Once Upon a Time, the World of Picture Books Came to Life
The tale behind a new museum of children’s literature is equal parts imagination, chutzpah and “The Little Engine That Could.”
The GOP’s declaration that it will block a Supreme Court nominee is not only unprecedented, but a remarkable act of legislative chutzpah.
Kodak is placing a new bet on a gadget from a simpler time.
In the Air | Space Age Style
This season, fashion looks to the heavens, taking inspiration from both space-age design and the wondrous immensity of the night sky.America's most prominent legal mind and the #1 bestselling author of Chutzpah and The Best Defense, Alan Dershowitz, recounts his legal autobiography, describing how he came to the law, as well as the cases that have changed American jurisprudence over the past 50 years, most of which he has personally been involved in.
Google's Incredible Chutzpah In Demanding A Tax Refund
Forbes
This is a lovely little story, Google Google is demanding a tax refund from a transaction that took place all the way back in 2004. Given the way that the company busts a gut to run rings around the world's taxmen I think this is the most incredible ...
To address a letter to a city of any kind is folly. To send a letter to a metropolis of your immensity — 32 million residents! — shows, as we say here in New York, chutzpah. Also it’s a bit weird. And yet I’m writing anyway, because I don’t quite know how else to get a handle on the six days I spent with you in October — six days in which I felt embraced and ignored, beloved and rejected, entrapped and, in the end, liberated. Please let me explain:
A loss function could be very one sided. Consider the "William Tell"
loss function. If he shoots the apple off his son's head, the loss is
"zero". If he shoots too high, the loss is the cost of an arrow. If he
shoots too low, well, the cost might be incalculable.
Pessimists work with loss functions. Optimists work with value
functions.
Loss functions are not "scientific". Loss functions are highly
personal. To ascribe a loss function to society requires plenty of
hutzpah!
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---解釋chutzpah
英國《泰晤士報》：
猶太依地語裡有個字chutzpah，意謂蠻不講理的要求或辯解。例如： 弒父殺母的人受審時乞求法官憐憫，理由是他已成為孤兒。 ... 真是chutzpah的上佳例子。chutzpah ：ひどい厚かましさ,厚顔無恥,鉄面皮；chutzpa, hutzpa, hutzpah とも書く。 例stunning entrepreneurial chutzpah：驚くような企業の厚かましさ
chutzpah (KHOOT-spuh, HOOT-) noun, also chutzpa
Shameless impudence, brazen nerve, gall, effrontery.
[From Yiddish khutspe, from Late Hebrew huspa.]
"Bill Gates, the company's chairman, even had the chutzpah to say that this week's ruling was a challenge to `healthy competition in the software industry'." Leaders: Breaking Up Microsoft, The Economist (London), Jun 10, 2000.
http://www.wordsmith.org/words/chutzpah.html chutzpa(h)[chutz・pa(h)]
[名][U]((俗))何ともひどい厚かましさ, あくどさ, 鉄面皮, 厚顔無恥.［イディッシュ］
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這家名動一時的叫車公司曾經願意打破一切規則去攻佔全球市場。 現在，它損失的錢比過去任何時候都要多。 今年8月，優步公佈了有史以來最大的季度虧損，營收成長也創下歷史新低。 為什麼優步無法獲利？時報科技記者Mike Isaac就此展開了調查，發現優步營運中存在著種種漏洞：該公司不僅以「乘車安全費「為幌子收取額外費用，還在為了擴張不惜以一切代價的公司文化之下， 賄賂當地官員、大量下放財務決策權、向信用評級較低的司機提供汽車抵押貸款…在調查報道中，記者將優步的這種行徑形容為“chutzpah”，即“無所顧忌、膽大妄為”，雖然這個詞往往帶有貶義，但在有些語境下，它也會表達“這種 行為或態度雖然粗魯或令人震驚，但卻使人感到不得不佩服「的意味。 根據韋氏字典，該詞最早來自晚期希伯來語“ḥuṣpāh”，意為“傲慢、無禮“。 這個字源使得西方人在提及chutzpah時，總是與猶太人、特別是以色列人連結在一起。 這種放肆大膽、不畏權威的精神特質也被認為是猶太人在各個領域取得成功的關鍵之一。immensity
Jewish Moms Are Behind Tech Success Of IsraelIsrael lives up to its reputation as the Start-up nation. Israeli start-ups are everywhere. It is what people aspire to. It is what they dream of.
- 音節
- im • men • si • ty
- 発音
- iménsəti
- immensityの変化形
- immensities (複数形)
It was Dan Senor and Saul Singer who nicknamed the country that has given birth to more start-ups than any country outside of the U.S. It is a nickname that it well deserves.
There are many reasons given for this success. Israel has little in the way of natural resources, so it has had to create its wealth from the one thing it does have, its people. Then there is the unique role of the Israeli Defense Forces, and in particular the elite intelligence unit, 8200. At one start-up, all of the coders had met there. It functions almost as a high-tech networking event.
And then there is the unique Israeli culture and spirit. Call it chutzpah, call it simply refusing to be told what to do. For some it would be determination, an admirable quality in an entrepreneur, for others it looks a lot like sheer stubbornness -- a less desired trait.
Everywhere you go in this Start-up nation, there is one name you hear time and again, and although he will deny it when you meet him, Yossi Vardi is the father of the start-up culture in Israel.
To prove the point about how deeply woven the start up culture is in the society, at lunch, the avuncular Mr. Vardi starts to chat with the young waitress, switching between Hebrew and English. What is she doing, he asks her? She is a linguist, in her first year at university. What does she want to do when she graduates, he asks? 'Oh, I want to work in voice recognition,' she says. 'Probably in a small company or a start-up.'
So what is his theory for the success of this country of only 7.5 million and its ability to punch way over its weight?
'Jewish mothers,' he says. 'We succeed because of the guilt we all feel. From birth we are told we have to be better, that we are such a disappointment.
'You know the difference between an Italian mother and a Jewish one? An Italian mother says to her son 'Eat this food or I will kill you.' A Jewish one says 'Eat this food or I will kill myself.'
'They are our secret.'
創業之國以色列的成功秘訣英文
正是丹‧塞諾(Dan Senor)和索爾‧辛格(Saul Singer)給了以色列創業之國這個稱謂。作為美國以外孕育最多新興企業的國家﹐以色列當之無愧。相關報導
這 份成功得益於多方面的原因。以色列的自然資源儲量並不豐富﹐因此它若要創造財富就必須依賴它真正擁有的一樣東西──：以色列人。以色列國防軍 (Israeli Defense Forces)也發揮了的獨特的作用﹐特別是它的精英情報部門──“8200部隊”。這也是一個新成立的機構﹐所有的編碼人員都在那裡匯聚﹐看起來就像是 一場專門為高科技人員舉辦的社交活動。
另外﹐還應該提到的就是以色列獨特的文化和國民精神。有人稱這種精神為chutzpah（過度自信 又厚顏無恥）﹐乾脆點說就是不肯接受別人的安排。對於一些人來說﹐這意味著決心和毅力﹐是一個創業家應該具有的值得嘉許的品質﹔而對其他人而言﹐這簡直就 是冥頑不靈──這可不是什麼好品質。
在這個創業的國度里﹐不論你走到哪裡﹐你總會反復地聽到一個人的名字﹐儘管當你見到他的時候﹐他不會認賬。這個人就是以色列的創業文化之父──約西‧瓦爾迪(Yossi Vardi)。
為 了證明這種創業文化已經深刻地融入了以色列社會﹐午餐時分﹐慈祥和藹的瓦爾迪用希伯萊語和英語與年輕的女服務員攀談了起來。她是做什麼的？他問她。她是個 語言學專業的學生﹐今年上大學一年級。畢業後她想從事什麼工作？他問道。“哦﹐我想從事語音識別工作﹐”她說﹐“可能會找一家小公司或者新成立的企業 吧。”
那麼﹐他認為以色列這個僅僅擁有750萬人口的國家是如何獲得成功﹐又是如何具備了發揮超出自身實力的能力的呢？
“原因就在於猶太民族的母親們”﹐他說。“我們能夠獲得成功﹐是因為我們都感覺到了我們的罪過。從出生的那一刻起﹐我們就被告知一定要做得更好﹐被告知我們是如此令她們失望。”
“你知道意大利母親和猶太母親有什麼不同嗎？意大利母親會對她的兒子說﹐‘吃掉這些東西﹐否則我就殺死你。’而猶太母親則會說‘吃掉這些東西﹐要不我就死給你看。’”
“她們就是我們的成功秘訣。”
Ben Rooney
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