2024年5月11日 星期六

red-handed, plant of a university, plant, bring your own bottle. fiasco, 也許20歲就懂此字,但到72歲讀 羅西尼傳記,他在羅馬跟母親報告“失敗”,畫一酒瓶,查字源,才知道原代表音樂戲劇失敗. 類似,讀西西,茹毛(草)陰血(水l



我們不供應女賓

這句笑話改自BYOB (bring your own bottle).有的餐廳不賣酒,所以客人要自己帶酒。


Facebook's Anti-Google Fiasco Wall Street Journal By L. GORDON CROVITZ Facebook was caught red-handed last week being socially unfriendly to Google, its Silicon Valley competitor. It hired a public relations firm to plant negative stories about Google's privacy policies, and then it tried to hide its ...


red-handed

adjective
  1. used to indicate that a person has been discovered in or just after the act of doing something wrong or illegal.
    "I caught him red-handed, stealing a wallet"


plant

  1. Botany.
    1. Any of various photosynthetic, eukaryotic, multicellular organisms of the kingdom Plantae characteristically producing embryos, containing chloroplasts, having cellulose cell walls, and lacking the power of locomotion.
    2. A plant having no permanent woody stem; an herb.
    1. A building or group of buildings for the manufacture of a product; a factory.
    2. The equipment, including machinery, tools, instruments, and fixtures and the buildings containing them, necessary for an industrial or manufacturing operation.
  2. The buildings, equipment, and fixtures of an institution: the entire plant of a university.
  3. A person or thing put into place in order to mislead or function secretly, especially:
    1. A person placed in a group of spectators to influence behavior.
    2. A person stationed in a given location as a spy or observer.
    3. A misleading piece of evidence placed so as to be discovered.
    4. A remark or action in a play or narrative that becomes important later.
  4. Slang. A scheming trick; a swindle.
plant

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1 (動物に対して)植物, 草木(animal);(樹木に対して)草, 草本(herb)tree

garden plants 園芸植物

a tropical plant 熱帯植物

a house plant 室内用鉢植え植物

a potted plant 鉢植え, 鉢物.

2 苗, 苗木;つぎ穂(slip)

rice plants 稲の苗.

3 (1) ((通例複合語で))工場

a chemical plant 化学工場

a nuclear energy plant 原子力発電所.

(2) 機械, 装置一式;(学校・病院などの)施設

a heating plant 暖房装置

an enormous university plant マンモス大学の施設.

4 [U](生産のための)設備, 施設, プラント. 建物・敷地, 時に人員も含める.

5 ((略式))たくらみ, ペテン, わな, おとり;盗品.

6 (劇場や見せ物などの)「さくら」;回し者, 密偵, スパイ.

7 《演劇》伏線.

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