2016年1月19日 星期二

penitent, recidivism, doo-wop, penitentiary



In the early 1950s, Sun Records signed a doo-wop group called The Prisonaires: five men doing hard time at Tennessee State Penitentiary.
See more from the singers of the hit song, “Just Walkin’ in the Rain":
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  • penitent
    ˈpɛnɪt(ə)nt/
    adjective
    1. 1.
      feeling or showing sorrow and regret for having done wrong; repentant.
      "a penitent expression"
      synonyms:repentantcontriteregretfulremorsefulsorryapologeticconscience-strickenruefulashamedshamefacedabject
      "she stood with her hands joined below her waist like a penitent child"
    noun
    1. 1.
      a person who repents their sins and (in the Christian Church) seeks forgiveness from God.

    1.on Page 53:
    "Martha Weigel of Penitente blood brotherhood not only in the authors' use of these "subjunctifiers" but also in the reader's incorporation of them in talking about what had ... "

    "「監獄」英文有幾個叫法:prison、jail、penitentiary。Prison是最通用的字,可以指任何監獄,一般和jail同義。不過,在美國,jail專指等候判決者或罪行輕微者的監獄,由市政府(city government)或郡政府(county government)管理;penitentiary則監禁罪行嚴 重者,由州政府(state government)或聯邦政府(federal government)管轄,
    例如:(1) The judge sent him to jail for fifty days(法官判處他入獄五十天)。(2) The hardened criminal was sent to the penitentiary for thirty years(那個慣犯被判處入獄三十年)。

    Penitentiary、prison、jail三字還有其他值得談談之處。第一,penitent是「懺悔」的意思,例如:The penitent criminal surrendered himself to the police(那罪犯懺悔,向警方自首)。Penitentiary自然是「悔罪之所」。
    第二,prisoner是「囚犯」或「犯人」,jailer卻不是囚犯,而是獄卒。Jail裡的犯人,也叫prisoner,例如:The prisoner will be released from jail soon(那囚犯不久就會獲釋出獄)。
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    penitent Show phonetics
    adjective FORMAL
    feeling or showing regret for something you have done because you feel it was wrong:
    "I'm sorry, " she said with a penitent smile.
    It was hard to be angry with him when he looked so penitent.



       
    ━━ a. 後悔[悔悛(かいしゅん)]する ((for)).
    ━━ n. 後悔している人; 【カトリック】告解(こくかい)者.
     pen・i・tence
     ━━ n.
     pen・i・ten・tial
     ━━ a. 悔悟の; 【カトリック】告解の.
    pen・i・ten・tial・ly ad.
     pen・i・ten・tia・ry
     ━━ n., a. 刑務所; 〔米〕 州[連邦]刑務所; 懲治監; 【カトリック】教誨(かい)師; 悔悟の; 懲罰の; 〔米〕 刑務所行きの ((罰など)).



     pen・i・tent・ly ━━ ad.



    penitentiary 
    Line breaks: peni¦ten|tiary
    Pronunciation: /ˌpɛnɪˈtɛnʃ(ə)ri/

    NOUN (plural penitentiaries)


    1North American A prison for people convicted of serious crimes.

    2(In the Roman Catholic Church) a priest appointed to administer penance.
    2.1An office in the papal court forming a tribunal for deciding on questions relating to penance, dispensations, and absolution.

    Origin

    late Middle English (as a term in ecclesiastical law): from medieval Latin paenitentiarius, from Latin paenitentia'repentance'. The North American usage dates from the early 19th century.

    recidivism

    音節
    re • cid • i • vism
    発音
    risídəvìzm
    [名][U]
    1 常習的な悪行[転落,堕落].
    2 精神医学常習犯罪性,累犯性.
    re・cid・i・vist
    [名] 


    Lots of employers are loth to employ people with tattoos. New research suggests that tattooed ex-cons, shunned by the legal labour market, slip back into criminality as a means to earn a crust: hence higher recidivism. The results are striking. On average, someone lasts 5,000 days (about 14 years) before finding themselves back in the cooler. A tattooed ex-con lasts half that http://econ.st/1qCpRLt

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