2020年2月17日 星期一

crucial, doorway, portiere, fingerpost


Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

To our followers in Italy—“Migrating Objects: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection” is now on view. The exhibition at The Peggy Guggenheim Collection focuses on a lesser-known, but crucial moment in Guggenheim’s collecting: her turn in the 1950s and 60s to works created by artists in Africa, Oceania, and the indigenous Americas. Plan your visit: https://gu.gg/31VDuOr
Photos: Matteo De Fina



 'Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century'
By CHRISTIAN CARYL
Reviewed by ISAAC CHOTINER 

From Chinese economic reform to the Iranian revolution, Christian Caryl sees 1979 as a crucial doorway into the present era.

 At rear are two double doorways with portiere


por·tière or por·tiere (pôr-tyâr', pōr-) pronunciation

n.
A heavy curtain hung across a doorway.

[French, feminine of portier, porter, from Old French, from Late Latin portārius, from Latin porta, gate.]

Line drawing of a portiere (14th to 15th century).
A portière is a hanging placed over a door or over the doorless entrance to a


雙扉   一門雙扉--門double dorways


doorway

noun

an entrance to a room or building through a door:Beth stood there in the doorway figurativethe doorway to success

[名]
1 (家・部屋の)戸口, 出入り口.
2 …に至る道[手段]
a doorway to fame
名声に至る道.




crucial

Pronunciation: /ˈkruːʃ(ə)l/
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Definition of crucial

adjective

  • decisive or critical, especially in the success or failure of something:negotiations were at a crucial stage
  • of great importance:this game is crucial to our survival
  • informal excellent.

Derivatives


cruciality


Pronunciation: /-ʃɪˈalɪti/
noun


crucially

adverb
[sentence adverb]:crucially, evacuees in the first wave were never subjected to systematic medical inspection

Origin:

early 18th century (in the sense 'cross-shaped'): from French, from Latin crux, cruc- 'cross'. The sense 'decisive' is from Francis Bacon's Latin phrase instantia crucis 'crucial instance', which he explained as a metaphor from a crux or fingerpost marking a fork at a crossroad; Newton and Boyle took up the metaphor in experimentum crucis 'crucial experiment'





fingerpost

Pronunciation: /ˈfɪŋɡəpəʊst/

Definition of fingerpost

noun

a post at a road junction from which signs project in the direction of the place or route indicated.

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