underserved, demographic, properties, demographics, demography

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underserved

Line breaks: under|served

Entry from British & World English dictionary

adjective

Inadequately provided with a service or facility: a medically underserved community

demography

Pronunciation: /dɪˈmɒgrəfi/

Translate demography | into Spanish

noun

[mass noun]

• the study of statistics such as births, deaths, income, or the incidence of disease, which illustrate the changing structure of human populations.
• the composition of a particular human population:Europe’s demography is changing

Derivatives

demographer

noun

Origin:

late 19th century: from Greek dēmos 'the people' + -graphy

demography 
noun [U]
1 the study of changes in the number of births, marriages, deaths, etc. in a particular area during a period of time:
historical demography

2 The demography of an area is the number and characteristics of the people who live in an area, in relation to their age, sex, whether they are married or not, etc:
The increase in the number of young people leaving to work in the cities has had a dramatic impact on the demography of the villages.

demographer 
noun [C]
a person who studies changes in numbers of births, marriages, deaths, etc. in an area over a period of time

demographic 
adjective
There have been monumental social and demographic changes in the country.
Current demographic trends suggest that there will be fewer school leavers coming into the workforce in ten years' time.

demographics 
plural noun
the quantity and characteristics of the people who live in a particular area, especially in relation to their age, how much money they have and what they spend it on:
The demographics of the country have changed dramatically in recent years.
No one has exact demographics on (= information about the quantity and characteristics of the people who live in) the area.

• under (LOWER POSITION)
• under (LESS THAN)
• under (EXPERIENCING)
• under (CONTROL)
• under (NAME)

properties was found in the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary at the entries listed below.

• property (THINGS OWNED)
• property (QUALITY)

━━ n. ((集合的)) 財産, 不動産（物件）; 所有物; 所有地; 所有（権）, 著作権; 特性; 【劇】小道具.
man of property　資産家.
prop・er・tied　━━ a. 財産のある.
property dividend　【金融】現物配当, 物品配当.
property insurance　【保険】財産保険, 財物保険, 損害保険.
property man　【劇】小道具方.
property tax　財産税.
real [personal] property　不動産［動産］.

de・mog・ra・phy

━━ n. 人口統計学.
de・mog・ra・pher　━━ n. 人口統計学者.
dem・og・raph・ic
　━━ a.
de・mo・graph・ics　━━ n.pl. （ある地域の）人口動勢.

kin, go places/ close, but no cigar,his next of kin

"I need to take into account the feelings of the next of kin," PM Najib Razak says


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元遺山集/卷02

維基文庫，自由的圖書館

< 元遺山集

與張仲傑郎中論文

文章出苦心，誰以苦心為？
正有苦心人，舉世幾人知？
工文與工詩，大似國手碁。
國手雖漫應，一著存一機。
不從著著看，何異管中窺？
文須字字作，亦要字字讀。
咀嚼有余味，百過良未足。
功夫到方圓，言語通眷屬。
只許曠與夔，聞弦知雅曲。
今人誦文字，十行誇一目。
閼顫失香臭，瞀視紛紅綠。
豪厘不相照，覿面楚與蜀。
莫訝荊山前，時聞刖人哭。

p. 159 vs p.448
A text has to be written character by character;
It should be read character by character.
Mulling over places where there is an aftertaste,
A hundred reading will not suffice.
If, by effort, one achieve full comprehension,
Its language will become like next-of-kin.


 Caldy Close

羅彥傑
A serial cat killer in South Wales appears to have struck again just a few miles from where eight pets mysteriously died in the summer.
南威爾斯一名連續殺貓犯，似乎再次犯案，且地點距離今夏8隻貓神秘死亡處僅數英里遠。
This time four cats are suspected to have been killed after drinking poisonous anti-freeze left out for them in Caldy Close, Barry, according to The Sun.
這次有4隻貓疑似在巴里市加爾地街喝了留給牠們的有毒防凍劑後遇害，根據太陽報報導。

close 似街非街

kin[kin]

• レベル：社会人必須
• 発音記号[kín]

[名]

1 [U]((集合的に複数扱い))親族, 親類

blood kin
親族.

2 [U]((まれ))血族［親族, 姻戚］関係；((古))一族, 一門

be of kin to ...
…と親戚である；…と似ている.

3 親類の者

his next of kin
((形式))彼の最近親者（たち）（▼単数・複数扱い）.

4 同類の人［物］, 同質.

━━[形]((叙述))（…の）親族で；同類［同質］で((to ...))

more kin than kind
血は通っても心は通わぬ〈Shak. Ham I. ii. 65〉

feel kin to ...
…に親近感をいだく.

［古英cynn. 原義は「種族」. △GENUS, KIND²］

Poems on poetry : literary criticism by Yuan Hao-wen, 1190-1257

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元好問的論詩絕句三十首

Close, but no cigar

Meaning

Fall just short of a successful outcome and get nothing for your efforts.

Origin

The phrase, and its variant 'nice try, but no cigar', are of US origin and date from the mid-20th century. Fairground stalls gave out cigars as prizes, and this is the most likely source, although there's no definitive evidence to prove that.

It is first recorded in print in Sayre and Twist's publishing of the script of the 1935 film version of Annie Oakley:

"Close, Colonel, but no cigar!"

It appears in U. S. newspapers widely from around 1949 onwards; for example, a story from The Lima News, Lima, Ohio, November 1949, where The Lima House Cigar and Sporting Goods Store narrowly avoided being burned down in a fire, was titled 'Close But No Cigar'.

enterprise. （be）on the run, ducked, duck and dive

Imelda Staunton: 'It's in my DNA to duck and dive'

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French armored car driver suspect in heist of millions
Police in Lyon have so far been stumped in their search for the driver of an armored car who vanished with millions of euros.
The DW-WORLD Articlehttp://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=ew2epqI44va89pI3

In his 11 days on the run, Musulin had become one of the country’s most popular antiheroes. More than a hundred Musulin Facebook fan groups have been created and he even receives marriage proposals.
在他11天逃亡期間，穆蘇林已成這個國家最受歡迎的反派英雄之一。Facebook上有100多個穆蘇林粉絲團，他甚至收到求婚請求。
"The context of the financial crisis has fostered sympathy toward this type of enterprise, " a supporter said. This seems to be the essence of Musulin’s support. Many people in France are still very angry about the economic crisis and hold a grudge against the banking system for being one of the causes of it. It’s not surprising that a bank heist would have such broad appeal — it’s almost as if Musulin was a modern-day Robin Hood, stealing from the rich （the banks） to give back to the poor （himself）.
「金融危機的背景助長了對這種勇氣的同情」，一名支持者說。這似乎是支持穆蘇林的重點，許多法國人至今仍對這次經濟危機感到憤怒，對銀行體系怨恨在心，認為它們是禍首之一。就好像穆蘇林是現代羅賓漢，劫富（銀行）濟貧（他自己）。
新聞辭典
errand：名詞，（為他人做的）差事、跑腿。例句：John paid that boy 5 dollars to run an errand for him.（約翰給那男孩5元替他跑腿。）
enterprise：名詞，冒險、進取精神、勇氣。例句：You have to show some enterprise to be successful.（你要成功就得拿出一點進取心。）
（be）on the run：名詞片語，逃亡中。例句：She raised the kids on her own while he was on the run.（她在他逃亡時獨力扶養小孩。）

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duck and dive

• British Use one’s ingenuity to deal with or evade a situation:she was all for a bit of ducking and diving, that’s how everyone lived

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  • It mostly seeks to duck and dive to avoid taking responsibility for the crass way this country is now managed on our behalf.
  • Take a bit of a chance here and duck and dive a bit there.
  • You see, he may duck and dive, but he cannot escape the fact that the defendants have failed to prove in any shape or form that he acted improperly, or tried to act improperly, in any game.

duck

音節

duck²

発音

dʌ'k

duckの変化形

ducks (複数形) • ducked (過去形) • ducked (過去分詞) • ducking (現在分詞) • ducks (三人称単数現在)

[動](自)

1 全身［頭］をひょいと水にもぐらせる.

2 ひょいとかがむ［頭を下げる］；身をかわす；逃げる；（打撃・人を）避ける；((略式))（責任などを）避ける((out (of) ...))

duck away from the ball
球をよける

Honey, I forgot to duck.
かわすのを忘れたんだよ（▼ボクサーのJack Dempseyの言葉（1926）を, 狙撃(そげき)されたReagan大統領が引用して妻に言った（1981））.

━━(他)（←(自)）

1 …をひょいと水に突き入れる, （池・流れなどに）ちょっと沈める((in ...)).

2 〈頭・体などを〉ひょいと下げる；〈打撃・仕事などを〉避ける, かわす

duck a blow
一撃をかわす

duck one's responsibilities
責任をのがれる.

━━[名]ひょいと頭を下げること；ひょいと水にもぐること；身をかわすこと, よけること. duck ²  (dk)

v. ducked, duck·ing, ducks

v.tr.

1. To lower quickly, especially so as to avoid something: ducked his head as the ball came toward him.

2. To evade; dodge: duck responsibility; ducked the reporter's question.

3. To push suddenly under water. See Synonyms at dip.

4. Games To deliberately play a card that is lower than (an opponent's card).

v.intr.

1. To lower the head or body.

2. To move swiftly, especially so as to escape being seen: ducked behind a bush.

3. To submerge the head or body briefly in water.

4. To evade a responsibility or obligation. Often used with out: duck out on one's family.

5. Games To lose a trick by deliberately playing lower than one's opponent.

n.

1. A quick lowering of the head or body.

2. A plunge into water.

---

[Middle English douken, to dive, possibly from Old English *dcan; akin to Middle Low German and Middle Dutch dken.]

sexpert, netiquette, mockumentary, bullsh*t, frenemy

There have, apparently, been "sexperts" since Calvin Coolidge was in office

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A young man from Long Beach, N.Y., bitter from losing a video game to another teenage boy, made a prank call to the police, pretending to be his gaming rival and saying he had just killed his own mother and brother. Authorities then launched a SWAT-team style response including helicopters. To reach for record-breaking understatement—yikes.

There is no doubt that the Post was trying to get across the fact that the kid who made the tasteless joke call is an video game-playing idiot, hence vidiot. But this word has been around longer than video games have. In a 1959 issue of LIFE, an advertisement jokingly defines a vidiot as “a person who pays a NEW price for a REBUILT TV picture tube!” Aside from being a reminder that we should all start calling our TVs picture tubes again, this is a testament to the staying power of what might seem like a cheesy novelty word. And this isn’t the only such fusion word that has stood the test of time.

Fusion words, or as Lewis Carroll called them, portmanteaus, are words that squish together portions of two separate words to create a single word with a new, combined meaning. The Oxford English Dictionary dates the word vidiot back to 1949 and defines one as “a habitual, undiscriminating viewer of television or player of video games,” a cousin to the lifeless couch potato.

Here are six other portmanteaus that may be older than they seem, with dates taken from earliest citations in the OED:

advertorial (advertisement + editorial) n., 1914: An advertisement or publication giving information about a product or service in the style of an editorial or objective report. This word has been around for at least 100 years, dating back to a time when people said things like “women folk” without a tongue in their cheek.

bullsh*t (bull + sh*t) n., 1915: rubbish, nonsense. The more upbeat hot sh*t, by contrast, wasn’t en vogue until the 1940s.Dipsh*t started making appearances in the 1960s, about the same time as the sarcastic No sh*t, Sherlock. And batsh*t crazy, an adjective today used to describe unfortunate ex-girlfriends, took off in the 1990s.

frenemy (friend + enemy) n., 1953: a person with whom one is friendly, despite a fundamental dislike or rivalry. This may sound like something that has only been central to pop culture since Lindsay Lohan played a mean girl, but people have been sayingfrenemy since Dina Lohan was just a twinkle in Grandpa Lohan’s eye.

mockumentary (mock + documentary) n., 1965: a film, television program, etc., which adopts the form of a serious documentary in order to satirize its subject. This word was taking it up to 11 for nearly 20 years before Rob Reiner put out This Is Spinal Tap.

netiquette (Internet + etiquette) n., 1982: an informal code of practice regulating the behavior of Internet users. In 1992, less than 20% of U.S. households had a computer, and yet the early adopters were already using cloying phrases a decade before that. One simply can’t keep up.

sexpert (sex + expert) n., 1924: An expert in sex (in various senses of the noun); esp. a person who advises on sexual relations, techniques, etc. One can only imagine what “sexual techniques” these sexperts could discuss in polite company in the 1920s. The lost art of heavy hand-holding, perhaps.

keel over, on an even keel, keelhaul, varmint, verminous

In addition, President Park Geun-hye, who has been withering in her criticism of the crew, has also argued that cozy relations between regulators and shippers may have contributed to the catastrophe, one of South Korea’s worst in peacetime. The prime minister, meanwhile, cited specific problems that might have been addressed by better regulation, including suspicions that renovations to add more sleeping cabins made the ship top-heavy and more likely to keel over.


Franz Kafka
"One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from
anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been
changed into a monstrous verminous bug."
--from "The Metamorphosis"



 France, like most other European Union nations, is doing all it can to keep its budget on an even keel, and Hollande has been using taxation to raise income.



 on an even keel
 keep on an even keel：片語，指讓某事保持均衡、穩定，如The manager cannot keep the firm on an even keel any longer.（經理已經無力讓公司維持穩定運作了。）

keel

 音節

keel

発音

kíːl

レベル

社会人必須

keelの変化形

keels (複数形) • keeled (過去形) • keeled (過去分詞) • keeling (現在分詞) • keels (三人称単数現在)

keelの慣用句

on an even keel, （全1件）

[名]

1 《海事》
(1) 竜骨, キール

lay (down) the keel
竜骨をすえる, 船を起工する.

(2) キール：平底荷舟, はしけの総称.

2 ((詩))船(ship).

3 （航空機の）竜骨.

4 《植物・動物》（葉・骨の）竜骨；（花の）舟弁, 竜骨弁；（鳥の）胸峰.

5 《建築》竜骨繰形.

6 ((the K-))《天文》りゅうこつ（竜骨）座(Carina).

7 ((英))キール：石炭の重量単位；21.5tに相当.

on an even keel

(1) 〈船が〉バランスを保って.
(2) 〈事業・国政などが〉安定した, おだやかな；〈人が〉落ち着いた.

━━[動](他)

1 〈船を〉ひっくり返す, 転覆させる((over, up)).

2 〈船・鳥の尾羽などに〉竜骨（状のもの）を備える.

3 〈暑さなどが〉〈人を〉卒倒［気絶］させる((over)).

━━(自)

1 〈船が〉ひっくり返る, 転覆する((over, up)).

2 ((略式))〈人が〉卒倒［気絶］する((over)).

keelhaul
(KEEL-hawl)

verb tr.
1. To haul under the keel of a ship.
2. To rebuke sharply.

Etymology
From Dutch kielhalen, from kiel (keel) + halen (to haul). In the olden times this form of punishment was inflicted in the Dutch and British navies. The punished sailor was tied to a rope looped under the ship and thrown in the water. Then he was dragged along the bottom of the ship to the other side. The result was either severe injuries from brushing against the barnacles on the ship's bottom or death from drowning. Thankfully, in modern times keelhauling is performed only metaphorically

Usage
"A determined farmer named Taggart is out to keelhaul the varmint that carried off his youngest son." — Gene Seymour; Unnecessary Sequel Creeps in Once Again; Los Angeles Times; Aug 29, 2003. (© Wordsmith.org)


varmint
n. Informal
One that is considered undesirable, obnoxious, or troublesome.
〔vά:rmint〕 ━━ n. 〔方〕 厄介な動物［人］, 害獣, 下劣なやつ.

[Variant of VERMIN.]

vermin

Pronunciation: /ˈvəːmɪn/

Translate vermin | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish

noun

[treated as plural]

• wild animals which are believed to be harmful to crops, farm animals, or game, or which carry disease, e.g. rodents: killed as vermin or game, the pumas have gone
• parasitic worms or insects: his clothes are infested with vermin
• people perceived as despicable and as causing problems for the rest of society:the vermin who ransacked her house

Derivatives

verminous

adjective

Origin:

Middle English (originally denoting animals such as reptiles and snakes): from Old French, based on Latin vermis 'worm'

keelhaul

━━ vt. （罰として，人を綱で縛って）船底をくぐらせる; 厳しくしかる.
⇒keel

Satyagraha, "mass taunting" or "collective needling.", gargantuan, inelegantly-named

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For the opera, see Satyagraha (opera). For the 2013 Hindi film, see Satyagraha (film).

Satyagraha (/ˌsætɪəˈɡrɑːhɑː/; Sanskrit: सत्याग्रह satyāgraha), loosely translated as "insistence on truth" (satya 'truth'; agraha 'insistence') or "soul force"^[1] or "truth force," is a particular philosophy and practice within the broader overall category generally known as nonviolent resistance or civil resistance. The term "satyagraha" was coined and developed by Mahatma Gandhi.^[2] He deployed satyagraha in the Indian independence movement and also during his earlier struggles in South Africa for Indian rights. Satyagraha theory influenced Nelson Mandela's struggle in South Africa under apartheid, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s and James Bevel's campaigns during the civil rights movement in the United States, and many other social justice and similar movements.^[3][4] Someone who practices satyagraha is a satyagrahi.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyagraha

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He is always taunting, testing limits, playing, up to some finely calculated point, with others' emotions. The essence of his spiritual gift is an edged gaiety, an Indic variety of kidding on the level, which keeps everyone—intimates, followers, rivals, officials, wisdom seekers from the West—psychologically off balance, unable to find their moral feet with him. Forged into a political instrument this becomes the famous Satyagraha, which literally means "truth force" or "perseverance in truth," is usually translated as "passive resistance" or (somewhat better) "militant non-violence," but which could perhaps be most informatively rendered as "mass taunting" or "collective needling." What in the end Gandhi did to colonial India was drive it to distraction.



“Satyagraha” (a Sanskrit term that means truth force) is more a musical ritual than a traditional opera. Impressionistic and out of sequence, it relates the story of Mohandas K. Gandhi’s fight for the civil rights of the Indian minority in South Africa from 1893 to 1914. The staging — created by Phelim McDermott, director, and Julian Crouch, associate director and set designer, for the Met and the English National Opera, where it was seen last year — makes inventive use of fanciful imagery, aerialists, gargantuan puppets and theatrical spectacle to convey the essence of a self-consciously spiritual work.


现代音乐作曲家-Philip Glass 歌劇《真理堅固（Satyagraha）》Philip Glass 受荷蘭鹿特丹市委託所作的歌劇 Satyagraha 於1980年９月首演，旨在敘述及闡揚甘地所創造的 Satyagraha 精神，...全劇以梵文演唱，歌詞則取材自薄伽梵歌當中的經文。歌劇的第一幕被命名為 Tolstoy，代表的
真理堅固（ 梵文：सत्याग्रह，Satyāgraha，英語：Satyagraha），字面意思為堅持真理，由梵文satya（真理）與 agraha（堅持）所組成的複合字，起源自印度教。它是非暴力抵抗與公民抵抗運動之中的一個思想流派，由甘地所創。甘地以真理堅固思想來推動印度獨立運動，這個思想對於南非納爾遜·曼德拉與美國馬丁·路德·金恩有很大的影響。

所謂的Satyagraha，是握住真理、愛與虔敬的意思。
Satyagraha本質上不是一個政治運動，而是一個喚醒和邀請你的對手和你愛的人民，一起合作走向真理、愛與虔敬之路。

pieces together, censure, disproportionateUnder the settlement, which the S.E.C. announced Wednesday, Merrill Lynch agreed to a censure but did not admit or deny the S.E.C.’s allegations that it violated securities laws from 2002 to 2004 for having “inadequate policies and procedures” for controlling access to institutional customer order flow through the squawk boxes.

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'Into the Tunnel: The Brief Life of Marion Samuel, 1931-1943'

By GÖTZ ALY
Reviewed by ALANA NEWHOUSE

Digging into historical archives, Götz Aly pieces together the life of an 11-year-old victim of the Holocaust.

Japan’s Upper House Censures Prime Minister 
By NORIMITSU ONISHI
The opposition-controlled upper house of Parliament passed a nonbinding censure motion against Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda on Wednesday.Wikipedia article "Non-binding resolution"

disproportionate 

adjective

too large or too small in comparison to something else, or not deserving its importance or influence:

There are a disproportionate number of girls in the class.

The country's great influence in the world is disproportionate to its relatively small size.

censure 

n [U] FORMAL

strong criticism or disapproval:

His dishonest behaviour came under severe censure.

censure 

verb [T] FORMAL

Ministers were censured for their lack of decisiveness during the crisis.

cen・sure

 

━━ n., vt. 非難（する）, 叱責（する）; 酷評（する） ((for)).
 cen・sur・a・ble　━━ a. 非難すべき.

piece together

tr.v., pieced, piec·ing, piec·es.

1. To mend by adding pieces or a piece to.
2. To join or unite the pieces of: He pieced together the vase. She pieced together an account of what had gone on during the stormy meeting.

idioms:

a piece of (one's) mind

1. Frank and severe criticism; censure.

of a piece

1. Belonging to the same class or kind.

piece by piece

1. In stages: took the clock apart piece by piece.

piece of cake

1. Informal. Something very easy to do: “Relearning to fly was a piece of cake” (Burton Bernstein).

piece of the action Slang.

1. A share of an activity or of profits: “a piece of the action in a Florida land deal” (Shana Alexander).

piece of work

1. A remarkable person, achievement, or product: “He's a very tough piece of work” (Ted Koppel).

[Middle English pece, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *pettia, probably of Celtic origin.]

taunt Show phonetics
verb [T]
to intentionally annoy and upset someone by making unkind remarks to them, laughing at them, etc:
The other children used to taunt him in the playground because he was fat and wore glasses.

taunt Show phonetics
noun [C]
The protesters shouted taunts at the police.

needle (ANNOY) Show phonetics
verb [T] INFORMAL
to annoy someone, especially by repeated criticism:
His mother was always needling him about getting a job.


gargantuan Hide phonetics
adjective
very large:
a problem of gargantuan proportions
a gargantuan appetite