2024年5月19日 星期日

hound/ dog, renit, scoundrel, resonant, blooodhound, weimaraner, pitbull. The stories are very resonant of that area, the world of your childhood.

The stories in your first collection, Dance of the Happy Shades, are very resonant of that area, the world of your childhood. 

Putin Critic Gets 5-Year Jail Term, Setting Off Protests

By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN

Aleksei A. Navalny, Russia's most resonant opposition voice and a Moscow mayoral candidate, was sentenced

'City Of Scoundrels'
By GARY KRIST
Reviewed by JAMES McMANUS
In Chicago, 1919 brought bloodshed, riots and municipal crises.
On Creativity, Taiwanese Soft Power, and 'Cultural Bonds Being Reknit'
The Atlantic
By James Fallows In the most recent of my frequent paeans to Next Media Animation of Taiwan, I mentioned that the relatively small population of Taiwan was enjoying considerable creative and pop culture influence now -- especially compared with ...



Here he is, sitting one afternoon at a restaurant on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, a tall, sandy-haired, 27-year-old radiating a kind of surfer-dude serenity. His secret, if that’s the right word, is to pretty much ignore all the calls and letters that he receives every day from the dozen or so creditors now hounding him for cash.
“And I don’t open the e-mail alerts with my credit score,” he adds. “I can’t look at my credit score any more.”


Where would you most like to be right now?
Right where I am, in my house in Johannesburg with my weimaraner dog, Bodo, beside me.
  1. Weimaraner
    Animal
  2. The Weimaraner is a dog that was originally bred for hunting in the early 19th century. Early Weimaraners were used by royalty for hunting large game such as boar, bear, and deer.Wikipedia

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hound
(hound) pronunciation
n.
    1. A domestic dog of any of various breeds commonly used for hunting, characteristically having drooping ears, a short coat, and a deep resonant voice.
    2. A dog.
  1. A contemptible person; a scoundrel.
    1. One who eagerly pursues something: a gossip hound.
    2. A devotee or an enthusiast: a coffee hound.
tr.v., hound·ed, hound·ing, hounds.
  1. To pursue relentlessly and tenaciously. See synonyms at harass.
  2. To urge insistently; nag: hounded me until I agreed to cut my hair.
[Middle English, from Old English hund.]
hounder hound'er n.




scoundrel[scoun・drel]

  • 発音記号[skáundrəl]

[名]((古風))無頼漢, ならず者, やくざ者, 悪党.
scoun・drel・ly
[形]((文))不道徳な;悪党の.




resonant

Syllabification: (res·o·nant)
Pronunciation: /ˈrezənənt/

adjective

  • 1(of sound) deep, clear, and continuing to sound or ring:a full-throated and resonant guffaw
  • (resonant with) (of a place) filled or resounding with (a sound):alpine valleys resonant with the sound of church bells
  • having the ability to evoke or suggest enduring images, memories, or emotions:the prints are resonant with traditions of Russian folk art and story
  • 2(of a room, a musical instrument, or a hollow body) tending to reinforce or prolong sounds, especially by synchronous vibration.
  • 3 technical of, relating to, or bringing about resonance in a circuit, atom, or other object.
  • 4(of a color) enhancing or enriching another color or colors by contrast.



Derivatives

resonantly

adverb

Origin:

late 16th century: from French résonnant or Latin resonant- 'resounding', from the verb resonare, from re- (expressing intensive force) + sonare 'to sound'

















  1. Bloodhound
    Dog Breed
  2. The Bloodhound is a large scent hound originally bred for hunting deer and wild boar, but also used from the Middle Ages onwards for tracking human beings, and now most often bred specifically for that purpose. Wikipedia

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