2016年8月10日 星期三

sink in, reptile, turtle, -morph/morph, morphologica,l handover, inbound

 Zoltan Istvan represents the Transhumanist Party and bills himself as “the science candidate” in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. He's pushing an unconventional platform that calls for gene editing, human life extension, and morphological freedom (the right to do anything to your body so long as it doesn’t harm others). His main goal in the election? Use his candidacy to popularize science and push for increased funding for scientific and technological research. And advocate for a Universal Basic Income to prepare for the coming age of robotic workers, among other things.
When a transhumanist runs for president, what does that mean for society?
SPECTRUM.IEEE.ORG



台湾の旅人お・も・て・な・し 駒ケ根観光協会 長野日報
台湾からの訪日旅行団の一行20人が12、13日、駒ケ根市を訪れ、市内観光を楽しんだ。同市ではインバウンド( inbound=海外からの誘客)の一環で台湾からの誘客に力を入れて ...

 China Output Growth Slows as Leadership Handover Looms
Businessweek
China's imports unexpectedly fell and industrial output rose the least in three years, signaling more stimulus may be needed after the government last week said it approved subway and road projects across the nation. Inbound shipments slid 2.6 percent ...


IN a private room in a mysterious little restaurant in Chengdu, my fellow diners goaded me to eat the turtle. It was soft-shelled, they said — as if that made it more enticing. They laughed and joked in Chinese, which I do not speak. Eating turtle grows a man’s bank account, my translator said. I didn’t get the meaning at first. Then it sunk in.


Swiss Bankers Fume Over Privacy
Swiss banks have provided U.S. officials with the names of thousands of their employees, a handover that has morphed into a controversy over their employees' personal privacy.



What dates back as the oldest kind of reptile? Morphological evidence suggests that turtles, having existed for more than 200 million years, are the oldest of all surviving reptiles. Mostly aquatic or semi-aquatic, and having a bony shell, turtles can range in size from four inches (10 centimeters) to over five feet (1.5 meters) long. The upper shell is called the carapace and the lower shell is the plastron. As for the difference between a turtle and a tortoise: in America, tortoise refers to a kind of terrestrial turtle, brown in color, with a high-domed shell which completely covers the reptile whose head and limbs are drawn inside. In Australia and Great Britain, the words turtle " and "tortoise" are practically interchangeable. Almost half of the known turtle species are rare, threatened, or endangered. To increase awareness of the plight of the disappearing reptiles, American Tortoise Rescue has named May 23 World Turtle Day.




sink in
Penetrate the mind, be absorbed, as in The news of the crash didn't sink in right away. [Late 1300s]


 morph
 轉變成
  -morph
 suff.
  1. Form; shape; structure: endomorph.
  2. Morpheme: allomorph.
[Greek -morphos, from morphē, shape.]

morphological 

morphological

Pronunciation: /mɔːfəˈlɒdʒɪk(ə)l/ 
(also morphologic)

ADJECTIVE

1Relating to the form or structure of things:the purely morphological fact that with a little dam one could hold back a lot of water
1.1Relating to the branch of biology that deals with the form of living organisms, and with relationships between their structures:studies of genetic variation of morphological traits in mammalsthe geraniums have a number of unusual morphological adaptations
1.2Linguistics Relating to the forms of words, in particular inflected forms:the language’s phonological, morphological and syntactic structuremorphological and syntactic similarities between languages

inbound

Pronunciation: /ˈɪnbaʊnd/

adjective & adverb

  • travelling towards a particular place, especially when returning to the original point of departure: [as adjective]:inbound traffic [as adverb]:we have three enemy planes inbound on bearing two ninety

verb

[with object] Basketball
throw (the ball) from out of bounds, putting it into play: Ohio State inbounded the ball against the swarming defenders

inbound[in・bound]

  • 発音記号[ínbáund]
[形]
1 ((米))帰航の, 復航の, 本国行きの.
2 市内に向かう, 上りの.
3 ((〜s))((米))〈ボールが〉コート内の;《バスケットボール》〈パスが〉コートの外からの.
━━[副]国内[市内]に向かって.

hándòver[hánd・òver]

[名][U](権力・責任などの)移譲, 明け渡し.


 terrapin (tĕr'əpĭn), name for several edible turtles of fresh or brackish water.

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