2021年12月14日 星期二

mire, quagmire, bog, quicksand , Corpus Christi, bogged down

Corpus Christi  L. :(1)耶穌聖體節;耶穌聖體瞻禮;基督聖體聖血節:通常於天主聖三主日後的星期四舉行,在中國延到下一個星期天。(2)耶穌聖體(聖血)。英文稱作 The Body of Christ 

corpus  L.  (1) 身體:代表基督被釘在十字架上的屍體。亦指一般世人的肉體。 (2) 集成;大全。 (3)  正典。


The Feast of Corpus Christi (Latin for Body of Christ), also known as Corpus Domini, is a Latin Rite liturgical solemnity celebrating the tradition and belief in the body and blood of Jesus Christ and his Real Presence in the Eucharist. It emphasizes the joy of the institution of the Eucharist, which was observed on Holy Thursday in the somber atmosphere of the nearness of Good Friday.
In the present Roman Missal, the feast is designated the solemnity of The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ.[1] It is also celebrated in some AnglicanLutheran, and Old Catholic Churches that hold similar beliefs regarding the Real Presence.
The feast is liturgically celebrated on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday or, "where the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ is not a holy day of obligation, it is assigned to the Sunday after the Most Holy Trinity as its proper day".[1] At the end of Holy Mass, there is often a procession of the Blessed Sacrament, generally displayed in amonstrance. The procession is followed by Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.
A notable Eucharistic procession is that presided over by the Pope each year in Rome, where it begins at the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran and makes its way to the Basilica of Saint Mary Major, where it concludes with Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.
Carl Emil Doepler Fronleichnamsprozession.jpg
Corpus Christi procession. Oil on canvas by Carl Emil Doepler
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Brazil’s economy is in a mess, with far bigger problems than the government will admit or investors seem to register. The torpid stagnation into which it fell in 2013 is becoming a full-blown—and probably prolonged—recession, as high inflation squeezes wages and consumers’ debt payments rise. Investment, already down by 8% from a year ago, could fall much further http://econ.st/1BGnYG7




In a quagmire
CAMPAIGNING for a second term as Brazil’s president in an election last October, Dilma Rousseff painted a rosy picture of the world’s seventh-biggest economy....
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每日一詞 | Quagmire:特朗普的貿易戰是政策泥潭嗎?
中美貿易戰升級,時報專欄作家保羅·克魯格曼寫道 :“特朗普的貿易戰看起來越來越像一個典型的政策泥潭(quagmire)。”克魯格曼認為,特朗普的戰略完全沒有得到想要的結果,總統不願承認錯誤,因此繼續做出了更多不起作用的事情。
Quagmire的本義是軟而濕的地面,腳踩上去就會下沉。這個詞被用來指某種困難重重、使人難以擺脫的處境,如military quagmire(軍事泥潭)。 2016年,奧巴馬曾說美國捲入的海外戰爭是個泥潭;韓國三星也曾因為延遲召回Note 7而面臨在中國陷入公關泥潭的處境。

Bell Labs said it used a "rules-driven" approach to programming that can take personalization to a less rigid level without bogging down the computing power of a network.

英語中表示“沼澤”、“泥潭”或類似地貌的詞還有很多,這些詞通常都可以用來喻指那種深陷泥潭不能自拔的處境,比如bog(bogged down in partisanship:深陷黨派偏見之中)、mire(a mire of debt:債務的泥潭)和quicksand(consumerist quicksand:消費主義的泥坑)等。


quagmireLine breaks: quag|mire
Pronunciation: /ˈkwaɡmʌɪə/ /ˈkwɒɡmʌɪə/



Definition of quagmire in English:

noun

1A soft boggy area of land that gives way underfoot:torrential rain turned the building site into a quagmire

Origin

Late 16th century: from quag mire.

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