I do not blame anyone but myself for this. This is not something the corporations did to me. This is something I did to myself. But I am looking now for software that insists I make choices rather than whispers that none are needed. I don’t want my digital life to be one shame closet after another. A new metaphor has taken hold for me: I want it to be a garden I tend, snipping back the weeds and nourishing the plants.
Scrotum switch could replace vasectomy
阴囊开关可以取代输精管切除术
No matter the role,
Mr. Gelb, a gangly 6-foot-2, was relentless, fidgety and in-your-face —
whether in passionate response to a potential scoop or in fevered
reaction to the whim of a fellow boss, typically the equally relentless
A. M. Rosenthal, who had been two years his senior at City College and
perpetually a step ahead of him in the Times hierarchy, finally reaching
the newsroom’s top post, executive editor.
瘦高的蓋爾布——身高6英尺2英寸（約1
米88）——無論擔任哪個角色都不知疲倦、躁動不安、咄咄逼人，熱情洋溢地回應可能挖到的猛料時如此，對其他管理層成員的突發奇想做出激烈反應時也是如
此。那些突發奇想的念頭常常來自同樣不知疲倦的A·M·羅森索(A. M. Rosenthal)。羅森索在紐約城市學院(City
College)就讀時比蓋爾布高兩級，之後在時報的管理層級上也總是領先一步。羅森索最終擔任了主編，這是新聞編輯部的最高職務。
Quotation
of the Day: "It may be better to wait and see, but waiting doesn’t make
you money. It’s ‘Let me do a little snip of tissue’ and then they get
professional, lab and facility fees. Each patient is like an ATM
machine." — Jean Mitchell, a professor of health economics at Georgetown
University, on procedures in American health care.
ECONOMIC SCENE
Sea of Red Ink: How It Spread From a Puddle
By DAVID LEONHARDT
Beyond the sniping between Democrats and Republicans about how the government racked up so much debt, there is enough blame to go around.
GOLF Raging wind that toppled a 40-foot pine and rain that formed puddles on the greens forced the PGA Tour to postpone the final round of the Pebble Beach (Calif.) National Pro-Am, giving it a Monday finish for the first time since 2000.
(The Washington Post)
World in Progress | 09.02.2009 | 04:30
Prickly Figs Provide Livelihood For Moroccan Womens Co-op
For example, in Microsoft's demonstration, you can take some pictures. When you set the camera down on the table top, the fresh photos come pouring out of it into a virtual puddle on the screen -- a slick, visual way to indicate that you've just downloaded them.
noun [S] UK INFORMAL
1 an item which is being sold cheaply, for less than you would expect:
The sunglasses are now available in major stores, a snip at £12 a pair.
2 used humorously of an item which is extremely expensive:
"What did you say you got your dress for in the sale? - £350 reduced from £500?" "Yes, it was a snip!"
snip (CUT) verb [I or T] -pp-
to cut something with scissors, usually with small quick cuts:
Have you seen the scissors? I want to snip off this loose thread.
I snipped out the article and gave it to her.
snip
noun [C]
a quick, short cut with scissors:
Give it a snip with the scissors.
snip
noun UK INFORMAL HUMOROUS
the snip a vasectomy
snip
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Pronunciation: /snɪp/
verb
(snips, snipping, snipped)noun
1an act of snipping something: he took a snip at a dandelion on the grass
Origin
mid 16th century (in the sense 'a shred'): from Low German snip 'small piece', of imitative origin.vasectomy
noun [C or U]【名詞】【不可算名詞】 [具体的には 【可算名詞】]
精管切除.
the medical operation of cutting the tubes through which a man's sperm move, in order to make him unable to make a woman pregnantpuddle
noun [C] ━━ n. 水たまり; （ミルクなどの）たまり; こね土 ((粘土と砂を水でこねたもの)).
━━ vt. 泥だらけにする; （水を）濁らせる; こね土につくる; （水の流出を防ぐため）こね土を塗る; 【冶】（溶鉄を）攪(かく)錬する.
v., -dled, -dling, -dles. v.tr.
- To make muddy.
- To work (clay or sand) into a thick watertight paste.
- To process (impure metal) by puddling.
To splash or dabble in or as if in a pool of liquid.
noun [C]
a small pool of liquid on the ground, especially from rain
One day a gangling, unsmiling young man, Paul Sunday (Paul Dano), arrives with news that oil is seeping out of the ground at his family’s ranch. The stranger sells this information to Plainview, who promptly sets off with H. W. to a stretch of California desert where oil puddles the ground among the cactus, scrub and human misery.
━━ vi. 泥（水）をぱちゃぱちゃさせる.
pud・dling ━━ n. 【冶】パッドリング, 錬鉄（法）. pud・dly ━━ a. 水たまりの多い; 泥だらけの.a small pool of liquid on the ground, especially from rainThe photograph showed a man lying prone on the pavement, a puddle of blood about his head.
(prone (LYING DOWN) Show phonetics
adjective FORMAL lying on the front with the face down:)
Doctor Foster is a nursery rhyme. It originated in England.
- Doctor Foster went to Gloucester,
- in a shower of rain.
- He stepped in a puddle,
- right up to his middle,
- and never went there again!
References
hc順便問 Emma中使用 puddle 之例
Mr. Frank Churchill still declined it, looking as serious as he could, and his father gave his hearty support by calling out, "My good friend, this is quite unnecessary; Frank knows a puddle of water when he sees it, and as to Mrs. Bates's, he may get there from the Crown in a hop, step, and jump."
注：由此可見，七年前我也是與污為伍，如今已慣用汙字了。
hc:
其他三本 Emma翻譯
a puddle of water
a hop...
兩本"水潭" "三級跳"
一本:"水洼" "三蹦兩跳" --孫致禮
(洼 窪下有水的地方。水滸傳˙第五十五回：「小可分兵攻打，務要肅清山寨，掃盡水洼，擒獲眾賊，拆毀巢穴。」)
讓我們各取所好
prickle
noun [C]1 one of several thin sharp points that stick out of a plant or animal:
The fruit can be eaten once the prickles have been removed.
2 a feeling as if a lot of little points are sticking into your body:
I felt a hot prickle of embarrassment spread across my cheeks.
prickle
verb
1 [T] If thin sharp objects prickle you, they cause slight pain by touching against your skin:
She lay on the grass and the stiff dry grass prickled the back of her legs.
2 [I] If part of your body prickles, it feels as if a lot of sharp points are touching it because you are frightened or excited:
Turner started to be worried and felt the back of his neck prickle.
prickly
adjective
1 covered with prickles:
Chestnuts had burst out of their prickly green husks.
I find this sweater a bit prickly (= it makes the skin sore).
2 INFORMAL unfriendly and slightly rude:
She was asked a couple of questions about her private life and got a bit prickly.
cactus
n. - 仙人掌
n., pl. -ti (-tī') or -tus·es.
- Any of various succulent, spiny, usually leafless plants native mostly to arid regions of the New World, having variously colored, often showy flowers with numerous stamens and petals.
- Any of several similar plants.
[Latin, cardoon, from Greek kaktos.]
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