A Cottage with White Pales
A Hawaii man was killed Friday after he was apparently impaled by the bill of a fish, a Hawaii County fire official said.
UK financier falls to death after divorce battle
UK financier falls to death after divorce battle
Rouen is on the Seine, so we decided to walk along the narrow cobblestone streets toward the river. As we ambled past the rows of half-timbered houses, which evince a sweet innocence, an accordion player on the corner and stands selling multicolored macarons, I was immediately charmed.
The FBI appealed to the public Thursday for help identifying two men shown in pixilated photos and video footage who are suspected of involvement in Monday’s bomb attacks in Boston.
Impalement Artist Takes a Stab at the 'Wheel of Death'
A former knife-throwing world champion—and current holder of 16 world records-—is taking a stab at one of the most dangerous feats in knife throwing: The Veiled Wheel of Death.
Some of the Chinese people, on the other hand, evince a response less warm. In a long consideration of Mo Yan’s work and Nobel recognition, Perry Link quotes the satirist Wang Xiaohong imagining Alfred Nobel’s distress:
Two years ago my people gave a prize to a Chinese, and in doing so offended the Chinese government. Today they gave another prize to a Chinese, and in doing so offended the Chinese people. My goodness. The whole of China offended in only two years.
There was even art criticism, some of it recorded in on-the-spot assessments (including poetry) on pieces of paper, called colophons, attached to the very scrolls they referred to. Several are displayed here, a few with translations, and they create a palpable sense of artists in conversation with one another and the past.
Art Encyclopedia:
Writings (Chin. tiba) on Chinese works of
calligraphy or painting by persons other than the artist, usually
functioning to praise the artist or work, are customarily referred to as
colophons. When written by the artist they are called inscriptions.
When the writer of the colophon is a self-styled and acknowledged
connoisseur, the colophon may serve to certify the work as a genuine
specimen of the master.Colophon
Poetic or explanatory inscription often at the end, but sometimes at the beginning, of a book, print, manuscript or piece of calligraphy, or on a painting.
n. - 版權頁
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 巻尾飾り模様, 出版社のマーク
col・o・phon
pag·i·na·tion (păj'ə-nā'shən)
n.
- The system by which pages are numbered.
- The arrangement and number of pages in a book, as noted in a catalog or bibliography.
evince
- 音節
- e • vince
- 発音
- ivíns
- evinceの変化形
- evinced (過去形) • evinced (過去分詞) • evincing (現在分詞) • evinces (三人称単数現在)
- evinceの慣用句
- evincive, （全1件）
[動](他)((形式))
2 …を表す, 示す.
e・vín・cive
[形]明示的；（…を）証明する.pixilated
/ˈpɪksɪleɪtɪd/
(also pixillated)
Definition of pixilated
adjective
Origin:
mid 19th century: variant of pixie-led, literally 'led astray by pixies', figuratively 'confused', or from pixie, on the pattern of words such as elated and emulated
pixilated
(PIK-suh-layt-id)adjective
1. Mentally unbalanced; eccentric.
2. Whimsical.
Etymology
From pixie, a mischievous fairylike creature
Usage
"Robert De Niro redeems himself after his disastrous work in 'The Fan' by displaying a refreshing flair for screwball comedy as Bessie's pixilated physician, Dr. Wally." — James Verniere; 'Marvin's Room' Hits Home; Boston Herald; Jan 10, 1997.
“He has conceived his method of practice almost as carefully as each of his projects,” the citation from the nine-member Pritzker jury says. “He develops buildings of great integrity — untouched by fad or fashion. Declining a majority of the commissions that come his way, he only accepts a project if he feels a deep affinity for its program, and from the moment of commitment, his devotion is complete, overseeing the project’s realization to the very last detail.”
The movie ends with Vatel realizing that he is nothing more than a puppet in the hands of his superiors, bought and sold like a piece of property: he consequently commits suicide by impaling himself on his sword.
verb [I or T]
to understand a situation, sometimes suddenly:
They didn't realize the danger they were in.
[+ (that)] "Do you realize (that) this is the third time you've forgotten?" she said angrily.
[+ question word] I realize how difficult it's going to be, but we must try.
As he watched the TV drama, he suddenly realized (that) he'd seen it before.
"You're standing on my foot." "Sorry, I didn't realize."
See also realize at real (NOT IMAGINARY).
realization, UK USUALLY realisation Show phonetics
noun [C usually singular]
[+ that] The realization was dawning (= They were starting to realize) that this was a major disaster.
さく 柵
- a fence; a stockade; palings.
- ・〜を作る put up a fence.
- ・〜で囲う enclose with a fence; fence in; put a fence around.
paling
- One of a row of upright pointed sticks forming a fence; a pale.
- Pointed sticks used in making fences; pales.
- A fence made of pales or pickets.
Beyond the pale
Meaning
Unacceptable; outside agreed standards of decency.
Origin
Firstly, let's get the spelling clear here. It's 'beyond the pale', and certainly not 'beyond the pail'
- the phrase has nothing to do with buckets. The everyday use of the
word 'pale' is as an adjective meaning whitish and light in colour (and
used to that effect by Procol Harum and in countless paint adverts).
This 'pale' is the noun meaning 'a stake or pointed piece of wood'.
That meaning is virtually obsolete now except as used in this phrase,
but is still in use in the associated words 'paling' (as in paling
fence) and 'impale' (as in Dracula movies).
The
paling fence is significant as the term pale became to mean the area
enclosed by such a fence and later just the figurative meaning of 'the
area that is enclosed and safe'. So, to be 'beyond the pale' was to be
outside the area accepted as 'home'.
Catherine the Great created the Pale of Settlement in
Russia in 1791. This was the name given to the western border region
of the country, in which Jews were allowed to live. The motivation
behind this was to restrict trade between Jews and native Russians.
Some Jews were allowed to live, as a concession, 'beyond the pale'.
Pales
were enforced in various other European countries for similar
political reasons, notably in Ireland (the Pale of Dublin) and France
(the Pale of Calais, which was formed as early as 1360).
The phrase itself originated later than that. The first printed reference comes from 1657 in John Harington's lyric poem The History of Polindor and Flostella.
In that work, the character Ortheris withdraws with his beloved to a
country lodge for 'quiet, calm and ease', but later venture further:
"Both Dove-like roved forth beyond the pale to planted Myrtle-walk".
Such
recklessness rarely meets with a good end in 17th century verse and
before long the lovers are attacked by armed men with 'many a dire
killing thrust'. The message is clear - 'if there is a pale, decent
people stay inside it', which conveys exactly the figurative meaning of
the phrase as it is used today.
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impale
also em·pale (ĕm-)
tr.v., -paled, also -paled, -pal·ing, -pal·ing, -pales, -pales.
- To pierce with a sharp stake or point.
- To torture or kill by impaling.
- To render helpless as if by impaling.
- [動](他)1 …を（とがったくいなどに［で］）固定する；…をくし刺し（の刑）にする；((しばしば受身))…を（とがった物で）留める, 刺し貫く((on, upon, with ...))
impale the insects on pins for display
陳列のために昆虫をピンで留める.2 …を手も足も出ないようにする, 釘づけ状態にする3 《紋章》合わせ紋にする.
He has been impaled on the horns of a dilemma.
彼は進退きわまっていた.
impaler im·pal'er n.
impale
verb [T often passive]
to push a sharp object through something, especially the body of an animal or person:
The dead deer was impaled on a spear.
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