denouement, come up, come up with lame excuses

But privacy advocates say that a national debate must take place to come up with new rules to limit the intelligence community’s access to the new mountains of data.

然而，隱私權倡導者說，必須進行全國討論，以制定新的法規，來限制情報界對大量新數據的獲取。

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But China is likely to be anxious about Ms Tsai’s rejection of what is commonly referred to as the “1992 consensus”, which the KMT says was an understanding that the two sides would uphold the idea of “one China”, but agree to disagree about what this means. This consensus (though the DPP insists there never was one) formed the basis of China’s decision to reach agreements with Mr Ma’s administration on such issues as trade, the start of cross-strait flights and allowing Chinese tourists to visit the island. But few expect these accords to unravel. China sees them as useful tools for boosting its influence in Taiwan. And as China prepares for sweeping leadership changes late next year, many in Taiwan believe it is unlikely to be in a mood for conflict.

Morgan Stanley Comes Up Golden

Morgan Stanley generated its highest quarterly revenue since 2007 in the second period and overtook rival Goldman Sachs in bond trading.

come up
1. Arise, present itself, as in This question never came up. [Mid-1800s]
2. Rise (from a lower place to a higher one) as in We'll leave as soon as the sun comes up. [9th century]
3. Also, come up to. Approach, come near, as in He came up and said hello, or The dog came right up to Nora. [Early 1700s]
4. Also, come up to. Rise in status or value, be equal to, as in His paintings will never come up to his teacher's, or This officer came up through the ranks. [c. 1600] A variant is come up or rise in the world, used for someone who has risen in rank, wealth, or status; for example, He has really come up in the world--he now owns a yacht, or I could see at once that she was a woman who would rise in the world. Also see the subsequent idioms beginning with come up.

come up

• 1(of an issue, situation, or problem) occur or present itself, especially unexpectedly: the subject has not yet come up something must have come up
• (of a specified time or event) approach or draw near:she’s got exams coming up
• (of a legal case) reach the time when it is scheduled to be dealt with.

• 2become brighter in a specified way as a result of being polished or cleaned: I cleaned up the painting and it came up like new

3 British begin one’s studies at a university, especially Oxford or Cambridge.

come up with

produce (something), especially when pressured or challenged:he keeps coming up with all kinds of lame excuses

紐約時報的唯一資訊

SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN
By Paul Torday
333 pages. Harcourt. $24.
When the fisheries scientist Alfred Jones is first asked to investigate the possibility of introducing salmon, and the sport of salmon fishing, to Yemen, he dismisses the matter out of hand. The problems, he notes, are fairly fundamental. "First, water," he says. "Salmon are fish. Fish need water." But the persuasive power of politics, money and the beautiful Harriet Chetwode-Talbot are brought to bear upon him, and soon Dr. Jones is lending his services to Sheik Muhammad ibn Zaidi bani Tihama, a Yemeni billionaire and dedicated angler, in his attempt to stock the Wadi Aleyn with fish. The book is told through e-mail messages, diary entries and transcripts from an investigation begun after the unexpected denouement of the plan; its heart is Jones's journey from skepticism to belief.

rl再說：這denouement他每日一字專欄去年已介紹過」查一下，為

「1. 【古】解結；解開

2. （戲劇、小說的）結局

3. （事情的）解決；結束 」

Source: Aristotle: Poetics of Aristotle: XVIII. Further rules for the Tragic Poet

XVIII. Further rules for the Tragic Poet. Every tragedy falls into two
parts,--Complication and Unravelling or Denouement. Incidents extraneous to the
action are frequently combined with a portion of the action proper, to form the…

根據『詩學』（陳中梅譯注，北京商務，1999）此翻譯為：「一部悲劇由結與解組成。」所以「解」為 denouement的真義。

denouement[de・noue・ment]

• 発音記号[dèinuːmɑ'ːŋ | deinúːmɔŋ]

[名]

1 （劇・小説などの）大団円, 大詰め.

2 （事件の）解決, 終局

The dramatic denouement was fast approaching.
劇的結末が迫りつつあった.

［フランス語］
also dé·noue·ment (dā'nū-mäN')
n.

1. 1. The final resolution or clarification of a dramatic or narrative plot.
   2. The events following the climax of a drama or novel in which such a resolution or clarification takes place.
2. The outcome of a sequence of events; the end result.

[French dénouement, from Old French desnouement, an untying, from desnouer, to undo : des-, de- + nouer, to tie (from Latin nōdāre , from nōdus, knot).]

unravel

(ŭn-răv'əl)

v., -eled, or -elled, -el·ing, or -el·ling, -els, or -els.

v.tr.

1. 1. To undo or ravel the knitted fabric of.
   2. To separate (entangled threads).
2. To separate and clarify the elements of (something mysterious or baffling); solve. See synonyms at solve.

v.intr.
To become unraveled.

[動]（〜ed, 〜・ing；((英))〜led, 〜・ling）(他)

1 〈糸などを〉解く, ほどく, ほぐす；〈くしゃくしゃになった物を〉伸ばす.

2 …を解明［解決］する

unravel a riddle
なぞを解く.

3 〈計画などを〉だめにする, つぶす.

━━(自)解ける, ほぐれる, ほつれる；解明される；〈経済・計画・社会・精神などが〉だめになる, 破綻(はたん)する.

Definition of lame

adjective

• 1(of a person or animal) unable to walk without difficulty as the result of an injury or illness affecting the leg or foot:his horse went lame
• (of a leg or foot) affected by injury or illness: despite his lame leg, he fled

• 2(of an explanation or excuse) unconvincingly feeble:the TV licensing teams hear a lot of lame excuses
• (of something intended to be entertaining) uninspiring and dull: I found the programme pretty lame and not very informative
• North American informal (of a person) naive or socially inept: anyone who doesn’t know that is obviously lame

verb

[with object]

• make (a person or animal) lame: he was badly lamed during the expedition

Derivatives

lamely

adverb

lameness

noun