2020年1月21日 星期二

implore, leave it in local hands, obstreperous, chrestomathy, supple, supplication

 
"The Implorer" by the highly underrated Camille Claudel. The sculpture was made in 1898. It portrays the tension between her and her lover Rodin caused by love and passion for creative art that they shared during their ten-year affair.
  "Managing" email has become a whole micro industry unto itself, in a world where we are obliged to become not only our own secretaries but "managers" of obstreperous datasets



 
Op-Ed: The Ugly American Telegram
The conviction that removing obstreperous foreign leaders facilitates Washington’s ability to steer events is a dangerous illusion. 



a chrestomathy diverse and supple.






U.S. House, D.C. Council Wrestle Over Gun Control
The struggle to regulate guns in the District in light of a historic U.S. Supreme Court ruling sparked competing legislative efforts yesterday as members of Congress debated taking control of the issue and the D.C. Council implored them to leave it in local hands.
(By Paul Duggan and Mary Beth Sheridan, The Washington Post)


  implore

verb
1 [T to infinitive] to ask someone to do or not do something in a very sincere, emotional and determined way:
She implored her parents not to send her away to school.

2 [T] LITERARY to ask for something in this way:
She clasped her hands, and glancing upward, seemed to implore divine assistance.

imploring
adjective
He had an imploring look in his eyes.

imploringly
adverb

implore Pronunciation



(verb) Call upon in supplication; entreat.
Synonyms:beg, pray
Usage:Once more I implore you not to waste so much money upon me.


[動]((文))(自)(…を)嘆願[懇願, 哀願]する, (特に)神に祈願する((for ...))
supplicate for forgiveness
許しを懇願する.
━━(他)
1 〈人・神に〉(…を)嘆願[懇願, 哀願]する((for ...;to do))
supplicate a patron to intervene in one's favor
保護者にとりなしを嘆願する.
2 〈物・事を〉嘆願[懇願, 哀願]する.

v., -cat·ed, -cat·ing, -cates. v.tr.
  1. To ask for humbly or earnestly, as by praying.
  2. To make a humble entreaty to; beseech.
v.intr.
To make a humble, earnest petition; beg.

[Middle English supplicaten, from Latin supplicāre, supplicāt-, from supplex, supplic-, suppliant. See supple.]
supplication sup'pli·ca'tion n.
supplicatory sup'pli·ca·to'ry (-kə-tôr'ē, -tōr'ē) adj.




The Age of Possibility

By DAVID BROOKS
The world is entering a post-familial age. Supple minds will be needed to recognize and navigate the new normal.

 Learning from a score, he once said, was "like making love by mail".
Words—even those of "O sole mio", every tenor's meal-ticket—were hard
to drum in; in opera or recital he almost never ventured out of his
crisp, supple Italian.


 Which reveals an important rift in the study of the purpose of play: a debate among play scholars about how to tell the story of play's possible short-term and long-term benefits. The flexibility hypothesis imposes one such story, but it might not be the best story. Just because it's possible to see how playing might contribute to a suppler brain and a more varied behavioral repertory, it does not follow that playing is the only way to achieve such flexibility. This relates to the concept of equifinality, an idea from systems theory that says there are usually more ways than one to arrive at a particular end. The fact that play offers one way of getting to an end need not mean it is the only way — nor need it mean that getting to that end is the ultimate purpose of play.

supple


音節
sup • ple
発音
sʌ'pl
[形](-pler, -plest)
1 〈物・体・動作などが〉しなやかな, 柔軟な(⇔rigid)
a supple fabric
しなやかな布.
2 〈心などが〉順応性のある, 柔軟な.
3 従順な;他人の機嫌をとる, 卑屈な.
━━[動](他)(自)柔軟にする[なる];従順にする[なる].
sup・ple・ly
[副]
sup・ple・ness
[名]

obstreperous

Syllabification: (ob·strep·er·ous)
Translate obstreperous | into Italian



adjective

  • noisy and difficult to control:the boy is cocky and obstreperous
Derivatives

obstreperously
adverb
obstreperousness
noun

Origin:

late 16th century (in the sense 'clamorous, vociferous'): from Latin obstreperus (from obstrepere, from ob- 'against' + strepere 'make a noise') + -ous




chrestomathy

 noun (plural chrestomathies)
formal
  • a selection of passages from an author or authors, designed to help in learning a language.

Origin:

mid 19th century: from Greek khrēstomatheia, from khrēstos 'useful' + -matheia 'learning'
音節
chres • tom • a • thy
発音
krestɑ'məθi | -tɔ'm-
[名](特に外国語学習用の)名句集, 名文選集.



supple

Pronunciation: /ˈsʌp(ə)l/
Translate supple | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish


adjective (suppler, supplest)

  • bending and moving easily and gracefully; flexible:her supple fingers figurativemy mind is becoming more supple
  • not stiff or hard; easily manipulated:this body oil leaves your skin feeling deliciously supple

verb

[with object]
  • make more flexible.
Derivatives
supplely
(also supply) adverb




suppleness

noun

Origin:

Middle English: from Old French souple, from Latin supplex, supplic- 'submissive', from sub- 'under' + placere 'propitiate'

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