2016年10月20日 星期四

en route, leyline, deviation, archaeologist of the mind

The UK deploys warships to monitor a Russian aircraft carrier group and other vessels as they sail through the North Sea and the English Channel reportedly en route to Syria's coast.


Patricia Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland on this day in 1995 (aged 74).
“Tom laughed at the phrase 'sexual deviation.' Where was the sex? Where was the deviation? He looked at Freddie and said low and bitterly: 'Freddie Miles, you're a victim of your own dirty mind.'”
― from "The Talented Mr. Ripley"


Dr. Gay wrote several works on Freud and summed up his findings in the best-selling “Freud: A Life for Our Time” (1988). Freud’s integrity had been questioned and his theories challenged, but Dr. Gay praised his “long and unrivaled career as the archaeologist of the mind.”

蓋伊博士寫了幾本弗洛伊德相關的書，將其發現總結於最暢銷的《弗洛伊德：為我們時代寫的傳記》（1988年）。有人質疑弗洛伊德的一貫性，其理論受到挑戰，但蓋伊博士則稱讚他“弗洛伊德作為心靈的考古學家，其生涯既長期而又是無與倫比。”

下午聽CNN女播音員發音"錯誤"，讀成in route

There were 155 passengers on board, with 138 adults, 16 children and 1 infant. Also on board were 2 pilots and 5 cabin crew.

AirAsia said that the aircraft "requesting deviation due to enroute weather before communication with the aircraft was lost."



en route
ɒn ˈruːt/
adverb
adverb: enroute
  1. during the course of a journey; on the way.
    "he stopped in Turkey en route to Geneva"
    synonyms:on the way, in transit, on the journey, during the journey, during transport,along/on the road, on the move, in motion; More


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deviation
diːvɪˈeɪʃ(ə)n/
noun
  1. 1.
    the action of departing from an established course or accepted standard.
    "deviation from a norm"
    synonyms:divergence, digression, turning aside, departure, deflection, difference,variation, variance, alteration, veering, straying, fluctuation, aberration,abnormality, irregularity, anomaly, inconsistency, discrepancy,variableness, oddness, freakishness; More
  2. 2.
    STATISTICS
    the amount by which a single measurement differs from a fixed value such as the mean.
    "a significant deviation from the average value"




ley2

Line breaks: ley
Pronunciation: /leɪ , liː /

(also ley line)





NOUN

A supposed straight line connecting three or more prehistoric or ancient sites, sometimes regarded as the line of a former track and associated by some with lines of energy and other paranormalphenomena.

Origin

1920s: variant of lea.




The Malvern Hills in England. Alfred Watkins believed a ley line passed along their ridge.
Ley lines /leɪ laɪnz/ are supposed alignments of numerous places of geographical and historical interest, such as ancient monuments and megaliths, natural ridge-tops and water-fords. The phrase was coined in 1921 by the amateur archaeologist Alfred Watkins, in his books Early British Trackways and The Old Straight Track. He sought to identify ancient trackways in the British landscape. Watkins later developed theories that these alignments were created for ease of overland trekking by line-of-sight navigation during neolithic times, and had persisted in the landscape over millennia.[1]
In a book called The View Over Atlantis (1969), the writer John Michell revived the term "ley lines", associating it with spiritual and mystical theories about alignments of land forms, drawing on the Chinese concept of feng shui. He believed that a mystical network of ley lines existed across Britain.[2]
Since the publication of Michell's book, the spiritualised version of the concept has been adopted by other authors and applied to landscapes in many places around the world. Both versions of the theory have been criticised on the grounds that a random distribution of a sufficient number of points on a plane will inevitably create alignments of random points purely by chance.

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