2014年1月8日 星期三

arc, get real, resolution, Danube, Elbe

Here are 20 winter wines for $20 apiece.

Week in review: Getting real with Google, Yahoo
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by Steven Musil Google fellow Amit Singhal explains Google's strategy on how to present real-time search results. Google will build a section called "latest ...



Who are your favorite novelists?
你最喜欢的小说家有哪些？
J. M. Coetzee, Jennifer Egan, Hemingway, Elizabeth Strout, Jhumpa Lahiri, Dave Eggers, Ian McEwan, David Foster Wallace, Junot Díaz, Kurt Vonnegut, Alice Munro (I know, she writes short stories, but many of them have the arc of condensed novels).
J·M·库切(J. M. Coetzee)、詹妮弗·伊根(Jennifer Egan)、海明威(Hemingway)、伊丽莎白·斯特劳特(Elizabeth Strout)、裘帕·拉希里(Jhumpa Lahiri)、戴夫·艾格斯(Dave Eggers)、伊恩·麦克尤恩(Ian McEwan)、大卫·福斯特·华莱士(David Foster Wallace)、朱诺特·迪亚兹(Junot Díaz)、库尔特·冯内古特(Kurt Vonnegut)、艾丽丝·门罗(Alice Munro)（我知道她是写短篇小说的，但是其中很多小说像是浓缩的长篇小说）。

Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food

By Bryan Walsh
He's raised on grass and hay and lives happily on a pasture by the ocean. His meat is free of antibiotics, but can we afford to eat it? We can't afford not to




get real
Be realistic, understand what's going on, as in You think you'll win the lottery if you buy one ticket a week? Get real! [Slang; second half of 1900s]

arc 未譯出. 此字在文藝上的意思: 敘述或主題的發展(in a novel, play, or film) the development or resolution of the narrative or principal theme:


Volunteers rested next to the river Elbe on Sunday in Magdeburg, Germany.
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Waters Creep Higher in Budapest

By PALKO KARASZ and MELISSA EDDY 3:14 PM ET
A wet spring has swollen the Danube and Elbe rivers in Eastern and Central Europe, forcing thousands to evacuate and causing damage worth billions of euros. 




Danube


  音節
Dan • ube
発音
dǽnjuːb
[名]((the 〜))ドナウ川, ダニューブ川：ドイツ南西部に源を発し黒海に注ぐヨーロッパ第二の川. ▼ドイツ語名Donau. 我們依德文翻譯成多瑙河
Dan・u・bi・an〔-júbin〕
[形]

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The river Elbe has swept record floodwaters through Germany's eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt. One dike near Magdeburg burst overnight despite efforts by emergency workers. The water mass is draining toward Hamburg.


resolution

Pronunciation: /rɛzəˈluːʃ(ə)n/
Translate resolution | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish

noun

  • 1a firm decision to do or not to do something:she kept her resolution not to see Anne any more a New Year’s resolution
  • a formal expression of opinion or intention agreed on by a legislative body or other formal meeting, typically after taking a vote:the conference passed two resolutions
  • 2 [mass noun] the quality of being determined or resolute:he handled the last British actions of the war with resolution
  • 3 [mass noun] the action of solving a problem or contentious matter:the peaceful resolution of all disputes [count noun]:a successful resolution to the problem
  • Music the passing of a discord into a concord during the course of changing harmony: tension is released by the resolution from the dominant to the tonic chord
  • Medicine the disappearance of a symptom or condition: complete remission was defined as resolution of clinical evidence of disease
  • 4 [mass noun] chiefly Chemistry the process of reducing or separating something into constituent parts or components.
  • Physics the replacing of a single force or other vector quantity by two or more jointly equivalent to it.
  • 5the smallest interval measurable by a telescope or other scientific instrument; the resolving power.
  • [mass noun] the degree of detail visible in a photographic or television image:a high-resolution monitor

Origin:

late Middle English: from Latin resolutio(n-), from resolvere 'loosen, release' (see resolve)

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