Schadenfreude, make a good buy, geotagging, geotracking

What’s Schadenfreude in Chinese?

Disarray in the West generates mixed reactions in Asia

German newspapers were falling over themselves with "Schadenfreude". The Financial Times Deutschland dubbed the aristocrat "Baron Cut-and-Paste" on its front page -- and with a cheeky superscript "1" next to the headline to indicate a footnote.
德國報紙簡直是竭盡「幸災樂禍」之能事。德國金融時報就在頭版戲稱這位貴族之後為「剪貼伯爵」，還在新聞標題旁用俗氣的上標寫著代表論文註腳的數字1。


2011.9.12

HTC Aria: An Elegant Android Phone
Washington Post
Along with the standard Android applications, such as Gmail, Google Talk, and YouTube, the phone offers HTC's Twitter app (Peep) and its photo-geotagging ...

geotagging

Adding the current geographic location of the camera or smartphone to an image or message, or adding the static geographic location to a street address. The location data contain latitude and longitude, although altitude and bearing (distance from North) may also be included. See GPS-enabled camera and geotracking.

Police Target Student Drug Use
They were just four words typically text-messaged to his cellphone -- "What are the numbers?" -- but to a teenage pot dealer at one of Montgomery County's elite high schools they were part of a code used by students interested in making a buy.
(By Dan Morse, The Washington Post)


make a good buy

buy (PAY FOR) Show phonetics
verb [I or T] bought, bought
to obtain something by paying money for it:
Eventually she had saved enough money to buy a small car.
[+ two objects] He bought his mother some flowers/He bought some flowers for his mother.
There are more people buying at this time of the year so prices are high.
The company was set up to buy and sell shares on behalf of investors.
I bought my camera from/INFORMAL off a friend of mine.
UK We bought in (= bought for future use) lots of tinned food in case of heavy snow.
McDowell was trying to buy into the newspaper business (= buy a part of it to have some control over it).
What will we have to do to buy her silence (= to make her not tell anyone what she knows)?

buy Show phonetics
noun
a good/bad buy to be worth/not be worth the price:
This jacket is a really good buy, at £20.

buyer Show phonetics
noun [C]
1 someone who buys something expensive such as a house:
He's still looking for a buyer for his house.

2 someone whose job it is to decide what will be bought by a company:
She's the buyer for a stylish boutique in Dublin.

schadenfreude[scha・den・freu・de]

• 発音記号[ʃɑ'ːdnfrɔ`idə]

[名][U]他人の不幸や災難を喜ぶこと.

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