catch on, black magic, push bottom

Amazon Alone in U.K. Black Friday Sales

Amazon.com's attempts to export Black Friday—one of the busiest and most discounted pre-Christmas shopping days in the U.S—into the U.K. hasn't caught on with the wider retail sector.

 

 

BlackBerry Rivals Push RIM's Buttons

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion may hint this week at strategy changes to meet the dual challenges of a $99 iPhone from Apple and Palm's Pre.

push bottom
(′pu̇sh ′bət·ən) (computer science) A small rectangle on a graphical user interface whose selection initiates immediate action.

black magic

悪魔術, 妖術.
⇒black

下降頭

catch on

1. Understand, as in Aunt Mary doesn't catch on to any jokes. The verb to catch alone was used with this meaning from Shakespeare's time, on being added in the late 1800s. Also see get it, def. 2.
2. Become popular, as in This new dance is really beginning to catch on. [Late 1800s]

The domino effect

.多米諾效應恐慌籠罩歐洲


The domino effect is a chain reaction that occurs when a small change causes a similar change nearby, which then will cause another similar change, and so on in linear sequence. The term is best known as a mechanical effect, and is used as an analogy to a falling row of dominoes. It typically refers to a linked sequence of events where the time between successive events is relatively small. It can be used literally (an observed series of actual collisions) or metaphorically (complex systems such as global finance, or in politics, where linkage is only a hypothesis).

Ponzi scheme / participating in the fraud

Madoff Trustee Sues UBS for $2 Billion
The trustee recovering money for victims of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme is seeking $2 billion from UBS through a lawsuit that accuses the Swiss banking giant of participating in the fraud.



par·tic·i·pate (pär-tĭs'ə-pāt')

v., -pat·ed, -pat·ing, -pates. v.intr.

1. To take part in something: participated in the festivities.
2. To share in something: If only I could participate in your good fortune.

v.tr. Archaic
To partake of.

[Latin participāre, participāt-, from particeps, particip-, partaker : pars, part-, part; see part + capere, to take.]

participative par·tic'i·pa'tive adj.
participator par·tic'i·pa'tor n.

call Apple home, call one's own

Some RIM Sales Staff Now Call Apple Home

Apple isn't only poaching corporate customers from BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, it's hiring RIM's sales people. In the past 18 months, at least five members of RIM's enterprise-sales team have left the company to join Apple.

call one's own
Claim or regard something as one's possession or under one's control, as in Victorian wives had almost nothing to call their own. This expression, dating from about 1600, today is often used in a negative context, as in the example. It also appears in can't call one's time one's own,常恨此身非所有 which dates from the 18th century and means one spends much of one's time in someone else's service, as in The hours in this job are terrible; I can't call my time my own.

Lancet Oncology, acupuncturist

衛生署日前核准抑制腫瘤新生血管的標靶藥物，用於治療非鱗狀非小細胞肺癌。今年度「刺針腫瘤醫學期刊」（Lancet Oncology）發表研究成果，首度證實，此抗血管新生標靶藥物合併化療，可提升中位存活期達14.6個月。 台北榮民總醫院胸腔部胸腔腫瘤科主任蔡俊明表示，他所參與 ...

Acupuncturist Treats 40 Players in 4 Cities

針灸師acupuncturist


lan·cet (lăn'sĭt)
n.

1. Medicine. A surgical knife with a short, wide, pointed double-edged blade, used especially for making punctures and small incisions. Also called lance.
2. Architecture.
   1. A lancet arch.
   2. A lancet window.

[Middle English, from Old French, diminutive of lance, lance. See lance.]

IN BRIEF: A sharp two-edged surgical instrument.

The nurse used a lancet to extract just a drop of blood from the patient's finger.

read-made, ready meal, TV dinner

ready meal1979
=TV dinner

n.
A frozen prepared meal, usually packaged in a disposable serving tray, that needs only to be heated before serving.

Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/tv-dinner#ixzz16Br1hxhu

1915
read-made

or read·y·made (rĕd'ē-mād')
adj.

1. Already made, prepared, or available: ready-made clothes.
2. Handy or expedient, especially because of familiarity, frequent use, or preplanning: a raft of ready-made excuses.

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full-year

Siemens gave a bullish outlook and said it will gain market share and grow faster than its competitors in 2011, as it posted a record full-year result.

a raise, a hit

Google is giving its 23,000 employees a 10% raise, as the competition for talent in Silicon Valley heats up.

Nintendo took a hit to its results from the strong yen. But unlike at other Japanese companies, reduced exports weren't the main villain. The bigger problem was the company's unusually large pile of cash in foreign currencies.



raise

n.

1. The act of raising or increasing.
2. An increase in salary.

IN BRIEF: To increase the amount of.

If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. — Unknown from www.zaadz.com

Hasta la vista, decry, disparage, depreciate, derogate, belittle, minimize, downgrade.

Hasta la Vista, Arnold: What Is Schwarzenegger's Legacy?

By Kevin O'Leary / Los Angeles

As both candidates to succeed him decry his record, the former Hollywood superstar may have left them a road map on what they shouldn't try to save the state

http://www.answers.com/topic/hasta-la-vista-performed-by-various-artists

Hasta la vista => see you next time!

decry

tr.v., -cried, -cry·ing, -cries.

1. To condemn openly.
2. To depreciate (currency, for example) by official proclamation or by rumor.

[French décrier, from Old French descrier : des-, de- + crier, to cry; see cry.]

decrier de·cri'er n.

SYNONYMS decry, disparage, depreciate, derogate, belittle, minimize, downgrade. These verbs mean to think, write, or speak of as being of little value or importance. Decry implies open denunciation or condemnation: A staunch materialist, he decries economy. Disparage often implies the communication of a low opinion by indirection: Many critics disparage psychoanalysis as being a pseudoscience. To depreciate is to assign a lower than customary value to someone or something: Some musicologists depreciate Liszt's compositions. Derogate implies a detraction that impairs: People often derogate what they don't understand. Belittle and minimize mean to make less important, but minimize strongly implies the minimum level: He belittled the child's attempts to draw. She tried to minimize my accomplishment. To downgrade is to minimize in importance or estimation: Her rival downgraded the painting, calling it decorative but superficial.

use spending bills to block some of its provisions

G.O.P. Plans to Use Purse Strings to Fight Health Law

By ROBERT PEAR

Republicans acknowledge that they do not have the votes to repeal President Obama's health care overhaul, but they plan to use spending bills to block some of its provisions.

1 [U][C]（食糧などの）供給, （…への）支給, 提供, 人員配置, 定員((for ...))

public provision for the poor
貧民に対する公の食糧支給.

2 [U]（予測される危険などに対する）準備, 用意((for, against ...))

make provision for the future
将来に備える

He made financial provisions for his family.
彼は家族の経済的な備えをした.

3 支給量；用意［準備］された物；設備；貯蔵品, たくわえ, ストック.

4 ((〜s))食糧, 糧食.

5 （法律などの）条項；（…という）規定, 条款, ただし書き((that節)).

6 [U]《キリスト教》叙任, 叙階；聖職直任.

━━[動](他)（…のために）…に食糧を供給準備する.

pro・vi・sion・ment

[名][U]食糧供給.
《英語で準備、供給、提供の意》コンピューターネットワークや通信事業などの分野において、利用者の要求に迅速に対応できるよう、あらかじめ設備やインフラを用意し、必要な分を必要な時にサービス提供すること。インターネットの接続サービス、サーバーや大規模な記憶装置の利用などがある。重要な技術要素として、ハードウエアの物理的構成によらず、統合したり分割したりして利用する仮想化が挙げられる。

culture wars/culture shock

n School Efforts to End Bullying, Some See Agenda

By ERIK ECKHOLM

Lessons to teach acceptance of homosexuality, which have gained urgency after suicides, are causing culture wars.

The China Boom on U.S. Campuses

By DAN LEVIN

A wave of Chinese undergraduates is choosing American colleges, and coping with culture shock. Li Wanrong from southern China is a Drew University freshman.

Assyrian, Christian traditions, Aramaic

Blending wine and Christian traditions in Turkey

Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift:

Southeast Turkey is home to one of the oldest Christian civilizations in the world. The Assyrians, whose Aramaic language was spoken by Christ, lived in this region and converted to Christianity. But their descendants have found themselves caught up in the decades old conflict between the Turkish government and Kurdish separatists.

As a result, many have fled the region. That's had a disastrous effect on their ancient Christian traditions – for example, winemaking. But as Dorian Jones reports from the town of Midyat, a few families are still producing wine and there's hope that the fortunes of the Assyrian Christians are changing.

game-changing/ Midterms Don't Matter

	Americans go to the polls in possible game-changing election
			Elections halfway through US President Barack Obama's four-year term could shift control in Congress. Obama's Democrats could lose their majority to the Republicans, making Obama's legislative plans a tall task. "Midterms Don't Matter" "Military suppliers, big Wall Street interests, and the economic middle-class may do better or worse, but they always do pretty well," the Economist's Will Wilkinson argues.

usurer, loan shark, moneylender, shylock

usurer	(noun) Someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest.
Synonyms:	loan shark, moneylender, shylock
Usage:	She could not get a loan from a bank and resorted to borrowing the money from a usurer at an exorbitant rate.

[名]高利貸し.

look good, feel-good

漫畫來源: Ted Goff


They can look good in a variety of
different styles! Both but look at your face shape.



feel-good
(fēl'gʊd')
adj.
Characterized by or designed to encourage a feeling of often superficial happiness or satisfaction: "Everything about Fassbinder ran contrary to Hollywood notions of feel-good entertainment" (Edward Guthmann).

afterword/epilog, foreword/preface

Can Obama Change the Game Again?

By John Heilemann and Mark Halperin

To win a second term, Barack Obama will need a new strategy. A new paperback afterword from John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, the authors of 'Game Change,' discusses the President's re-election campaign

pref·ace (prĕf'ĭs)
n.

1. 1. A preliminary statement or essay introducing a book that explains its scope, intention, or background and is usually written by the author.
   2. An introductory section, as of a speech.
2. Something introductory; a preliminary: An informal brunch served as a preface to the three-day conference.
3. often Preface The words introducing the central part of the Eucharist in several Christian churches.

tr.v., -aced, -ac·ing, -ac·es.

1. To introduce by or provide with a preliminary statement or essay.
2. To serve as an introduction to.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin praefātiō, praefātiōn-, from praefātus, past participle of praefārī, to say before : prae-, pre- + fārī, to speak.]

prefacer pref'ac·er n.


foreword
A preface or an introductory note, as for a book, especially by a person other than the author.
[名]（本などの）はしがき, 序言, 序文((to ...)).


ep·i·logue ep·i·log (ĕp'ə-lôg', -lŏg')
also
n.

1. 1. A short poem or speech spoken directly to the audience following the conclusion of a play.
   2. The performer who delivers such a short poem or speech.
2. A short addition or concluding section at the end of a literary work, often dealing with the future of its characters. Also called afterword.

[Middle English epiloge, from Old French epilogue, from Latin epilogus, from Greek epilogos, conclusion of a speech : epi-, epi- + logos, word, speech.]

afterword
[名]（本・論文などの）後記, 後書き, 跋(ばつ). ⇒FOREWORD