"Miaw?" said the cat when the tailor opened the door, "miaw?"
The tailor replied: "Simpkin, we shall make our fortune, but I am worn to a ravelling. Take this groat (which is our last fourpence), and, Simpkin, take a china pipkin, buy a penn'orth of bread, a penn'orth of milk, and a penn'orth of sausages. And oh, Simpkin, with the last penny of our fourpence buy me one penn'orth of cherry-coloured silk. But do not lose the last penny of the fourpence, Simpkin, or I am undone and worn to a thread-paper, for I have no more twist."
So there are 20 Porte-Bouquets at the Hermitage collection now. Perhaps, it’s more that any museum have.
You can visit the exhibition till August 23! About the exhibition:http://bit.ly/1N6QPry
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《中英對照讀新聞》London police send flowers to victims of crime 倫敦警方送花給犯罪受害者
◎陳成良Police are sending bouquets of flowers to victims of burglaries and muggings - crimes they often have difficulty solving.
倫敦警方正送花束給竊盜和搶劫案的受害者——這兩種犯罪經常難以破案。
They claim the gift helps "soften the blow", but it can also be accompanied by a note explaining that officers are closing the case for lack of evidence.
他們聲稱，這種禮物有助於「緩和打擊」，但也許還會附上一張紙條，解釋警方因缺少證據而準備結案。
The policy has divided opinion among victims – some saying they feel "fobbed off’ and others praising the "lovely thought".
受害人對這項政策意見不一——有人說他們覺得「被耍了」，有的人則稱讚「這個想法很可愛」。
London’s Metropolitan police regularly send bunches to victims of burglaries. But rates of detection can be as low as 12 percent in these areas.
倫敦警察廳的警察經常送花束給竊盜案的受害者。不過這些地區的破案率只有12%。
Met police officers have given out around 300 bouquets since the initiative began in November. Most have gone to elderly women living alone.
自從11月份開始執行此一作法以來，倫敦警察廳的警察已經分發出約300束花。大多數花束送給了獨居老年婦女。
Sarah Miller, 55, received a bunch of flowers from Met officers in Barnet following a burglary at her home.
55歲的莎拉‧米勒在家中發生了一起竊盜案後，從倫敦巴尼特的警官那裡收到了一束花。
Mrs Miller said： "It was nice to receive them, but the thought that went into that could have gone into solving the burglary, like putting pictures of the things that were stolen in the local paper in an effort to recover them.
米勒太太說：「收到花很開心，但是花在這上面的心思本來可以用在偵破竊盜案上，像是把遭竊物品的照片登在當地報紙上，以找回失物。」
"I’d rather they’d had sent a community support officer to comfort me after it happened rather than being fobbed off with flowers."
「我寧願他們在事發後派一名社區服務警察來安慰我，而不是用一束花把我打發了。」
新聞辭典
A new exhibit, a Bouquet-Holder made in the middle of the 19th century is now on display at the exhibition «Porte-Bouquets of the 19th to Early 20th Century from the Kenber Collection, France». It was gifted to the Hermitage by Zinaida Brusnitsyn.
This porte-bouquet was a family heirloom, but Zinaida decided to give it to the museum. At the end of May 2015 she heard on the radio that the exhibition dedicated to this elegant lady’s accessory was opened at the State Hermitage museum. And she came to us.
bouquet
Pronunciation: /bʊˈkeɪ, bəʊˈkeɪ, ˈbʊkeɪ/
Definition of bouquet
noun
fob off：片語，（用虛偽的諾言等）哄騙，哄走（某人），搪塞（某人）
fob off
1. Sell or dispose of goods by fraud or deception, as in They tried to fob off the zircon as a diamond. [c. 1600]
2. Put off or appease by deceitful means, as in We needed her help but were fobbed off by promises. [c. 1600]
On a pleasant May morning in 1381, the king's tax collector John
Brampton rode into the Essex village of Fobbing to collect the poll tax of 3
groats from each of the local villagers. The villagers gathered together,
Brampton was sent packing and the Peasants' Revolt had begun. Ask anyone in the
village today and they will tell you that Brampton wasn't just turned away, he
was 'fobbed off' - "...and that's how the expression 'fobbed off'
originated".
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