2024年10月31日 星期四

shackle, memento, Memento mori. 'remember you must die'.

Scottish independence: A yes vote will produce a leaner, meaner Scotland

The no campaign offers merely stasis. Even with devo max, Scots would remain in political shackles. It’s time to break free
  He gives her a watch from the late Tomi as a memento, and advises her to remarry.


Chen holds that there's little reason to doubt Beijing has calculated everything thoroughly and calmly. One the one hand the Chinese leadership recognizes that Ma's hallmark mistakes could ruin his campaign on any given day and on the other that Soong is a reliable friend of Beijing and regarded as very competent by the Taiwanese, according to Chen.

"To Beijing, Ma Ying-jeou's re-election is of course the favored outcome; but Tsai Ing-wen with James Soong attached as a shackle is the best possible backup plan," Chen concluded.




There are many reasons for still reading Marx in our turbulent times, but this is not the least of them. He is, Hobsbawm suggests, an essential memento mori – the shackled slave who reminds capitalist generals that even they are mortal.



Memento mori is a Latin phrase translated as "Remember your mortality", "Remember you must die" or "Remember you will die" - literally " [in the future] remember to die", since "memento" is a future imperative of the 2nd person, and mori is a deponent infinitive. It names a genre of artistic creations that vary widely from one another, but which all share the same purpose: to remind people of their own mortality. The phrase has a tradition in art that dates back to antiquity.


It's Halloween, so what better time to recall that old medieval adage 'Memento mori' or 'remember you must die'. This story dates back to the early 1200s, known to some as 'The three living and the three dead'...
memento mori
1 ((ラテン語))なんじは死を覚悟せよ;死の警告.2 [名](複〜)[U][C](頭がい骨など)死の象徴.

shackle

Line breaks: shackle
Pronunciation: /ˈʃak(ə)l 
  
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NOUN

1(shackles) A pair of fetters connected together by a chain, used to fasten a prisoner’s wrists or ankles together.
1.1A situation or factor that restrains or restricts someone or something:society is going to throw off the shackles ofracism and colonialism
2A metal link, typically U-shaped, closed by a bolt, used to secure a chain or rope to something.
2.1A pivoted link connecting a spring in a vehicle’s suspension to the body of the vehicle.

VERB

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1Chain with shackles:the prisoner was shackled to the heavy steel chair in the centre of the room
1.1Restrain; limit:they seek to shackle the oil and gas companies by imposing new controls

Origin

Old English sc(e)acul 'fetter', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schakel 'link, coupling'.

shackle[shack・le]

  • レベル:社会人必須
  • 発音記号[ʃǽkl]

[名]
1 ((通例〜s))手錠, 手かせ, 足鎖, 足かせ.
2 (なんきん錠の)掛け金.
3 ((しばしば〜s))((文))束縛, 拘束
the shackles of convention
因習の束縛.
━━[動](他)((通例受身))…にかせを掛ける;…を拘束する.




memento


 
音節
me • men • to
発音
məméntou
レベル
社会人必須
[名](複〜s, 〜es)
1 思い出の種, 記念品, かたみ.
2 ((M-))《カトリック》記念唱.

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