2015年11月5日 星期四

antiquity,relic, licentiate, eczema, tosh


"L'Antiquité est ma jeunesse" disait ‪#‎Rodin‬
"Antiquity is My Youth" said Rodin


Qing Dynasty Relic Yields Record Price at Auction

By JOHN F. BURNS
The $69.5 million for a 18th-century vase, found in a family home, is believed to be the highest ever paid at auction for a Chinese antiquity.

She studied the piano and singing intensively, becoming a licentiate of the London College of Music in 1974, and was awarded a fellowship 10 years later.
 Jennifer never allowed the challenges of life to defeat her. Some years ago, she suffered from a painful bout of eczema and asthma. She undertook a regime of swimming and bicycling, as well as home cures, and detailed some of her ideas in Eczema and Food Allergy: The Hidden Cause? (1997).
 David Kynaston writes: Four years ago, surveying the publisher's hype before reading Jennifer Worth's Call the Midwife – "appeals to the huge market for nostalgia ... misery memoir meets a fascinating slice of social history" – I confidently anticipated a dollop of self-indulgent, sentimental tosh. I could not have been more wrong.

licentiate
音節
li • cen • ti • ate
発音
laisénʃiət
licentiateの変化形
licentiates (複数形)
[名]
1 (医学・法律の免許を有する)開業有資格者.
2 ((英))上級修士:修士号取得後, 1-2年大学院で学んだ者に与えられる;例えばPh.L.(Licentiate in Philosophy).
3 (ヨーロッパの大学の)修士.

eczema


 
音節
ec • ze • ma
発音
éksəmə, égzə- | éksimə
レベル
社会人必須
[名][U]《病理学》湿疹(しっしん).
ec・zem・a・tous〔izémts | eksém-〕
[形]


tosh


 
音節
tosh
発音
tɑ'ʃ | tɔ'ʃ
[名][U]((英略式))たわごと, ナンセンス. ▼しばしば間投詞的に用いられ, 不賛成・不信・疑念を表すnonsense:
It's just a lot of tosh.



an·tiq·ui·ty (ăn-tĭk'wĭ-tē) pronunciation
n., pl., -ties.
  1. Ancient times, especially the times preceding the Middle Ages.
  2. The people, especially the writers and artisans, of ancient times: inventions unknown to antiquity.
  3. The quality of being old or ancient; considerable age: a carving of great antiquity.
  4. Something, such as an object or a relic, belonging to or dating from ancient times. Often used in the plural.
  1. [名]
  2. 1 [U]年代を経ていること,古さ
  3. 2 [U]大昔,古い時代,太古;中世以前の時代(特にギリシャ・ローマ時代),上古,古代
    • in remote antiquity
    • 大昔(に).
  4. 3 ((集合的))古代人. ▼特に古代の作家や職人をいう.
  5. 4 ((通例-ties))古代の遺物[遺跡,風習,文化];古器
    • Greek and Roman antiquities
    • 古代ギリシャ・ローマの遺物.
relic
n.
  1. Something that has survived the passage of time, especially an object or custom whose original culture has disappeared: "Corporal punishment was a relic of barbarism" (Cyril Connolly).
  2. Something cherished for its age or historic interest.
  3. An object kept for its association with the past; a memento.
  4. An object of religious veneration, especially a piece of the body or a personal item of a saint.
  5. or relics A corpse; remains.
[Middle English relik, object of religious veneration, from Old French relique, from Late Latin reliquiae, sacred relics, from Latin, remains, from reliquus, remaining, from relinquere, relīqu-, to leave behind. See relinquish.]

[名]
1 ((通例〜s))(歴史的な)遺物, 遺構, 遺跡
Roman relics
ローマの遺物.
2 (過去の習慣などの)遺風, なごり.
3 ((通例〜s))残存物, 残骸(ざんがい);((古風))遺骨, 遺体.
4 遺品, 形見, 記念物.
5 《キリスト教》聖遺物.
6 ((略式))古風な人[物].
7relict 1.
[古フランス語←ラテン語reliquiae殉教者の遺骸(re-あとに+linquere残す+-ae名詞語尾). △RELINQUISH, LICENCE





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