man and wife

Prince William, Kate Now Man and Wife

But Kate won't be known as Princess Catherine.

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man and wife: married couple

by the looks

John Darkow / Columbia Daily Tribune / Cagle Cartoons

by the look of things

It is an introduction to your first impression of something.

by the look of it 看樣子, 看起來...

學外國語，要年紀輕出去才好 (胡適之先生)

學外國語，要年紀輕出去才好

先生今天再看給福特基金會的信稿，覺得這是小孩子寫的英文，不能用的；….自己來寫。因而談起『現在一般出國的留學生，都是年紀太大了。學外國語，要年紀輕出去才好。像丁文江、葉公超、溫源寧、我，都是年輕出國的。…….』

--胡適之先生晚年談話錄 (頁143 1961/2/20日)

up-and-coming, percussionist

Deutsche Welle presents highlights recorded live at the Beethovenfest,
including star performers and up-and-coming talent like percussionist
Martin Grubinger and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Download for
free!

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percussionist

[名]打楽器奏者

up-and-coming
(ŭp'ən-kŭm'ĭng)
adj.
Showing signs of advancement and ambitious development: an up-and-coming executive; an up-and-coming neighborhood.

up-and-comer up'-and-com'er n.

Society of Friends

"…….我常說，我要是信徒，不入天主教，便入貴格會。天主教是非常嚴格的，具備各種宗教的儀式；貴格會和天主教完全不同，沒有神父，沒有任何儀式。他的教堂都是很簡單甚至破舊的房子，裏面只有木板凳，不像基督教堂那麼講究，有沙發。貴格會會員到後，便低著頭，閉起眼睛默坐，坐一個鐘頭都不說話。有時有些會員偶然站起來說幾句話，說自己得了靈感。…….."

--胡適之先生晚年談話錄 (頁258-59 1961/12/6日)

對貴格的推崇 可參考: 《哲學書簡》伏爾泰

Friends, Society of ：公誼會；貴格會；教友派：為基督教派之一支，十七世紀中葉由福克斯（ George Fox ）成立於英國，反對形式上的宗教，注重所謂「內心之光」。

respondent, correspondent

Cut benefits for public employees, Californians say

By Shane Goldmacher

Times/USC Dornsife poll: A cap on pensions and a later retirement age -- even for current public employees -- are supported by respondents.

respondent

[形]

1 応答する；（…に）応じる, 反応する((to ...)).

2 《法律》被告の立場にある.

━━[名]

1 ((形式))応答者；回答者.

2 《法律》被上訴人；（離婚訴訟の）被告.

correspondent

[名]

1 （新聞・定期刊行物・テレビ局などの）通信員；特派員(special correspondent)；（新聞・雑誌などへの）投書家

a Moscow correspondent
モスクワ通信員.

2 文通者, 通信者

a good ［a tireless］ correspondent
筆まめな人

a bad ［a poor］ correspondent
筆無精な人.

3 （商社などの）地方代理店；地方駐在員.

4 対応［一致］するもの；類似物.

━━[形]((形式))（…に）一致する, 合致する, 対応する((to, with ...)).

cor・re・spond・ent・ly

[副]符号［相当］して.

turn-of-the-last-century

20 世紀最初幾年:

Zora and Me. By Victoria Bond and T. R. Simon. 2010. Candlewick, $16.99 (9780763643003). Gr. 5–8.

Told in the immediate first-person voice of 10-year-old Carrie, Zora Neale Hurston’s best childhood friend, each chapter in Bond and Simon’s story evokes the famous African American writer’s early years in turn-of-the-last-century Florida.

swimmingly, handy habit

Singapore's financial rise

Singapore's financial rise Going swimmingly

The city-state has a handy habit of taking advantage of financial upheaval

swimmingly,
(swĭm'ĭng-lē)
adv.
With great ease and success: Things are going swimmingly.

HANDY

(hăn'dē)
adj., -i·er, -i·est.

1. Skillful in using one's hands; manually adroit. See synonyms at dexterous.
2. Readily accessible: found a handy spot for the hammer.
3. Useful; convenient: a handy tool.

Houston, we have a problem, spaceflight

With 'Coolest Job Ever' Ending, Astronauts Seek Next Frontier
By KENNETH CHANG As the space shuttle program comes to an end, it is a time of great uncertainty for those whose job involves spaceflight.

Houston, we have a problem

Meaning

Originally a genuine report of a life-threatening fault. Now used humorously to report any kind of problem.

Origin

'Houston, we have a problem' is right up there with 'Beam me up Scotty' at the top of the spaceflight-related quotations tree. In fact, both are slight misquotations.

John Swigert, Jr. and James Lovell who, with Fred Haise Jr., made up the crew of the US's Apollo 13 moon flight, reported a problem back to their base in Houston on 14th April, 1970. 'Houston, we have a problem' is often credited to the project's leader Lovell. Actually, not only did Lovell not say the phrase, he wasn't even the first not to say it, if you see what I mean.

Swigert and then Lovell (almost) used the phrase to report a major technical fault in the electrical system of one of the Service Module's oxygen tanks:

Swigert: 'Okay, Houston, we've had a problem here.'
Duke: 'This is Houston. Say again please.'
Lovell: 'Houston, we've had a problem. We've had a main B bus undervolt.'

'Houston, we have a problem' was used later as the tagline for the 1995 film - Apollo 13. It is the dialogue of the film. edited for dramatic effect, that is now best remembered:

Uh, this is Houston. Uh, say again, please?
Houston, we have a problem. We have a main bus B undervolt.

The issue of the film brought about a renewal in the use of the line and, from then onwards, it began being used in non-spaceflight contexts. The first example of such that I can find is as the title of a none too favourable review in the Los Angles Times, July 1995, of a restaurant called Houstons:

Houston('s), we have a problem - Houston's is yet another slick corporate package, the antithesis of a mom-and-pop restaurant.

The phrase was used again, in 2001, to report the health and addiction problems of the singer Whitney Houston. More recently still, it has been called out of retirement, as "Wii have a problem", for use in stories about injuries caused by over-enthusiastic use of the Nintendo game console.

hold on, cover

Hold on Mr. President: Covering the Presidency
ABC 記者到哈佛大學的演講題目 (1987/4/17) hold on 和 covering 似乎都有點雙關語的味道




hold on

1. Also, hold on to. Maintain one's grip, cling, as in Hold on to your hat in this wind, or The early Christians held on to their beliefs despite strong opposition. [Early 1500s]
2. Continue to do something, persist, as in Please hold on for a while longer. [Late 1800s]
3. Stop, wait, as in Hold on! We can't go past this gate. [Mid-1800s]
4. Remain on a telephone line, as in If you can hold on a minute I'll go and find her. [Late 1800s]

cook, entrepot, too many cooks

Broken pieces of fuel rods have been found outside of Reactor No. 2, and are now being covered with bulldozers, he said. The broken pieces may be from spent fuel rods in the spent-fuel pools, rather than from the reactors themselves. Hydrogen explosions have flung them out of the reactor building.

“They’re running bulldozers around to bury the stuff so it doesn’t cook people going by,” he said.

entrepot
(AHN-truh-po)

noun: A place, such as a warehouse, port, or trading center, to which goods are brought for distribution to other parts of the world.

Etymology
From French entrepôt (warehouse), from entreposer (to store), from entre (among) + poser (to place). Earliest documented use: 1721.

Usage
"Jerusalem is a city that has never made anything but history. It is not an entrepot, a manufactory, a place of finance, or a crossroads." — Barnaby Rogerson; Holy City, Murky History; The Independent (London, UK); Jan 21, 2011.


TOO MANY COOKS
Who is to blame for the condition of the California public education system, once one of the best in the country, asks The Economist. Local and state officials can plausibly blame state voters. Citizens passed Proposition 13, which cut schools' main revenue source: property taxes. To restore lost services, voters then passed Proposition 98, which dictated that schools each year receive the same funds as last year, adjusted for increase in students and personal income per capita. The state legislature then had to find money to comply with Proposition 98, though Proposition 13 and other initiatives had sapped major revenue streams. So the legislature put yet another measure on the ballot, Proposition 111, with the intent to make Proposition 98 more flexible. John Mockler, an expert in California education since the 1960s, said Proposition 111 finally made the overall structure for education funding incomprehensible. He compares the resulting package of legislation to the general theory of relativity, quantum physics, and the federal tax code in complexity, and reckons he is currently one of ten people alive who understand California school finance. This information is from the PEN NewsBlast.

cook
(kʊk)

v., cooked, cook·ing, cooks. v.tr.

1. To prepare (food) for eating by applying heat.
2. To prepare or treat by heating: slowly cooked the medicinal mixture.
3. Slang. To alter or falsify so as to make a more favorable impression; doctor: disreputable accountants who were paid to cook the firm's books.

v.intr.

1. To prepare food for eating by applying heat.
2. To undergo application of heat especially for the purpose of later ingestion.
3. Slang. To happen, develop, or take place: What's cooking in town?
4. Slang. To proceed or perform very well: The band really got cooking after midnight.

n.
A person who prepares food for eating.

phrasal verb:

cook up Informal.

1. To fabricate; concoct: cook up an excuse.

idiom:

cook (one's) goose Slang.

1. To ruin one's chances: The speeding ticket cooked his goose with his father. Her goose was cooked when she was caught cheating on the test.

[Middle English coken, from coke, cook, from Old English cōc, from Vulgar Latin *cōcus, from Latin cocus, coquus, from coquere, to cook.]

The Beetle, The Beetles

At home with the Beatles - unique photos of the Fab Four go under
the hammer

A woman from Reading has decided to auction off a unique collection of
photos of The Beatles.

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德國大眾公司在上海車展（4月21～4月28日）上展出了“

全新一代甲殼蟲（The Beetle）”。該車還在柏林和紐約同時首發。這是繼1938年第一代“甲殼蟲”及1998年“新甲殼蟲（New Beetle）”之後發布的第三代甲殼蟲……

kicks out sb over slapping cure, waterworks

Taiwan kicks out Chinese writer over slapping cure
The Independent
Taiwan's government on Thursday ordered a Chinese writer to leave the island after he claimed that slapping a person's body can cure chronic disease. Xiao Hongci drew criticism when he claimed that his "slapping therapy" had healing powers at a ...

"Japan's environment-related standards are too demanding, and we are not manufacturing products that meet those standards," a company official said.

Similar experiences were heard from Chinese makers of waterworks equipment, electric products and auto parts that were attending the China Import and Export Fair, which opened in Guangzhou on Friday.

wáterwòrks[wáter・wòrks]

[名](複)

1 ((単数・複数扱い))水道；((単数扱い))浄水所, 給水所.

2 ((単数・複数扱い))((話))涙, 涙腺(るいせん)

turn on the waterworks
泣く, 涙を流す.

3 ((複数扱い))((略式))泌尿器.

4 ((通例, 単数扱い))噴水.

marquee, running into head winds

Google hits snags on government email contracts
The Seattle Times
Google's big push to supply email services to governments around the country is running into head winds both from federal agencies and its marquee client, Los Angeles City Hall. By David Sarno LOS ANGELES — Google's big push to supply email services ...


marquee
(mär-kē')
n.

1. A large tent, often with open sides, used chiefly for outdoor entertainment.
2. A rooflike structure, often bearing a signboard, projecting over an entrance, as to a theater or hotel. Also called marquise.

adj.
Being an athlete of exceptional skill and popularity: The team is hoping to sign a marquee player.

[French marquise, marquise, marquee. See marquise.]

appliqued quilt, creche, minder

Katsuhiko Hibino holds up a quilt created from appliqued heart patches contributed by volunteers. (The Asahi Shimbun)

minder 
noun [C]
1 someone who protects another person, often a famous person, from danger and unwanted public attention:
The President arrived surrounded by his minders.

2 someone who controls what another person says and does:
His public-relations minder refused to allow him to answer any of the journalists' questions.

creche 
noun [C]
1 MAINLY UK a place where young children are cared for during the day while their parents do something else, especially work, study or shop:
Does your employer provide a creche?

2 US (UK crib) a model of the people and animals present at the birth of Jesus, which is used as a decoration at Christmas



applique
(ăp'lĭ-kā')
n.
A decoration or ornament, as in needlework, made by cutting pieces of one material and applying them to the surface of another.

tr.v., -quéd, -qué·ing, -qués.
To decorate by cutting pieces of one material and applying them to the surface of another.

[French, past participle of appliquer, to apply, from Latin applicāre, to affix. See apply.]

Drop in Deadly V.A. Hospital Infections

Study Finds Drop in Deadly V.A. Hospital Infections

By KEVIN SACK

An effort to reduce the spread of infections is showing good results and may have broad implications nationwide.

V.A. Hospital

United States Department of Veterans Affairs: Definition from ...
Established in 1989, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) provides ....
Direct medical and hospital care given to veterans in the early days of the ...

nuptial, homeowners look to cash in, rake in

London homeowners look to cash in on the royal nuptuals (sic)

The countdown is on: Only three weeks to go until the UK comes to a
standstill for the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton. London
home-owners are set to rake in about 114 million euros from rental income
over the royal wedding weekend.

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ennui, tedium, supplant, nuptial

nuptial
(nŭp'shəl, -chəl)
adj.

1. Of or relating to marriage or the wedding ceremony.
2. Of, relating to, or occurring during the mating season: the nuptial plumage of male birds.

n.
A wedding ceremony. Often used in the plural.

[Middle English nupcialle, from Old French nuptial, from Latin nūptiālis, from nūptiae, wedding, from nūpta, feminine past participle of nūbere, to take a husband.]

nuptially nup'tial·ly adv.

A Hot Idea for the Ultra-rich Falls Short

A Hot Idea Falls Short at Goldman

Goldman's private marketplace opened to institutions and ultra-rich investors with high expectations in 2007, aiming to avoid many of the disclosure and regulatory requirements of public stock markets, but investors never showed up and the market withered.

nominative relative pronown

H. G. Wells的英文文法的問題: 主格関係代名詞nominative relative pronown

“The Work, Wealth, And Happiness Of Mankind” (H. G. Wells)

這本書的要點有:
威爾斯論人類問題 台北:進學 1971 (可能是中國的版本 無譯者名)

As his novels indicate, Wells was hostile to the Victorian social and moral orders. His criticism became explicit as his involvement with radical causes grew. Wells as prophet wrote Anticipations (1901), Mankind in the Making (1903), and A Modern Utopia (1905). He joined the Fabian Society, a socialist group that included George Bernard Shaw and Sydney Webb, in 1903; after an unsuccessful attempt four years later to turn Fabianism to mass propaganda and political action, Wells resigned. The New Machiavelli (1911), a novel, was a response to his experience in the society.

Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/h-g-wells#ixzz1J0k73gsy

我查胡適與 H. G. Wells
結果是胡適 (1915)指他1911年的小說有文法問題 nominative relative pronown 的用法問題

胡適日記全集 - Google 圖書結果

二六、韋兒斯行文有誤 HG Wells seems to have the habit of omitting the nominative relative pronoun "that" or "which" after the impersonal "it". ...

---

這英文文法的問題或許是小(非) 問題

Instead, welcher/e/es may be used, which is seen to be more formal, and only common in interdependent multi-relative clauses, or as a mnemonic to German pupils to learn to distinguish das from daß (it is the first of these if you can say dieses, jenes or welches instead). The relative pronoun (文法》関係代名詞 )is never omitted in German. On the other hand, in English, the phrase

The young woman I invited for coffee yesterday is my cousin's fiancée.

completely omits the use of a relative pronoun.

nominative

[形]1 《文法》主格の；主語の.2 指名［推薦, 任命］された.3 〈証券などが〉記名の.━━[名]《文法》主格；主語；主格形態.

proto-simian, social intelligence and conscience

In “SuperCooperators,” Nowak argues that two of his mechanisms, indirect reciprocity and group selection, played an important role in human evolution. Think of a proto-simian trying to figure out whether to trust another in an exchange: Should I provide sex now for food and protection later? The proto-simian may have observed the behavior of its prospective partner, or it may not have; chances are good that others have, though. Reputation becomes important. The proto-­simian evolves into a hominid, with a bigger brain allowing for more precise communication about reputation. Moral instincts evolve to produce shame, guilt, trust, empathy; social intelligence and conscience are born. Before you know it, Yogi Berra is summing it all up: “Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.” Language, cognition and morality, Nowak argues, are evolutionary spinoffs of the fundamental need of social creatures to cooperate.




proto
or prot-
pref.

1. First in time; earliest: protolithic.
2. First formed; primitive; original: protohuman.
3. Proto- Being a form of a language that is the ancestor of a language or group of related languages: Proto-Germanic.
4. Having the least amount of a specified element or radical: protoporphyrin.

[Greek prōto-, from prōtos.]

simian
(sĭm'ē-ən)
adj.
Relating to, characteristic of, or resembling an ape or a monkey.

n.
An ape or a monkey.

[From Latin sīmia, ape, probably from sīmus, snub-nosed, from Greek sīmos.]

experiment, experience, Cy /Ty, Turn loose

The Art of Cy Twombly

 

"Camino Real II" from 2010.

Cy
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SIE


Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: TIE

Short form of names beginning with Ty.


Turn loose 是繼選擇 發展之後 讓其放鬆去發揮

"From Lou Gerstner to the front lines, the key to IBM's turnaround was selecting, developing, and turning loose the 'workleaders' Emmett Murphy so brilliantly defines. Leadership IQ provides the leadership model needed for the twenty-first century."—Don Walsh, Senior Vice President, IBM
"So much literature and advice on the subject of leadership is largely anecdotal. Anyone eager to succeed in the new world of work will benefit from the scientific research and practical advice Emmett Murphy offers in Leadership IQ. The book not only breaks new ground, it gives readers the practical tools they can use to increase their leadership effectiveness."—Craig Hickman, Author of Mind of a Manager, Soul of a Leader and The Fourth Dimension

	CE20079 領導智商
	原文書名： Leadership IQ 作者：Murphy  譯者：張篤群  頁數：312  定價：280 ISBN：957-8396-56-2
書籍簡介：  在對造就卓越領導人的因素做了長達六年的經驗研究之後，本書作者艾米特‧莫菲以研究結果為基礎建立了一套名為「領導智商」的綜合性領導計劃。艾米特‧莫菲和他的同仁研究美國及其他國家總共562家大型及小型組織的18,000名經理人，並且從這18,000名經理人當中挑選1,000多名具有卓越領導能力的領導人，然後再分析使這些人成為卓越領導人的各項因素。艾米特‧莫菲及其同仁從研究成果中歸納出評估和改善領導能力的新方法，凡是使用過這套領導能力培養計劃的組織都得到非常顯著的效果，這些組織包括IBM、通用、太平洋電話電報、全錄、麥當勞、J&J、和Chase Manhattan銀行，這些都是E.C. Murphy, Ltd. 的頗有名望的客戶。  在讀完關於其他組織運作情況的章節之後，讀者可以回過頭來看看自己的表現。 做完本書後面「領導智商自我評估試題」的各項題目之後，你將對於自己在扮演本書各重要角色時的表現有非常清楚的了解。對於你得分較差的部分本書也提供簡單 易學的領導智商培養練習實例，讀者可在書中找到許多腳本及對話範例，這些都是成功領導人的行動準則，可以幫助重新塑造你的思維方向和行為。

experience
[名]

1 （一つ一つの具体的な）経験, 体験

have a pleasant ［a bitter］ experience
楽しい［苦い］経験をする

An experience early on taught me that he was very kind.
ずっと前の経験から彼がとても親切な人だということがわかった.

2 [U]（一般的に）（…の）経験, 体験((in ...))

three years' experience in business
3年間の実務経験

learn by ［from］ experience
経験から学ぶ

gain ［get］ one's experience in writing
書く経験を積む

speak from experience
経験に基づいて話す

do work experience with ...
（会社などで）実習する

Experience shows that ...
経験によると…

It takes time to acquire experience.
経験（を積む）には時間がかかる

Experience is the mother of science.
経験は学問の母.

3 [U]（経験によって得た）知識, 知恵, 技能.

4 ((〜s))体験［経験］談；宗教的体験談.

━━[動](他)

1 …を経験［体験］する, 感じる

experience pain
苦痛を覚える

experience a rush ［a flood］ of energy
活力がわき起こるのを感じる.

2 ［III that節/wh-節］〈…ということを〉経験によって知る, （身にしみて）わかる

experience how lonely it is to be left alone
ひとり放っておかれることがどんなに寂しいかしみじみ悟る.

［ラテン語experientia（experient十分に試みる＋-ia＝試みによる知識）］



experiment

[名] 〔ikspérmnt〕 [U][C]（…の）実験, （実地に行う）試み, 試験((in, on, upon, with ...)). ▼inは実験分野, on ［upon］は実験対象, withは実験材料・手段を表す. ⇒TRIAL[類語]

an experiment in physics
物理学実験

experiments on living animals
動物生体実験

on experiment
試験的に；実験に基づいて

by way of experiment ［＝as an experiment］
試みに

make ［do, carry out, conduct, perform］ an experiment
実験をする.

━━[動] 〔ekspérmènt | iks-〕 (自)（…で）実験する, （…を）試みる, 試す((on, upon, with ...))

experiment with driving a submarine by nuclear power
原子力で潜水艦を推進する実験をする

experiment on rabbits
ウサギを使って実験する

experiment with electricity
電気の実験をする

experiment with drugs
薬品を試用する；((米俗))薬(やく)（ヘロインなど）をやってみる.

［中ラテン語experīmentum（experīrī試みる＋-mentum動作を示す名詞語尾＝試み）. △EXPERIENCE］

coliseum/colosseum/ colossus

coliseum/colosseum
also col·os·se·um (kŏl'ĭ-sē'əm)
n.
A large amphitheater for public sports events, entertainment, or assemblies.

[Medieval Latin Colisēum, an amphitheater in Rome, Italy, variant of Latin Colossēum, from neuter of colossēus, gigantic, from colossus, huge statue. See colossus.]

Coliseum
Theatre in London, built in 1904. Its seating capacity (2354) and stage are the largest in London and it was the first theatre to have a revolving stage. It is the home of English National Opera.



colossus
(kə-lŏs'əs)
n., pl., -los·si (-lŏs'ī'), or -los·sus·es.

1. A huge statue.
2. Something likened to a huge statue, as in size or importance: a colossus of bureaucracy.

[Latin, from Greek kolossos.]

you can't put new wine in old bottles'舊瓶不能裝新酒'嗎?

you can't put new wine in old bottles'舊瓶不能裝新酒'嗎?

The Magistrate of Peach Blossom Spring

第二讲：桃花源的长官/縣令? (The Magistrate of Peach Blossom Spring)


spring

[名]

1 [C][U]春

late in (the) spring ［in late spring］
晩春に

in the spring of 1997
1997年の春に.

2 ばね, ぜんまい, スプリング, 発条

an air ［a hydraulic］ spring
空気［水圧］ばね

the toy dog worked by a spring
ぜんまい仕掛けの犬のおもちゃ.

3 ((しばしば〜s))泉, わき水, 水源地；元, 源, 源泉；（行為などの）原動力, 動機, 動因

sulphur ［hot］ springs
硫黄泉［温泉］

the springs of the national character
国民性の原動力.

4 ((通例a 〜))飛ぶ［はねる］こと；飛び立つこと；はね返り, 反動, 弾力のある動き, はねる動作；活力；[U][C]弾力, 弾性

make a spring at ...
…に飛びかかる

with a spring in one's step
弾むような足取りで.

5 ((文))初めの段階, 初期, 青春, 成長期.

6 （マストの）割れ, 裂け目, （板の）ゆがみ, そり.

7 《海事》もれ口, 漏水箇所；係留索.

8 《建築》（アーチの）起拱(ききょう)点, 迫元(せりもと).

9 《狩り》コガモの小さな群れ.

━━[形]

1 春の, 春らしい, 春特有の；春向きの

spring flowers
春咲きの花

spring rains
春雨.

2 ばねのある, ばね仕掛けの.

3 泉の［から出る］.

━━[動]（sprang 〔sprǽ〕 or((米・豪))sprung 〔spr〕, sprung）(自)

1 ［I[副]］飛ぶ, はねる, 踊る, 飛び上がる, 急に［突然］動く［行動する］；〈キジなどが〉飛び立つ

spring into a pool
プールに飛び込む

spring to one's feet
さっと立ち上がる

The burglar sprang at me.
強盗が飛びかかってきた

A question sprang to his lips.
質問が口をついて出た.

2 ［I（[副]）］急に（…に）なる((into, to ...))；急にはじける, はね返る；〈地雷などが〉爆発する；［II[形]］はね返って（…に）なる

spring into existence
にわかに出現する

spring into action ［to life］
急に活気づく

spring to attention
（兵士が）さっと気をつけの姿勢をとる

Wild flowers sprang into bloom everywhere.
野生の花が至る所に咲き始めた

The window sprang shut ［open］.
窓がぱたんと閉まった［ぱっと開いた］.

3 （…から）突然現れる, 急に生じる［起こる］((up/from ...))；〈植物が〉芽を出す；〈水・血・涙などが〉奔出する, 急に流れ出す, 〈火花・火などが〉ぱっと光り出す((up, forth, out))

New nations sprang up like mushrooms.
新興国が雨後の竹の子のように誕生した

The sweat sprang out on his brow.
汗が彼の額から吹き出た

Where did you spring from？
どこから現れたんだい.

4 〈感情などが〉（…を源として）発する, （…から）生じる；〈人が〉（…の）出である((from ...))

spring from the Imperial family
皇室の出である

Fear always springs from ignorance.
恐怖は常に無知から生じる.

5 〈尖塔(せんとう)が〉高くそびえる；〈アーチが〉上に伸びて行く.

6 〈板が〉そる；〈機械・構造物の一部が〉はずれる, ゆるむ.

7 ((豪・米略式))（…を）おごる((for ...)).

━━(他)

1 …をはねさせる, 飛び上がらせる；〈野鳥などを〉飛び立たせる；〈わな・錠・ふたなどを〉ばねではね返らせる；［V[名][形]］…をはね返らせて（…に）する

spring a mouse trap
ネズミ取りをはね返らせる

He sprang the door of the cage open.
かごの戸をぱたんと開けた.

2 〈弾性のあるものを〉曲げる；…をはずす, ゆるめる, 〈板などを〉そらせる, 曲げる, …を裂く, 割る；〈漏れ穴を〉生じさせる

spring a leak
水漏れする

Our ship sprung her mast during the tempest.
暴風雨で船のマストが折れた.

3 …を（人に）急に持ち出す［始める］, だしぬけに示す［言い出す］((on ...))

spring a joke
突然冗談を言う

He likes to spring surprises on us.
私たちがびっくりするようなことをだしぬけに言うのが好きだ.

4 ((まれ))…を飛び越える.

5 ((略式))〈囚人を〉脱獄させる((from ...))；〈人を〉軍務から解放する.

6 《海事》…を桟橋の係留位置から離す［に入れる］.

7 〈車などに〉スプリングを取りつける；〈地雷を〉爆発させる.

8 ((英略式))〈金を〉出す；〈ある量を〉買い込む；((英俗))…を買う余裕がある.

［古英語springan. 原義は「突然わき出る」. 「春」は「芽が出る時」. △ドイツ語springen（とび出る）］

gal, peak ground acceleration

According to data recorded by seismometers at the lowest floors of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant and released by TEPCO on Friday, the No. 2 reactor building suffered tremors of 550 gals, 1.25 times stronger than the maximum standard of 438 gals. (A gal is a unit that measures peak ground acceleration in earthquakes).


GAL
(gal)

(mechanics) The unit of acceleration in the centimeter-gram-second system, equal to 1 centimeter per second squared; commonly used in geodetic measurement. Formerly known as galileo. Symbolized Gal. gallon

get into/Lazy Londoners fail to get into the Olympic Spirit

Lazy Londoners fail to get into the Olympic Spirit

When London was awarded the 2012 Olympic Games, organizers pledged to get
two million more people in the UK involved in sports and physical activity.
But that goal appeared to be too ambitious and was downgraded to one
million.

The DW-WORLD.DE Article
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=ew9f8fI44va89pI7



get into

1. Become involved in, as in He got into trouble by stealing cars, or I don't want to get into the long history of this problem. [Early 1700s]
2. Put on clothes, as in Wait till I get into my suit. [Late 1600s]
3. Take possession of one, cause to act differently or inappropriately, as in You're leaving it to the animal shelter? What has got into you? or I don't know what gets into you children. [Late 1800s]
4. See be into. Also see subsequent entries beginning with get into.