2016年10月30日 星期日

crucible, stand-in, fill in, gratin, casserole. Bathscaphe

Investors, bosses and consumers seem more optimistic—though cautious. "We are hoping for the best," says the boss of an education provider, "but we are planning for the worst"
The stand-in leader has restored a little optimism
ECONOMIST.COM



Recipes for Health

Vegetable Casseroles for Frigid Nights

By MARTHA ROSE SHULMAN
Winter vegetables are perfect for bubbly, comforting gratins and other baked casseroles.



《玻璃的世界》2004
不可不看一下的人類社會學學者的 網站:http://www.AlanMacFarlane.com 裡面,有許多影片摘要、訪談等等。譬如說《玻璃的世界》 (北京:商務 ,2003) The Glass Bathscaphe: How Glass Changed the World (2002) (with Gerry Martin)。
他的論點之一說:西方的科學革命獨特 點是他們懂得用glass,
來作出種種精密儀器。這種假說很特別,我認為這成立不成立,是無法驗證的,然而何妨「百說俱陳」,或 許歷史的想像就是很美的研究前提。
這書名The Glass Bathyscaphe: Glass and World History有一奇怪字,即,BATHYSCAPHE. (Pronunciation: 'bathi`skeyf. Matching Terms: bathyscaph. WordNet Dictionary.) ,意思是:到深海之中駕"玻璃船"探討 (Definition: [n] navigable deep diving vessel for underwater exploration. Synonyms: bathyscape, bathyscaph.) 又,有人撰書評說,這方面的著作,有更全面的: Robert Temple's excellent book, THE CRYSTAL SUN deals with the development and use of lenses in antiquity in a more complete manner.

台灣未來的產業前途與高級玻璃LCD電視等息息相關……我是懷念竹北Philips的玻璃廠製造的 TV CRT中的兩大玻璃組件screens和cones(我一直在幻想:玻璃原料經高榙而下的數周煉成經過,那是我的煉丹經驗;雖然我不懂 細節,總工程師何先生說,我教的實驗計畫和統計方法,肯定對他們有助益……), 以及如何在上面塗佈化學螢光劑,加上精密複雜的masks等等。

The CrucibleArthur Miller play that used the Salem witch trials as a stand-in for McCarthyism premiered on Broadway; after a rocky start, it became a classic (1953)

ICYMI: In The Wall Street Journal op-ed, President Robert J. Zimmer on the importance of freedom of expression and ‘the unfettered exchange of ideas’

University of Chicago President Robert J. Zimmer writes that a university should not be a sanctuary for comfort but rather a crucible for confronting ideas.
WSJ.COM|由 ROBERT J. ZIMMER 上傳


stand in
 phrasal verb (US USUALLY fill in)
to do the job that another person was going to do or usually does, or to take their place at an event, because they cannot be there:
Paula stood in for Jane, while Jane was on holiday.

stand-in
noun [C]
a person who takes the place or does the job of another person for a short time, for example because the other person is ill or on holiday:
The lecturer didn't turn up, so we had to find a stand-in.


casserole
[名]
1 蒸し焼きなべ, キャセロール;((主に英))シチューなべ.
2 [C][U]蒸し焼きなべ料理.
3 《化学》カセロール:実験用柄(え)つき蒸発皿.
━━[動](他)…を蒸し焼きなべで焼く[料理する].


n.
    1. A dish, usually of earthenware, glass, or cast iron, in which food is both baked and served.
    2. Food prepared and served in such a dish.
  1. Chemistry. A small-handled, deep porcelain crucible used for heating and evaporating.
[French, saucepan, diminutive of Old French casse, ladle, pan, from Old Provençal cassa, from Medieval Latin cattia, dipper, from Greek kuathion, diminutive of kuathos, ladle.]








gratin
(grät'n, grăt'n, gră-tăN') pronunciation
n.
A top crust consisting of browned crumbs and butter, often with grated cheese.

[French, from obsolete grater, to scratch, scrape, from Old French. See grate1.]


grate
[動](自)
1 (…と)(やかましく)こすれる, すれ合う;ギシギシ[ギリギリ, キーキー, ガリガリ]音を立てる, きしる((against, on, upon ...))
a knife grating against metal
金属をこすってギーギー音を出すナイフ.
2 (…にとって)不快な音を出す, かんにさわる((on, upon ...))
The screams grated on my nerves.
その金切り声が神経にさわった.
━━(他)
1 〈食材などを〉(おろし金で)下ろす
grate cheese
チーズを下ろす.
2 〈物を〉ギシギシ[ギリギリ, ガリガリ]こする, きしらせる;〈人を〉いらいらさせる, 〈人の〉感情を害する
grate the teeth
歯をきしらせる
grate the gears (of a car)
(車の)ギヤをきしませる.


2016年10月29日 星期六

positive spin, tailspin, spin a yarn/tale, recital, socially-networked, accountability


 After Google disappoints, Page points at future growth chances
PCWorld (blog)
Google CEO Larry Page tried to put a positive spin on his company's poor third-quarter financial results, which were released prematurely Thursday and triggered a panicked stock sell-off before trading was abruptly halted. During a conference call with ...


PC Sales Go Into a Tailspin


  The Short Life of a PR Fiasco
In a socially-networked world, companies may be able to survive public relations disasters better than in the old days of "traditional" news and corporate spin.




A few weeks ago, Mr. Wing, a high school student from Spokane, Wash., took another Google product out for a spin: the Chrome Operating System.
Google is not expected to unveil the highly anticipated Chrome OS until the end of the year, and the software is expected to run, at first, only on the class of low-cost PCs called netbooks. But Mr. Wing, along with a growing number of other Google fans, did not want to wait.



Small-Picture Approach Flips Medical Economics

By BRUCE JAPSEN
Accountable care organizations, a new kind of health care practice, are gaining momentum in part because of the Affordable Care Act signed into law two years ago.


: : : The transitive of "spin" has a meaning of forming or creating as when a spider "spins" a web. : : : So when someone "spins a tale" he or she is creating or forming a story. : : I think this could have a different origin. In the UK the saying is often 'to spina yarn' - a yarn being a story or tale.Feb 6, 2003

Re: "spin a tale" - The Phrase Finder

www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/18/messages/836.html


感謝 David 讓我學英文
Dear HC,,

最近重新翻翻這本書 Four Days with Dr. Deming, p.164 有一段話描述下屬怎樣應付精明的主管

The staff reacted to avoid her punishment. We sanitized the information. Each staff calculated the spin to put on the numbers, to position his or her reports in the best light.

不很確定 calculate the spin to...., position his reports in the best light 的意思與翻譯

Best rgds
David Hsu
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這spin 意思是見解
((米略式))(特定の)見解, 解釈
put a political spin on ...
…に政治的な解釈を加える.

所以"每人提的數據/見解都經過美化 (馬殺雞)
讓他們的報告看起來漂亮點"
這情形在當年康旭時或許類似
--
再讀 spin 解釋錯誤
原譯用輪盤賭局來解釋spin 有點道理

n.
  1. The act of spinning.
  2. A swift whirling motion.
  3. A state of mental confusion.
  4. Informal. A short drive in a vehicle: took a spin in the new car.
  5. The flight condition of an aircraft in a nose-down, spiraling, stalled descent.
    1. A distinctive point of view, emphasis, or interpretation: "Dryden . . . was adept at putting spin on an apparently neutral recital of facts" (Robert M. Adams).
    2. A distinctive character or style: an innovative chef who puts a new spin on traditional fare.
  6. Physics.
    1. The intrinsic angular momentum of a subatomic particle. Also called spin angular momentum.
    2. The total angular momentum of an atomic nucleus.
    3. A quantum number expressing spin angular momentum.






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[動](spun 〔spn〕 or((古))span 〔spǽn〕, spun, 〜・ning)(他)

1III[名]([副])]…を(勢いよく)回転させる, ぐるぐる回す;〈洗濯物を〉(脱水機にかけて)脱水する(spin-dry)
spin a record [a nickel]
レコード[硬貨]を回す
Spin me around the block in your new car.
君の新車で近所を一回りしてくれ.
2 …を紡ぐ, 紡績する;[spin A into B/spin B out of A]〈A(原料)をB(糸)に〉紡ぐ
spin wool into yarn [=spin yarn out of wool]
羊毛を糸に紡ぐ.
3 〈クモ・蚕などが〉〈糸を〉吐く
A spider spins a web.
クモは巣をかける.
4 …を(糸を紡ぐように)作り出す, 展開させる;…をるると語る;〈話を〉つくり上げる
spin a (long) yarn
いい加減な話を長々とする
spin tall tales
ほら話をする.
5 …に変える((into ...)).
6 〈仕事・話などを〉長引かせる, 引き延ばす;〈金などを〉(長く)もたせる((out))
spin the project out
計画を引き延ばす.
7 …を(施盤で)回転成形する.
8 〈ロケット・誘導ミサイルに〉回転をつける.
9 ((米略式))〈人を〉ある意見をもつように誘導する.
━━(自)
1I([副])]ぐるぐる回る, 〈こまなどが〉くるくる回る;きりきり舞いする. ⇒TURN[類語]
spin on one toe
片足のつま先でぐるぐる回る.
2 〈クモが〉糸を吐く, 〈蚕が〉まゆを作る, 糸を紡ぐ, 紡績する, 〈血・果汁などが〉糸のように流れ出る, 〈雪が〉舞うように降る.
3 速く進む[行く, 走る];((略式))(車で)飛ばす((along))
The years spin away.
時はあっという間に過ぎていく.
4 〈頭が〉くらくらする, 目まいがする
Her head was spinning with confusion and fatigue.
彼女の頭は困惑と疲労でくらくらしていた.
5 スピナー(spinner)で魚を釣る.
spin ... off/spin off ...
(1) 〈会社・資産などを〉分離新設する.
(2) …を(副産物として)生み出す, 派生させる.
━━[名][U][C]
1 回転(する[させる]こと);(ボールなどの)ひねり, スピン;(回転脱水槽での)脱水
the spin of the earth
地球の自転
put a spin on a ball
ボールにスピンをかける
with plenty of spin
ひねりをかけた.
2 ((米略式))(特定の)見解, 解釈
put a political spin on ...
…に政治的な解釈を加える.
3 下落, 急落
Wool prices went into a spin.
羊毛の値段は急落した.
4 (楽しみのための)短いドライブ.
5 《航空》きりもみ降下(tailspin);《宇宙》(ロケット・誘導ミサイルに)回転をつけること.
6 《物理学》スピン.
7 ((豪))幸運続き;因果.
8 ((S-))音楽雑誌.
be in a (flat) spin
((英略式))あわてる, 困惑する.re·cit·al (rĭ-sīt'l) pronunciation
n.
  1. The act of reading or reciting in a public performance.
  2. A very detailed account or report of something; a narration.
  3. A public performance of music or dance, especially by a solo performer.
recitalist re·ci'tal·ist n.




táilspìn[táil・spìn]
  [名](飛行機の)きりもみ降下(spin);(一般に)事態の急激な悪化, 手の打ちようのない事態, 落ち込み
It sent me into a tailspin.
それですっかり参ってしまった.


**** 感謝林公孚給我們的
我的COMMENTS: 七八年前某留美化工人將ACCOUNTABILITY 翻譯成當責並出書--書中錯誤頗多 (我在中油訓練所讀到他們當時的 BIBLE 哈哈大笑....)
這些東西都是有點玩字 老生長談

2016年10月28日 星期五

jack up, wattmeter, Wm. Wrigley Jr.,


If you want to watch the Cubs play at a Chicago bar, it's going to cost you.

Bars to charge as much as $500 just to guarantee a table during World Series.
USATODAY.COM


Shareholders of Wm. Wrigley Jr. have approved the company's $23 billion sale to Mars, a move that will end more than a century of family control as the chewing-gum company becomes part of what will now be the world's largest candy maker.

Go to Article from The Associated Press via The New York Times»



Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2007:
Sales: $5,389.1M
One year growth: 15.0%
Net income: $632.0M
Income growth: 19.4%
Officers:
Chairman: William (Bill) Wrigley Jr.
President, CEO, and Director: William D. (Bill) Perez
SVP and CFO: Flavorings, Spices & Other Ingredients


這 Wm. Wrigley Jr. 應該是 William (Bill) Wrigley Jr.
不過 Wm.
也是電錶 wattmeter
abbr.

wattmeter
ˈwɒtmiːtə/
noun
  1. a meter for measuring electric power in watts.

Wrigley Field - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrigley_Field
Wrigley Field /ˈrɪɡli/ is a baseball park located on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois. It is the ... In the north side community area of Lakeview in the Wrigleyville neighborhood, Wrigley Field is on an irregular block bounded by Clark (west) and ...

diehard, die-hard, luxuriate in sth, hat-trick

Chicago Cubs fan showed her team loyalty by receiving her first tattoo ever in honor of the World Series contenders - and her daughter and grandson got ones to match.

An 82-year-old die-hard Chicago Cubs fan showed her team loyalty…
GMA.YAHOO.COM

"I was thinking how much my grandma would love to be here to watch history being made."


This group of diehard Broncos fans traveled to California, even though they…
FOR.TN

Xinjiang also has the country's largest coal reserves, an estimated 40 percent of the national total, and the largest natural gas reserves. Those three components form an energy hat trick that China is capitalizing on to power its cities and industries.


新疆還擁有中國最大的煤炭儲量——約佔全國總儲量的40%——以及最大的天然氣儲量。這三個要素組成了能源領域的帽子戲法,而中國正在利用它們來為城市和工業的發展提供動力。





Around the corner Tower Records blasted music outside from "Bad," Jackson's seventh album, and had also set up three displays devoted to the his music inside. Fans started trickling in when Tower opened at 10 a.m.; a die-hard fan dressed like Jackson in his "Billie Jean" video even entered the store and flipped through the albums.

Karen Armstrong, a religious historian who has written several popular books including one on the Buddha, says there are odd parallels between his story and Dr. Taylor’s.
“Like this lady, he was reluctant to return to this world,” she said. “He wanted to luxuriate in the sense of enlightenment.”
But, she said, “the dynamic of the religious required that he go out into the world and share his sense of compassion.”

diehard, die-hard , luxuriate in sth
German Fan Plans World's First Rolling Stones Museum

A diehard Rolling Stones in Germany fan is planning to create a museum in
his home town, which will showcase a vast collection of memorabilia from
the fathers of rock and roll. It'll be a worldwide first, he says.

The DW-WORLD Article
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=evz2l4I44va89pI3



Mr. Libby's supporters, by contrast, cheered the president's move. "We're getting the champagne," said Victoria Toensing, a Washington lawyer who became a vocal critic of the investigation. Echoing some diehard conservatives, she added that she wished the president had given Mr. Libby a full pardon, explaining that critics will "give him the full-frontal assault anyway."

Google Adds AIM To Gmail :-) For Some :-/ For Me
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
Earlier this week, Google announced it added aim's IM engine to its repertoire so you can chat with your diehard AOL buddies right inside Gmail. ...

dieharddie-hard Show phonetics
noun [C] DISAPPROVING
someone who is unwilling to change or give up their ideas or ways of behaving, even when there are good reasons to do so:
a diehard conservative/fan
See also die hard at die (STOP LIVING).
Die-hard
Meaning
A person who holds stubbornly to a minority view, in defiance of the circumstances.
Origin
The title of the 1988 film Die Hard was chosen to signify both the 'hardness' of the lead character and the difficulty that he and the bad guys had in killing each other. In choosing not to hyphenate 'die-hard', which is the currently accepted spelling, they reverted to the original meaning of the term - to 'die hard' was to die reluctantly, resisting to the end. This meaning of the term was recorded in 1703, in Psychologia: or, an Account of the Nature of the Rational Soul. The text argues the pros and cons of a condemned man's approach to death:
Against this Reason he [William Coward] urges the case of those that die hard, as they call it, at Tyburn who will therefore, according to him, out-brave the Terrors of the Lord.
Die hardTyburn, near what is now Marble Arch, in London, was the principal location for public hangings in England until 1785. The 'drop' method of hanging wasn't then in use and the process was sometimes a prolonged affair. There are records showing that some of those who were about to be hanged opted to take the opposite course to the 'die hards' and paid people to hang onto their legs so that they died quickly. There's no evidence however for the commonly repeated notion that this is the derivation of the phrase 'pulling one's leg'.
The wider use of the term came into being in the following century. At the Battle of Albuhera in the Peninsula War in 1811, William Inglis, the commander of the British 57th Regiment of Foot, ordered all ranks "Die hard the 57th, die hard!", i.e. to fight until the last. The regiment later became known as the Die-hards.
In the early 20th century, 'die-hard' was more usually used to describe a member of the political faction who were prepared to 'die in the last ditch' in their resistance to the Home Rule Bill of 1912. In 1922, the meaning took a step away from actual deaths, toward our present-day figurative meaning, when the members of the Conservative Party who followed the leadership of the Marquess of Salisbury named themselves 'The Die-hards'.
Like 'zigzag', 'meanwhile', and countless other terms which are coined as two words, later to become hyphenated and later still to merge into a single word, the 'diehard' spelling will probably come to be preferred before long.

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luxuriate in sth phrasal verb FORMAL
to get great pleasure from something, especially because it provides physical comfort:
There's nothing better after a hard day's work than to luxuriate in a hot bath.




Definition of hat-trick in English:

NOUN

Three successes of the same kind within a limited period, in particular (in soccer) the scoring of three goals in a game by one player or (in cricket) the taking of three wickets by the same bowler with successive balls:he scored a hat-trickCampbell completed a brilliant hat-tricka hat-trick of victories

Origin

late 19th century: originally referring to the club presentation of a new hat (or some equivalent) to a bowler taking three wickets successively.

die hard

If a belief or way of behaving dies hard, it takes a long time to disappear, and is not given up easily:
Old habits die hard.
See also diehard.



 die|hard
Pronunciation: /ˈdʌɪhɑːd
  
/




Definition of diehard in English:

NOUN

[OFTEN AS MODIFIER]
A person who strongly opposes change or whocontinues to support something in spite of opposition:my stepfather was a diehard Republicana diehard Yankees fan

Origin

mid 19th century: from die hard (see die1).
Leaders Commit to EU's Future by Signing the Lisbon Treaty

After a long and painstaking road, the EU has a new roadmap into the
future. But while the Lisbon Treaty hints at a future of cooperation, one
absent leader reminded all that old habits die hard.

The DW-WORLD Article
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=evx53nI44va89pI1

confrere, fraternity, frat, hotbed. confraternity, kickstart, kickstarter


No Kegs, No Liquor: Colleges Target Drinking and Sexual Assault

Dozens of universities have introduced stricter rules on alcohol, especially at fraternities. We sent reporters to five campuses to examine the new measures.
When New York City Opera turned to Kickstarter as part of an emergency effort to raise $1 million by Sept. 30, it did so against some immense odds.

Have you or do you plan to donate to City Opera's Kickstarter campaign?


U.S. Shift Poses Risk to Pakistan

By DECLAN WALSH

An American withdrawal from Afghanistan and the curtailment of the drone campaign could plunge Pakistan's hotbed tribal areas into further chaos.

Fraternities try to redefine their image

Its annual conference is a top event for German fraternities: not only a time to drink and be merry, but also to discuss the direction the assocations should take, and how to shake off their far-right reputation.
This year, around 400 members from fraternities all across Germany are meeting in Eisenach from May 23-26 for their annual conference. Former fraternity members, called "Alte Herren," who financially support the associations for life, also come to the annual "Burschentag" meeting. These "seniors" give lectures and help kickstart the younger members' careers.


 San Diego Mayor Building Economic Bridges to Tijuana

By JENNIFER MEDINA

Mayor Bob Filner sees the border as a potential economic engine for the region, a remarkable shift in a city once viewed as a hotbed for illegal immigration.


Long pigeonholed as a hotbed for frat parties and activism, Madison has a vibrant but much more tempered side brimming with arts, culture and food. In a city with so many types to keep happy, it’s impossible not to find something that suits your fancy.





Definition of hotbed

noun

  • 1an environment promoting the growth of something, especially something unwelcome:the country was a hotbed of revolt and dissension
2a bed of earth heated by fermenting manure, for raising or forcing plants.



frat 兄弟會n. Informal.
A college fraternity.

fraternity


 
音節
fra • ter • ni • ty
発音
frətə'ːrnəti
fraternityの変化形
fraternities (複数形)
[名]
1 [U]兄弟関係;兄弟愛, 友愛, 同胞愛.
2 ((米))(寮生活をする男子大学生の)友愛会(Greek-letter society). ⇒SORORITY
3 互助会, 共済組合, 協会, 協同組合.
4 信徒団体, 講社;慈善団体.
5 ((the 〜))((単数・複数扱い))同業者[同好者]仲間.


rl:2006 "
今天為大家介紹 confrere ,法文拼寫形式為 confrère 。我們可以把法文字彙分解成 con- (字首,「同、在一起」之義)和 -frère (「兄、弟」之義)。 今日字彙的其他相關資料請參考《我的英漢辭典》和《我的法漢辭典》。
本欄需要義工長期支援,不論翻譯、重譯或糾正都無上歡迎。
——
※文摘譯例※


confrere

(kŏn'frâr')

n.

A fellow member of a fraternity or profession; a colleague.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin cōnfrāter : Latin com-, com- + Latin frāter, brother.]
Synonyms: colleague, fellow



The thought certainly obsesses Burt Hecker, the narrator of Tod Wodicka’s first novel, “All Shall Be Well; and All Shall Be Well; and All Manner of Things Shall Be Well,” a title whose length and repetitiveness don’t bode well for its contents. Burt, a medieval re-enactor whose fanatic refusal to live in the historical present has brought pain to the people around him, goes through life in a dirty tunic and a mead-induced stupor. He refuses to learn to drive, calling automobiles, somewhat witlessly, “time machines.” Now well into his 60s, he avoids all that is “OOP” — that is, “Out of Period.” His principal comfort is his amateur society, the Confraternity of Times Lost Regained, which sponsors medieval fairs, jousts and banquets.

Wikipedia article "Medieval reenactment".

A confraternity is normally a Roman Catholic or Orthodox organization of lay people created for the purpose of promoting special works of Christian charity or piety, and approved by the Church hierarchy.
CCD :教理研究會: 1905 年為教宗碧嶽十世( St. Pius X )所創,以訓練教友講授要理為宗旨,特以未就讀教會學校的學童為服務物件。 1934 年在美國組成委員會,積極推動。 1962 年香港教區也正式成立。全文為 The Confraternity of Christian Doctrine



kick-start

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verb

[with object]
  • start (a motorcycle engine) with a downward thrust of a pedal: he kick-started the motor and zoomed up the hill
  • provide an impetus to start or resume (a process):they need to kick-start the economy

noun

  • a device to start an engine by the downward thrust of a pedal, as in older motorcycles.
  • an act of kick-starting an engine.
  • an impetus given to start or resume a process:new investment will provide the kick-start needed to escape from recession