The subway station at Qianhai bay, on the city’s west coast, is spick and span, with a full complement of signs, announcements and billboards, including one for a performance by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, sponsored by Classy Kiss milk. But only one exit is open. And it surfaces in the middle of a wasteland of dirt, scrub and puddles. It is, surely, the best connected nowhere anywhere.
《惡之華》中所謂莎巴伽詩篇 ( The Sabatier Cycle ) ，包括從第四十首到第四十八首的〈永遠一樣〉、〈她的一切〉、〈今晚你說什麼……〉、〈活火炬〉、〈恩賜〉、〈告白〉、〈心靈的黎明〉、〈夕暮的諧調〉、 〈香水瓶〉，以及第六十二首〈憂愁與放浪〉等。
cycle[cy・cle]
- レベル：大学入試程度
- 発音記号[sáikl]
[名]
2 長年月, 一時代.
4 自転車(bicycle)；三輪車(tricycle)；オートバイ(motorcycle).
5 《物理学》サイクル；サイクル毎秒.
6 《数学》サイクル, 巡回置換.
7 《コンピュータ》サイクル：コンピュータが1回の処理を完了するのに必要な最小の時間間隔.
━━[動](自)
1 自転車［三輪車, オートバイ］に乗る［で旅行する］.
2 循環する, 反復する, 回帰する.
［後ラテン語←ギリシャ語kýklos（円）. △CYCLONE, CYCLOPS］自由人_百度百科
社会发展的趋势是实现人的全面而自由的发展，社会以自由人联合体为基本组织原则。另外在足球领域中，自由人（libero, 亦使用过freeman），又被称作进攻型清 ...
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Libero is an Italian word meaning "free". It can refer to:People:
- Libero Ajello (1916-2004), mycologist (see List of mycologists)
- Libero Andreotti (1875–1933), Italian sculptor, illustrator and ceramics artist
- Líbero Badaró (1798-1830), Italian Brazilian physician, botanist, journalist and politician who was assassinated
- Libero Grassi (1924-1991), Italian clothing manufacturer murdered by the Mafia
- Libero De Luca (1913–1997), Italian lyric tenor
- Líbero Parri (born 1982), Spanish footballer
- Libero Tresoldi (1921-2009), Italian Bishop of Crema
- Libero, codename of World War II partisan leader Riccardo Fedel (1906-1944)
- Hyundai Libero, a series of light trucks
- Mitsubishi Libero, the Japanese market name of the Mitsubishi Lancer station wagon
- Subaru Sumo, a microvan known as the Libero in some markets
- Yamaha Libero (G5), a motorcycle from India Yamaha Motor
- Libero (ISP), an Italian Internet service provider
- Libero, an alternate name for the Italian film Along the Ridge (aka Anche libero va bene)
- Libero (newspaper), an Italian daily newspaper
- Libero (football), a more versatile type of centre back in football (soccer)
- Libero (volleyball), a player specialized in defensive skills in volleyball
- A brand of diapers marketed by Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget
Spick and span
Meaning
Entirely new - fresh or unused.
Origin
The noun spick has various meanings, or rather it had various meanings, as it is now rarely used outside of spick and span. These include: a side of bacon, a floret of lavender, a nail or spike, a thatching spar.
Likewise span has/had several meanings,
including: the distance from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the
little finger, a measure of butter, a fetter or chain, a chip of wood
(as the Norse word spann-nyr).
Just from those meanings, and there are more, we could generate sixteen possible combinations to form spick and span.
It isn't clear which, if any, of those words were used when coining the
phrase. Some clue might come from the fact that the phrase is very old
and was originally spick and span-new. This is cited in Sir Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Lives of the noble Grecians and Romanes, 1579:
"They were all in goodly gilt armours, and brave purple cassocks apon them, spicke, and spanne newe."
The alliteration in the phrase suggests the
possibility that that one of the two words alluded to cleanliness and
freshness and that the other just followed along. Which one is most
associated with the qualities of spick and span? The
suggestions most frequently made are that spick is a variant of spike or
nail. In the 16th century nails were made of iron and soon tarnished.
It is quite plausible that new nails would have become synonymous with
cleanliness. We have the phrase as neat as a new pin, which has
just that meaning. The old Dutch word spikspeldernieuw refers to newly
made ships. The OED suggests that this is the origin of spick, although
they offer no reason for that belief and none of the early citations of
the phrase refer to shipping. As for span, chips of wood also display
the same fresh, sharp-edged qualities and seem to be a plausible source
for the use of the word here.
Note: the word spoon, which was originally a
wooden item, derives from spon - a variant of span. It has been
suggested that the early American term for a knife and fork was spike and spon
and that this relates to keeping clean by using utensils rather than
fingers. That takes no account of the use of the phrase prior to the
colonization of America by English-speaking people though.
Spicke, and spanne newe later migrated into simply spick and span which is first found in Samuel Pepys' Diary, 1665:
"My Lady Batten walking through the dirty lane with new spicke and span white shoes."
All in all, the derivation of the term isn't
clear and our best efforts to explain it so far are little more than
informed guesses.
Many American readers will know Spic and Span
as the cleaning product marketed by Prestige Brands Inc. This has the
strapline 'The Complete Home Cleaner', so, next time you want to clean a
complete home you know what to use.
The use of spic in that product name is just an
alternative spelling of spick. This has no connection to spic as used
for the offensive term for Spanish-speaking American residents, also
called spiggoties or spigs. That term originated in the early
20th-century and is cited in Harry Franck's Zone Policeman, 1913:
"It was my first entrance into the land of the panameños, technically known on the Zone as 'Spigoties', and familiarly, with a tinge of despite, as 'Spigs'."
sexagenary
- 音節
- sex • ag • e • nar • y
- 発音
- seksǽdʒənèri | -nəri
[形]
1 60の, 60に関する, 60ずつの, 60単位の.
2 ＝sexagenarian.
━━[名]＝sexagenarian.The Chinese sexagenary cycle (Chinese: 六十花甲; pinyin: liùshí huājiǎ), also known as the Stems-and-Branches (Chinese: 干支; pinyin: gānzhī), is a cycle of sixty terms used for recording days or years.[1] It appears, as a means of recording days, in the first Chinese written texts, the Shang dynasty oracle bones from the late second millennium BC. Its use to record years began around the middle of the 3rd century B.C.[2] The cycle, and variations on it, have been an important part of historical calendrical systems in other, Chinese-influenced Asian states, notably those of Japan, Korea and Vietnam. This traditional method of numbering days and years no longer has any significant role in modern Chinese time keeping or the official calendar. However, the sexagenary cycle continues to have a role in contemporary Chinese astrology and fortune telling.[citation needed]
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