breach, unbreachable, freight, multiple pieces of information,

The Target Credit Card Breach: What You Should Know

40 million shoppers could be at risk for credit and debit card fraud

“Superman!” gasps Lois Lane, freshly scooped from beneath the nodding carbines of a South American firing squad. “Right!” says the boxy blue-and-red figure who holds her in his arms. “And still playing the role of gallant rescuer!” His mouth is set in a kind of grimace, but with dimples. Is he frowning? Tautly grinning? And what can he mean by “still playing the role”? This is only the second Superman comic ever, from July 1938, and already our hero — caped and airborne, with Lois coiled against his unbreachable bosom — is carrying a freight of super-irony.“超人！”剛從南美行刑場的卡賓槍下逃過一劫的洛伊斯·萊恩(Lois Lane)氣喘吁籲地喊道。 “是我！”穿著紅藍衣衫的壯漢把她攬在懷裡，肯定地回答道，“我還在扮演英勇的救世主角色！”他咧著嘴，似乎在做鬼臉，但露出了酒窩。他在皺眉嗎？還是在緊張地咧嘴笑？他說“還在扮演這個角色”，這又是什麼意思？這只是自1938年7月以來的第二部《超人》漫畫，但是我們的英雄——穿著披風，飛來飛去，將​​洛伊斯護在他堅實的胸前——已經開始蘊含著巨大的諷刺。

U.S. Suspects Iranians Were Behind a Wave of Cyberattacks
By THOM SHANKER and DAVID E. SANGER 47 minutes ago
Intelligence officials believe Iran was the origin of network attacks that crippled computers across the Saudi oil industry and breached American financial institutions.

Obama Slams Security Breach

Obama blamed the Northwest bombing attempt on security lapses, as it emerged that the U.S. had multiple pieces of information about the suspect.

breach

[名]1 [C][U]（法律・義務・約束などの）違反, 不履行, 破棄 a breach of contract契約違反 a breach of confidence秘密漏洩(ろうえい) a b...

breach of promise

[U][C]《法律》契約違反, 約束不履行, （特に）婚約不履行.

breach of the peace

《法律》((通例単数形))（暴動・騒乱などによる）治安妨害（罪）, 治安紊乱(びんらん)（罪）.

breach

Syllabification: (breach)

Pronunciation: /brēCH/

Translate breach | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish

noun

• 1an act of breaking or failing to observe a law, agreement, or code of conduct:a breach of confidence I sued for breach of contract
• a break in relations:a sudden breach between father and son

• 2a gap in a wall, barrier, or defense, especially one made by an attacking army.

verb

[with object]

• 1make a gap in and break through (a wall, barrier, or defense):the river breached its bank
• break or fail to observe (a law, agreement, or code of conduct).

• 2 [no object] (of a whale) rise and break through the surface of the water.

Phrases

breach of the peace

an act of violent or noisy behavior that causes a public disturbance and is considered a criminal offense.

breach of promise

the action of breaking a sworn assurance to do something, formerly especially to marry someone.

step into the breach

replace someone who is suddenly unable to do a job or task.

Origin:

Middle English: from Old French breche, ultimately of Germanic origin; related to break¹

unbreachable

Syllabification: (un·breach·a·ble)

Pronunciation: /ˌənˈbrēCHəbəl/

Definition of unbreachable

adjective

not able to be breached or overcome:a virtually unbreachable position

freight

Syllabification: (freight)

Pronunciation: /frāt/

Translate freight | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish

Definition of freight

noun

• 1goods transported by truck, train, ship, or aircraft.
• the transport of goods by truck, train, ship, or aircraft.
• a charge for transport by freight.

• 2 (in full freight train) a train of freight cars:sugar and molasses moving by freight

• 3a load or burden.

verb

[with object]

• transport (goods) in bulk by truck, train, ship, or aircraft:the metals had been freighted from the city [no object]:ships freighting to Dublin
• (be freighted with) be laden or imbued with (something abstract):each word was freighted with anger

Derivatives

freighting

Pronunciation: /frātiNG/

noun

Origin:

late Middle English (in the sense 'rental of a ship for transporting goods'): from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German vrecht, variant of vracht 'ship's cargo'. Compare with fraught

stereo-, stereoscopic, arthroscopic, calisthenics , meniscus, hook up

..., and the anthology Hooking Up (2000).


Thousands of people with a torn meniscus may be undergoing unnecessary arthroscopic surgery, according to a new study: http://nyti.ms/19rppL6

Brain Calisthenics for Abstract Ideas

Like any other high school junior, Wynn Haimer has a few holes in his academic game. Graphs and equations, for instance: He gets the idea, fine — one is a linear representation of the other — but making those conversions is often a headache.

 meniscus

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半月板示意圖

滑液關節內的軟骨墊
半月板為一種新月形軟骨，見於一些滑液關節中。膝、腕和頷的樞鈕關節中均包含半月板。半月板連接在關節囊上，有助於減少骨塊間的摩擦。膝中的半月板在激烈的活動中可能會受傷，必須切除半月板以防止關節卡住。

meniscus

Syllabification: (me·nis·cus)

Pronunciation: /məˈniskəs/

noun (plural menisci /-kē, -kī/ or meniscuses)

Physics

• the curved upper surface of a liquid in a tube.
• [usually as modifier] Optics a lens that is convex on one side and concave on the other.
• Anatomy a thin fibrous cartilage between the surfaces of some joints, e.g., the knee.

Origin:

late 17th century: modern Latin, from Greek mēniskos 'crescent', diminutive of mēnē 'moon'

arthroscopy 

音節

ar • thros • co • py

発音

ɑːrθrɑ'skəpi | -θrɔ's-

[名]関節鏡検査（法）.

ar・thro・scop・ic〔rθrskpik | -skp-〕

[形]

stereo-

Pronunciation: /ˈstɛrɪəʊ, ˈstɪərɪəʊ/

Definition of stereo-

combining form

• relating to solid forms having three dimensions:stereography
• relating to a three-dimensional effect, arrangement, etc.:stereochemistry stereophonic stereoscope

Origin:

from Greek stereos 'solid'

stereoscopic ster·e·os·co·py (stĕr'ē-ŏs'kə-pē, stîr'-)

n.

1. The viewing of objects as three-dimensional.
2. The technique of making or using stereoscopes and stereoscopic slides.

stereoscopist ster'e·os'co·pist n.

calisthenics

n. pl. - 柔軟體操, 運動
n. - 柔軟體操, 運動

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 徒手体操法, 徒手体操

hook up
1. Assemble or wire a mechanism, as in Dick helped us hook up the stereo system. [1920s]
2. Connect a mechanism with a main source, as in The computer had not yet been hooked up to the mainframe. [1920s]
3. hook up with. Form a tie or association, as in She had hooked up with the wrong crowd. [Slang; mid-1900s]

asperity, monsignor/Msgr./Mgr., Monsig

Philadelphia Monsignor's Conviction Overturned in Cover-Up of Sexual Abuse

By ERIK ECKHOLM and STEVEN YACCINO

The criminal conviction of Msgr. William J. Lynn was overturned by a Pennsylvania appeals court after the court rejected the argument that a child welfare law applied to employers. 

"A trap for tourists.Why," the bishop went on with asperity.


The performances too are spot-on with Keith Allen and Andy de Ia Tour catching the matching vulgarity of the two brothers, Lia Williams combining sexiness and asperity as the banker's trophy wife and Danny Dyer as the far-from-dumb waiter implying a world of eccentric otherness far beyond the comprehension of these self-absorbed diners.

trophy wife
n.
An attractive, young wife married to a usually older, affluent man.

monsignor （ It. ）： (1) 蒙席：教宗頒賜有功神父的榮銜，通常可穿與主教近似之主教服裝。 (2) 主教：拉丁國家都用此稱呼。 Monsignor 縮寫方式甚多：英語通用者為 Msgr., Mgr. ，拉丁國家則用 Mons. 。法文稱作 monseigneur 。

 

MONSIGNOR QUIXOTE By Graham Greene.

Monsignor[Mon・si・gnor]

• 発音記号[mɑnsíːnjər | mɔn-]

[名]（複〜s, -gno・ri 〔-njri〕）((時にm-))《カトリック》モンシニョール：大司教などに与えられる尊称（略：Mgr., Monsig.）.


 
as·per·i·ty (ă-spĕr'ĭ-tē)
n., pl., -ties.

1. 1. Roughness or harshness, as of surface, sound, or climate: the asperity of northern winters.
   2. Severity; rigor.
2. A slight projection from a surface; a point or bump.
3. Harshness of manner; ill temper or irritability.

[Middle English asperite, from Old French asprete, from Latin asperitās, from asper, rough.]

asperity[as・per・i・ty]

• 発音記号[əspérəti]

[名][U][C]((形式))

1 （音調・気質・態度などの）荒々しさ, とげとげしさ, じゃけん, 苛酷；((-ties))辛らつな言葉

with asperity
つっけんどんに.

2 ((しばしば-ties))つらさ, きびしさ, 困難

the asperities of the wintery world
冬のきびしさ.

3 （表面の）ざらざら, でこぼこ

the asperity of a leaf
葉の表面のざらざら.

intensity, radioactivity, carbon intensity, emission intensity

In 2013, exercise science taught us to pick up the pace.

For Fitness, Intensity Matters

well.blogs.nytimes.com

The lesson that seemed to emerge most persistently from the fitness-related studies published this year was that intensity matters, especially if you wish to complete your workout quickly.

“All these pieces add up to a nice picture but whether it is enough to overcome their radioactivity, that will be hard to tell,” Mr Lewis says.“这一切加起来看上去不错，但是否

intensity

Syllabification: (in·ten·si·ty)

Pronunciation: /inˈtensitē/

Translate intensity | into German | into Italian | into Spanish

noun (plural intensities)

• 1 the quality of being intense:gazing into her face with disconcerting intensity the pain grew in intensity
• an instance or degree of this:an intensity that frightened her

2 chiefly Physics the measurable amount of a property, such as force, brightness, or a magnetic field:hydrothermal processes of low intensity different light intensities

radioactivity比喻用法



An emission intensity is the average emission rate of a given pollutant from a given source relative to the intensity of a specific activity; for example grams of carbon dioxide released per megajoule of energy produced, or the ratio of greenhouse gas emissions produced to GDP. Emission intensities are used to derive estimates of air pollutant or greenhouse gas emissions based on the amount of fuel combusted, the number of animals in animal husbandry, on industrial production levels, distances traveled or similar activity data. Emission intensities may also be used to compare the environmental impact of different fuels or activities. The related terms emission factor and carbon intensity are often used interchangeably, but "factors" exclude aggregate activities such as GDP, and "carbon" excludes other pollutants.

emission
n.

1. The act or an instance of emitting.
2. Something emitted.
3. A substance discharged into the air, especially by an internal combustion engine.

[Latin ēmissiō, ēmissiōn-, a sending out, from ēmissus, past participle of ēmittere, to send out. See emit.]

ra·di·o·ac·tiv·i·ty (rā'dē-ō-ăk-tĭv'ĭ-tē)
n.

1. Spontaneous emission of radiation, either directly from unstable atomic nuclei or as a consequence of a nuclear reaction.
2. The radiation, including alpha particles, nucleons, electrons, and gamma rays, emitted by a radioactive substance.

jaywalk, e foot fault, enforcement prompts venomous rage, infuriating

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"What it does is it inhibits the vitality of Los Angeles. When you go to New York, when you go to Chicago, when it's safe to cross the street, you just cross the street. You just do it."

NELSON ALGAZE, a Los Angeles architect who was born in Brooklyn, on a recent crackdown on jaywalking in downtown Los Angeles.

Tennis Rule Is Simple Enough, and Infuriating

By GREG BISHOP 12 minutes ago

The foot fault is tennis’s version of jaywalking, a penalty called so rarely it hardly seems wrong — and whose enforcement prompts venomous rage.

jaywalk

Syllabification: (jay·walk)

Pronunciation: /ˈjāˌwôk/

Translate jaywalk | into Spanish

verb

[no object] chiefly North American

• cross or walk in the street or road unlawfully or without regard for approaching traffic.

Derivatives

jaywalker

noun

Origin:

early 20th century: from jay in the colloquial sense 'silly person' + walk

jaywalk
(JAY-wok)

verb intr.
To cross a street in a reckless manner, disregarding traffic rules.

Etymology
As with other birds, the name jaybird denotes a naive person or simpleton. Early last century, country folks visiting big cities were often oblivious of any approaching traffic when they were crossing streets. Eventually their nickname, jays, became associated with crossing a street illegally
Usage
"At stoplights, bicycles queue with a Tetris-like geometry, and the natives never jaywalk." — Stephen Metcalf; In the Tidy City of the World's Most Anxious Man: Soren Kierkegaard's Copenhagen; The New York Times; Apr 1, 2007.

force majeure, vis major, cargo shorts

At Christmas dinner, you meet your sister’s new boyfriend who is three months sober and wearing cargo shorts. What do you do?

 原本以為可以完美接軌的工作排程，因為第二者造成的不可抗力(force majeure)而形成一個窟窿。

 Cargo pants or cargo trousers, also sometimes called combat trousers (or combats) after their original military purpose,^[1] are loosely cut pants originally designed for tough, outdoor activities, and whose design is distinguished by one or more cargo pockets. Cargo pants have become popular in urban areas as well, since they are convenient for carrying items during day trips on foot.

Pair of cargo pants

force majeure (fors ma-ZHOOR)

noun
1. An unforeseeable and uncontrollable event (for example, a war or a strike) that exempts a party from a contract.
2. Superior force.

Etymology
From French, literally superior force

A related term is vis major (Latin for superior force) that is used to refer to an act of God (for example, a flood or an earthquake) that excuses one from fulfilling a contract.

Usage
"During the half year to June, Sebuku produced 1.5 million tonnes of coal as record rain in the second quarter restrained mine production, and force majeure was declared." — Straights Wants Second Kalimantan Asset; The Age (Melbourne, Australia); Sep 28, 2007.

dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn, windhover, kestre, lupping its game

China Gets the iPad

Apple has been slower than competitors in bringing its hottest products to the world's most exciting market, but with the launch of its iPad tablet computer in China today, the company may finally be upping its China game.

    The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89)
童元方著《一樣花開‧燧石之火》台北：爾雅叢書，1996，頁219-227
有一翻譯 版本  分段有錯

windhover =kestrel隼

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89).  Poems.  1918.

12. The Windhover

To Christ our Lord

I CAUGHT this morning morning’s minion, king-
dom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding
Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding
High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing,	5
As a skate’s heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding
Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding
Stirred for a bird,—the achieve of; the mastery of the thing!
Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here
Buckle! AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion	10
Times told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier!
No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermillion.
See Notes.

dauphin

Syllabification: (dau·phin)

Pronunciation: /ˈdôfin/

noun

historical

• the eldest son of the king of France.

Origin:

French, from the family name of the lords of the Dauphiné (first used in this way in the 14th century), ultimately a nickname meaning 'dolphin'

dapple

Syllabification: (dap·ple)

Pronunciation: /ˈdapəl/

verb

[with object] (usually be dappled)

• mark with spots or rounded patches:the floor was dappled with pale moonlight

noun

• a patch or spot of color or light.
• an animal whose coat is marked with patches or spots.

Origin:

late 16th century (earlier as an adjective): perhaps related to Old Norse depill 'spot'

up
v., upped, up·ping, ups. v.tr.

1. To increase: upped their fees; upping our output.
2. To raise to a higher level, especially to promote to a higher position.
3. Nautical. To raise: up anchor; up sail.

v.intr.

1. To get up; rise.
2. Informal. To act suddenly or unexpectedly: "She upped and perjured her immortal soul" (Margery Allingham).

felony, drunk driving/drivers, labor violation, charge experts, open-minded about , rehabilitate

Northampton Journal

Partying Until Drunk and Disorderly in Britain

By STEVEN ERLANGER and STEPHEN CASTLE

British officials are considering solutions as large numbers of British youths go out on the weekends to get thoroughly, blindingly and often violently drunk.

Taiwanese official accused of abusing housekeeper faces felony labor charge in ...
Washington Post
Federal prosecutors in Kansas City have jailed a Taiwanese official on a felony labor violation involving her housekeeper — a charge experts say has rarely, if ever, been applied to a foreign official. Hsien-Hsien Liu, director general of the Taipei ...

New York Is Set for Strict Stand on D.W.I. Cases
By JEREMY W. PETERS
An agreement passed by the State Assembly would make driving drunk with a child in the vehicle a felony.

The Wall Street Journal banners and the New York Times leads with news that Bernard Madoff is expected to plead guilty tomorrow to 11 felony charges and will likely spend the rest of his life in prison. Prosecutors say Madoff began operating what may be the largest fraud in Wall Street's history as early as the 1980s. Ten days before he was arrested, Madoff sent statements to clients claiming to have a total of $64.8 billion, far more than the $50 billion the disgraced financier originally confessed to losing.

Detroit Mayor Is Charged in Scandal

By MONICA DAVEY 4:50 PM ET

Mayor Kwame M. Kilpatrick was charged with perjury and other felonies that could end his political career.

Drunk driving is the act of operating and/or driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs to the degree that mental and motor skills are impaired. It is illegal in all jurisdictions within the U.S. The specific criminal offense is usually called driving under the influence [of alcohol and/or other drugs] (DUI), and in some states driving while intoxicated (DWI), operating while impaired (OWI), or operating a vehicle under the influence (OVI). Such laws may also apply to boating or piloting aircraft. Vehicles can include farm machinery and horse-drawn carriages.

 alcohol ignition locks for drunk drivers,

Crime | 20.04.2011

Germany considers alcohol ignition locks for drunk drivers

Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: It would be up to German drivers whether to install the device

The German government is considering introducing locks that prevent car engines from starting if the driver is intoxicated. Drunk drivers in Germany could keep their license if they agree to have the device installed.

Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition members have jointly proposed that the transport ministry test the use of so-called "alcohol locks," according to a report published on Wednesday in the daily Saarbrücker Zeitung.
According to the proposal, drunk-driving offenders would be allowed to keep their drivers licences if they agreed to have a lock system installed in their cars designed to prevent the engine from being started if traces of alcohol are detected on the driver's breath.
"We are open-minded about the voluntary use of alcohol locks," a spokeswoman for Transport Minister Peter Ramsauer said on Wednesday, adding that they could be "helpful to rehabilitate" offenders.
The spokeswoman went on to say, however, that the ministry was against compulsory installation of the devices, citing both moral and financial objections and adding that any wide-scale moves would have to be first cleared by the European Union.
Such legislation is already in place in the United States and Canada and has been considered by a number of European countries, including the Netherlands, Austria and Sweden.
Starting next year, drunk drivers in Sweden will be able to choose between having their license revoked and installing the alcohol ignition lock.
Stockholm began testing the scheme in 2008, with officials concluding that it contributed positively to the rehabilitation of repeat offenders and posed no greater danger to traffic safety.
Author: Gabriel Borrud (AP, dpa)
Editor: Nancy Isenson

felony

━━ n. 【法】重罪.
fe・lo・ni・ous　 a. 【法】重罪の; 凶悪な.
felony
noun [C or U] UK OLD-FASHIONED OR US LEGAL
(an example of) serious crime which can be punished by one or more years in prison:
a felony charge
He was convicted of felony.

felon
noun [C] LEGAL
a person who is guilty of a serious crime

Perjury / amorous

take someone at their word,a retinue of words, abjure, personhood, exploit code

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"I think the Russian problem is not just the president as a person. The problem is that our citizens, by a large majority, don't understand that their fate, they have to be responsible for it themselves."

MIKHAIL B. KHODORKOVSKY, a former billionaire who was released after 10 years in a Russian prison.

He said so many of Mr Cameron's own MPs had voted with Labour because they were now "unwilling to take him at his word".
Conservative rebel Douglas Carswell said: "There is not now going to be British military involvement in Syria, but that is a good thing, the system works."


Not that Bloom abjures these subsequent selves. There is much canon fodder in this new book, along with re­affirmed vows of fidelity to Shakespeare, “the founder” not only of modern literature but also, in Bloom’s expansive view, of modern personhood and its “infinite self-consciousness.”


第五十二回所選為一整段中的一長句，其全段文字如下：
Again, Mr. Micawber had a relish in this formal piling up of words, which, however ludicrously displayed in his case, was, I must say, not at all peculiar to him. I have observed it, in the course of my life, in numbers of men. It seems to me to be a general rule. In the taking of legal oaths, for instance, deponents seem to enjoy themselves mightily when they come to several good words in succession, for the expression of one idea; as, that they utterly detest, abominate, and abjure, or so forth; and the old anathemas were made relishing on the same principle. We talk about the tyranny of words, but we like to tyrannize over them too; we are fond of having a large superfluous establishment of words to wait upon us on great occasions; we think it looks important, and sounds well. As we are not particular about the meaning of our liveries on state occasions, if they be but fine and numerous enough, so, the meaning or necessity of our words is a secondary consideration, if there be but a great parade of them. And as individuals get into trouble by making too great a show of liveries, or as slaves when they are too numerous rise against their masters, so I think I could mention a nation that has got into many great difficulties, and will get into many greater, from maintaining too large a retinue of words.
密考伯先生這樣拘泥形式，堆砌字眼又大為自賞，

儘管遇到這種情形，說廢話多麼可笑，我得說這也不是他一個人特有的作風。我平生看到好多人有這種脾氣。好像 覺得這是通則。例如宣誓作證的人因為法律事項宣誓的時候，說一連串幾個漂亮字表逹一個意思，而大感快慰；就像他們說：他們完全嫌惡、憎厭、發誓棄絕，等等 的話；老式逐出教會的詛咒詞也是根據同樣的原則讀來有味的。我們談到文字的艱難近於殘酷，其實我們也喜歡對文字橫行霸道。愛有好多字供我們遇到盛大場面運 用。以為這樣才夠威風，聽起來像樣。就像我們對於隆重場面從僕的制服的意義並不重視，只要這些制服漂亮，只求穿的人多，我們對於字義或字是否必須要用的考 慮還在其次，只要有大批字用來炫耀就行了。正像個人賣弄僕從的制服會惹出麻煩，或者正像奴隸太多會起來反抗主人，我想我可以提起一個國家，如果用的字像僕 從如雲，就會有很多困難，還要惹出更多困難。
（書中此處有注，國家指英國）

2009

Microsoft to plug critical IE hole targeted by exploit code
CNET News
by Elinor Mills Microsoft said on Thursday that it will offer six updates for 12 vulnerabilities next week including a critical hole in Internet Explorer ...


An exploit (from the same word in the French language, meaning "achievement", or "accomplishment") is a piece of software, a chunk of data, or sequence of commands that take advantage of a bug, glitch or vulnerability in order to cause unintended or unanticipated behavior to occur on computer software, hardware, or something electronic (usually computerised). This frequently includes such things as violently gaining control of a computer system or allowing privilege escalation or a denial of service attack.

ret·i·nue (rĕt'n-ū', -yū')
n.
The retainers or attendants accompanying a high-ranking person.

[Middle English retenue, from Old French, from feminine past participle of retenir, to retain. See retain.]

abjure

(ăb-jʊr')
tr.v., -jured, -jur·ing, -jures.

1. To recant solemnly; renounce or repudiate: "For nearly 21 years after his resignation as Prime Minister in 1963, he abjured all titles, preferring to remain just plain 'Mr.'" (Time).
2. To renounce under oath; forswear.

[Middle English abjuren, from Old French abjurer, from Latin abiūrāre : ab-, away; see ab-¹ + iūrāre, to swear.]

[動](他)((形式))

1 …をきっぱりと［公式に］捨てる, 退ける

abjure one's mistakes
誤った考えをきっぱり捨てる.

2 …を誓って放棄する

abjure one's ［an］ oath
誓いを捨てる.

3 …を慎む, 控える.

take someone at their word

interpret a person’s words literally, especially by believing them or doing as they suggest: I take him at his word, for I cannot go to see for myself

take the words out of someone's mouth

say what someone else was about to say.

take someone's word (for it)

believe what someone says or writes without checking for oneself: I’m afraid you’ll just have to take our word for it

-by, byway, bylaw, bypass, byway, bypast

The Cancer Divide

Tackling a Racial Gap in Breast Cancer Survival

By TARA PARKER-POPE

Decades of awareness campaigns and advances in treatment have improved survival rates for women with breast cancer in the United States, but the majority of those gains have bypassed black women.

Amazon Signs Up Authors, Writing Publishers Out of Deal

By DAVID STREITFELD

Amazon.com, the online retailer, has long competed with bookstores; now it is starting to make deals with authors, bypassing the traditional publisher.

Obama Bypasses Senate Process, Filling 15 Posts
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
The move suggests a newly emboldened president who is unafraid to provoke a confrontation with the minority party, even as he insists he still hopes to work in a bipartisan way.


-byor bye-
pref.

1. By: bygone.
2. Secondary, incidental: byway.

bylaw
n.

1. A law or rule governing the internal affairs of an organization.
2. A secondary law.

[Middle English bilawe, body of local regulations, akin to Danish by-lag, township ordinance : Old Norse bȳr, settlement + Old Norse *lagu, law.]

WORD HISTORY A casual glance at the word bylaw might make one think that the element by- means "secondary, subsidiary," especially since bylaw can mean "a secondary law." It is possible that by-, as in byway, has influenced bylaw in the sense "secondary law"; however, bylaw existed long before the sense in question. The word is first recorded in 1283 with the meaning "a body of customs or regulations, as of a village, manor, religious organization, or sect." By- comes from Old Norse (as may the whole word bylaw) and is related to the element -by in the names of many places where Scandinavians settled when they invaded England during the early Middle Ages, such as Whitby. We get the sense of this -by if we compare the related Old Icelandic word variously spelled bær, bœr, bȳr, meaning "a town or village" in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark and "a farm or landed estate" in Iceland. We thus see why bylaw would mean "a body of customs of a village or manor" and why we use the word to mean "a law or rule governing the internal affairs of an organization."

bypass

Syllabification: (by·pass)

Pronunciation: /ˈbīˌpas/

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noun

• a road passing around a town or its center to provide an alternative route for through traffic.
• a secondary channel, pipe, or connection to allow a flow when the main one is closed or blocked.
• a surgical operation in which an alternative channel is created, especially to improve blood flow to the heart when a coronary artery is blocked:he had a heart bypass in 2003
• the alternative channel created during a bypass operation.

verb

[with object]

• go past or around:bypass the farm and continue to the road
• provide (a town) with a route diverting traffic from its center:the town has been bypassed
• avoid or circumvent (an obstacle or problem):a manager might bypass formal channels of communication

bypast	(adjective) Well in the past; former.
Synonyms:	bygone, departed, foregone, gone
Usage:	Seeing that park brought back sweet memories of bypast summers spent playing baseball with the neighborhood boys.

turn something on its head, pull together

Gone are the days when Korean products could be dismissed as "cheap and cheerful," says Joe Phillippi, an analyst at AutoTrends Consulting. Since the Hyundi Motor Group bought Kia Motors in 1998, to form what is now the world's fourth largest carmaker, "they have totally turned the company on its head" http://econ.st/1hZV60p

Former BBC director general George Entwistle will receive one year's salary, worth £450,000, as part of a pay-off deal, the BBC Trust has said.

He quit on Saturday after a Newsnight report led to a former Tory treasurer being wrongly accused of child abuse.
Acting director general Tim Davie has urged senior corporation managers to "pull together" in the BBC's interests.



One of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head, telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes.



turn something on its head also stand something on its head

1. to use something in a completely wrong way The basic problem is that your report turns history on its head.

2. to change something completely I really hope that doctors and nurses can pull together and turn the system on its head.

Related vocabulary: turn something inside out

pull together[pull together]

 

(自)
(1) 〈眉が〉ひそめられる.
(2) （仕事で）協力する, 協調する.

lonely, lonesome, heaving copious sighs, turn the corner

UK economy is turning corner, George Osborne says

The UK economy is "turning a corner", Chancellor George Osborne has said in a speech in London.

Mr Osborne cited "tentative signs of a balanced, broad based and sustainable recovery", but stressed it was still the "early stages" and "plenty of risks" remained.

"A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind."

turn the corner

pass the critical point and start to improve.

heave
v., heaved, heav·ing, heaves. v.tr.

1. To raise or lift, especially with great effort or force: heaved the box of books onto the table. See synonyms at lift.
2. 1. To throw (a heavy object) with great effort; hurl: heave the shot; heaved a brick through the window.
   2. To throw or toss: heaved his backpack into the corner.
3. To utter with effort or pain: heaved a groan of despair.
4. To vomit (something).
5. past tense and past participle, hove (hōv). Nautical.
   1. To raise or haul up by means of a rope, line, or cable: hove the anchor up and set sail.
   2. To move (a ship) in a certain direction or into a certain position by hauling: hove the ship astern.
6. To make rise or swell: the wind heaving huge waves; an exhausted dog heaving its chest.
7. Geology. To displace or move (a vein, lode, or stratum, for example).

v.intr.

1. To rise up or swell, as if pushed up; bulge: The sidewalk froze and heaved.
2. To rise and fall in turn, as waves.
3. To gag or vomit.
4. past tense and past participle, hove. Nautical.
   1. To move in a certain direction or to a specified position: The frigate hove alongside.
   2. To pull at or haul a rope or cable: The brig is heaving around on the anchor.
   3. To push at a capstan bar or lever.

copious
adj.

1. Yielding or containing plenty; affording ample supply: a copious harvest. See synonyms at plentiful.
2. Large in quantity; abundant: copious rainfall.
3. Abounding in matter, thoughts, or words; wordy: "I found our speech copious without order, and energetic without rules" (Samuel Johnson).

[Middle English, from Latin cōpiōsus, from cōpia, abundance.]

copiously co'pi·ous·ly adv.
copiousness co'pi·ous·ness n.

lonely

Syllabification: (lone·ly)

Pronunciation: /ˈlōnlē/

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adjective (lonelier, loneliest)

• sad because one has no friends or company:lonely old people whose families do not care for them
• without companions; solitary:passing long lonely hours looking onto the street
• (of a place) unfrequented and remote:a lonely stretch of country lane

lonesome

Syllabification: (lone·some)

Pronunciation: /ˈlōnsəm/

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adjective

chiefly North American

• solitary or lonely:she felt lonesome and out of things
• remote and unfrequented:a lonesome, unfriendly place

Phrases

by one's lonesome

informal all alone.

Derivatives

lonesomeness

noun

specs, accompanied fugue, call center

On fame after Lawrence Of Arabia
"I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard, wearing dark specs and a white suit, waving like the Queen Mum."

複格、復格

今天讀自由時報記者趙靜瑜『貝多芬172萬美金手稿《大復格曲》 巴夏將與NSO合作演出』--第一次讀到「復格」，查國立編譯館之學術名詞，才知道「音樂詞語」和「舞蹈名詞」使用不同漢字。資料如下：

音樂詞語

Accompanied fugue 有伴奏複格

Chorale fugue 聖詠複格曲

Close fugue 緊複格

Double fugue 二主題複格

Four part fugue 四部複格

fugue 複格曲

Octave fugue 八度複格

Quadruple fugue 四主題複格

Real fugue 真答復格

Ricercare fugue 無插入複格

Simple fugue 單複格

Strict fugue 嚴格複格

Three-part fugue 三部複格

Tonal fugue 本調複格

Triple fugue 三主題複格

Two-part fugue 二部複格

舞蹈名詞

fugue 復格曲

THE fugue 復格

電子計算機

fugue fugue語言

Tinyfugue 客戶端遊戲

Cost Center 和 Call Center

「我的儿子“成本中心1号”快17岁了，他将攻读中等教育证书课程。我把这视为重大成就——不是他的成就，而是我教子有方。」（FT：我的家规是什么）

cost center (コストセンター, 原価中心点) ：要用到企業的資源，就需要分攤其成本，所以用一種單位來分攤的方式，該單位就是一Cost centre 。

Cost centers are divisions that add to the cost of the organization, but only indirectly add to the profit of the company. Examples include Research and Development, Marketing and Customer service. A cost center is often identified with a speed type number.
許多企業中有一種很特殊的成本中心叫CALL CENTER，它是以服務(準)顧客之提問、抱怨等等為主旨。不過許多行業的call center必須許多人來做，成本不菲，此外，服務品質等問題多多（例如近日的Dell Computer公司稽查之後，發現這方面每況育愈下……）

AOL to Lay Off 7% of Work Force

AOL is laying off about 1,300 employees, or 7% of its world-wide work force, as it eliminates call-center jobs.

As Peter Drucker observed shortly before his death, the savviest way for future companies to go is probably to outsource all functions that do not lead to a ...

specs

The term specs can refer to:

• specifications (of products)
• spectacles (glasses)
  1 めがね(spectacles)
  

  wear specs
  めがねをかけている.
• SPECS - a type of road speed camera used in the United Kingdom