2015年10月30日星期五

clamor, holler, crematorium, cravat, bow-wow, pooch, shortly

Ending of One-Child Policy Sets Off Clamor on Chinese Social Media

The Paris Review

Eeny, meeny, miny, mo

Catch a tiger by the toe

If he hollers, let him go

Eeny meeny miny mo

Losing Count
How do nonsensical counting-out rhymes like these enter the lexicon?
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He hangs in the hall by his black cravat,
The ladies faint, and the children holler:
Only my Daddy could look like that,
And I love my Daddy like he loves his Dollar.

Social-Media Stock Frenzy Fizzles

Investors who six months ago clamored for shares of social-media firms have turned against them with a vengeance as concerns about the sector mount.

The cravat is a neckband, the forerunner of the modern tailored necktie and bow tie, originating from 17th-century Croatia.[2]

bow-wow ,pooch, clamor, shortly

Last week, I sent an e-mail to a friend who had just lost his job. “I'm so sorry,” I wrote. “Your bosses are morons to have got rid of such a genius as you. I can only suppose a queue will shortly stretch round the block as less brain-dead employers clamour to take you on. Hope you are OK.”
The e-mail was heartfelt except for one word, and that was “shortly”.

clamour UK, US clamor
verb [I]
to make a loud complaint or demand:
The children were all clamouring for attention.
[+ to infinitive] She clamours to go home as soon as she gets to school.

clamour UK, US clamor
noun [S or U]
1 a loud complaint about something or a demand for something:
After the bombing, there was a public clamour for vengeance.

2 FORMAL loud noise, especially made by people's voices:
the clamour of the city
a clamour of voices

shortly
adverb
1 soon:
We will shortly be arriving in King's Cross Station.

2 shortly after/before sth a short time after or before something:
Shortly after you left, a man came into the office looking for you.
The noun bow-wow has 2 meanings:
Meaning #1: the bark of a dog
Meaning #2: informal terms for dogs
Synonyms: pooch, doggie, doggy, barker
n.

1. The bark of a dog.
2. Informal. A dog.
Outcry; clamor.
An overbearing manner.

adj.
Commanding, especially in an arrogant manner; overbearing.

[Imitative.]

pooch
noun [C] INFORMAL MAINLY HUMOROUS
a dog:
a pampered pooch
a big cuddly/cute little pooch

Spa puts the wow in bow-wow
Pioneer Press - St. Paul,MN,USA
BY NANCY NGO. Like their children, Belinda and Raymond Salden of Burnsville want only the best for their pooch, Nike. So they were ...

cre·ma·to·ri·um (krē'mə-tôr'ē-əm, -tōr'-) pronunciation

n., pl., -to·ri·ums, or -to·ri·a (-tôr'ē-ə, -tōr'-).
A furnace or establishment for the incineration of corpses.

holler

verb
To speak or say very loudly or with a shout: bawl, bellow, bluster, call, clamor, cry, halloo, roar, shout, vociferate, whoop, yawp, yell.

clamor[clam・or]

レベル：社会人必須
発音記号[klǽmər]

[名][U]((またa 〜))

1 （要求・抗議・不満などの）熱烈な叫び, わめき, 怒号

the clamor against foreign intervention
外国からの干渉に反対する声.

2 （群衆などの）大きな叫び, どよめき.

3 （楽器・瀑布(ばくふ)・あらし・交通などの）大きな騒音, 騒々しい音；（鳥獣の）騒がしい鳴き声

a clamor of bells
ベルのけたたましい音.

━━[動](自)（賛否を）叫ぶ, 騒ぎ立てる((for, against ...))；［II to do］（…するよう）やかましく要求する

clamor for higher wages
賃上げを叫ぶ

clamor against the government 's policy
政府の政策にやかましく反対する

The soldiers were clamoring to go home.
兵士たちは帰還させろと騒ぎ立てていた.

━━(他)

1 〈人に〉やかましく言って（…）させる((into ...))；うるさく騒いで〈人を〉（…から）追い出す((out of ...))

The conservatives clamored the radicals out of office.
保守派は騒ぎ立てて急進派を退陣させた.

2 ［III[名]/that節］〈演説者に〉どなる；…をやかましく言い立てる, 〈…と〉うるさく言う

clamor one 's demands
要求をがなり立てる

The audience clamored that he should stop speaking.
聴衆は彼に話をやめろとわめき立てた.

［ラテン語clāmāre（叫ぶ）＋-OR¹＝叫んでいる状態. △CLAIM］

2015年10月29日星期四

double-jointed, telethon, to the nth degree

The key thing about online applications [like Google] is that they are platform agnostic....Open source doesn't require licensing fees, and is like a double-jointed Russian gymnast: It's flexible. Really flexible. This puts it in a far better position to provide a platform for the new platform agnostic online world.

Banks' Telethon Is Nearly Over

Big banks have raised at least $85 billion in just the past month through selling shares to investors and other fund-raising. The sum leaves most of them holding considerably more capital than U.S. regulators required as part of "stress tests."

M.I.T. Taking Student Blogs to Nth Degree
By TAMAR LEWIN
Dozens of colleges are embracing student blogs on their Web sites, seeing them as a powerful admissions tool.

to the nth degree

To the utmost, as in They'd decked out the house to the nth degree. This expression comes from mathematics, where to the nth means "to any required power" (n standing for any number). It was first recorded in 1852.

telethon

n.
A lengthy television program to raise funds for a charity.

[TELE– + (MARA)THON.] 將marathon

double-jointedadj.
Having unusually flexible joints, especially of the limbs or fingers.

sabotage ; There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays,

sabotage

See definition in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Line breaks: sabo|tage

Pronunciation: /ˈsabətɑːʒ/

Definition of sabotage in English:

verb

[WITH OBJECT]

Deliberately destroy, damage, or obstruct (something), especially for political or military advantage:power lines from South Africa were sabotaged by rebel forces

noun

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The action of sabotaging something:a coordinated campaign of sabotage

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Origin

Early 20th century: from French, from saboter 'kick with sabots, wilfully destroy' (see sabot).

sabotLine breaks: sabot

Pronunciation: /ˈsabəʊ/

Definition of sabot in English:

noun

1A kind of simple shoe, shaped and hollowed out from a single block of wood, traditionally worn by French and Breton peasants.

2A device which ensures the correct positioning of a bullet or shell in the barrel of a gun, attached either to the projectile or inside the barrel and falling away as it leaves the muzzle.

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3A box from which cards are dealt at casinos in gambling games such as baccarat and chemin de fer. Also called shoe.

sabot: [名]1 （フランス・ベルギーなどの農夫がはく）木靴.2 サボ：木底靴.3 《軍事》（縮射用）送弾筒；（対戦車用）高速徹甲弾用の装弾筒.［フランス語←中フランス語savate（古い靴）. vat...

sabotage: [名][U]1 サボタージュ.(1)故意に工場の機械・設備に損傷を与え生産を遅滞させる行為.(2)戦時中の

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It might help to have some of the context from the Kipling poem In the Neolithic Age:

I was singer to my clan in that dim, red Dawn of Man,
And I sang of all we fought and feared and felt.
...
But a rival, of Solutré [a neolithic site in France], told the tribe my style was outré
-- By a hammer, grooved of dolomite, he fell.
And I left my views on Art, barbed and tanged below the heart
Of a mammothistic etcher at Grenelle [a paleolithic site].
Then I stripped them, scalp from skull, and my hunting-dogs fed full,
And their teeth I threaded neatly on a thong;
And I wiped my mouth and said, "It is well that they are dead,
For I know my work is right and theirs was wrong."
But my Totem [animal sacred to the poet's tribe] saw the shame; from his ridgepole-shrine he came,
And he told me in a vision of the night: --
"There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays,
"And every single one of them is right!"

The poet ("singer" to his clan) takes a stone ax (dolomite hammer) to a rival who dares criticize his style, shoots another rival artist, a cave painter, with an arrow ("barbed and tanged"), and goes on a general rampage against artists who disagree with him. Eventually his tribal totem tells the poet in a vision that there are any number of right ways to construct the tribal narratives (i.e., the tribal lays).

A bit late for the Stone Age artistic community that the narrator has laid waste to.

lay 3

See definition in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Line breaks: lay

Pronunciation: /leɪ/

noun

1A short lyric or narrative poem meant to be sung:a minstrel recited a series of lays

1.1literary A song:on his lips there died the cheery lay

2015年10月28日星期三

berth, runner-up, top runner, finder-out

At the bottom of the list was China, worse than runners-up Syria and Iran in terms of a lack of online freedom.

China now worst in the world for internet freedom: survey | Hong Kong Free Press

Global online freedom declined for a fifth consecutive year as more…

HONGKONGFP.COM|作者：AFP NEWS AGENCY

Germany secures Olympic field hockey berth with win over Japan
International Herald Tribune - France
KAKAMIGAHARA, Japan: Christopher Zeller scored two goals Sunday as Germany defeated Japan 4-0 to secure a place in the men's field hockey tournament at the Beijing Olympics.
Florian Keller and Sebastian Draguhn also scored for Germany which won all six games of the qualifying tournament to secure the 12th and final spot for the Beijing Games.
Japan's team, which was bidding for its first Olympic berth since the 1968 Mexico City Games, finished runner-up ahead of Malaysia, Poland, Italy and Switzerland.

runner-up and finder-out

runner-up：第二名、亞軍，複數為runners-up或runner-ups，如 Ten runners-up will each receive a sweatshirt.（10位亞軍每人將可獲得一件運動衫。）
2007/12/20
聽CNN 報導TIME選 Putin當"年度人物"
用The noun runner-up has one meaning: Meaning #1: the competitor who finishes second
Synonym: second best

知道:
The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
Part 3 out of 3 ..... to me; for had I been the finder-out of this secret, it would not ...

top (BEST) Show phonetics
adjective, adverb
1 (in the position of being) most important or successful; best:
So what would be your top choice for a holiday.?
As a chess player he's among the top 10% in the country.

2 be/come top to be the student with the best results:
She came top of the class in English.
Sam was top at/in Science.

3 Top people, organizations or activities are the most important or successful ones:
top athletes/executives
top jobs
top universities

top- Show phonetics
prefix
used with many different words to mean 'best':
a top-class athlete
top-ranking officers

the top Show phonetics

noun [S]
the most important position in a group or organization:
At forty, he was at the top of his profession.
Life at the top is stressful.

top Show phonetics
verb [T] -pp-
to do, pay, etc. more or better than anyone else:
"They've offered me £1000." "I'm afraid we can't top that."
She topped my suggestion with an even better one of her own.

berth

━━ n. （pl. ～s

）（船・列車などの）寝台; 停泊地; 操船余地（sea room）; （気楽な）地位, 職.

give a wide berth to / give … a wide birth / keep a wide berth of　…から離れている, …を避ける.
━━ v. 停泊する［させる］.

Sufficient space for a ship to maneuver; sea room: kept a clear berth of the reefs.
A space for a ship to dock or anchor: a steamship moored to its berth at the pier.
1. Employment on a ship: sought an officer's berth in the merchant marine.
2. A job: a comfortable berth as head of the department.
1. A built-in bed or bunk, as on a ship or a train.
2. A place to sleep or stay; accommodations: found a berth in a nearby hotel.
A space where a vehicle can be parked, as for loading.

v., berthed, berth·ing, berths. v.tr.

To bring (a ship) to a berth.
To provide with a berth.

v.intr.
To come to a berth; dock.
idiom:
a wide berth

Ample space or distance to avoid an unwanted consequence: gave their angry colleague a wide berth.

[Middle English birth; perhaps akin to beren, to bear. See bear¹.]

runner-up Show phonetics
noun [C] plural runners-up
a person who comes second in a race or competition

geyser, holy water font, hydrothermal

NASA’s Cassini probe will today fly through icy geysers erupting on Saturn’s moon Enceladus, looking for signs that its ocean has hydrothermal vents like on Earth