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WQXR Host Jeff Spurgeon Accepts Ice Bucket Challenge
WQXR host Jeff Spurgeon has added his name to the growing list of folks in the worlds of classical music and broadcasting who have accepted the Ice Bucket Challenge.
“From this parallel data, we update the models,” said Salim Roukos, an I.B.M. researcher in language-related technology at its T.J. Watson Laboratory in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., home of the n.Fluent project. “You want to learn the idiomatic expressions — when you say someone has kicked the bucket, you don’t want that translated word for word.”
kick the bucket
Die, as in All of my goldfish kicked the bucket while we were on vacation. This moderately impolite usage has a disputed origin. Some say it refers to committing suicide by hanging, in which one stands on a bucket, fastens a rope around one's neck, and kicks the bucket away. A more likely origin is the use of bucket in the sense of "a beam from which something may be suspended" because pigs were suspended by their heels from such beams after being slaughtered, the term kick the bucket came to mean "to die." [Colloquial; late 1700s]
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36 Hours: Cologne, Germany
By EVAN RAIL
After crossing off bucket-list items like exploring the cathedral and crawling through legendary Kölsch pubs, focus on the city's new shops, restaurants and hotels.Urban Dictionary: bucket list
A list of things to do before you die. Comes from the term "kicked the bucket".
旅遊排行榜：5個最受加拿大民眾喜愛的旅遊娛樂
Bucketlist.org(口袋名單)是一個近期竄紅的網站。全球有超過16萬人在這個網站上註冊，記下自己必須實踐完成的目標。來瞧瞧「口袋名單」網站中，最受加拿大民眾歡迎、5個「一定要去」的旅遊去處：http://www.taiyangbao.ca/entertainment/381020/#.U9PtG_ldV8E
十本Book Bucket List
bucket list
Line breaks: bucket listNOUN
INFORMALOrigin
early 21st century: from the phrase kick the bucket ‘die’ (see kick1), popularized by the 2007 film The Bucket List.
名詞
- A list of things to accomplish before one's death. [Circa 2007]
- 2010, Annalisa Daughety, Love Is Grand, unnumbered page,
- “They told me hiking down into the canyon was on their bucket list.”
- She nodded. “I hear that all the time. People all over the world have the Grand Canyonon their bucket list.”
- Jake frowned. “I don't have a bucket list.”
- 2010, Russell Andresen, Are You Kosher?: Memoirs of a Jewish Vampire, page 159,
- That is something that I definitely want on my bucket list.
- 2011, Erieka, Sandy Rodgers, Erieka's Magical Realism, page 20,
- 2010, Annalisa Daughety, Love Is Grand, unnumbered page,
- Used other than as an idiom: see bucket, list.
参照
- ^ “bucket list”, Word Spy
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