a skeleton crew/staff, family skeleton

 Two skeletons found in Montana by commercial fossil hunters are to be auctioned in New York, where they could bring an estimated $7 million to $9 million.




family skeleton 家醜不可外揚
idiom:

skeleton in (one's) closet

1. A source of shame or disgrace, as in a family, that is kept secret.

Mr. Takeuchi and others in the online media point to a number of reasons the sites have failed, beginning with advertising revenues that are too low to support even a skeleton newsroom staff.

MF Global Lays Off Vast Majority of Broker-Dealer Employees The court-appointed trustee overseeing the liquidation of MF Global's broker-dealer unit laid off 1,066 employees on Friday, keeping only a skeleton staff to assist in the dissolution of the business.

在西方，以「頭顱骨」(skull，他們從中世紀才有這樣死神代表物說法。17世紀的墓葬雕塑，有時用骷髏skeleton代之) 的冥想「無常」為主，譬如說，耶蘇會的神修。代表老年。肖像畫中的它表示虔敬……。四種氣質中代表「憂鬱」。http://hccart.blogspot.tw/2013/07/dictionary-of-subjects-and-symbols-in.html

skeleton
n.

1. 1. The internal structure composed of bone and cartilage that protects and supports the soft organs, tissues, and other parts of a vertebrate organism; endoskeleton.
   2. The hard external supporting and protecting structure in many invertebrates, such as mollusks and crustaceans, and certain vertebrates, such as turtles; exoskeleton.
2. A supporting structure or framework, as of a building.
3. An outline or sketch.
4. Something reduced to its basic or minimal parts.
5. One that is very thin or emaciated.

adj.

1. Of, relating to, or resembling a skeleton.
2. Reduced to the basic or minimal parts or members: a skeleton crew.

fatigues, turbans, mitre, mitral

Anterior (frontal) view of the opened heart. White arrows indicate normal blood flow. (Mitral valve labeled at center right.)

Ryan Remiorz/CP, via Associated Press

Canadian Soccer Rift Grows Over Turbans

By SAM BORDEN and IAN AUSTEN 8:20 PM ET

The Quebec Soccer Federation refused to comply with a national directive permitting players to wear turbans. Aneel Samra, above, says he won’t play this year.

It is very characteristic for this pope that he refused to cover his head with the golden miter after his election. He said: “Carnival is over, I don't want this.”

mitre ：禮帽；主教帽；牧冠；法冠；制帽：教會高級聖職人士行聖儀時所戴用的禮冠。拉丁文稱作 mitra 。

The mitre ( /ˈmaɪtər/; Greek: μίτρα, "headband" or "turban"), also spelled miter, is a type of headwear now known as the traditional, ceremonial head-dress of bishops and certain abbots in the Roman Catholic Church, as well as in the Anglican Communion, some Lutheran churches, and also bishops and certain other clergy in the Eastern Orthodox churches, Eastern Catholic Churches and the Oriental Orthodox Churches.

This article is about religious headgear. For other uses, see Mitre (disambiguation).

An unembellished Western mitre with gold lappets.

Bishops of the Armenian Catholic Church in Jerusalem wearing mitres.

mitre ：禮帽；主教帽；牧冠；法冠；制帽：教會高級聖職人士行聖儀時所戴用的禮冠。拉丁文稱作 mitra 。

Over two days, more than a hundred people — Christians, Jews, housewives, naval officers, professors; people outfitted in everything from business suits to military fatigues to turbans to baseball caps — streamed through the halls of the William B. Travis Building in Austin, Tex., waiting for a chance to stand before the semicircle of 15 high-backed chairs whose occupants made up the Texas State Board of Education. Each petitioner had three minutes to say his or her piece.

Yemenite Jew in the early 20th century wearing keffiyeh wrapped like a turban.

fatigue
━━ n. 疲労; 労役; 【機】金属疲労 （metal fatigue）; 【軍】雑役(えき) （fatigue duty）; 【軍】（pl.） 作業衣 （fatigue uniform）.
━━ vt. 疲れさせる.
━━ vi. 疲れる.
fatigue allowance　疲労許容時間率 ((疲労による作業遅滞の時間幅)).
fatigue party　【軍】雑役班.

nigh, well-nigh, apocalyptic, term of office

Despite calling Brown's term as prime minister a "disaster," Blair said preventing Brown's ascension to the office was "well-nigh impossible."

On March 31, 1968, President Johnson stunned the country by announcing he would not run for another term of office.

a well-nigh apocalyptic vision,
after all nigh

 Google Driverless Toyota Prius Hits the Road in Nevada
eWeek
Google's driverless car has been approved for a license, the first of its kind issued, to be tested on the roads of Nevada. Terminator fans rejoice: The machines are winning, and Judgment Day draws nigh. Maybe not quite yet, but Nevada took the nation ...

apocalyptic

Pronunciation: /əpɒkəˈlɪptɪk/

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adjective

• describing or prophesying the complete destruction of the world:the apocalyptic visions of ecologists
• momentous or catastrophic:the struggle between the two countries is assuming apocalyptic proportions
• of or resembling the biblical Apocalypse:apocalyptic imagery

Derivatives

apocalyptically

adverb

Origin:

early 17th century (as a noun denoting the writer of the Apocalypse, St John): from Greek apokaluptikos, from apokaluptein 'uncover' (see apocalypse)

nigh

Pronunciation: /nʌɪ/

adverb , preposition , & adjective

• 1 archaic or literary near: [as adjective]:the end is nigh [as adverb]:they drew nigh unto the city

• 2almost: [as adverb]:a car weighing nigh on two tons

Origin:

Old English nēh, nēah, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch na, German nah. Compare with near

well-nigh
(wĕl'nī')
adv.
Nearly; almost.

(of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; `near' is sometimes used informally for `nearly' and `most' is sometimes used informally for `almost'
Synonyms: about, just about, almost, most, all but, nearly, near, nigh, virtually

exceptions, grantor, take exception, mandate, usurp

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"There's not an action that I take that you don't have some folks in Congress who say that I'm usurping my authority. Some of those folks think I usurp my authority by having the gall to win the presidency."

PRESIDENT OBAMA, in an interview with The New York Times.



The name of Burma's then capital, Rangoon, also became Myanmar's center of power, Yanyon - later usurped by a new capital, Naypyidaw, built at the behest of the generals.
However, Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy has taken exception to the renaming, saying that the regime had no mandate to make such a change.




exceptions
Something that otherwise ought to be included in the category from which it is eliminated. 157 F. 2d 661, 665. "Exceptions" arise in numerous contexts. statutory exceptions are intended to restrain the enacting clause or to exclude something which would otherwise be within it, or to modify it in some manner. 102 P. 2d 251, 256.
An "exception" to a court's ruling is an objection to such ruling or the calling of an error to the attention of the court in some manner. 168 N.E. 2d 285, 287.
"Exception" is also generally used as a term meaning to withhold from a conveyance of land an estate or interest which has previously been severed and which is usually not owned by the grantor. 506 P. 2d 1236, 1238.

usurp

Pronunciation: /jʊˈzəːp, jʊˈsəːp/

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verb

[with object]

• take (a position of power or importance) illegally or by force:Richard usurped the throne
• take the place of (someone in a position of power) illegally; supplant:the Hanoverian dynasty had usurped the Stuarts
• [no object] (usurp on/upon) archaic encroach or infringe upon (someone’s rights):the Church had usurped upon the domain of the state

Derivatives

usurpation

Pronunciation: /ˌjuːzəˈpeɪʃ(ə)n, ˌjuːs-/

noun

usurper

noun

Origin:

Middle English (in the sense 'appropriate a right wrongfully'): from Old French usurper, from Latin usurpare 'seize for use'

exception
[名][U][C]

1 例外, 除外(exclusion)

with the exception of ...
… を除いて

without exception
例 外なく.

2 [C]（…の）除外例, 例外, 特例((to ...))

an exception to a rule
規 則の例外

make an exception of ［for］ ...
…を例外［特別扱い］とする

make no exception(s) of ［for］ ...
…を例外としない, 特別扱いしない

The exception proves the rule.
((ことわざ)) 例外のあるのは規則のある証拠.

3 異議, 反対, 不服, 苦情；《法律》異議（申し立て）, 異議留保

a statement liable to exception
異議の起こりそうな発言.

take exception

(1) （…に）異議を申し立てる, 苦情を言う((to, against ...))

He took exception to my ideas on politics.
彼は私の政治についての考えに異議を唱えた.

(2) （…に）腹を立てる, 怒る((to, at ...)).
 Disagree with, object to, as in I take exception to that remark about unfair practices. This idiom, first recorded in 1542, uses exception in the sense of "objection," a meaning obsolete except in a few phrases.

grantor

• 〔rǽntr | rnt〕

[名]《法律》譲

mandate[man・date]

• レベル：大学入試程度
• 発音記号[mǽndeit]

[名]

1 （選挙によって議員・行政府に与えられる）（…する）為政権((to do)).

2 （権力者・上級裁判所［官吏］からの）指令（書）, 命令（書）, 勅令.

3 [U][C]（国際連盟による）委任統治（領, 植民地）.

4 《カトリック》（教皇の）聖職叙任権, 命令権.

━━[動](他)

1 〈領土・植民地などの〉統治を委任する.

2 ((主に米))((しばしば受身))…するよう（公式に）命じる((to do))；〈権能を〉負託する.

［ラテン語mandātum （manus手＋dare与える＋-tum＝手の中に与えること）. △MANUAL, DATE¹］

self'-support, faint talent, recollect, to the best of my recollection

Again, the newspapers last year printed proposals to 
construct a Wagner Opera House, to cost, if I recollect 
rightly, ; 100,000 about as much as a hundred labourers 
may earn by fifteen or twenty years hard work.

a faint talent for painting...
....by the time she was self-supporting she had nearly forgotten her father, and her mother was dying


self'-support
(sĕlf'sə-pôrt', -pōrt')
n.
The act of or capacity for supporting oneself, especially financially, without the help of others.

self-supported self'-sup·port'ed or self'-sup·port'ing adj.





faint
adj., faint·er, faint·est.

1. Lacking strength or vigor; feeble.
2. Lacking conviction, boldness, or courage; timid.
3. 1. Lacking brightness: a faint light in the gloom.
   2. Lacking clarity or distinctness: a faint recollection.
4. Likely to fall into a faint; dizzy and weak: felt faint for a moment.

[形]

1 〈色・音・光が〉ぼんやりした, ほのかな；〈考えなどが〉はっきりしない；弱い

a faint odor of gas
かすかなガスのにおい

faint lines
（用紙の）薄けい線.

2 〈息などが〉弱々しい, わずかな, かすかな；気の乗らない, 心のこもらない, 熱意のない

a faint effort
形ばかりの努力

with faint hope
かすかな望みを持って.

3 ((叙述))〈人が〉（…で）気を失いそうな, ふらふらして, 疲れきって((with ...))

feel faint with hunger
空腹で目がかすむ

He felt suddenly faint.
突然気を失いそうになった.

4 ((文))気の弱い

Faint heart never won fair lady.
((ことわざ)) 弱気が美人を得たためしはない.

━━(自)

1 （一時的に）気が遠くなる, 気絶する((away))

faint with ［from］ hunger
空腹で気を失う.

2 ((古))弱る, 気がくじける.

3 ((古))〈音などが〉かすかになる.

━━[名]((通例a 〜))気絶, 失神

in a dead faint
気絶して, 気を失って

fall (down) ［go off］ in a faint
気を失う.

faint・ish

[形]

faint・ness

[名][U]気の弱さ；微弱；失神.

recollect 1

Pronunciation: /ˌrɛkəˈlɛkt/

verb

[with object]

• remember (something); call to mind:he could not quite recollect the reason ‘Can you recollect how he reacted?’

Origin:

early 16th century (in the sense 'gather'): from Latin recollect- 'gathered back', from the verb recolligere, from re- 'back' + colligere 'collect'

recollection

Pronunciation: /ˌrɛkəˈlɛkʃ(ə)n/

noun

[mass noun]

• the action or faculty of remembering or recollecting something:to the best of my recollection no one ever had a bad word to say about him
• [count noun] a thing recollected; a memory:a biography based on his wife’s recollections

Derivatives

recollective

adjective

Origin:

late 16th century (denoting the action of gathering things together again): from French or medieval Latin recollectio(n-), from the verb recolligere 'gather again' (see recollect¹)

sacrum, sacral, sanctum, curve, take a curve

 Benson was warmly welcomed into The Beatles’ inner sanctum, resulting in some of the most intimate photographs ever taken of the band, then on the cusp of world domination.

Spanish Train Inquiry Looks at Driver After 80 Die

By SILVIA TAULÉS and DOREEN CARVAJAL 3:45 PM ET

Rescuers were picking through debris after a train, which some reports said was traveling at excessive speed, tumbled while taking a curve.

sanctum[sanc・tum]

• 発音記号[sǽŋktəm]

[名]（複 〜s, -ta 〔-t〕）

1 神聖な場所, 聖所.

2 （だれの干渉も受けない）私室, 書斎.
sacral
1. adj. - 宗教典儀或活動的
2. adj. - 祭典的, 薦骨的, 聖禮的
日本語 (Japanese) adj. - 仙骨の, 聖礼の, 聖式の, 神聖なn. - 仙椎, 仙骨神経

Bone: Sacrum

Sacrum, pelvic surface

Image of pelvis. Sacrum is in center.
Latin
os sacrum
Gray's
subject #24 106
MeSH
Sacrum
In vertebrate anatomy the sacrum is a large, triangular bone at the base of the spine and at the upper and back part of the pelvic cavity, where it is inserted like a wedge between the two hip bones. Its upper part connects with the last lumbar vertebra, and bottom part with the coccyx (tailbone). In children, it consists of usually five unfused vertebrae which begin to fuse between ages 16–18 and are usually completely fused into a single bone by age 26.
It is curved upon itself and placed obliquely (that is, tilted forward). It is kyphotic — that is, concave facing forwards. The base projects forward as the sacral promontory internally, and articulates with the last lumbar vertebra to form the prominent sacrovertebral angle. The central part is curved outward towards the posterior, allowing greater room for the pelvic cavity.
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Etymology
The name is derived from the Latin sacer, "sacred", a translation of the Greek hieron (osteon), meaning sacred or strong bone.[1] Since the sacrum is the seat of the organs of procreation, animal sacrums were offered in sacrifices. In Slavic languages and in German this bone is called the "cross bone".[2]

curve

Pronunciation: /kəːv/

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noun

• a line or outline which gradually deviates from being straight for some or all of its length:the parapet wall sweeps down in a bold curve
• North American a place where a road deviates from a straight path:the vehicle rounded a curve
• (curves) a curving contour of a woman’s figure: her dress twisted tightly round her generous curves
• a line on a graph (whether straight or curved) showing how one quantity varies with respect to another:the population curve
• Baseballanother term for curveball.he relies on a couple of curves and a modest fastball

verb

• form or cause to form a curve: [no object]:her mouth curved in a smile [with object]:starting with arms outstretched, curve the body sideways

Phrases

ahead of (or behind) the curve

(especially of a business or politician) ahead of (or lagging behind) current thinking or trends:we are continually looking for ways to stay ahead of the curve and provide added value to our consumers

throw someone a curve

North American informalanother way of saying throw someone a curveball.just when you think you have this parenting thing down pat, they throw you a curve

Origin:

late Middle English: from Latin curvare 'to bend', from curvus 'bent'. The noun dates from the late 17th century

パラペット【parapet】

1. １ 建物の屋上、テラスのへり、橋梁の両側などに設け、人の落下を防ぐ手すり・勾欄 (こうらん) 。

1. ２ 城郭などに設けた防御用胸壁 (きょうへき) 。

set up, charity, muddle along, hubristic, insanity

Pentagon Lays Out Options for U.S. Military Effort in Syria

“To consider this intervention as the moral high ground is the height of hubris or insanity,” writes Grant.

But those hoping for an invite from Obama or the chance to swap recipes with the First Lady might be setting themselves up for disappointment.
但那些希望能被歐巴瑪邀請，或有機會跟第一夫人交換食譜的人，怕是注定要失望了。
Despite vowing to come home to Chicago as often as possible, the Obamas spend most of their time in Washington and have chosen Camp David and Martha’s Vineyard for recent vacations.
儘管誓言會盡量多回芝加哥的家，歐巴瑪一家人大多數時間還是待在華府，而且近來選擇前往大衛營與馬莎葡萄園度假。


In the end, there is a deep contradiction in Hayek’s thought. His great insight is that individual human beings muddle along, making progress by planning, experimenting, trying, failing and trying again. They never have as much clarity about the future as they think they do. But Hayek somehow knows with great certainty that when governments, as opposed to individuals, engage in a similar process of innovation and discovery, they will fail. He insists that the dividing line between state and society must be drawn according to a strict abstract principle rather than through empirical adaptation. In so doing, he proves himself to be far more of a hubristic Cartesian than a true Hayekian.

hubris[hu・bris]

• 発音記号[hjúːbris | hjúː-]

((文))[名][U]自信過剰；ごう慢.

hu・bris・tic

hubris

Pronunciation: /ˈhjuːbrɪs/

noun

[mass noun]

• excessive pride or self-confidence: the self-assured hubris among economists was shaken in the late 1980s
• (in Greek tragedy) excessive pride towards or defiance of the gods, leading to nemesis.

Derivatives

hubristic

Pronunciation: /-ˈbrɪstɪk/

adjective

charity
(chăr'ĭ-tē)
n., pl., -ties.

1. Provision of help or relief to the poor; almsgiving.
2. Something given to help the needy; alms.
3. An institution, organization, or fund established to help the needy.
4. Benevolence or generosity toward others or toward humanity.
5. Indulgence or forbearance in judging others. See synonyms at mercy.
6. often Charity Christianity. The theological virtue defined as love directed first toward God but also toward oneself and one's neighbors as objects of God's love.

[Middle English charite, from Old French, Christian love, from Latin cāritās, affection, from cārus, dear.]

[名]（複-ties）

1 [U][C]慈善, 施し, 救恤(きゅうじゅつ)；公の救済［扶養, 援助］

charity for the poor
貧者への施し

be (as) cold as charity
((婉曲))とても冷淡である（▼慈善が時に形式化することから）

live on charity
施し［援助］を受けて生活する.

2 施し物, 救助金［品］；慈善基金［団体, 施設］；慈善的援助を受ける人；((通例-ties))慈善行為［事業］；((複合語))慈善…

a charity concert
チャリティーコンサート

give the orphans charity
孤児たちに施しをする

perform many charities
多くの慈善事業をする

ask for charity
施しを求める.

3 [U]慈善（の）心, 思いやり

out of charity
慈善で；哀れに思って

with charity
愛情をもって.

4 [U]キリスト教的愛, 同胞［隣人, 人間］愛

Charity begins at home.
((ことわざ)) 愛は家庭に始まる；愛はまず身近な所から.

［古フランス語←ラテン語cāritās （cārus親愛なる＋-ITY）. △CHERISH］

SET UP

1. Place in an upright position, as in I keep setting up this lamp but it won't stay up. [c. 1200]
2. Elevate, raise; also, put in a position of authority or power, as in They set him up as their leader. [Late 1300s]
3. Put oneself forward, claim to be, as in He set himself up as an authority on the banking system. [Mid-1800s]
4. Assemble, erect, make ready for use, as in They set up the sound system last night. [c. 1200]

5. Establish, found, as in They set up a new charity for the homeless. [Early 1400s]

6. Establish in business by providing capital or other backing, as in His father set her up in a new dental practice. [First half of 1500s]
7. Treat someone to drinks, pay for drinks, as in Please let us set you up tonight. [Colloquial; late 1800s]
8. Stimulate or exhilarate, as in That victory really set up our team. [c. 1600]
9. Lay plans for, as in I think they set up the kidnapping months ago. [First half of 1900s]
10. Prepare someone for a deception or trickery or joke, as in They set up their victim for the usual real estate scam, or Her friends set her up so that she was the only person in costume. [Mid-1900s]
11. Cause, bring about, as in The new taxes set up howls of protest. [Mid-1800s]

digress, divagate, get down to, pernicious and desultory regulators

Destroyed by pernicious and desultory regulators. That's one epitaph for consumer-lending giant Takefuji, which Tuesday filed for bankruptcy.


 I try not to digress too much during my lectures, but I am not always successful at avoiding tangential topics.

In Colorado, Getting Down to Business of Marijuana

By DAN FROSCH

Six weeks after voters made Colorado one of two states to legalize the recreational use of marijuana, a task force started to determine how the state will regulate its use.

Finally, a Motel for Tail-Wagging Romance

By SIMON ROMERO

Brazil’s newest short-stay pleasure palace stands apart from the crowd in one crucial aspect. It is for dogs.

I, too, wrote a column at that time about the derivation of keister - a borrowing, through Yiddish, of the German Kiste, "chest" - with its original meaning of "satchel, handbag" and its current meaning of "fanny, rump, bottom, tush, can, buttocks, backside" as well as the British "bum" and the French "derrière." (The bureaucratic cognoscenti prefer "posterior," as in the initialese slogan C.Y.A., meaning "cover your posterior." The "a" stands for a synonym not permitted in The Times, as an admiring salute to a diktat by the former executive editor, A.M. Rosenthal, who thought it was in bad taste and boldly asserted his stylistic prerogative. But I divagate.)

get down to bedrock

get down to business

音節

get ［come］ down to business

本気で仕事にかかる；本論にはいる.

Finally, a Motel for Tail-Wagging Romance

By SIMON ROMERO

Brazil’s newest short-stay pleasure palace stands apart from the crowd in one crucial aspect. It is for dogs.

apart from ...[apart from ...]

(1) …は別として, はさておき（((米))aside from）. ⇒EXCEPT[類語]

Apart from its cost, the plan was a good one.
費用の点を除けば, その計画は申し分なかった.
(2) …のほかに

Who else went there apart from you？
あなたの他にだれがそこに行ったの.
(3) ⇒[副]2

divagate
[dáivəgèit]

[動](自)さまよう；〈話が〉わき道にそれる, 脱線する.

intr.v., -gat·ed, -gat·ing, -gates.

1. To wander or drift about.
2. To ramble; digress.

[Late Latin dīvagārī, dīvagāt- : Latin dī-, dis-, apart; see dis- + Latin vagārī, to wander (from vagus, wandering).]

divagation di'va·ga'tion n.

真相をきわめる；((米俗))底をつく, 一文無しになる.

get down to business

本気で仕事にかかる；本論にはいる.

come down to cases

((米))(1) 要点にはいる.(2) 真剣に事を考える.

get down to the nitty-gritty

核心をえぐる.

digress

Pronunciation: /dʌɪˈgrɛs/

Translate digress | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish

verb

[no object]

• leave the main subject temporarily in speech or writing:I have digressed a little from my original plan

Derivatives

digresser

noun

Origin:

early 16th century: from Latin digress- 'stepped away', from the verb digredi, from di- 'aside' + gradi 'to walk'

des·ul·to·ry (dĕs'əl-tôr'ē, -tōr'ē, dĕz'-)
adj.

1. Having no set plan; haphazard or random. See synonyms at chance.
2. Moving or jumping from one thing to another; disconnected: a desultory speech.

[Latin dēsultōrius, leaping, from dēsultor, a leaper, from dēsultus, past participle of dēsilīre, to leap down : dē-, de- + salīre, to jump.]

desultorily des'ul·to'ri·ly adv.
desultoriness des'ul·to'ri·ness n.

adjective:
1. Marked by absence of a plan; disconnected; jumping from one thing to another.
2. Digressing from the main subject; random.

Etymology
From Latin desultorius (leaping, pertaining to a circus rider who jumps from one horse to another), from desilire (to leap down), from salire (to jump). Other words derived from the same Latin root, salire, are sally, somersault, insult, result, saute, salient, and saltant. Earliest documented use: 1581.

Usage
"Anyway, here we are with our little burgers and cokes, making the sort of desultory conversation that those who have been married 30 years make -- when this newly married couple walk in." — Bikram Vohra; Love is the Last Bite; Khaleej Times (Dubai, United Arab Emirates); Apr 16, 2011.

per·ni·cious (pər-nĭsh'əs)
adj.

1. 1. Tending to cause death or serious injury; deadly: a pernicious virus.
   2. Causing great harm; destructive: pernicious rumors.
2. Archaic. Evil; wicked.

[Middle English, from Old French pernicios, from Latin perniciōsus, from perniciēs, destruction : per-, per- + nex, nec-, violent death.]

perniciously per·ni'cious·ly adv.
perniciousness per·ni'cious·ness n.

motto, concordance/ Concord, scholasticism

1.《李賀詩引得（A concordance to the poems of Li Ho）》，艾文博（Robert L. Irick），蕭繼宗譯，台北：美國亞洲協會中文研究資料中心，1967年；台北：成文出版社，1967年。
協和
Concordia passengers, experts dissect cruise ship disaster

CBC.ca‎ - 47 minutes ago

The dangerous manoeuvre that caused the Costa Concordia cruise ship to crash into rocks off the shore of the Italian island of Giglio last month was likely ...已廢的英法共同開發的飛機協和號Concord
協和號火車(中國) harmony

concordance

• [kɑnkɔ'ːrdns | kən-]

(kən-kôr'dns)
n.

1. Agreement; concord.
2. An alphabetical index of all the words in a text or corpus of texts, showing every contextual occurrence of a word: a concordance of Shakespeare's works.
3. Genetics. The presence of a given trait in both members of a pair of twins.

[名]

1 [U]一致；和合, 調和

in concordance with ...
…に従って［一致して］；…と調和して.

2 （本・作品などの）用語索引, コンコーダンス((to ...))

concordance to the Bible
聖書索引.

3 [U]《遺伝学》一致：特定の特質が双生児の両方に現れていること.

Quote: "The truth in its proper use."

— The Wall Street Journal's founding motto

The Latin motto of the Royal Society, Nullius in verba, translates as "On the words of no one", or "take nobody's word for it". The full quotation from Horace is Nullius addictus judicare in verba magistri which means "Not compelled to swear to any master's words". This is interpreted by the Society as "an expression of the determination of the Fellows to withstand the domination of authority (such as in Scholasticism) and to verify all statements by an appeal to facts determined by experiment".^[5] At its foundation, the philosophical basis of the Royal Society differed from previous philosophies such as Scholasticism, which established scientific truth based on deductive logic, concordance with divine providence and the citation of such ancient authorities as Aristotle. In fact, it represented the final triumph of the vision of the thirteenth-century friar Roger Bacon, who had fought scholastic authorities in an attempt to establish such a repository of learning.
Quote:

"Non Sibi Sed Patriae (Not for self, but for country)" — US Navy motto, inscribed over the chapel doors at the US Naval Academy

Title	Gothic architecture and scholasticism
Author	Erwin Panofsky
Contributor	Erwin Panofsky
Publisher	New American Library, 1976

scholasticism

Pronunciation: /skəˈlastɪˌsɪz(ə)m/

noun

[mass noun]

• the system of theology and philosophy taught in medieval European universities, based on Aristotelian logic and the writings of the early Christian Fathers and emphasizing tradition and dogma.
• narrow-minded insistence on traditional doctrine: an absorption in the past without a hint of scholasticism

motto
n., pl. -toes or -tos.

1. A brief statement used to express a principle, goal, or ideal. See synonyms at saying.
2. A sentence, phrase, or word of appropriate character inscribed on or attached to an object.
3. A maxim adopted as a guide to one's conduct.

[Italian, word, motto, probably from Vulgar Latin *mōttum, word. See mot.]

━━ n. （pl. 〜(e)s） （盾などに刻んだ）銘, 金言; 標語, モットー; （論文などの初めに引用した）題句; 【楽】反復楽句; 〔英〕 （包装などに記された）金言, 格言.

give birth, maternity leave/care, childbirth, afterbirth, used-car lot, umbilical cord

Duchess of Cambridge Gives Birth to a Son5

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"I feel like I'm in a used-car lot."

RENÉE MARTIN, who was quoted a price of $4,000 to $45,000 for maternity care.



Paying Till It Hurts American Way of Birth, Costliest in the World
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
Maternity care and childbirth cost far more in the United States than in any other developed country.

EU member states reject longer maternity leave 產假

The EU Parliament's proposal to increase maternity leave from 14 to 20
weeks has been rejected by member states, among them Germany. They also
dismissed an increase to 18 weeks as proposed by the European Commission.

The DW-WORLD.DE Article
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=ew726iI44va89pIa
afterbirth, hemoglobin, umbilical cord,



Benefits Found in Delaying the Severing of the Umbilical Cord
By CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS 7:35 PM ET

A study found that delaying clamping for at least a minute after birth significantly improves iron stores and hemoglobin levels in newborn babies.


afterbirth

The special tissues associated with the development of a fetus in the uterus that are expelled after the birth of a neonate. These are the placenta, or the structure attached to the wall of the uterus through which nourishment passes from the mother to the fetus, and the umbilical cord, which attaches the fetus to the placenta.





 See also fetal membranes.
n. - 胎盤, 胞衣
介於子宮內壁和胎兒之間的圓餅狀組織，中央有臍帶和胎兒相連，胎兒可藉此取得氧氣、養分，及排出二氧化碳及廢物到母體血液內，亦分泌激素促進子宮和乳腺的生長。

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 後産

hemoglobin

血紅蛋白（縮寫︰Hb或Hgb）是高等生物體內負責運載氧的一種蛋白質。可以用平均細胞血紅蛋白濃度測出濃度。

泉州盛行胎盤宴 饕客爭食 恐有染愛滋風險

時間：2009/8/17 07:37 撰稿‧編輯：吳寧康 　　新聞引據：蘋果日報

胎盤經放血、乾燥處理，用作中藥稱為「紫河車」(圖：三七健康網) 中國民間吃胎盤歪風屢禁不止，福建省泉州市餐飲界近日盛行胎盤宴，一盅「胎盤燉淮山湯」要價約2500元新台幣，必須提前預約才吃得到，食客趨之若鶩。不過醫界提醒，食用來路不明的胎盤有感染愛滋病或肝炎之虞，而且胎盤經過高溫烹煮養分已被破壞，和吃豬肚沒有兩樣。 　　中新網報導，泉州一家三星級飯店的邱姓廚師透露，一個新鮮胎盤醫院「售價」約1500元台幣，做成一盅「胎盤燉淮山湯」要價約2500元台幣，通常飯店的菜單上沒有這道菜只賣給熟客，而一個胎盤約可做4盅湯品，獲利相當驚人。 　　泉州市人民醫院中醫科主任王金都指出，胎盤的蛋白質和賀爾蒙等物質，經過高溫烹煮早已破壞殆盡，和吃豬肚沒有兩樣，此外還有罹患愛滋病、肝炎等傳染病風險。 　　此外，根據中國現行的法令，胎盤的所有權歸屬於產婦，醫院私下販售是違法行為。 　 　一名正常胎兒的胎盤重約500克，由腺體組織、纖維組織和結締組織等組成。胎盤若經過放血、乾燥處理，用作中藥稱為「紫河車」，民間相信具有滋補功能。 瀋陽市婦嬰醫院副院長周衛衛表示，將新鮮胎盤煮熟吃下，不少物質已在高溫中被破壞，營養與吃一般肉類無異，並沒有特殊補身功能。此外，產婦生產過程中，胎 盤可能受到多種細菌污染，隨意服食胎盤極可能罹患愛滋、肝炎等傳染疾病。

birth

Pronunciation: /bəːθ/

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noun

[mass noun]

• the emergence of a baby or other young from the body of its mother; the start of life as a physically separate being:he was blind from birth [count noun]:despite a difficult birth he’s fit and healthy
• the beginning or coming into existence of something:the birth of Socialist Realism
• a person’s origin, descent, or ancestry:the mother is English by birth he is of noble birth

verb

[with object] informal, chiefly North American

• give birth to (a baby or other young):she birthed five children within ten years

Phrases

give birth

bear a child or young:she gave birth to a son

Origin:

Middle English: from Old Norse byrth; related to bear¹

Definition of childbirth

noun

the action of giving birth to a child:she died in childbirth

maternity

• [mətə'ːrnəti]

[名]

1 [U]母であること, 母性；母らしさ.

2 産科病院, 産院.

3 妊婦服.

━━[形]((限定))妊娠［出産］（期間）の；産婦［妊婦］の（ための）

a maternity dress [maternity clothes]
妊婦服

a maternity nurse
助産看護婦

a maternity ward
産科病棟

maternity leave
出産育児休暇

maternity pay ［allowance］
((英))産休手当.

Definition of maternity

noun

• motherhood.
• [usually as modifier] the period during pregnancy and shortly after childbirth:maternity clothes

Origin:

early 17th century: from French maternité, from Latin maternus, from mater 'mother'