2019年1月1日 星期二

era, cot, stardom, cuppa


Starting the New Year with a cuppa. Happy 2019.


Many crowded into the world-famous Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo to participate in the countdown to the New Year.
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20190101_03/


NHK has learned that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has decided to have the name of the country's new era announced on April 1st, after it is approved by the Cabinet earlier in the day.
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20190101_01/

Eras of public anger, such as we’re living through, can as easily fuel great social and political reform as they can calamitous social division.


The Guardian
The Back to Sleep campaign, launched in 1991, changed the advice on sleeping position from front to back, and has had a public health benefit comparable to such breakthroughs as the moment Victorian epidemiologist John Snow took the handle off the Soho water pump in 1854 and stopped a cholera outbreak in its tracks. At the centre of the revolution was Bristol doctor Peter Fleming.

Back to sleep: the doctor who helped stem a cot death epidemic
Sudden infant death syndrome cost thousands of lives in the 70s and 80s -…
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4-month-old Joey Marie makes naptime look good. Her elaborate costumes have brought her Instagram stardom. http://cnn.it/2bX45Ad

cuppa
/ˈkʌpə/
INFORMAL•BRITISH
noun
  1. 1.
    a cup of tea.
    "a good strong cuppa"
contraction
  1. 1.
    cup of.
    "let's have another cuppa tea"
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Urban Dictionary: cuppa


https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cuppa
slang contraction of "cup of", believed to be Irish in origin. Meaning to have a cup of whatever the person offering is drinking, not necessarily tea, or coffee.

era
ˈɪərə/
noun
plural noun: eras
  1. a long and distinct period of history.
    "his death marked the end of an era"
    synonyms:epoch, age, period, time, aeon, span; More
    • a system of chronology dating from a particular event.
      "the dawn of the Christian era"
      synonyms:epoch, age, period, time, aeon, span; More
    • GEOLOGY
      a major division of time that is a subdivision of an aeon and is itself subdivided into periods.
      "the Mesozoic era"


An era is a span of time defined for the purposes of chronology or historiography, as in the regnal eras in the history of a given monarchy, a calendar era used for a given calendar, or the geological eras defined for the history of Earth.
Comparable terms are epoch, age, period, saeculum, aeon (Greek aion) and Sanskrit yuga.

Etymology[edit]

The word has been in use in English since 1615, and is derived from Late Latin aera "an era or epoch from which time is reckoned," probably identical to Latin æra "counters used for calculation," plural of æs "brass, money".
The Latin word use in chronology seems to have begun in 5th century Visigothic Spain, where it appears in the History of Isidore of Seville, and in later texts. The Spanish era is calculated from 38 BC, perhaps because of a tax (cfr. indiction) levied in that year, or due to a miscalculation of the Battle of Actium, which occurred in 31 BC.
Like epoch, "era" in English originally meant "the starting point of an age"; the meaning "system of chronological notation" is c.1646; that of "historical period" is 1741.




cot
A cot is a camp bed or infant bed. 

stardom

The status of a performer or entertainer acknowledged as a star. 2. 

Star performers considered as a group.

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