2020年2月9日 星期日

Changing room, flighty, stalking, change, seek, range, fickle, metadata

There’s another virus stalking the U.S., it has the same symptoms as the coronavirus and it’s already killed 10,000 people.

Around 50,000 “daigou” stalk the aisles of Australian shops and send vitamins, food and beauty products back to China

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Few business-school professors would ever think to walk the red carpet and use Hollywood as a case study. However, it is time they tuned in to Tinseltown. One reason is that other industries are coming to resemble the film business in some ways. In today's knowledge-based economy, bosses are having to spend more time managing flighty "stars"http://econ.st/1sLTWpt

"You can't give a 9-year-old an Uzi and expect her to control it."
Authorities said the girl was taken to the gun range by her parents.
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'More than 1.1 million or 7% of all women and 720,000 or 4% of all men have been victims of some kind of domestic abuse in the past year, according to official crime survey figures.

The full scale of the hidden world of sexual assault, family abuse and stalking is revealed in new official figures which show that nearly 5 million women or 30% of the female population have experienced some form of domestic abuse since the age of 16'



Paula Broadwell's affair with former CIA Director David Petraeus was uncovered last year as a result of phone metadata in a stalking inquiry.



The data doesn't include the speech in a phone call or words in an email, but includes almost everything else, including the model of the phone and the "to" and "from" lines in emails. By tracing metadata, investigators can pinpoint a suspect's location to specific floors of buildings. They can electronically map a person's contacts, and their contacts' contacts.



Exceptions are snares, and we ought above all to distrust them when they charm our vanity. To catch and fix a fickle heart is a task which tempts all women; and a man finds something intoxicating in the tears of tenderness and joy which he alone has had the power to draw from a proud woman.




He went lightly and purposefully, but with great care. The mountains he loved so passionately were fickle, and demanded vigilance.

Prefaces to The experience of literature

, 第 1-4 卷
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979 - 302 頁
Introductions to works by authors as varied as Sophocles, Hemingway, Blake, Lawrence, and Lowell, all of which appeared originally in Trilling's unique anthology, are brought together to provide insight into masterpieces of world drama, fiction, and poetr

關於作者 (1979)

Trilling has exerted a wide influence upon literature and criticism: as university professor at Columbia, where he taught English literature, and in his long association with Partisan Review, Kenyon Review, and the Kenyon School of English (now the School of Letters, Indiana University). He considered himself a true "liberal"---having a "vision of a general enlargement of [individual] freedom and rational direction in human life. Yet even liberalism, Trilling insisted, was simply one of several ways of organizing the complexity of life; however, it can reveal "variousness and possibility" just as literature, its subject, does. Trilling was viewed as a genteel moralist, but never would settle for mere simplification in literary analysis even if it led to understanding.


這本書有漢譯文學體驗序論。不過,各篇都未付原文, 令人不知所云。 譬如說,舉Trilling自己的小說為例,譯得很奇怪。


Every Cheese Has a Story
Michael Paterniti seeks out a ruined cheesemaker in a remote Spanish village in “Telling Room.”

Weiner to Seek Treatment and a Leave

Representative Anthony D. Weiner said he would request a leave of absence from the House and seek treatment, after Democratic leaders called on him to resign.


舉一首詩為例 。作者解釋 RANGE/SEEK/CHANGE 等字眼,為狩獵用。 不過中譯本仍抄了不知哪的翻譯。





Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)

They flee from me that Sometime did me Seek


1They flee from me that sometime did me seek
2With naked foot, stalking in my chamber.
3I have seen them gentle, tame, and meek,
4That now are wild and do not remember
5That sometime they put themself in danger
6To take bread at my hand; and now they range,
7Busily seeking with a continual change.

8Thanked be fortune it hath been otherwise
9Twenty times better; but once in special,
10In thin array after a pleasant guise,
11When her loose gown from her shoulders did fall,
12And she me caught in her arms long and small;
13Therewithall sweetly did me kiss
14And softly said, "dear heart, how like you this?"

15It was no dream: I lay broad waking.
16But all is turned thorough my gentleness
17Into a strange fashion of forsaking;
18And I have leave to go of her goodness,
19And she also, to use newfangleness.
20But since that I so kindly am served
21I would fain know what she hath deserved.
Notes
1] "The louer sheweth how he is forsaken of such as he sometime enioyed" (Tottel).

2] stalking: walking carefully in a stealthy way.

5] in danger: under obligation to me, in my debt (or possibly even: in my power).

9] Twenty times better: better on twenty occasions; or more than twenty times?
in special: especially.

10] pleasant guise: pleasing style, or possibly behaviour or livery (dress).

12] small: slender.

14] heart: a play on "hart."

15] broad waking: wide awake.

16] thorough: through.

18] leave to go of her goodness: her gracious permission to go (ironically).

19] newfangleness: literally: fondness for novelty, following the fashion; fickleness.

20] kindly: in a kind way (ironically), and according to nature (as a wild animal would behave).

Commentary by Ian Lancashire
(2002/9/9)
Complaints by a male abandoned by his mistress are seldom as thoughtful as Sir Thomas Wyatt's "They flee from me." In the Henrician Renaissance, women lacked most of the legal, social, and sexual rights we have taken increasingly for granted since the 1920s. Married Henry VIII enjoyed his mistress, Elizabeth Blount, by whom he had a male child, and seduced many other women, including the Boleyn sisters, before he eventually divorced Katherine of Aragon to marry Anne. His court followed the king's example with women. Courtiers, like Henry, wrote love lyrics in pursuing a woman's sexual favours, but once seduced, unmarried women lost their power. Few men would complain, in lyrics, about being rejected by someone they had successfully bedded because they usually were fully prepared to move on to new sexual partners and positions.
Wyatt's personal lyric, uttered reflectively to what seems an intimate friend, reverses the usual male-female roles in sexual liaisons. Promiscuous at first, in the opening stanza, giving "bread" to the mouths of many who sought him out in his chamber, Wyatt himself is "caught" (12) in the second stanza by one of the "wild" ones he used to tame there. Before, those that sought him out came with "naked foot" (2), vulnerable and complaisant. They ate at his hands. Then came one who unrobed herself and brought a kiss down to his mouth as he "lay broad waking" (15). The man to whom women had once lowered themselves to take their nourishment at his hand now appears prostrate before a woman who lets her thin gown drop from her shoulders, naked again, as before, but this time standing over him and bending herself down to him. Her power over him comes out in her questioning, "dear heart, how like you this?" This time, she is the pleasure-giver.
The poem centres on this moment, a male sexual fantasy. It is one thing for a man to take what he wants from diminished creatures, but quite another to have the seduced orchestrate her own sexual service. To be desired for the "bread" he has to offer pales besides being treated as the bread itself. Even as a male seducer becomes a seduced, the female who put herself "in danger" before takes his former power. This exchange in place occasions the change that Wyatt introduces in the first line. The seeker now leaves him for other interests, for "newfangleness" (19).
In the third stanza Wyatt describes this reversal, not as betrayal, but as courtesy. It is a "strange fashion of forsaking" (17) -- foreign and unEnglish -- because she takes her cue from his own "gentleness." Before, when she among many others came to his chamber and put themselves "in danger," whether of rejection, rape, or love longing, he gave them "bread" by hand. His promiscuous gentleness tamed them, in turn, to be "gentle." Later, he submitted to his mistress's own advances when, "sweetly," she kissed him; and this time he, not she, acquiesced. When she gives him "leave to go of her goodness," permission for them both to do what he had done many times himself, that is, to practice "newfangleness" and play the field (19), she mirrors his gentle nature. Yet this leads Wyatt to pose the poem's closing ethical problem: "since that I so kindly am served / I would fain know what she hath deserved." Does her abandonment of him merit a like gentleness and sophistication because he is fundamentally responsible for laying down the rules of their relationship? or does Wyatt deserve the sympathy owing to a victim, and his mistress the contempt of a woman loose in more than her gown? Love affairs are rife with insoluable difficulties. Ending as it does, should we say that Wyatt's poem leaves us without an answer?
If poetry were just information, we should be dissatisfied, but Wyatt carefully deploys language and metaphor to imply what cannot be stated. His choice term "kindly" (20) means, not only "considerately" (possibly with an ironic undertone), but "according to nature or species." The first stanza describes the women that sought his favours simply as "they" and "them," without hinting that they are either feminine or human. Other words applied to them, such as "stalking," "tame," "wild," "take bread at my hand," and "range," belong to a world of creatures rather than people. In Early Modern English, Wyatt appears to be describing birds, either pigeons or birds of prey. The Henrician court hunted routinely with falcons and hawks, which were controlled by means of jesses, slips of leather around their legs, and whose feet were called "stalks" (OED "stalk," sb. 1, 3). The verb "seek," as well, has hunting associations. Birds "with naked foot" were thought tame, unlikely to fly away except on command, but something happened to make them wild and return to their unpredictability.
Not only do the birds of the first stanza become the woman of the second, but she becomes the hunter, catching (12) Wyatt the "dear heart" (which may be a play of words on the noblest game, the "hart"). The male hunting man is thus transformed into a submissively gentle prey. Both man and woman, in turn, become less than human. In their natural world, questions of ethics, responsibility, and deserving do not apply. That is what Wyatt wants to know and cannot bring himself to admit. Changeability is a characteristic of the material world under the moon, not of the morally charged spirit. He has been treated naturally. She is not guilty by reason of diminished responsibility.
In his poetic revision of Wyatt's poem (1991), Gawin Ewart turns Wyatt's birds into "chicks" and calls his forsaking mistress a "bitch." This transformation reflects late 20th-century sexual mores and uses a vocabulary of human character with which Wyatt would not have been familiar. A 16th-century lover, bewildered in several senses, has given away to our new man, "emotionally underpriviliged" in a woman's world.

Online text copyright © 2011, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries.
Original text: British Library Egerton MS. 2711, fol. 26v; cf. Richard Harrier, Canon (1975): 131-32.
First publication date: 1557
RPO poem editor: F. D. Hoeniger, Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RP 1963: I.7 (F. D. Hoeniger); RPO 1994 (IL).
Recent editing: 2:2002/5/1*1:2002/9/9*1:2009/5/18
Composition date: 1525 - 1532
Form: Rhyme royal


Even after the ECB doled out nearly half a trillion euros of loans to banks last week, fears about financial problems are stalking the sector. One big reason: concerns about collateral.

這名被倫敦老年婦女稱為「夜魔 王」(Night stalker)的嫌疑人,名叫德爾羅伊·格蘭特(Delroy Grant),是7個孩子的父親,并有一位患有多發性硬化症的妻子,過去5年內一直坐在輪椅上,需要他全日照料。 格蘭特自1990年以來,在倫敦南部犯下強奸、性攻擊和盜竊等200多起案件, ...


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seek

Pronunciation: /siːk/
verb (past and past participle sought /sɔːt/)
[with object]
  • attempt to find (something):they came here to seek shelter from biting winter winds
  • attempt or desire to obtain or achieve (something):the new regime sought his extradition [no object, with infinitive]:her parents had never soug

  • ht to interfere with her freedom
  • ask for (something) from someone:he sought help from the police
  • (seek someone/thing out) search for and find someone or something:it’s his job to seek out new customers
  • archaic go to (a place):I sought my bedroom each night to brood over it


stalking

音節
stalk • ing
stalkingの変化形
stalkings (複数形)
[名][U][C]ストーキング:異性・もと配偶者・有名人をしつこくつけねらう犯罪;米国では2州以上にまたがるときは連邦犯罪になる. 英国でも1997年から実際の危害を加えなくても有罪
felony stalking
重罪ストーキング(殺意を明らかにしたストーカーの罪).

ストーカー: stalker)とは、特定の他者に対して執拗に付き纏う行為を行う人間のことをいう。その行為は、ストーカー行為あるいはストーキングと呼ばれる。

Definition of stalk (Entry 2 of 3)

1to pursue quarry or prey stealthily

2to walk stiffly or haughtily

1to pursue by stalking

2to go through (an area) in search of prey or quarrystalk the woods for deer

3to pursue obsessively and to the point of harassment



stalk (FOLLOW)
verb
1 [T] to follow an animal or person as closely as possible without being seen or heard, usually in order to catch or kill them:
The police had been stalking the woman for a week before they arrested her.

2 [I or T] to illegally follow and watch someone, usually a woman, over a period of time:
He was arrested for stalking.

3 [T] LITERARY If something unpleasant stalks a place, it appears there in a threatening way:
When night falls, danger stalks the streets of the city.

stalker
noun [C]
a person who illegally follows and watches someone, especially a woman, over a period of time:
Several well-known women have been troubled by stalkers recently.

Definition of stalk
verb



  • 1 [with object] pursue or approach stealthily:a cat stalking a bird
  • harass or persecute (someone) with unwanted and obsessive attention:for five years she was stalked by a man who would taunt and threaten her
  • chiefly literary move silently or threateningly through (a place):the tiger stalks the jungle figurativefear stalked the camp
  • 2 [no object, with adverbial of direction] stride somewhere in a proud, stiff, or angry manner:without another word she turned and stalked out

noun

  • 1a stealthy pursuit of someone or something: this time the stalk would be on foot
  • 2a stiff, striding gait.

Derivatives

talker
noun

fickle[fick・le]

  • 発音記号[fíkl]
adjective

  • changing frequently, especially as regards one’s loyalties or affections:celebs trying to appeal to an increasingly fickle public
Derivatives
fickly
adverb

Origin:

Old English ficol 'deceitful', of Germanic origin
[形]
1 〈風・天候などが〉変わりやすい, 不規則な, 不安定な.
2 〈人・愛情が〉心変わりのする, 移り気な
a fickle woman
浮気女.
fick・le・ness
[名]


 flighty




Line breaks: flighty
Pronunciation: /ˈflʌɪti/ADJECTIVE (flightierflightiest)
Fickle and irresponsible:her mother was a flighty Southern belle

Origin

mid 16th century: from flight -y1.



Derivatives    flightily  ADVERB

flightiness







metadata

Pronunciation: /ˈmɛtədeɪtə/

Definition of metadata

noun

[mass noun]
a set of data that describes and gives information about other data.





range1

Line breaks: range
Pronunciation: /reɪn(d)ʒ/

NOUN

1The area of variation between upper and lower limits on a particular scale:the cost will be in the range of $1-5 million a daygrand hotels were outside my price range
1.1The scope of a person’s knowledge or abilities:in this film he gave some indication of his range
1.2The compass of a person’s voice or a musical instrument:she was gifted with an incredible vocal range
1.3The period of time covered by something such as a forecast.
1.4The area covered by or included in something:a guide to the range of debate this issue has generated
1.5Mathematics The set of values that a given function can take as its argument varies.
2A set of different things of the same general type:the area offers a wide range of activities for the touristthe company’s new carpet range
3The distance within which a person can see or hear:something lurked just beyond her range of vision
3.1The maximum distance to which a gun will shoot or over which a missile will travel:these rockets have a range of 30 to 40 milesa duck came within range
3.2The maximum distance at which a radio transmission can be effectively received:planets within radio range of Earth
3.3The distance that can be covered by a vehicle or aircraft without refuelling:the vans have a range of 125 miles
3.4The distance between a camera and the subject to be photographed:handheld shots taken at extreme telephoto ranges can be pretty wobbly affairs
4A line or series of mountains or hills:a mountain range
4.1(rangesAustralian/NZ Mountainous or hilly country:no one would know if he had survived to live out his life in the ranges back from the river country
5A large area of open land for grazing or hunting:on dude ranches, tourists put on crisp new western gear to ride the range
5.1An area of land or sea used as a testing ground for military equipment:the cost of dealing with unexploded shells and bombs on former military ranges
5.2An open or enclosed area with targets for shooting practice:he went down to the ranges to practise shooting
5.3The area over which a plant or animal is distributed:the chimpanzee extensively overlaps the gorilla in its forest range
6A large cooking stove with burners or hotplates and one or more ovens, all of which are kept continually hot:a wood-burning kitchen range
6.1North American An electric or gas cooker.
7A row of buildings:Townesend’s Durham quadrangle range at Trinity College
7.1A continuous stretch of a building.
8[MASS NOUN] ARCHAIC The direction or position in which something lies:the range of the hills and valleys is nearly from north to south

VERB

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1[NO OBJECT, WITH ADVERBIAL] Vary or extend between specified limits:prices range from £30 to £100
2[WITH OBJECT AND ADVERBIAL] Place or arrange in a row or rows or in a specified manner:a table with half a dozen chairs ranged around it
2.1[NO OBJECT, WITH ADVERBIAL OF DIRECTION] Run or extend in a line in a particular direction:he regularly came to the benches that ranged along the path
2.2PrintingBritish (With reference to type) align or be aligned, especially at the ends of successive lines.
3(range someone against or be ranged against)Place oneself or be placed in opposition to (a person or group):Japan ranged herself against the European nations
4[NO OBJECT, WITH ADVERBIAL OF DIRECTION] (Of a person or animal) travel or wander over a wide area:patrols ranged deep into enemy territory[WITH OBJECT]: tribes who ranged the windswept lands of the steppe(as adjective, in combination -rangingfree-ranging groups of baboons
4.1(Of a person’s eyes) pass from one person or thing to another:his eyes ranged over them
4.2(Of something written or spoken) cover a wide number of different topics:tutorials ranged over a variety of subjects
5[NO OBJECT] Obtain the range of a target by adjustment after firing past it or short of it, or by the use of radar or laser equipment:radar-type transmissions which appeared to beranging on our convoys
5.1[WITH ADVERBIAL] (Of a projectile) cover a specified distance.
5.2[WITH ADVERBIAL] (Of a gun) send a projectile over a specified distance.

Origin

Middle English (in the sense 'line of people or animals'): from Old French range 'row, rank', from rangier 'put in order', from rang 'rank'. Early usage also included the notion of 'movement over an area'.
Phrases

at a range of

With a specified distance between one person or thing and another:she fired at a range of a few inches

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