

comply with, bide, law-abiding, abide, regius, Undiluted Hocus-Pocus. As Putin Bides His Time, Ukraine Faces a Ticking Clock

F.A.A. Investigating Whether Boeing 737 Max 9 Conformed to Approved Design

Regulators are examining whether Boeing complied with safety rules on a plane that lost a fuselage panel while in flight last week.

As Putin Bides His Time, Ukraine Faces a Ticking Clock

Ukraine is feeling pressure from its Western allies for success in a looming counteroffensive. Vladimir Putin seems to be operating on a longer timeline.



At the age of 95 Gardner wrote Undiluted Hocus-Pocus: The Autobiography of Martin Gardner. He was living in a one-room apartment in Norman, Oklahoma and, as was his custom, wrote it on a typewriter and edited it using scissors and rubber cement.[81] He took the title from a poem, a so-called grook, by his good friend Piet Hein,[128] which perfectly expresses Gardner's abiding sense of mystery and wonder about existence.[129]

We glibly talk
 of nature's laws
but do things have
 a natural cause?

Black earth turned into
 yellow crocus
is undiluted
 hocus-pocus.

HKFP_Buzz: Mainland web users were unable to abide the sight of PLA soldiers saluting Hongkongers, rather than the other way around.



E.U. Fines Microsoft $732 Million Over Antitrust Law

BRUSSELS — The fine, for failing to give Windows users the choice of competing Web browsers, is the first levied by the European Commission for neglecting to comply with an antitrust settlement.
At the heart of a debate after the riots in Britain is the question of what drove even some previously law-abiding Britons to steal.




He held the regius professorship of Modern History at Oxford from 1858 to 1866, that “ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the ‘best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.” As a historian, indeed, he left no abiding work; the multiplicity of his interests prevented him from concentrating on any one subject. His chief historical writings—The United Kingdom: a Political History (1899), and The United States: an Outline of Political History (1893)—though based on thorough familiarity with their subject, make no claim to original research, but are remarkable examples of terse and brilliant narrative.


bide
verb
ARCHAICDIALECT
  1. remain or stay somewhere.
    "how long must I bide here to wait for the answer?"


abide
(ə-bīd') pronunciation

v., a·bode (ə-bōd'), or a·bid·ed, a·bid·ing, a·bides. v.tr.
  1. To put up with; tolerate: can't abide such incompetence. See synonyms at bear1.
  2. To wait patiently for: "I will abide the coming of my lord" (Tennyson).
  3. To withstand: a thermoplastic that will abide rough use and great heat.
v.intr.
  1. To remain in a place.
  2. To continue to be sure or firm; endure. See synonyms at stay1.
  3. To dwell or sojourn.
idiom:
abide by
  1. To conform to; comply with: abide by the rules; had to abide by the judge's decision.
[Middle English abiden, from Old English ābīdan : ā-, intensive pref. + bīdan, to remain.]
abider a·bid'er n.




abiding

adj.

Lasting for a long time; enduring: an abiding love of music.

abidingly a·bid'ing·ly adv.


[動](a・bode or a・bid・ed, a・bid・ing)(自)
1 (場所に)とどまる, 滞在する((at, in ...));(人の)(所に)居残る((with ...))
Abide with me
「我と共にいませ」(賛美歌の題).
2 (…に)(変わらずに)残る((in, with ...)). ⇒ABIDING
the event that abides in her memory
彼女の記憶していたそのできごと.
3 ((古・文))(…に)居住する((at, in ...)).
━━(他)
1III[名]/to do/doing]((ふつう否定文・疑問文))…に耐える, をがまんする
I can't abide him [his rudeness].
彼[彼の無作法]にはがまんがならない.
2 …に耐える, …を持ちこたえる, …に抵抗する
abide the enemy's attack
敵の攻撃に屈しない.
3 〈宿命・判決などを〉(すなおに)受け入れる, 甘受する
abide the judge's decision
裁判官の決定に服する.
4 ((文))…を待ち受ける.
abide by ...
(1) 〈原理・規則などに〉従って行動する
abide by the law
法律を守る(⇒LAW-ABIDING
You must abide by the rules of fair play.
フェアプレイのルールを守って競技しなければならない.
(2) 〈決定・提案などに〉従う, 同意する;〈悪い結果などに〉耐える
He agreed to abide by the proposal.
彼はその提案に同意した.
(3) 〈約束・協定などを〉守る
I abide by my promise.
約束は守る.


comply


  音節
com • ply
発音
kəmplái
レベル
大学入試程度
complyの変化形
complied (過去形) • complied (過去分詞) • complying (現在分詞) • complies (三人称単数現在)
[動](-plied, 〜・ing)(自)((形式))(希望・要求などに)従う, 応じる(conform);(条件を)満たす((with ...))
comply with regulations
規則に従う.

regius[re・gi・us]

  • 発音記号[ríːdʒiəs]
[形]
1 王の, 王に属する.
2 ((しばしばR-))〈英国の大学教授が〉欽定(きんてい)講座を担当する(▼Henry8世創設).

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