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Man on a Ledge (2012) - IMDb

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Directed by Asger Leth. With Sam Worthington, Elizabeth Banks, Jamie Bell, Mandy Gonzalez. As a police psychologist works to talk down an ex-con who is ...



"Et tu, Brute?" (pronounced [ɛt ˈtuː ˈbruːtɛ]) is a Latin phrase often used poetically to represent the last words of Roman dictator Julius Caesar to his friend Marcus Brutus at the moment of his murder by stabbing. It can be variously translated as "Even you, Brutus?","And you, Brutus?", "You too, Brutus?", "Thou too, Brutus?" or "And thou, Brutus?"^[1]. Immortalized by Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (1599), the quotation is widely used in Western culture to signify the utmost betrayal.

The last of the Manchus


Et tu, Manchu?

One hundred years on, only a few native speakers remain
you too, Brutus (Caesar’s last words)

translate 
verb [I or T]
1 to change words into a different language:
We were asked to translate a list of sentences.
She works for the EU, translating from English into French.
Compare interpret (BETWEEN LANGUAGES).

2 to change something into a new form, especially to turn a plan into reality:
So how does this theory translate into practical policy?
The ways of working that he had learnt at college did not translate well (= were not suitable) to the world of business.

Lehman Brothers reported a drop in fourth-quarter profit on Thursday, the first sign of the toll that subprime mortgages will take on investment banks for the quarter. But the firm still managed to beat analyst expectations.Lehman said that it earned $886 million in net income, a 12 percent drop from the same time last year. That translates to a profit of $1.54 a share, a 10 percent drop from 2006. Analysts surveyed by Bloomberg News had expected earnings per share of $1.44.


3 translate sth as sth to decide that words, behaviour or actions mean a particular thing:He mumbled something which I translated as agreement.



vertu
(vər-tū', vĭr-) also ver·tu
(vər-)
n.

1. A knowledge or love of or taste for fine objects of art.
2. Objects of art, especially fine antique objets d'art, considered as a group.

[Italian virtù, virtue, virtu, from Latin virtūs, excellence, virtue. See virtue.]

ledge

Syllabification: (ledge)

Pronunciation: /lej/

• 1a narrow horizontal surface projecting from a wall, cliff, or other surface:he heaved himself up over a ledge

• 2an underwater ridge, especially of rocks beneath the sea near the shore.

• 3 Mining a stratum of metal- or ore-bearing rock; a vein of quartz or other mineral.

Derivatives

ledgy

Pronunciation: /ˈlejē/

adjective

Origin:

Middle English (denoting a strip of wood or other material fixed across a door, gate, etc.): perhaps from an early form of lay¹. sense 1 dates from the mid 16th century