credence, epigram, saying, sense, power(v), remarriage, give credence to

Egypt Calls for New Look at Morsi’s Prison Escape in 2011

By BEN HUBBARD 8:20 PM ET

Egypt’s rulers gave new credence to a court case against Mohamed Morsi and members of the Muslim Brotherhood, marking another blow to the group by the military-backed government.

 “I think her message of peace is resonant right now,” said Catherine Morris, the curator at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, where Ms. Ono was honored recently. “Her longstanding commitment to political activism gives her credence.”“我覺得她對和平的呼籲在此時尤其能引起共鳴，”布魯克林博物館的伊麗莎白·A·薩克勒女性主義藝術中心的館長凱瑟琳娜·莫里斯(Catherine Morris)說，該中心最近曾授予小野女士一個榮譽頭銜，“她長期致力於政治行動主義，令她顯得格外可信。”


 Japan Court Rejects Suit Challenging Outdated Remarriage Law
Wall Street Journal (blog)
A Japanese court recently struck down a lawsuit contesting a century-old Civil Code provision that prohibits women from remarrying until at least six months after getting a divorce, in a setback for those hoping that the gender equality marker in the ...
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Life is a dark saying.



 Social Media Power a Novel

Sales of David Mitchell's eight-year-old novel "Cloud Atlas" have surged thanks to a trailer for a film version of the novel that debuted on Apple's website Thursday, combined with the power of social media.

 連槓三十二期的威力彩，昨晚終於開出頭獎！

 power(v)

━━[動](他)

1 …に動力［電力］を供給する, …を動力［電力］で動かす

power an airplane
飛行機に給油する.

2 …に力を与える, …を強力にする.

3 …を生気［元気］づける, 鼓舞する.

4 〈球を〉強打する.

━━(自)力強く進む.
saying

• [séiiŋ]

Concise Oxford Dictionary 第6版 (1975) 第一義為
"senses" 這字的意義也很複雜

(sā'ĭng)
n.
Something, such as an adage or maxim, that is said.

SYNONYMS saying, maxim, adage, saw, motto, epigram, proverb, aphorism. These nouns refer to concise verbal expressions setting forth wisdom or a truth. A saying is an often repeated and familiar expression: a collection of philosophical sayings. Maxim denotes particularly an expression of a general truth or a rule of conduct: "For a wise man, he seemed to me ... to be governed too much by general maxims" (Edmund Burke). Adage applies to a saying that has gained credit through long use: a gift that gave no credence to the adage, "Good things come in small packages." Saw often refers to a familiar saying that has become trite through frequent repetition: old saws that gave little comfort to the losing team. A motto expresses the aims, character, or guiding principles of a person, group, or institution: "Exuberance over taste" is my motto. An epigram is a witty expression, often paradoxical or satirical and neatly or brilliantly phrased: In his epigram Samuel Johnson called remarriage a "triumph of hope over experience." Proverb refers to an old and popular saying that illustrates something such as a basic truth or a practical precept: "Slow and steady wins the race" is a proverb to live by. Aphorism, denoting a concise expression of a truth or principle, implies depth of content and stylistic distinction: Few writers have coined more aphorisms than Benjamin Franklin.

[名]言う［言った］こと, 言, 説；（…という）ことわざ, 格言, 言い習わし((that節))

one's sayings and doings
言動

a common ［a wise］ saying
世間の言い習わし［金言］

as the saying goes ［is］
ことわざにあるとおり

There is an old saying that the child is father to the man.
「三つ子の魂百まで」という古いことわざがある.

Word of the Day:
epigram (EP-i-gram)

noun
A short witty saying, often in verse.

Etymology
From Middle English, from Latin epigramma, from Greek epigramma, from epigraphein (to write, inscribe), from epi- (upon, after) + graphein (to write). Other words originating from the same root are graphite, paragraph, program, and topography

According to poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole; Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Here is one from Benjamin Franklin that truly demonstrates the power of a pithy epigram:
Little strokes Fell great oaks.

Usage
"In fairness, Nehru should be credited with one classic epigram. Reacting with undisguised culture shock to his discovery of America after a trip there in 1949, Nehru said: 'One should never visit America for the first time.' The closest Indira Gandhi came to a good epigram was probably in her answer to an American journalist in 1971 about why she had refused to meet with Pakistan 's General Yahya Khan: 'You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.'" — Shashi Tharoor; India 's Leaders Aren't Very Often Funny; International Herald Tribune (France); Feb 27, 2002.

"Maugham 's dictum that if you want to eat well in England you have to eat breakfast three times a day was no doubt an epigram for an epigram's sake." — Jonathan Meades; Meades Eats Britain From A-Z; The Times (London, UK); Feb 22, 2003.

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sense
(sĕns)
n.

1. 1. Any of the faculties by which stimuli from outside or inside the body are received and felt, as the faculties of hearing, sight, smell, touch, taste, and equilibrium.
   2. A perception or feeling produced by a stimulus; sensation: a sense of fatigue and hunger.
2. senses The faculties of sensation as means of providing physical gratification and pleasure.
3. 1. An intuitive or acquired perception or ability to estimate: a sense of diplomatic timing.
   2. A capacity to appreciate or understand: a keen sense of humor.
   3. A vague feeling or presentiment: a sense of impending doom.
   4. Recognition or perception either through the senses or through the intellect; consciousness: has no sense of shame.
4. 1. Natural understanding or intelligence, especially in practical matters: The boy had sense and knew just what to do when he got lost.
   2. The normal ability to think or reason soundly. Often used in the plural: Have you taken leave of your senses?
   3. Something sound or reasonable: There's no sense in waiting three hours.
5. 1. A meaning that is conveyed, as in speech or writing; signification: The sense of the novel is the inevitability of human tragedy.
   2. One of the meanings of a word or phrase: The word set has many senses. See synonyms at meaning.
6. 1. Judgment; consensus: sounding out the sense of the electorate on capital punishment.
   2. Intellectual interpretation, as of the significance of an event or the conclusions reached by a group: I came away from the meeting with the sense that we had resolved all outstanding issues.

tr.v., sensed, sens·ing, sens·es.

1. To become aware of; perceive.
2. To grasp; understand.
3. To detect automatically: sense radioactivity.

adj.
Genetics. Of or relating to the portion of the strand of double-stranded DNA that serves as a template for and is transcribed into RNA.

[Middle English, meaning, from Old French sens, from Latin sēnsus, the faculty of perceiving, from past participle of sentīre, to feel.]

• [séns]

[名]

1 （感覚器官による）感覚, 五感の一つ；[U]感覚作用［機能］

the (five) senses
五感

the seat of the senses
感覚中枢

have a sharp sense of smell
臭覚が鋭い.

[類語]sense個別の感覚をさすが, 複数で感覚全般をさす：The crash knocked me clean out of my senses. 衝突事故で気を失った. sensation特定の刺激によらない感覚：a sensation of being in a weightless state無重力状態の感じ.

2 ((通例a 〜))（心理的な）感じ, 心持ち, 気持ち, 印象((of ..., that節))

a sense of danger ［fear］
危機感［恐怖心］

a sense of having done well
うまくやったとの自覚

I have a sense that he has passed.
彼は合格した気がする.

3 ((通例a ［one's］ 〜))（…に対する）感覚, センス, 観念, 意識((of ...))

a sense of humor
ユーモアのセンス

a sense of fun
遊び心

a sense of direction ［place］
方向感覚

a sense of justice
正義感

a sense of obligation
義務感

a sense of occasion
場をわきまえる分別

an ethical sense
倫理観念

the sense of power
権力意識.

4 ((one's 〜s))正気, 平常心；本心

in one's (right or sober) senses
正気［正常］で

be out of ［take leave of］ one's senses
正気を失っている［気が狂う］

be frightened out of one's senses
びっくりして気を失う

regain one's senses
((古風))意識を取り戻す；気分がよくなる.

5 [U]((通例無冠詞))思慮, 良識（のあること）, 道理にかなったこと, （…するだけの）分別, 判断力((to do))

a woman of sense
分別のある女性（▼a sensible womanがふつう）

talk ［write］ sense
((話))もっともなことを言う［書く］

have more sense than to do
…するほど無分別ではない

have not enough sense to do
…するだけの分別がない

talk some sense into a person
人に少しは道理をわからせる

beat ［knock, drive］ (some) sense into a person
人に手荒い手段でわからせる.

6 意義, 意味, 価値, 意図；（語句の）意味. ⇒MEANING[類語]

in a ［one, some, a certain］ sense
ある意味で

in every sense (of the word)
（語の）あらゆる意味で

in the strict ［the usual, the literal, the broad, the narrow］ sense
厳密な［ふつうの, 文字どおりの, 広い, 狭い］意味で

There is no sense in talking to him.
彼に話してもむだだ

I finally saw the sense in studying hard.
一生けん命勉強することの意義がやっとつかめた

It wasn't in any sense normal. ［＝It was in no sense normal. ］
決して正常ではなかった.

7 [U]（会・集団の）意見, 意向

take the sense of the public
世論の動向をさぐる.

8 《数学》（ベクトルの）向き.

bring a person to his senses

〈人を〉正気に戻す；〈人を〉こらしめる, 反省させる.

come to one's senses

意識を回復する；正気に戻る.

make sense

〈表現・行動などが〉理解できる, 意味をなす；〈物事が〉道理にかなっている；〈人が〉道理にかなったことを言う［する］.

make sense (out) of ...

((ふつう疑問文・否定文))…の意味を取る, …を理解する

Can you make sense of this letter？
この手紙の意味がわかりますか.

▼受身可.

see sense

分別がつく, 道理がわかる.

stand to sense

((英俗))〈物事が〉道理にかなっている.

━━[動](他)

1 …を（五感で）感じる；［III that節/wh-節/wh- to do］〈…であることに〉感づく, 気づく；((米))…を理解［了解］する；［V[名](to) do］…が（…するのを）感じる

sense a person's hostility
人の敵意を感じる

I sensed that his actions were friendly.
彼の行為は友好的なことに気づいた

I sensed what he wanted to do.
彼が何をしたいのか察しがついた.

2 〈機械が〉…を感知する；《コンピュータ》…を読み取る.

［ラテン語sēnsus （sentīre感じる＋-sus）. △SCENT］

credence

noun

• 1belief in or acceptance of something as true:psychoanalysis finds little credence among laymen
• the likelihood of something being true; plausibility:being called upon by the media as an expert lends credence to one’s opinions

• 2 [usually as modifier] a small side table, shelf, or niche in a church for holding the elements of the Eucharist before they are consecrated:a credence table

Phrases

give credence to

accept as true.

Origin:

Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin credentia, from Latin credent- 'believing', from the verb credere

音節

cre • dence

発音

kríːdəns

レベル

社会人必須

[名]((形式))

1 [U]信用, 信頼, 信任, 信用［信任］の証, 信憑(しんぴょう)性

a story almost beyond credence
ほとんど信じられない話

gain credence
信用される

give credence to ...
…を信用する

The documents lend credence to her claim.
その記録は彼女の主張の裏づけになる.

2 《教会》祭器卓.

［中ラテン語credentia←ラテン語crēdere（信じる）の現在分詞形crēdentem. △CREDIT］