exophthalmic, rapport, phone-tapping

There are people with whom one immediately feels a rapport, the certainty that one will know them forever. So it was with Elisabeth Dennys, who has died aged 84, as she stood in the doorway of her Sussex house one morning in the autumn of 1988. She was in her mid-seventies, but could have been far younger: tall, slim, with that smile and blue, exophthalmic eyes characteristic of the Greene family.

Rapport Is Casualty of Merkel Eavesdropping

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rapport

Pronunciation: /raˈpɔː/

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noun

• a close and harmonious relationship in which the people or groups concerned understand each other’s feelings or ideas and communicate well:she was able to establish a good rapport with the children she had an instant rapport with animals [mass noun]:there was little rapport between them

Origin:

mid 17th century: French, from rapporter 'bring back'

rapport

 

音節

rap • port

発音

ræpɔ'ːr

レベル

社会人必須

rapportの変化形

rapports (複数形)

[名][U]（調和的な）関係, （…との）ラポール((with, between ...))

establish close rapport with one's employees
使用人たちと良好な関係を築きあげる.

exophthalmos

 

音節

ex • oph • thal • mos, -mus

発音

èksɑfθǽlməs | -ɔfθǽlmɔs, -miə

[名][U]眼球突出（症）.

-mic

exophthalmic

Pronunciation: /ˌɛksɒfˈθalmɪk/

adjective

Medicine

having or characterized by protruding eyes.


跌 眼球突出。唐張鷟《朝野僉載》卷四：“周張元一腹麤而腳短，項縮而眼跌。”明馮夢龍《古今譚概‧專愚部‧蝦蟆為馬》：“伯樂令其子執《馬經》畫樣求馬，經年無似者。更求之，得一大蝦蟆。歸白父曰：‘得一馬，隆顱跌目，脊郁縮，但蹄不如，累趨。’”