upkeep, nankeen, fabric, Materialist Fallacy

“This is undignified ... This has to change.”

Refugees arriving in Switzerland have to turn over to the state any assets worth more than 1,000 Swiss francs (£690) to help pay for their upkeep.

The Materialist Fallacy
By DAVID BROOKS
The weakening of our social fabric can't be reduced to economics.

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這本書的翻譯有時很"妙 "譬如說 214-15 頁談教堂的fabric 望文生義將 它翻譯成綸紱

其實fabric 就是((古))建造物, 建物./（特に教会堂の）建造；維持.

In 1348, John Thavie, a local armourer, “left a considerable Estate towards the support of the fabric forever”, a legacy which survived the English Reformation, was invested carefully through the centuries, and still provides for the church's current upkeep. In the 15th century, the wooden church was replaced by a medieval stone one.^[5]

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"Coloradans are not New Yorkers - they come to the mountains for scenery, wildlife, recreation and peace and quiet."

ELLEN BAUDER, a leader of Roar Inc., a group opposed to a project by the artist Christo that would drape nearly six miles of the Arkansas River in southern Colorado with fabric.

Facebook Wins Relatively Few Friends in Japan Even as Goldman Sachs pours $450 million into the company, Japan, with a large and growing online advertising market, is a big hole in Facebook's global fabric.

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Elaborate Style: A Nigerian Designer Stitches Together the Fabric of Clothing and Community

upkeep

ˈʌpkiːp/

noun

1. the process of keeping something in good condition.

   "we will be responsible for the upkeep of the access road"

   
   

   • financial or material support of a person or animal.

     "payments for the children's upkeep"

fabric

(făb'rĭk)
n.

1. 1. A cloth produced especially by knitting, weaving, or felting fibers.
   2. The texture or quality of such cloth.
2. A complex underlying structure: destroyed the very fabric of the ancient abbey during wartime bombing; needs to protect the fabric of civilized society.
3. 1. A method or style of construction.
   2. A structural material, such as masonry or timber.
   3. A physical structure; a building.

[Middle English fabryke, something constructed, from Old French fabrique, from Latin fabrica, craft, workshop, from faber, fabr-, workman, artificer.]

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1 織物, 編み物, 織地, 生地

silk fabric
絹織物

fabric gloves
布製［毛］の手袋.

2 [U]（建物・社会などの）構造, 骨組み, 組織, 機構；（建物の）基礎構造（壁・床・屋根）

the fabric of an argument
議論の組み立て方.

3 [C]((古))建造物, 建物.

4 構成［建造］法.

5 （特に教会堂の）建造；維持.

nankeen (nan-KEEN or nan-KIN)

noun:
1. A yellow or buff color.
2. A sturdy yellow or buff cotton fabric.
3. (nankeens) Trousers made of this cloth.
4. A Chinese porcelain having blue designs on a white background.

Etymology
After Nanking, a city in China, where it was first made, now spelled as Nanjing. Nanjing is literally "southern capital". Beijing means "northern capital".

Usage
"A bright, laughing face ... a traveling-dress of a nankeen color ... such were the characteristics of our fair guest." — Wilkie Collins; The Queen of Hearts: A Novel; BiblioLife; 2009.

• 〔nænkín | næ-, nǽnkin〕

[名][U]

1 南京木綿(なんきんもめん)（黄色または淡黄色のじょうぶな織物）；((〜s))南京木綿製の衣服［ズボン］.

2 黄色, 淡黄色.