2016年1月9日星期六

ragged, minder, urchin, it's all meant to be!

Astronomer Galileo Galilei died ‪#‎onthisday‬ in 1642. In these letters, Galileo records sunspots which are dark areas of irregular shape seen periodically on the surface of the sun. He was able to observe sunspots, usually invisible to the naked eye, by constructing his own telescope. This also led him to discover the moons of Jupiter, identify the Milky Way as a collection of stars and see that the moon had a ragged surface like the earth. http://bit.ly/1Pfs0WS

it's all meant to be!

It means that it was meant to be, it was suposed to happen!

It was supposed to happen, it is faith, it is destiny. No matter what this road lead you to where you were 'meant to be'

Life.com 和 Bartol Grancarić

23小時 ·

"The commonest sights around Appalachia are aging men and ragged urchins. . ." -- LIFE magazine, 1/31/1964. See more from this powerful photo essay about LBJ's ambitious -- and, alas, doomed -- War on Poverty: http://ti.me/1oZiUQd

(John Dominis—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

LHASA, China (Reuters) - I had barely stepped off the plane, gasping slightly in the thin Tibetan air, when our government minder wandered over to tell me plans for an evening of rest and adaptation to the high altitude had been cancelled.

Instead a dash to see Tibet's most sacred temple, and a news conference that dragged late into the night, set the gruelling pace for a reporting trip around China's most sensitive region.

minder
noun [C]
1 someone who protects another person, often a famous person, from danger and unwanted public attention:
The President arrived surrounded by his minders.

2 someone who controls what another person says and does:
His public-relations minder refused to allow him to answer any of the journalists' questions.

minder

変化《複》minders 文節mind・er

━━ n. 〔英俗〕ボディガード; 世話する人.
⇒mind

「EXCEED英和辞典」

名
1. 世話｛せわ｝をする人、番人｛ばんにん｝
2. 〈英俗〉ボディーガード、用心棒｛ようじんぼう｝

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「minder」を使った用例

child minder
子守｛こもり｝
machine minder
機械工｛きかいこう｝、印刷工｛いんさつこう｝

ragged
ˈraɡɪd/
adjective
1.
(of cloth or clothes) old and torn.
"a rough-looking man wearing ragged clothes"
synonyms: tattered, in tatters, torn, ripped, split, in holes, holey, moth-eaten, frayed, worn, worn out, well worn, worn to shreds, falling to pieces, threadbare, the worse for wear, patched, scruffy, shabby, decrepit, old; More
2.
having a rough or irregular surface or edge.
"a ragged coastline"
synonyms: jagged, craggy, rugged, uneven, rough, irregular, broken; More