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Docks of Paris.
Photographs aired this summer showing President Berdymukhamedov's son astride a thoroughbred, fuelling speculation among Turkmenistanis about a coming succession
Musée du Quai Branly
Just a couple of blocks from the Eiffel Tower is a museum that is
literally overshadowed by Gustave Eiffel’s masterwork. Jean Nouvel’s
Musée du Quai Branly, opened in 2006 as a repository of indigenous work
from around the world, is an eclectic, nervy composition of bright
colors and jutting fragments. Its riverside facade is covered with a
planted wall by the French botanist Patrick Blanc. Another wall contains
glass covered with forest imagery and large display boxes protruding
from the building’s edge like children’s blocks. The offices are inside a
much cooler glass cube.
The main exhibition space is raised on columns, allowing for the entire
ground level to be taken up by a modern park. Inside, the traditional
museum experience is replaced by a snaking path lined with leather walls
that twists you here and there through exhibitions of native artwork,
masks, jewelry, clothing, weapons, totems, living spaces and much more.
Another interior highlight: a giant narrow window framing the entire
Eiffel Tower.
Musée du Quai Branly, 37, quai Branly; quaibranly.fr/en/.
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Samsung Sparks Anxiety at Google
amsung Electronics Co. and Google Inc. together have stemmed Apple Inc.'s dominance in smartphones, but there is new tension in their partnership. Google executives worry that Samsung has become so big—the South Korean company sells about 40% of the gadgets that use Google's Android software—that it could flex its muscle to renegotiate their arrangement and eat into Google's lucrative mobile-ad business, people familiar with the matter said.
Now, as top executives from the world's mobile industry gather in Barcelona, Google is meeting with other companies in hopes that their Android devices can keep Samsung's leverage in check by providing legitimate ...
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19 Readers of weightier fare, including literary fiction and narrative nonfiction, have been less inclined to go digital. They seem to prefer the heft and durability, the tactile pleasures, of what we still call 'real books'─the kind you can set on a shelf.純文學小說和敘事性非虛構類文學等嚴肅作品的讀者不願讀電子書。他們似乎更喜歡可以放在書架上的“真正的圖書”那種厚重、耐久和令人愉悅的触感。
Cranford, N.J.
A onetime playground for corporate chieftains, the town has an eclectic housing stock, ranging from Victorians to new condominiums.
"A revolution of the hungry is in the offing," said Mohammed el-Askalani of Citizens Against the High Cost of Living, a protest group established to lobby against ending the subsidies.
Hundreds of plant workers have been idled, and more layoffs are in the offing. “We have followed market principles and been faithful to our American customers,” said Wu Jingsheng, the Weifang plant’s gruff general manager. “Our workers don’t know why they are being treated this way.”
lobby (PERSUADE)
verb [I or T]
to try to persuade a politician, the government or an official group that a particular thing should or should not happen, or that a law should be changed:
Small businesses have lobbied hard for/against changes in the tax laws.
[+ to infinitive] Local residents lobbied to have the factory shut down.
[+ object + to infinitive] They have been lobbying Congress to change the legislation concerning guns.
lobby
noun [C]
a group of people who try to persuade the government or an official group to do something:
the anti-smoking lobby
lobbyist
noun [C]
someone who tries to persuade a politician or official group to do something:
Lobbyists for the tobacco industry have expressed concerns about the restriction of smoking in public places.
in the offing likely to happen soon:
With an election in the offing, the prime minister is keen to maintain his popularity.
In the offing
MeaningImminent; likely to happen soon.
Origin
This is one of the many phrases of nautical origin. It is quite simple to understand once you know that 'the offing' is the part of the sea that can be seen from land, excluding those parts that are near the shore. Early texts also refer to it as 'offen' or 'offin'.
Someone who was watching out for a ship to arrive would first see it approaching when it was 'in the offing' and expected to dock before the next tide. Something that is 'in the offing' isn't happening now or even in a minute or two, but will inevitably happen before too long. The phrase has migrated from its naval origin into general use in the language and is now used to describe any event that is imminent.
In its literal nautical sense, the phrase has been in use since the late 16th century and the earliest citation of it that I have found is a quotation from S. Argoll from 1610 which was reported by S. Purchas in Purchas his Pilgrimes, in 1906:
"I came to an Anchor in seven fathomes water in the offing to sea."The phrase wasn't commonly used until the beginning of the 18th century, as in this example from Josiah Burchett's Memoirs of Transactions at Sea During the War with France, 1703. This is, incidentally, a classic example of the use of the long form of the letter 's' in 18th century printing:
...fome other fmall Ships were feen in the Offing. Thofe Ships ftood away with their Boats a-head, fetting fire to fome, and deftroying and deferting other of their fmall veffels.All of the 18th century citations of 'in the offing' refer to the offing as a physical place. It wasn't until the mid 19th century, in America, that our presently understood figurative meaning began to be used. An early example of that comes in S. B. Beckett's Portland Reference Book and City Directory, 1850:
We have known wives to forget that they had husbands when they supposed that a tax bill or a notification to do military duty was in the offing.See also - Nautical Phrases.
chieftain
n.
The leader or head of a group, especially of a clan or tribe.
The leader or head of a group, especially of a clan or tribe.
[Middle English cheftain, from Old French chevetain, from Late Latin capitāneus, from Latin caput, head.]
chieftaincy chief'tain·cy n.chieftainship chief'tain·ship' n.
e·clec·tic (ĭ-klĕk'tĭk)
adj.
- Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles: an eclectic taste in music; an eclectic approach to managing the economy.
- Made up of or combining elements from a variety of sources: "a popular bar patronized by an eclectic collection of artists, writers, secretaries and aging soldiers on reserve duty" (Curtis Wilkie).
One that follows an eclectic method.
[Greek eklektikos, selective, from eklektos, selected, from eklegein, to select : ek-, out; see ecto- + legein, to gather.]
eclectically e·clec'ti·cal·ly adv.eclectic
- 発音 ikléktik
- eclecticの変化形
- eclectics (複数形)
[形]
1 〈特に技術者・芸術家などが〉種々の材料を吟味［取捨選択］する
3 〈哲学・医学などが〉折衷主義の, 折衷派の；〈芸術（作品）が〉折衷主義の.
4 〈趣味・意見などが〉かたよらない, 多方面にわたる.
━━[名]((形式))（学問・芸術上の）折衷主義者.
ec・lec・ti・cal・ly
[副]nervy
- 音節 nerv • y
- 発音 nə'ːrvi
[形]（-i・er, -i・est）
1 ((米略式))生意気な；あつかましい.
2 勇気のある, 勇敢な；((詩))筋骨たくましい；元気な.
3 ((英略式))神経質な, びくびくしている, 神経にさわる, 腹立たしい.
nerv・i・ly
[副]
nerv・i・ness
[名]heft音節
- heft
- 発音
- héft
- heftの変化形
- hefts (複数形) • hefted (過去形) • hefted (過去分詞) • hefting (現在分詞) • hefts (三人称単数現在)
[名][U]
1 ((米))重量.
2 ((米略式))重要性.
━━[動](他)
1 …を手で重さを量る.
2 …を手で持ち上げる.
━━(自)重さがある.
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