GATTEN!: An Allergy ... to a Food I Didn't Eat?
You are braver than either of us would ever be. And I swell with pride when I hear about another peer who has been left gaping like a goldfish, when the younger of you has challenged their bigotry by saying, "Actually, my mothers are gay"'
Merkel Visits Flooded-Stricken Regions of Germany
By MELISSA EDDY
The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, visited residents who have
struggled to evacuate villages as rains swelled rivers to levels not
seen in five centuries.
Enrico Fabian for The New York Times
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By JIM YARDLEY
The Brahmaputra River, a critical laboratory in climate studies, is fast
eroding the Indian island of Majuli, above, that it has encircled and
sustained for ages.
As Growth Flags, China Shies From Stimulus
New York Times
HONG KONG — As evidence has mounted that the Chinese economy is slowing, Beijing has kept the world on tenterhooks, delivering none of the big, headline-grabbing economic stimulus measures many analysts have predicted. Two months have passed ...
Japan's public debt to hit record $13.5 tln
AFP
TOKYO — Japan's public debt is expected to swell to a record $13.5 trillion as the government finances reconstruction efforts after the March earthquake and tsunami, reports said Saturday. Japan's debt is already the industrialised world's biggest at ...
roller
(rō'lər) pronunciation
n.
1. One that rolls or performs a rolling operation or activity.
2. Any of various cylindrical or spherical devices that roll or rotate, especially:
1. A small spokeless wheel, such as that of a roller skate or caster.
2. An elongated cylinder on which something, such as a window shade or towel, is wound.
3. A heavy revolving cylinder that is used to level, crush, or smooth.
4. Printing. A cylinder, usually of hard rubber, used to ink the type before the paper is impressed.
5. A cylinder of wire mesh, foam rubber, or other material around which a strand of hair is wound to produce a soft curl or wave.
3. A long rolled bandage.
4. A heavy swelling wave that breaks on a coast.
5. A tumbler pigeon.
rol·ler2 (rō'lər) pronunciation
n.
1. Any of various Old World birds of the family Coraciidae, having bright blue wings, stocky bodies, and hooked bills. They are noted for their aggressiveness and their habit of rolling and twisting in flight, especially during the breeding season.
2. A canary that trills.
[German, from rollen, to roll, burble. See rollmops.]
[名]
1 （運搬用）ころ, （物を載せて転がる）足車, キャスター.
2 （平らにするための）ローラー；円筒状の回転物.
3 （地図・糸などを巻きつける）ローラー, 巻き軸；ヘアカーラー.
4 （暴風で押し寄せる）大波.
5 巻き包帯.
swell
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Pronunciation: /swɛl/
verb (swells, swelling, swelled; past participle swollen /ˈswəʊlən/ or swelled)
noun
adjective
North American • informal , • datedadverb
North American • informal , • dated Back to topPhrases
Origin
Old English swellan (verb), of Germanic origin; related to German schwellen. Current senses of the noun date from the early 16th century; the informal adjectival use derives from noun sense 5 of the noun (late 18th century).sway
- 発音
- swéi
- swayの変化形
- sways (複数形) • swayed (過去形) • swayed (過去分詞) • swaying (現在分詞) • sways (三人称単数現在)
[動](自)［I（[副]）］
2 〈車などが〉（ある方向に）傾く, 動く((to ...)).
3 〈人・意見が〉（ある傾向に）傾く((to, toward ...))；〈意見が〉ぐらつく；〈人が〉（…の間で）思い迷う((about/between ...))
━━(他)［III[名]（[副]）］
1 …を（前後［左右］に）動かす, 揺すぶる, …を（ある方向に）動かす, 傾ける((to, into ...)).
2 〈決心などを〉ぐらつかせる；((通例受身))〈人・言葉などが〉〈人・心などを〉傾かす, …に影響を与える；〈人の〉（目的・方針などを）変えさせる((from ...))
3 ((詩))…を支配［左右］する.
━━[名][U]
2 ((文))統治（権）, 支配（権）；((時にa 〜))支配力, 影響力
3 ひいき, 偏向.
4 動き
upswell
swell up
swell up
saw
- 発音
- sɔ'ː
- sawの変化形
- saws (複数形) • sawed (過去形) • sawing (現在分詞) • saws (三人称単数現在)
[名]
2 《動物》鋸歯(きょし)状部［器官］.
3 前後の動き［揺れ］.
━━[動]（sawed, sawed or((英))sawn）(他)
1 …をのこぎりでひく［切る］((down, up, off, away, through))；のこぎりでひいて…を作る［にする］
2 （のこぎりでひくようにして）…を切る［動かす, 作る］
━━(自)（←(他)）
1 のこぎりを使う；のこぎりで切る.
［古英語saga. ラテン語secāre（切る）と同系. △SECTION, SEGMENT］
saw・er
[名]- tenterhook
- [名]布張りかぎ［くぎ］.on tenterhooks気がかりで, 不安で.
On tenterhooks
Meaning
In a state of uncomfortable suspense.Origin
Tenterhooks aren't
directly connected with tents, nor are they the hooks used by butchers, as the
common misspelling 'tenderhooks' might suggest. A tenter is a wooden frame,
often in the form of a line of fencing, used to hang woollen or linen cloth to
prevent it from shrinking as it dries. The tenterhooks are, not surprisingly,
the hooks on the tenter used to hold the cloth in place.Tenters are no longer everyday objects but a hundred years ago, in wool weaving areas like the North of England, they were a common sight on the land around the many woollen mills, called 'tenter-fields'. It is easy to see how the figurative expression 'on tenterhooks', with its meaning of painful tension, derived from the 'tenting' or stretching of fabric. The expression was originally 'on the tenters'. The English West Country playright John Ford was the first to record that expression in the play Broken Heart, 1633:
Passion, O, be contained. My very heart strings Are on the Tenters.Towards the end of the century the more accurate 'on the tenterhooks' began to replace the earlier phrase. This first example that I have found of it in print is in the 1690 edition of a periodical that was published annually between 1688 and 1693, The General History of Europe:
The mischief is, they will not meet again these two years, so that all business must hang upon the tenterhooks till then.
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