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)

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
   • a temple of great antiquity
   • 非常に古い寺院.
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
   • from immemorial antiquity
   • 大昔から
   • 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］.

7 ＝relict 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］