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Business impact: China took a step back from the trade war. Estee Lauder, Nintendo and Qualcomm joined the list of companies expecting damage from the coronavirus. But face mask makers, business has never been brisker.

  Beijing is rethinking its soft power push into Tinseltown.

How China’s Hollywood romance has turned sour

Beijing had encouraged Chinese investment in the US film industry to influence perceptions

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Compared with the interactive computers at the Günter Grass-Haus, the biographical texts on the ground floor of the Buddenbrookhaus seem static. Upstairs, silver tinsel and white lilies decorated the Christmas tree, and a puppet theater on the table was set for the final act of Beethoven’s opera, “Fidelio,” exactly as Thomas Mann described it in the novel.
與君特·格拉斯博物館的互動電腦相比，布登勃洛克宅邸一樓展示的傳記式文本似乎略顯靜態。樓上，銀箔絲帶與白色百合妝點了聖誕樹，桌上的布偶戲展演著貝多芬歌劇《費德里奧》(Fidelio)的最後一幕——與湯瑪斯·曼小說中描繪的場景一模一樣、毫無二致。

 

 

 Hollywood's Year of Heroine Worship
The New York Times Magazine examines a remarkable year for Hollywood heroines, during which the traditional Tinsel Town hierarchy was overturned and women ruled. A. O. Scott's insightful article chronicles and contextualizes 2012's host of female-centered offerings, while an evocative video gallery and accompanying slide show feature many of the actresses whose performances defined the year in film.

 

 

A Catalan Christmas

By LISA ABEND In Barcelona, there are no candy canes, tinsel or red-nosed reindeer. Instead, you'll find a Royal Mailman and wise men on a ship. Not to mention a brisk swim in the Mediterranean.

台灣觀光局與觀光業者組團參展8日至11日在倫敦會展中心舉行的世界旅展。全球經濟好轉，前往台灣訪問的英國旅客人數也回溫，業者看好台灣的觀光吸引力。 世界旅展（World Travel Market）是僅對專業人士及媒體開放的旅遊業市集。

market

[名]

1 市場(いちば), 市(いち)；市に集まった人々

a cattle market
家畜市場

go to market
（市場に）買い物に行く（▼「買い物に行く」は無冠詞がふつう）.

2 ((米))食料品店, マーケット

a meat market
肉屋.

3 ((通例the 〜))（特定の商品を取引する）業界, 市場(しじょう)；取引の場

the wheat ［the oil］ market
小麦［石油］市場

the stock market
株式市場

market mechanism
（財の需給関係で価格が決まる）市場メカニズム

market equilibrium
（財の需給の）市場均衡.

4 （特定の商品の）取引, 売買((in ...))

the market in wheat
小麦の取引.

5
(1) （商品への）需要, 売れ口((for ...))

a new market for cars
自動車の新たな需要.

(2) ((通例the 〜))（商品の）需要地, 販路, マーケット, …市場, （商品の）購買者数, 購買者層((for ...))

the home ［the domestic］ market
国内市場

the job [the labor] market
求職市場

the Japanese market for imported cars
輸入車の日本市場.

6
(1) ((通例the 〜))市価, 相場, 時価

at the market
市価［時価］で

The market has fallen.
相場［市価］が下落した.

(2) 市況, 商況, 景気

a bull market
上がり相場

an active ［a brisk, a dull, a steady］ market
活発な［活気ある, 沈滞した, 手堅い］市場.

7 ((one's 〜))((古))商機, 売買の機会［好機］.

come onto the market

〈商品が〉市場に出る, 売りに出る.

go to market

(1) ⇒1
(2) ((略式))試みる, やってみる.

hit the market

発売される.

in the market for ...

…を買いたいと望んで

on the market

売りに出されて, 〈人々が〉購入できる.

on the open market

（制限なしに）自由に買える.

play the market

（株式市場で）投機をする.

price ... out of the market

売れなくなるほどの高値を…につける.

priced below market

市価を下回る値段で.

put ... on the market

…を売りに出す.

━━[動](自)市場で取引［売買］する；売る, 買う

go marketing
市場へ買い［売り］に行く；((米))ショッピングに行く.

━━(他)（←(自)）〈商品を〉市場に出す；売り込む.

［ラテン語mercātūs （mercārē商う＋-tus過去分詞語尾＝商い）］

tinsel[tin・sel]

• 発音記号[tínsəl]
• (tĭn'səl)
  n.
• Very thin sheets, strips, or threads of a glittering material used as a decoration.
• Something sparkling or showy but basically valueless: the tinsel of parties and promotional events.

adj.

1. Made of or decorated with tinsel.
2. Gaudy, showy, and basically valueless.

tr.v., -seled, or -selled, -sel·ing, or -sel·ling, -sels, or -sels.

1. To decorate with or as if with tinsel: tinsel a Christmas tree.
2. To give a false sparkle to.

[Middle English tineseile, from Old French estincelle, spangle, spark. See stencil.]

[名][U]

1 （飾りつけ用の）ピカピカ光る飾り；（金らん・ラメを織る）金属糸.

2 安ぴか物；虚飾

the tinsel of Hollywood life
ハリウッド生活の虚飾.

━━[形]

1 金ぴかの.

2 けばけばしい, 見かけ倒しの.

━━[動]（〜ed, 〜・ing；((英))〜led, 〜・ling）(他)…を（金ぴかなどで）飾る((with ...))；…をけばけばしくする.

tin・sel・ly

[形]けばけばしい.

Tinseltown︰指「好萊塢」或是好萊塢式的電影、電視及文化。[名]((略式・おどけて))金ピカ町：米国Hollywoodの異名.


brisk

[形]（〜・er, 〜・est；more 〜, most 〜）

1 きびきびした, 活発な, 元気のよい；〈商売が〉繁盛して

(as) brisk as a bee
非常に元気で

Sales are amazingly brisk.
売れ行きはものすごく好調だ.

2 〈風などが〉ここちよく冷たい

brisk autumn weather
さわやかな秋の天候.

3 〈レタスなどが〉ぱりぱりした.

━━[動](他)(自)活気づかせる［づく］, 活発にする［なる］((up)).

［ウェールズ語brysg（きびきびした）］

brisk・ness

brisk

[名]
(brĭsk)
adj., brisk·er, brisk·est.

1. Marked by speed, liveliness, and vigor; energetic: had a brisk walk in the park.
2. Keen or sharp in speech or manner: a brisk greeting.
3. Stimulating and invigorating: a brisk wind.
4. Pleasantly zestful: a brisk tea.

[Probably of Scandinavian origin.]

briskly brisk'ly adv.
briskness brisk'ness n.

zestful[zest・ful]

• 発音記号[zéstfəl]

[形]

1 風味のある, 味のある.

2 興味深い；熱心な.

zest・ful・ly

[副]

zest・ful・ness

[名]