Some 254 of the flats at Kai Chuen Court in Kowloon still have not found buyers; all are smaller than 200 sq ft.
It was established in 1956 by a group of employees working for the state
government who "pooled their money together in a shoe box. ...
... Collect the money and put it in the shoebox. Label the shoebox with dollar signs and have a child place it in the store to be used in future play. ...
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Sabo said annuities play a role in a diversified plan but only for what he calls "shoebox money" - money that a client doesn't need to touch. ... 】
這shoe-box money有點類似特別（私房錢）；我是讀The Marketing Edge【Thomas Bonoma, The Marketing Edge: Making Strategies Work , New York: Free Press, 1985】看到的。
現在重讀這本20年前的書，還覺得受益。翻譯當然很慘，沒關係啦，大家都忘記它了。
The phrase Novus ordo seclorum (Latin for "New Order of the Ages") appears on the reverse of the Great Seal of the United States, first designed in 1782 and printed on the back of the United States one-dollar bill since 1935. The phrase also appears on the coat of arms of the Yale School of Management, Yale University's business school. The phrase is also mistranslated as "New World Order" by many people who believe in a conspiracy behind the design; however, it does directly translate to "New Order of the Ages" .[1]
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Etymology
Taken from the Latin words annuo (third-person singular present or perfect annuit), "to nod" or "to approve", and coeptum (plural coepta), "commencement, undertaking", it is literally translated, "He approves (has approved) of the undertakings".[2]On the Great Seal
In 1782, Sam Adams created the third Congress and appointed a design artist, William Barton of Philadelphia, to bring a proposal for the national seal.[3] For the reverse, Barton suggested a thirteen layered pyramid underneath the Eye of Providence. The mottos which Barton chose to accompany the design were Deo Favente ("with God's favor", or more literally, "with God favoring") and Perennis ("Everlasting"). The pyramid and Perennis motto had come from a $50 Continental currency bill designed by Francis Hopkinson.[4]
When designing the final version of the Great Seal, Charles Thomson (a former Latin teacher) kept the pyramid and eye for the reverse side but replaced the two mottos, using Annuit Cœptis instead of Deo Favente (and Novus Ordo Seclorum instead of Perennis). When he provided his official explanation of the meaning of this motto, he wrote:
"The Eye over it [the pyramid] and the motto Annuit Cœptis allude to the many signal interpositions of providence in favor of the American cause."[6]
The Change from Deo Favente to Annuit Coeptis
Annuit Cœptis is translated by the U.S. State Department,[7] The U.S. Mint,[8] and the U.S. Treasury[9] as, "He [God] has favored our undertakings" brackets in original.T. Jeremy Gunn, a director for the ACLU, argues that a more accurate translation is "our undertakings have been favored," leaving the reader to infer who or what was responsible for favoring such undertakings. Gunn maintains that had Congress wished to include the literal word "God" the correct translation would have been, "Deo Favente."[10] Robert Hieronimus, who wrote a Ph.D. dissertation about this portion of the Great Seal, argued that Thomson's intent was to find a phrase that contained exactly 13 letters to fit the theme of the seal.[11] On the obverse was E Pluribus Unum (13 letters), along with 13 arrows, 13 stars, 13 leaves and 13 stripes. The pyramid under the motto, Annuit Coeptis, has 13 levels. "Deo Favente" had only ten letters. According to Hieronimus, Annuit Coeptis, has 13 letters and was selected to fit the theme. Others have maintained that the 13 letters in E Pluribus Unum and Annuit Coeptis are mere coincidences. [12]
Classic Source of the Motto
According to Richard S. Patterson and Richardson Dougall:Annuit cœptis and the other motto on the reverse of the Great Seal, Novus ordo seclorum, can both be traced to lines by the Roman poet Virgil. Annuit cœptis comes from the Aeneid, book IX, line 625, which reads, Iuppiter omnipotens, audacibus annue cœptis.[13] It is a prayer by Ascanius, the son of the hero of the story, Aeneas, which translates to, "Jupiter Almighty, favour [my] bold undertakings."
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