Put the kettle on, steeling, enameled steel tea kettles, kettle-cooked

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Three couples face dilemmas about religion, dementia and work/life balance.

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In the past, because making movies was so expensive, we had to protect against exhaustion and compromise. In the future, you’ll have to steel yourself against something else: the temptation to go with the flow, and allow the movie to drift and float away."


Perhaps China is steeling itself for a possible DPP comeback (even though the party is hardly a model of unity itself). Since a visit to China in October 2012 by a former prime minister, Frank Hsieh Chang-ting, several DPP legislators and pro-DPP academics have been welcomed on the mainland, holding meetings with Chinese officials who once shunned them.


kettle-cooked chip 採取非連續方式的製出的薯條片
chips 兩義

Ads Promise You'll Fall in Love With Cape Cod (Chips)

By STUART ELLIOTT 20 minutes ago

A campaign for Cape Cod kettle-cooked chips is called the first for the brand that includes television and social media. steel Pronunciation: /stiːl/ Translate steel | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish noun [mass noun] a hard, strong grey or bluish-grey alloy of iron with carbon and usually other elements, used as a structural and fabricating material: [as modifier]:steel girders used as a symbol or embodiment of strength and firmness:nerves of steel [as modifier]:a steel will [count noun] a rod of roughened steel on which knives are sharpened. verb [with object] mentally prepare (oneself) to do or face something difficult:his team were steeling themselves for disappointment [with infinitive]:she steeled herself to remain calm Origin: Old English stȳle, stēli, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch staal, German Stahl, also to stay2. The verb dates from the late 16th century

kettle[ket・tle]

• レベル：社会人必須
• 発音記号[kétl] 鍋(なべ), 釜(かま).

2
(1) 湯わかし, やかん

put the kettle on for tea
（紅茶用に）湯をわかす.

(2) やかん1杯の量

a kettle of water
やかん1杯の水.

3 ＝kettledrum.

4 《地質学》釜状凹地(kettle hole).

5 ((米俗))懐中時計.

 chiefly British A small area in which demonstrators orprotesters are confined by police seeking to maintain order during a demonstration:

activists in the kettle were protesting at being held and resisting arrest

verb

[WITH OBJECT] chiefly BritishBack to top  

(Of the police) confine (a group of demonstrators orprotesters) to a small area, as a method of crowd control during a demonstration:the plan was to get as close to the protest as possible without getting kettled(as noun kettling) police were criticized for their use of controversial tactics such as kettling

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Nov 24, 2006 - If you're making tea, you would be putting the kettle on [the stove]. I believe we use this in AE as well, but as we drink much less tea (I drink ...

Bristol Model and Martha Stewart Collection® Enameled Steel Tea Kettles Recalled Due to Burn HazardWASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.
Name of Product: Copco and Wild Leaf Tea Co. Bristol model and Martha Stewart Collection® Enameled Steel Tea Kettles
Units: About 132,000
Distributor: Copco, a division of Wilton Industries Inc., of Woodridge, Ill.
Hazard: The handle on the tea kettle can come loose, posing a burn hazard to the consumer.
Incidents/Injuries: The firm has received eight reports of the handle becoming loose or deformed. One minor burn to hands has been reported.
Description: This recall involves Copco and Wild Leaf Tea Co. Bristol model and Martha Stewart Collection® Enameled Steel Tea Kettles with enamel finishes in white, cr�me, blue, cobalt, sand, red and green.
Sold by: Mail order, online and by retailers nationwide, including Macy�s and Linens �n Things from October 2005 through January 2010 for about $35.
Manufactured in: Thailand
Remedy: Consumers should immediately stop using these tea kettles and contact Copco for a refund.
Consumer Contact: For additional information, contact Copco toll free at (866) 255-9237 between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. CT Monday through Thursday, and between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. CT Friday, or visit the firm�s Web site at www.copco.com

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e·nam·el (ĭ-năm'əl) n.

1. A vitreous, usually opaque, protective or decorative coating baked on metal, glass, or ceramic ware.
2. An object having such a coating, as in a piece of cloisonné.
3. A coating that dries to a hard glossy finish: nail enamel.
4. A paint that dries to a hard glossy finish.
5. Anatomy. The hard, calcareous substance covering the exposed portion of a tooth.

tr.v., -eled, or -elled, -el·ing, or -el·ling, -els, or -els.

1. To coat, inlay, or decorate with enamel.
2. To give a glossy or brilliant surface to.
3. To adorn with a brightly colored surface.

[From Middle English enamelen, to put on enamel, from Anglo-Norman enamailler : en-, on (from Old French; see en-¹) + amail, enamel (from Old French esmail , of Germanic origin).]

enameler e·nam'el·er or e·nam'el·ist n.

snappy, plebeian, by long chalks, As different as chalk and cheese

Thankfully, the snappier "Oriel" came soon after, coming from the oriel window in the entrance to the college.

2011 吳敦義---白賊院長 巧言令色大師---吃飯跟吃屎都一樣
吳敦義---白賊院長 巧言令色大師---說 蔡英文案的文件造假 3月或8月 都一樣.....

某母親: 這是台灣話說 吃飯跟吃屎都一樣.....




As different as chalk and cheese
Meaning

Two things that are very different from each other.
Origin

We have hundreds of phrases to indicate the similarity of one thing with another and similes like 'as alike as two peas in a pod' are commonplace in everyday speech. However, as far as I know, there is only one phrase that does the opposite and explicitly refers to the difference between things and that is 'as different as chalk and cheese'. This is an old expression and the earliest citation of it is in John Gower's Middle English text Confessio Amantis, 1390:


Lo, how they feignen chalk for chese.

Tourist boards in several of the chalkland areas of the UK try to place the phrase's origin in their locality and allude to vague connections between chalk and the local cheese. None of these are convincing and they clearly owe more to marketing than to etymology. So, how did the phrase come about?

There must have been a time in the development of English when we had no standard phrase to express the idea that two things were 'as different as X and Y'. When someone coined such a phrase, and that someone may well have been Gower in 1390, clearly he needed candidates for the roles of X and Y. That doesn't sound difficult, after all most things are different from most other things.

"Maybe, 'as different as a cormorant and a lamp-post'", thinks our coiner, "or 'as different as floorboards and greengrocers'". "No, 'as different as chalk and cheese' sounds better". Why? For no better reason that the fact the 'chalk' and 'cheese' are short and snappy words that alliterate. The English language is packed full of phrases that contain pairs of rhyming or alliterating words - often just because the person who coined them liked the sound of them; for example, hocus-pocus, the bee's knees, riff-raff etc.

A modern-day spin-off of 'chalk and cheese' is 'chalk and talk'. This refers to the traditional teaching method where the teacher stood at the front to address the class while writing on the blackboard with a stick of chalk (which those of a certain age will well remember). The phrase emerged in the UK in the 1930s but had a shortish run as a widely used expression as classrooms began to be equipped with whiteboards in the 1960s. 'Dry-wipe marker pen and talk' never caught on.

Definition of snappy in English:

adjective (snappier, snappiest)

informal

1Irritable and inclined to speak sharply; snappish:anything unusual made her snappy and nervous

2Cleverly concise; neat:snappy catchphrases

2.1Neat and elegant:a snappy dresser

Phrases

make it snappy

1

informal Be quick about it:into bed and make it snappy!

plebeian

(adjective) Of or associated with the great masses of people.
Synonyms: common, unwashed, vulgar
Usage:
It is you, William, who are the aristocrat of your family, and you are not as fine a fellow as your plebeian brother by long chalk.
〔plibí:ən〕
━━ n., a. （古代ローマの）平民（の）; 平民（の）; 粗野な（人）.


by a long chalk 相差很多

chalk
━━ n. 白墨; 白亜（質）.

as different as chalk and [from] cheese / (as) like as chalk (is) to cheese　〔話〕 本質［内容］は全然違った.

by a long chalk / by long chalks　〔英話〕 ずっと; ((否定文で)) けっして（…ない）.

━━ vt. 白墨で書く［こする］; 白亜を塗る, 白亜で白くする.

hooray, hurrahs and harrumphs /線上英文字典

Krugman: Hooray for Obamacare The reality of Obamacare is that it’s a tremendous success, which was conservatives’ big fear. Hurrahs and Harrumphs for T-Mobile

By DAVID POGUE 27 minutes ago

Many readers are thrilled by T-Mobile's new policies. But there is, as always, a sizable crowd who object.   hurrahs and harrumphs 贊聲與噓聲 harrumph Pronunciation: /həˈrʌmf/ Definition of harrumph verb [no object] clear the throat noisily: he harrumphed and said, ‘I am deeply obliged.’ grumpily express dissatisfaction or disapproval:sceptics tend to harrumph at case histories like this noun a noisy clearing of the throat. a grumpy expression of dissatisfaction or disapproval: the violence in the material is not new, his harrumphs notwithstanding [as exclamation]:one can hear the objections already: too much trouble ... positively silly ... harrumph! Origin: 1930s: imitative hurrah  音節 hur • rah 発音 hərɑ'ː | hu- [間]((古風))フレー, 万歳（歓喜・激励・承認などの叫び声） Hurrah for the Queen！ 女王陛下万歳. ━━[動](自)フレー［万歳］と叫ぶ. ━━(他)…を歓声をあげて励ます［迎える］. ━━[名] 1 フレーという叫び声. 2 がやがや；騒々しい［はでな］誇示. （またhur・ráy, hoo・ráh） hurrah Pronunciation: /hʊˈrɑː/ (also hooray, hurray /hʊˈreɪ/) Translate hurrah | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of hurrah exclamation used to express joy or approval:Hurrah! She’s here at last! noun an utterance of the word ‘hurrah’: they gave us a loud hurrah as we went by verb [no object] shout ‘hurrah’: we waved our swords and hurrahed Origin: late 17th century: alteration of huzza; perhaps originally a sailors' cry when hauling Line breaks: hoo¦ray Pronunciation: /hʊˈreɪ/  Definition of hooray in English: exclamation 1another word for hurrah. 2Australian /NZ Goodbye:‘Hooray George, promise you’ll come back.’ ...... 今天第一次用牛津大學出版社的網站. http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/hurrah?q=hurrah 十年前多用:Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/

revisionism, eminently, Subprime, Pre-Slime, transmute

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Subprime, Pre-Slime

By SIMON WINCHESTER

Published: October 20, 2008

YOU can usually tell that a period of human disquietude has evolved into something of historical dimensions when the lexicographers become involved. Most events of moment are eventually defined by single words that were once quite unfamiliar — perestroika, arbitrage, Tiananmen, dotcom — but which endless retellings have rendered mundane. And thus it is with the lexical keystone of today, an unlovely two-syllable concatenation employed interchangeably as both adjective and noun: subprime.
Interestingly, the word arbiters at the headquarters of the Oxford English Dictionary have discovered something odd: “subprime” has suffered a surprising and unusually rapid evolution. Until 1991 it meant something eminently desirable and worthy of aspiration.
Lexicon is by its very nature a fugitive affair. Over the centuries the meanings of words slip and slide without cease, and dictionaries have to be constantly revised. The current print edition of the O.E.D., for example, still sports this definition of the unusual word “abbreviator”: “a junior official of the Vatican, whose duties include drawing up the pope’s briefs” — which would clearly, after briefs-as-legal-documents transmuted into briefs-as-boxer-alternatives, benefit from some rewriting.
The dictionary’s New Words Group began looking closely at subprime’s history late this summer, when the bat-wings of the current crisis began fluttering against Oxford’s mullioned windows. Team members discovered that when first applied to financial matters in 1976, “subprime” meant a loan offered below the prime rate and typically was offered only to the most desirable borrowers.
In was not until 1993 that it took on a much less enticing guise, with Business Wire referring to a company that “buys subprime loans made ... to creditworthy buyers unable to qualify for loans from banks.” And an O.E.D. editor was moved to write a new definition: “Of or designating a loan, typically having relatively unfavorable terms, made to a borrower who does not qualify for other loans because of a poor credit history. ”
And this, one imagines, is the meaning that will go down in history. But what prompted the lexical revisionism? The Oxford lexicographers do not pretend to know why, nor, as dictionary-makers, to care. But they do know the change occurred between 1991 and 1993, during a period that can now perhaps be designated the Great Subprime Ambivalence of 1992, during the final years of the elder George Bush’s presidency — a time that students of politics and economy, rather than lexicography, might now care to study in their turn.
Simon Winchester is the author of “The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary.”



Subprime
A classification of borrowers with a tarnished or limited credit history. Lenders will use a credit scoring system to determine which loans a borrower may qualify for. Subprime loans carry more credit risk, and as such, will carry higher interest rates as well. Approximately 25% of mortgage originations are classified as subprime.

Definition of revisionism in English:

noun

[MASS NOUN] often derogatory

1A policy of revision or modification, especially ofMarxism on evolutionary socialist (rather thanrevolutionary) or pluralist principles:the political controversies over Yugoslav revisionism

1.1The theory or practice of revising one’s attitude to a previously accepted situation or point of view:reconsideration of such figures is not just an attempt at revisionism

Definition of eminently in English:

adverb

[OFTEN AS SUBMODIFIER]

To a notable degree; very:an eminently readable textbook

transmute
━━ vt. 変化［質，形］させる ((into)).
trans・mutable　━━ a.
trans・mutably　ad.
trans・mutation　━━ n. 変形, 変質; （錬金術における）変成.

slime Show phonetics
noun [U]
a sticky liquid substance which is unpleasant to touch, such as the liquid produced by fish and snails and the greenish brown substance found near water:
There was a revolting green slime in between the bathroom tiles.
You could see trails of slime where the slugs had been.

slimy Show phonetics
adjective
1 covered in slime:
Although snakes look slimy their skin is actually dry to the touch.

2 DISAPPROVING If you describe a person or their manner as slimy, you mean that they appear to be friendly but in a way that you find unpleasant:
He was the very worst sort of slimy salesman.

slime

--> ━━ n. ねば土; （魚などの）粘液, ぬめり; 嫌な物.
━━ vt. ねば土［粘液］を塗る［除く，で覆う］.
slime・ball　〔俗〕 いやなやつ, げす野郎.
slime mold　【生物】粘菌類, 変形菌類.
slim・y　━━ a. ぬるぬるの; 汚い; 〔話〕 卑屈な.
slim・i・ness　n.

convene, dissertation, convener, sensationalism

The National Academy of Sciences convened top scientists, including CMU President Subra Suresh and Statistics Professor Stephen E. Fienberg, to examine what can be done to better ensure research integrity.

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Scientific controversies, from problems replicating results — such as with the now debunked association between autism and MMR vaccines — to researcher misconduct and sensationalism, have led to speculation of...

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The dissertation

Students select a suitable dissertation topic in consultation with the course convenors, building on ideas and interests emerging from seminars, reading and essay work. The completed dissertation, 12-15,000 words in length, is submitted at the end of August.

Definition of sensationalism in English:

noun

[MASS NOUN]

1(Especially in journalism) the presentation of stories in a way that is intended to provoke public interest orexcitement, at the expense of accuracy:media sensationalism

dissertation

[名]

1 （…に関する）論文((on ...))；（特に）博士［学位］論文

write a dissertation for a Ph.D.
博士論文を書く.

2 （文章・口頭による）形式の整った論述.


convene
(kən-vēn')

v., -vened, -ven·ing, -venes. v.intr.
To come together usually for an official or public purpose; assemble formally.

v.tr.

1. To cause to come together formally; convoke: convene a special session of Congress. See synonyms at call.
2. To summon to appear, as before a tribunal.

[Middle English convenen, from Old French convenir, from Latin convenīre : com-, com- + venīre, to come.]

convenable con·ven'a·ble adj.
convener con·ven'er or con·ven'or n.

convéner[con・vén・er]

[名]((主に英))（会の）召集者；議長；（労働組合の）委員長.

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