Present-day 'Invaders' are lovable, bumbling bunch
BY SHIGEYORI MIYAMOTO STAFF WRITER
2011/11/29
"Invaders" used to pose a major threat to Earth and humanity--from the octopi-like space creatures in H. G. Wells' "War of the Worlds," to the video game Space Invaders--they represented the evil, the unknown and the invincible.
"Invaders" used to pose a major threat to Earth and humanity--from the octopi-like space creatures in H. G. Wells' "War of the Worlds," to the video game Space Invaders--they represented the evil, the unknown and the invincible.
The lineup of irresistible "invaders" from Keroro Gunso (Kadokawa Group Publishing Co.)
Not your average invader: Squid Girl from "Shinryaku!? Ika Musume" (Provided by Pony Canyon, (c) Masahiro Anbe / Weekly Champion)
No Longer Invincible
By MICHAEL POWELL and JULIE BOSMAN
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s strikingly thin margin of victory in Tuesday’s election could affect his influence.
And he was a leader in developing mechanical devices to assist failing hearts. An early invention, the roller pump, devised while he was in medical school in the 1930s, became the central component of the heart-lung machine, which takes over the functions of the heart and lungs during surgery by supplying oxygenated blood to the brain. It helped inaugurate the era of open-heart surgery.
That work won Dr. DeBakey a Lasker Award, the country’s most prestigious biomedical prize, in 1963. He was cited for a number of accomplishments that were “responsible in a large measure for inaugurating a new era in cardiovascular surgery.”
inaugurate
verb [T]
1 to put someone into an official position with a ceremony:
American presidents are always inaugurated on January 20th.
2 to put something into use or action officially:
The European Community inaugurated the Single European Market in 1993.
3 to mark the beginning of a new period, style or activity:
The change of government inaugurated a new era of economic prosperity.
inauguration
noun [C or U]
an inauguration ceremony
inaugural
adjective [before noun]
the President's inaugural address to the nation
Study: Google Gets Bulk of World Search
NEW YORK (AP) — Around the world, Internet users are conducting about 1.4 million searches every minute — most of them through Google Inc., a new comScore study estimates.Yet Baidu.com Inc. is strong enough in China and NHN Corp. in South Korea to crack the global top five in comScore Inc.'s inaugural report on worldwide search patterns. The report, based on August traffic patterns, was scheduled for release Wednesday.
In the past, comScore reported search numbers for only a handful of countries. The numbers from comScore and rival Nielsen/NetRatings are closely watched by industry analysts, even as the measuring firms use online recruitment techniques dismissed by many traditional pollsters.
According to comScore's qSearch 2.0 service, more than 37 billion searches worldwide went through Google in August. That's about 60 percent of all searches, higher than Google's 50 percent in the United States.
Yahoo Inc. was second worldwide with 8.5 billion, followed by Baidu at 3.3 billion, Microsoft Corp. at 2.2 billion and NHN at 2 billion.
In China, one of the few countries where Google isn't dominant, Baidu shows how one regional player "can break into the top five globally by their complete control of a very, very large market," said Bob Ivins, comScore's executive vice president. Baidu's numbers would likely keep increasing, he said, with China's online population.
Baidu entered the Chinese search market much earlier than Google, while NHN successfully tapped Koreans' preference for human interaction over software in getting search results.
Danny Sullivan, editor in chief of the industry Web site Search Engine Land, said Baidu's strength shows that Google isn't invincible and "can be beaten in markets ... but it's still going to be a challenge."
Sullivan said search numbers from comScore and Nielsen offer "an extremely rough guide" to the state of the industry, and a shift in market share — or lack of it — could help point to whether a new service or strategy is working.
But many financial analysts say the search numbers aren't as useful as cash flows and ad revenue in gauging a stock's performance — in Google's case, sailing past $600 for the first time Monday.
"This is a data set that investors understand has its useful purpose, and predicting quarterly (financial) results is not its useful purpose," said Rob Sanderson, an analyst with American Technology Research.
The worldwide totals were calculated using measurements from 2 million Internet users in some 170 countries. Participants agree to install tracking software and are often enticed by free products and services like screensavers, games and online backup.
ComScore also has a smaller panel recruited using traditional, phone-based methods, and the search figures are adjusted to account for differences in age, income and other factors between the panels. ComScore, like Nielsen, says it needs online techniques to assemble a large enough, albeit self-selected panel.
With Internet users more fragmented than the television audience, Ivins said, "I don't think you can do what we're doing on a scale we're doing with a toolkit from the last century."
Many traditional pollsters are skeptical.
Such an approach assumes that those who initiate participation, such as responding to a free offer, behave similarly to those who do not — an assumption that still needs more research to prove, said Nancy A. Mathiowetz, president of the American Association for Public Opinion Research.
Jordan Rohan, an Internet analyst with RBC Capital Markets, is aware of limitations but considers the numbers "the best I've got."
ComScore estimates that about 750 million people worldwide used Internet search in August, each person averaging about 80 searches.
Europe and Latin America tend to have more searches conducted per person. Ivins said Internet penetration in those markets grew as search technology was already developed, unlike in the United States where human-powered directories were initially strong.
"It just became natural for them" to use search, Ivins said.
in·vin·ci·ble (ĭn-vĭn'sə-bəl)
adj.
Incapable of being overcome or defeated; unconquerable.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin invincibilis : in-, not; see in-1 + vincibilis, conquerable; see vincible.]
invincibility in·vin'ci·bil'i·ty or in·vin'ci·ble·ness n.invincibly in·vin'ci·bly adv.
繆詠華分享了 Albert Camus 的相片。
大冬天的，我發現自己身上有個所向披糜的夏天。 ～卡繆
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每次看到活得比較用力的人都會心頭一驚。
我也要真正活著。
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每次看到活得比較用力的人都會心頭一驚。
我也要真正活著。
bumble
Pronunciation: /ˈbʌmb(ə)l/
Definition of bumble
verbbumble
---(bŭm'bəl) 
v., -bled, -bling, -bles.
v.intr.v., -bled, -bling, -bles.
- To speak in a faltering manner.
- To move, act, or proceed clumsily. See synonyms at blunder.
To bungle; botch.
bumbler bum'bler n.
bum·ble2 (bŭm'bəl)
intr.v., -bled, -bling, -bles.
To make a humming or droning sound; buzz.
n.
A humming or droning sound; a buzz.
[Middle English bomblen, of imitative origin.]
英國經濟學人雜誌（The Economist）16日在網頁中以「笨拙，馬英九」（Ma the bumbler）為題，批評台灣總統馬英九，副題中點出︰曾是萬人迷的馬英九，現在已經喪失光環。結論中並以辛辣語氣指出，看來馬先生的政策沒有改變的跡 象，不過他的公信力卻每天都在流失。
［ラテン語soccus（軽シューズ）］
英國經濟學人雜誌（The Economist）16日在網頁中以「笨拙，馬英九」（Ma the bumbler）為題，批評台灣總統馬英九，副題中點出︰曾是萬人迷的馬英九，現在已經喪失光環。結論中並以辛辣語氣指出，看來馬先生的政策沒有改變的跡 象，不過他的公信力卻每天都在流失。
Ma the bumbler
A former heart-throb loses his shine
這bumbler一字的解釋 變成台灣的全民英語學習
查Shorter Oxford English Dictionar
它就是blunderer
blunder
- 音節
- blun • der
- 発音
- blʌ'ndər
- blunderの変化形
- blunders (複数形) • blundered (過去形) • blundered (過去分詞) • blundering (現在分詞) • blunders (三人称単数現在)
- blunderの慣用句
- blunder upon, （全1件）
━━[動](自)
━━(他)
1 …をやりそこなう；〈財産・機会などを〉（不手ぎわで）失う((away))；…を（…の状態に）間違って至らしめる((into ...))
2 〈秘密などを〉ついうっかり口にする；〈弁解などを〉しどろもどろに言う((out)).
blunder upon ［on］ ...
〈新事実などを〉偶然［まぐれ当たりで］見つける.
［スカンジナビア語. BLIND（盲人の）と関係があり, 原義は「盲人のごとくふるまう」］
blun・der・ing・ly
[副]blunder
nounverb
[no object]throb
- 音節
- throb
- 発音
- θrɑ'b | θrɔ'b
- throbs (複数形) • throbbed (過去形) • throbbed (過去分詞) • throbbing (現在分詞) • throbs (三人称単数現在)
[動]（〜bed, 〜・bing）(自)
1 〈心臓などが〉（…で）脈打つ, 鼓動する, 動悸(どうき)を打つ, どきどきする；〈頭などが〉（痛みなどで）ずきずきする((with ...))
2 〈声などが〉震える；〈楽器などが〉鳴り響く；〈エンジンなどが〉（間断なく）震動する((away)).
3 感動［興奮］する.
━━[名]
2 感動, 興奮, ときめき.so
Phrasal Verbs
- sock something away
- Put money aside as savings.‘you'll need to sock away about $900 a month’
[sock1]
- 発音記号[sɑ'k | sɔ'k]
[名]（複 〜s 〔-s〕；1でまたsox 〔s
ks | s
ks〕）[名]
ks | sks〕）[名]
1 ((通例〜s))ソックス（⇒STOCKING 1）；靴の中敷き
2 （古代ギリシャ・ローマの喜劇俳優のはいた）軽くて低い靴；喜劇（の演技）. ⇒BUSKIN 2
3 （机・テーブルの）脚のふくれた部分.
4 ((略式))＝windsock.
knock a person's socks off
((米略式))〈人を〉ひどく驚かせる.
pull up one's socks/pull one's socks up
((英略式))しっかりやる, ふんどしを締め直す.
Stuff ［Put］ a sock in ［into］ it！
((略式))黙れ.
━━[動](他)…にソックスをはかせる.
sock ... in/sock in ...
((通例受身))〈霧・雨などが〉〈滑走路を〉おおいかくす；〈飛行機・人を〉（悪天候のために）飛行不能にする
McGuire was socked in, visibility zero.
マクガイア基地は濃霧に包まれ, 視界ゼロになった.
マクガイア基地は濃霧に包まれ, 視界ゼロになった.
- sock
verb trans, orig and mainly US
1: To hit forcefully. (a.1700 —) .
B. Chatwin The porter had socked him on the jaw, and he now lay, face down on the paving (1982).
2: to sock it to (someone) To hit (someone) forcefully; to let (someone) have it; hence in the catch phrase sock it to me (them, etc.)!, used to express encouragement, sexual invitation, etc. (1877 —) .
S. Sheldon She reached between his legs and stroked him, whispering, 'Go, baby. Sock it to me' (1970).
3: jazz To perform (music) in a swinging manner; esp. in phr. to sock it (out). (1927 —) .
Radio Times He's spent his evenings singing in pubs...'socking' out the rhythm and blues (1968).
4: US To impose something onerous (e.g. a heavy charge) on. (1939 —) .
Detroit Free Press The township socked the company with a building permit violation (1978). noun
5: A hard blow. (a.1700 —) .
6: US A strong impact, emphasis, a 'kick'. (1936 —) .
Arizona Daily Star I figure we have enough speed and sock in our lineup to score runs (1979).
[Origin unknown.] - sock
noun, US —— one's socks off
1: to knock (or beat, rot) the socks off To beat thoroughly, to trounce. (1845 —) .
Arizona Daily Star 'Trucks have been beating our socks off,' said...a spokesman for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway in Chicago. 'But now we have a chance to get some of the business back' (1979).
2: to put a sock in it Brit To be quiet, shut up; usu. imperative. (1919 —) .
N. Shute 'For Christ's sake put a sock in it,' he had said...'and tell them I want an ambulance down here' (1944).
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