2016年4月30日 星期六

strum, iridescent, imprinting, remember, sportsmanship, remembrance, eyespots



昨天我和AIT高雄分處處長杜維浩都帶著太太,到台南參加為206震災罹難者所舉辦的追思會,馬總統、蔡總統當選人、賴市長都致詞表達慰問。儀式一開始有段影片是親友們訴說對罹難者的思念,令人心痛不捨。我謹代表美國在台協會,向所有罹難者的家屬和朋友表達我們最誠摯的哀悼。--- 梅健華 ‪#‎FromAITDirector‬
My wife and I went to Tainan yesterday along with the AIT Kaohsiung principal officer and his wife to attend a ceremony honoring those who lost their lives in the February 6 earthquake. President Ma, President-Elect Tsai, and Mayor Lai provided words of comfort and hope. It was heartbreaking to read the words of remembrance from loved ones during the video montage at the beginning of the program. On behalf of AIT, I extend our deepest condolences to all of the friends and family members of the earthquake victims...km




Quote: "Some day I will be better remembered."
Grover Cleveland, after being snubbed by a group of law associates before he entered politics


Baiting Tactic Divides Fishing Community

A fishing technique known as "yo-yoing" -- stuffing a bait fish with lead weight so it will sink to the ocean's bottom where big stripers lie -- has stirred a debate about sportsmanship in a Massachusetts fishing community.



Another system, commonly known as motor learning, is subconscious and depends on other brain systems. This explains why people can jump on a bike after years away from one and take the thing for a ride, or why they can pick up a guitar that they have not played in years and still remember how to strum it.


A 2013 study found placing stickers over a male peacock’s iridescent eyespots caused mating success to drop to nearly zero.  Photo by Roslyn Dakin
A 2013 study found placing stickers over a male peacock’s iridescent eyespots caused mating success to drop to nearly zero. Photo by Roslyn Dakin
Train feathers are the the long, quintessential green, blue and bronze plumes that made the male peacock famous. In train-rattling, the bird shakes the train feathers to create a shimmering, iridescent background while the eyespots appear motionless.
Researchers filmed male and female peacocks at a botanical garden near Los Angeles with high-speed cameras. When train-rattling, the birds used the shorter, grey tail feathers to strum the longer feathers like a guitar. On average, they did it at a rate of 25 times a second.


iridescent
ˌɪrɪˈdɛs(ə)nt/
adjective
  1. showing luminous colours that seem to change when seen from different angles.
    "the drake's head has an iridescent purple sheen"

strum 
verb [I or T] -mm-
to move your fingers across the strings of a guitar or similar instrument

sport (GAME) Show phonetics
noun
1 [C] a game, competition or activity needing physical effort and skill that is played or done according to rules, for enjoyment and/or as a job:
Football, cricket and hockey are all team sports.
I enjoy winter sports like skiing and skating.


2 [U] UK all types of physical activity which people do to keep healthy or for enjoyment:
She used to do/play a lot of sport when she was younger.

3 [U] OLD-FASHIONED fun or enjoyment

sporting Show phonetics
adjective
1 relating to sports:
The Olympics is the biggest sporting event in the world.

2 OLD-FASHIONED showing fairness and respect towards an opposing team or player

sports
adjective [before noun]
relating to sport:
sports equipment.
It's the school sports day on Monday.

sportsman Show phonetics
noun [C]
1 a man who plays sport, especially well

2 someone who plays sport in a way that shows respect and fairness towards the opposing player or team:
He'll be remembered both as a brilliant footballer and as a true sportsman.

sportsmanlike
adjective
behaving in a fair and respectful way towards the opposing team or player when playing sport

sportsmanship
noun [U]
when you behave in a fair and respectful way towards the opposing team or player when playing sport

sportsperson S
noun [C]
someone who plays sport, especially well:
He was voted Sportsperson of the Year.

sportswoman
noun [C]
a woman who plays sport, especially well:
a famous/keen/talented sportswoman

sporty
adjective
1 describes someone who enjoys sport and is good at it:
Guy wasn't really the sporty type.

2 describes clothes that are bright and informal, often looking like the type of clothes that you could wear for sports

3 A sporty car is a fast low car, often for two people only.

imprint (MARK)
verb [T]
1 to mark a surface by pressing something hard into it

2 to fix an event or experience so firmly in the memory that it cannot be forgotten although you do not try to remember it:
That look of pure grief would be imprinted on her mind forever.

imprint Show phonetics noun
1[C usually singular] when an object presses on something and leaves a mark:
The button had left an imprint on my arm.

2 [S] when an event or experience becomes fixed in someone's memory or marked in some way on their appearance:
War has left its imprint on the strained faces of these people.

(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)

imprint━━ vt. (印を)押す; 銘記させる ((on, in)).
━━ n. 押印; 痕跡; (本のとびらや奥付に刷った)発行者の住所・氏名・出版年月日(など).
im・print・er ━━ n. 【コンピュータ】刻印装置.
im・print・ing ━━ n. 【生物】刷り込み, 刻印付け; 【コンピュータ】刻印.

M S Gorbachev:「每個人自己的人生命題,其實是由少年時期的切身體驗及所經歷的人生經驗所形成的。」((20世紀的精神教訓:戈爾巴喬夫與池田大作對話錄)(北京:社會科學文獻出版社,2005,頁十二)

liqueur, smart set, sake, set design, round out, round off

Tonight’s Art Moment, “Still Life with Liqueur and Fruit,” is an exceptional early example of Raphaelle Peale’s “dining room pictures” and is one of only some 50 examples known today. The artist’s still lifes were considered extraordinary long before the vogue for still life took hold later in the century. Delicacies from far-off origins, associated with the types of desserts offered in well-to-do households, are presented here in tempting detail. The meticulously rendered textures and skillfully executed reflections underscore Peale’s interest in scientific naturalism. On view in Gallery 211.



German Cinema in Good Condition, Says Berlinale Director Kosslick

From actors and directors to set designers and costume makers, the German
film industry is well positioned at the moment, Berlinale director Dieter
Kosslick told Deutsche Welle.

The DW-WORLD Article
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=ew07qhI44va89pI1





The EDS purchase can be seen as part of a multi-year program at H.P. to round out its major product lines in the hopes of matching I.B.M.




round off


1. Change a number to the closest whole number or the closest multiple of 10. For example, Rounding it off, I expect the new school addition will cost a million dollars.

2. Also, round out. Finish, complete, especially in a neat or perfect way. For example, They rounded off the dinner with a magnificent liqueur, or That stamp rounded out his collection. [Mid-1700s; variant, mid-1800s]


Also see round out.
1. See round off, def. 2.

2. Grow or develop to a round form, as in The tree was spindly when first planted, but it has since rounded out nicely[c. 1900]



set
舞台装置;

smart set
noun [U] UK
people who are fashionable, rich and often artistic or well educated:
The nightclub is popular with Berlin's smart set.
sake (DRINK), saki Show phonetics
noun [C or U]
a Japanese alcoholic drink made from rice and usually drunk warm


Japan's smart set send sake into decline


By Danielle Demetriou in Tokyo
Last Updated: 1:07am BST 21/10/2007

Smoke and laughter hung in the air at a dimly lit bar on a Tokyo back street, where fashionable professionals lounged on cushions around low wooden tables. But there was one unexpected omission: there was- not a bottle of sake in sight.

Japan's young drinkers prefer beer and wine to sake
Japan's young drinkers prefer beer and wine to sake
The traditional rice wine is in rapid decline, with just 1,450 breweries remaining of the 4,000 dotted across Japan at the height of its popularity in the 1960s. As the autumnal sake brewing season begins this month across Japan, the latest casualty is the Watanabe Shuzo brewery, which last week closed its doors after 130 years in business. "Young people think it's something that old men drink. And, demographically speaking, it is old men who drink sake in Japan," said John Gauntner, a sake industry consultant.
Sake, made from fermented polished rice and also known as nihonshu, has long been regarded as the quintessentially Japanese drink, but the industry appears unable to reverse its decline. It has been overtaken by beer as the leading beverage, and drinks such as sweet liqueurs, alcopops, sparkling wine and gin are rapidly growing in popularity. Production of shochu, a distilled Japanese spirit made from rice, sweet potato or wheat, most fashionably mixed with oolong tea, is also booming.
"For younger people, traditional drinks are not hip at all. We have tried to make sake fashionable and recommended Westernised sake cocktails, but it has been in vain," said Shunsuke Kohiyama, export adviser for the Japan Sake Brewers' Association.
Clutching a beer in a bar in Tokyo's fashionable Jingumae district, Jun Tokowa, a 35-year-old interior designer, was proof of the problem. "I avoid sake because it makes it hard to get up for work the next morning," he said. "It's terrible for hangovers. I mostly drink beer or wine. It tends to be older men in a different kind of bar who drink sake."

Women are also turning away. Sipping an oolong tea shochu, Aki Nakamura, 25, a marketing manager, said: "This is healthier than sake and not as strong. I might have sake when eating certain foods, or during religious festivals, but not when I'm out with friends."
The only good news is that sake is becoming popular in cities such as London and New York. "Outside Japan, it is extremely fashionable and an emerging market is premium sake being exported," said Mr Gauntner.


all-out, breakaway, a hail of sth, hailstorm, call-out

PHYS ED

1 Minute of All-Out Exercise May Have Benefits of 45 Minutes of Moderate Exertion

By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS

Sixty seconds of intense exercise provided the benefits of three-quarters of an hour of moderate cycling.

MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 29 -- John McCain's advisers predicted weeks ago that the presumptive Republican nominee would use his national convention week to try to recapture his image as a maverick reformer and shake up the presidential race. He did just that Friday with his surprise choice of Alaska Gov....
(By Dan Balz, The Washington Post)

An All-Out Battle for Women's Votes Begins
(By Juliet Eilperin and Anne Kornblut, The Washington Post)

In 1984, Walter Mondale's choice of Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate shattered a glass ceiling as old as the republic, thrilled feminists and helped create a gender gap among voters that has aided Democrats ever since. That was 24 years before another woman, Sarah Palin, was named to a national...
(By Juliet Eilperin and Anne Kornblut, The Washington Post)

Russian forces battle Georgians

Russia engages in fierce clashes in Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia region, reports say, amid fears of all-out war



The latest clash in Gaza had been building since Wednesday, when Israel hit a van carrying five Hamas members thought to be planning an attack inside the country, setting off a hailstorm of rockets and mortars from militants in Gaza.

a hailstorm這用法比較不常見.....
Almost 900 students have been buried by collapsed buildings during an earthquake in south-western China, state media reports.
President Hu Jintao urged "all-out" efforts to rescue victims of the quake, which hit 92km (57 miles) from Chengdu, Sichuan's provincial capital.
中国消息称,胡锦涛已表示必须尽一切努力帮助灾民。2008.5.12

The Washington Post leads with, and the WSJ newsbox mentions, Obama's stern warnings to mayors: he'll call them out if they misuse their bailout money. The president's "salvo" was the first step in a campaign to assure the nation that the $787 billion will not go to waste.



call-out
1. Summon into action or service, as in The governor called out the militia[Mid-1400s]
2. Challenge to a fight, as in To avenge the insult, Arthur called him out. This term originated with dueling and is dying out. [Early 1800s]





all-out Show phonetics
adjective [before noun]
complete and with as much effort as possible:
We made an all-out effort to get the project finished on time.


hail (ICE) Show phonetics
noun [U]
1 small hard balls of ice which fall from the sky like rain

2 a hail of sth a lot of similar things or remarks, thrown or shouted at someone at the same time:
a hail of bullets
The Prime Minister was greeted with a hail of insults as she arrived at the students' union.

hail Show phonetics
verb [I]
If it hails, small hard balls of ice fall from the sky like rain.




WordNet: hailstorm 
Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words.

The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1: a storm during which hail falls

n. - 下得很大的冰雹

hail━━ n. あられ, ひょう; あられのように降るもの (a ~ of questions 質問のあらし).
━━ v. あられ[ひょう]が降る; あられのように降る, あびせる ((down)).
 hail・stone ひょう.
 hail・storm ひょうを伴うあらし.

breakaway Show phonetics
noun [C]
an act of separation from a group, especially because of disagreement:
The sports association accepted the inevitability of a breakaway by the elite clubs.
The breakaway group formed a new political party.


overlap, overlapping, Noah's Ark, the Flood, full-scale replica

  • A 3,000-ton full-scale replica of Noah's ark is slated to travel all the way from the Netherlands to Brazil this summer. http://cnn.it/1SNDo0E

Levinson Leaves Google's Board
Google said Genentech Chairman Arthur Levinson has left Google's board. The departure comes amid an FTC inquiry into overlapping directorships. He is also an Apple director.


City Bus Drivers Say That Fare Beaters Have the Upper Hand in Confrontations
By MARTIN ESPINOZA and WILLIAM NEUMAN
Many New York bus drivers aren't surprised by the killing of a driver on Monday, given the overlapping roles they must play and lack of protection they are given.



Apple said Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO, is resigning from Apple's board, amid the growing overlap of the two companies' businesses.





The weekend was rife with media speculation about Microsoft's Yahoo bid and how it could play out. The San Francisco Chronicle wondered about the fates of "dozens" of overlapping Internet services at the two Web giants, and Reuters suggested that a combined Microsoft and Yahoo would be a "Noah's Ark of a Web company" 諾亞方舟 {創世紀}-- one with two of everything. Vindu Goel, writing in the San Jose Mercury News, suggested that integration could be such a distraction that it works in favor of archrival Google.

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Noah
Pronunciation: \ˈnō-ə\ Function:noun Etymology:Hebrew Nōaḥ
Date:before 12th century : an Old Testament patriarch who built the ark in which he, his family, and living creatures of every kind survived the Flood

overlap
v., -lapped, -lap·ping, -laps. v.tr.
  1. To lie or extend over and cover part of.
  2. To have an area or range in common with.
v.intr.
  1. To lie over and partly cover something.
  2. To correspond in character or function: Their duties overlap.
  3. Mathematics. To have one or more elements in common. Used of sets.
n. (ō'vər-lăp')
  1. A part or portion that overlaps or is overlapped.
  2. An instance of overlapping.

v. tr. - 重疊, 重復
v. intr. - 部分重疊, 部分相同, 部分同時發生
n. - 重疊, 重復

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 部分的重複, 重複部分, オーバーラップ
v. - 部分的に一致する, 部分的におおう, 部分的に重なり合う, 重なる
  1. 針對 overlapping 搜尋的圖片結果

    - 回報圖片
    http://www.dreamstime.com/overlapping-triangle-shapes-imagefree3234352http://dowlingcentral.com/MrsD/assign/graphicorganizers/TheOverlappingConceptsOrganizer.htmhttp://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-images-watercolor-overlapping-circles-image3234609http://ciks.cbt.nist.gov/garbocz/Tonycer/node3.htmlhttp://www.allposters.com/-sp/Overlapping-Presence-Posters_i268698_.htm

blow, blow up, tiff, anemone, port visit/ port call

The last time Beijing refused an American port visit of an American warship was in August 2014, according to U.S. officials.
The Chinese government refused to allow the U.S. aircraft carrier John C.…
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From Latin American success story to economic stagnation, and finally to political catastrophe. The rise and fall of Brazil in three covers








"We’re going to pull the plug and do something much simpler."

Because yearly goals are a thing of the past.
FOR.TN

Rich guy: What should I spend my massive fortune on today? This super cool private jet, a new luxury penthouse, or America's democracy?
Their political investments have paid off in the form of lower taxes on themselves and their businesses, subsidies for their corporations,...
ALTERNET.ORG

blow

Inflate something:a small pump for blowing up balloons
2.1Exaggerate the importance of something:it was a domestic tiff which had been blown up out of all proportion


blow ...up/blow up ...

  1. (1)⇒[他動詞]178.
  2. (2)…を誇張する,敷衍ふえんする,拡大する
  3. (3)…を(空気を入れて)膨らます;〈火などを〉吹いて燃え上がらせる
    • blow up a tire
    • タイヤに空気を入れる.
  4. (4)((話)) 〔写真〕 …を引き伸ばす(enlarge).
  5. (5)((俗)) 〈人を〉(…のことで)しかりとばす[つける]((for ...)).

[WITH OBJECT AND ADVERBIAL OF DIRECTION] (Of an explosion or explosive device) displaceviolently or send flying:the blast had blown the windows out of the van
3.1[NO OBJECT] (Of a vehicle tyreburst suddenly while the vehicle is in motion:rear tyre had blown
3.2Burst or cause to burst due to pressure or overheating:[NO OBJECT]: the engines sounded as if their exhausts had blown

3.3(With reference to an electric circuit) burn out through overloading:[NO OBJECT]: the fuse had blown[WITH OBJECT]: the floodlights blew a fuse

tiff1

Line breaks: tiff



NOUN

informal
petty quarrel, especially one between friends orlovers:Joanna had a tiff with her boyfriend

Origin

early 18th century (denoting a slight outburst of temper): probably of dialect origin.anemone

Line breaks: anem|one
Pronunciation: /əˈnɛməni /
銀蓮花屬
秋牡丹 Anemone hupehensis var. japonica
秋牡丹 Anemone hupehensis var. japonica
科學分類





NOUN

1A plant of the buttercup family which typically has brightly coloured flowers and deeply divided leaves.
  • Genus Anemone, family Ranunculaceae: numerous species, including the common Eurasian wood anemone (A. nemorosa)

Origin

mid 16th century: from Latin, said to be from Greekanemōnē 'windflower', literally 'daughter of the wind', from anemos 'wind', thought to be so named because the flowers open only when the wind blows.

Art of the Day: Van Gogh, Roses and Anemones in a Vase, June 1890. Oil on canvas, 51 x 51 cm. Musée d'Orsay, Paris.