2024年5月20日 星期一

derby, demolition derby, cabotage, demolition, demolish, short shrift

 An argument between construction workers escalated into a demolition derby-style clash that left at least two bulldozers flipped over in a street.
Video: bulldozers ramming each other demolition derby-style after dispute…
THEGUARDIAN.COM
 But by offering details about pictures in this manner, are museums fundamentally missing the point of what art is all about? One man who believes that they are is the British philosopher Alain de Botton, whose new book, Art as Therapy, co-written with the art theorist John Armstrong, is a polite but provocative demolition of the way that museums and galleries routinely present art to the public.



High school isn’t fun for everyone … even Nobel Prize laureates. 

“Although I was likeable and had a ‘good personality’ and was even funny, because I was small and shy and socially inept […] high school was not a great time for me,” said medicine laureate Harvey Alter. 

“I did pretty well scholastically, but was not an outstanding student, wrote for the school paper and magazine, won some minor honors and a national essay contest and most importantly, grew to a reasonable size. [...] Overall, my high school days were nothing like one sees in the movies; Ferris Bueller or Tom Cruise, I was not. So, I will give short shrift to my high school years as they were less than memorable.” 

Did you love high school?  

Learn more about Harvey Alter's life: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2020/alter/biographical/

cabotage


noun

[mass noun]
  • the right to operate sea, air, or other transport services within a particular territory.
  • restriction of the operation of sea, air, or other transport services within or into a particular country to that country’s own transport services.

Origin:

mid 19th century (in the sense 'coastal trade'): from French, from caboter 'sail along a coast', perhaps from Spanish cabo 'cape, headland'

demolition

Pronunciation: /dɛməˈlɪʃn/
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noun

[mass noun]
  • the action or process of demolishing or being demolished:the monument was saved from demolition
  • informal an overwhelming defeat: Ireland’s demolition of England

Derivatives



demolitionist

noun

Origin:

mid 16th century: via French from Latin demolitio(n-), from the verb demoliri (see demolish)


demolish

Pronunciation: /dɪˈmɒlɪʃ/
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verb

[with object]
  • pull or knock down (a building): the house was demolished to make way for the shopping centre
  • comprehensively refute (an argument or its proponent):I looked forward keenly to demolishing my opponent
  • informal overwhelmingly defeat (a player or team):Arsenal demolished City 3-0
  • British humorous eat up (food) quickly:Brown was busy demolishing a sausage roll

Derivatives

demolisher

noun

Origin:

mid 16th century: from French démoliss-, lengthened stem of démolir, from Latin demoliri, from de- (expressing reversal) + moliri 'construct' (from moles 'mass')
The European Union extends cabotage rights to airlines from all member countries. A French airline can operate a domestic route between two Italian cities; an Italian airline can do the reverse. Outside the EU, the situation is very different http://econ.st/1aVnpZC



In America, local airlines are protected by a bevy of rules. But the most obvious one is a near-total ban on cabotage rights for foreign airlines.





short shrift Show phonetics
noun [U]
If you get or are given short shrift by someone, you are treated without sympathy and given little attention:
He'll get short shrift from me if he starts complaining about money again, now that I know how much he earns!


make short shrift of sth

to deal with or get rid of something quickly:
Arantxa Sanchez Vicario made short shrift of her opponent, allowing her only two games in a 6-0, 6-2 demolition.



shrift
n. Archaic.
  1. The act of shriving.
  2. Confession to a priest.
  3. Absolution given by a priest. See Note at short shrift.
[Middle English, from Old English scrift, from Latin scrīptum, something written, from neuter past participle of scrībere, to write. See shrive.]
n. - 懺悔, 認罪
idioms:
  • short shrift 死刑等之暫緩執行, 不理會

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 懺悔, 臨終の懺悔, 告解聴聞席


Demolition derby is a motorsport usually presented at county fairs and festivals. While rules vary from event to event, the typical demolition derby event consists of five or more drivers competing by deliberately ramming their vehicles into one another.[1] The last driver whose vehicle is still operational is awarded the victory.[1]




Derby 2 

Pronunciation: /ˈdɑːbi/ 

NOUN (plural Derbies)

1An annual flat race for three-year-old horses, founded in 1780 by the 12th Earl of Derby and run on Epsom Downs in England in late May or early June.
1.1A race similar to the Derby, run elsewhere:the Irish Derby
1.2[OFTEN IN NAMES](also derby)An important sporting contest:the showjumping Derby at Hickstead
1.3(derby or local derby)British A sports match between two rival teams from the same area.
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2(derby)North American bowler hat.
Said to be from American demand for a hat of the type worn at the Epsom Derby


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