2019年10月30日 星期三

slim, slurry, soggy, pink slime, goo, gunge, custard, political sliming, amoeboid/ameboid,

'I would like my pictures to look as if a human being has passed by them, like a snail leaving its trail of the human presence... as a snail leaves its slime.' - Francis Bacon



A back-of-the-envelope calculation shows that Hillary Clinton has a 96% chance of winning the White House

Polls from past presidential elections do not bode well for Mr Trump
ECONOMIST.COM


Norway is famed for its fish, oil and a claim to lead on corporate gender equality. Yet the nation is in dire need of reform into a slimmer Scandinavian state modelled on Sweden


McDonald’s answers pink slime and worm meat rumours by inviting cameras into their burger factory

Daniel Libeskind, when he was hired as master planner for a new trade center complex in 2003, spoke of the slurry wall as the soul of his design, and by then it had already served as a multipurpose symbol of urban recovery, democracy, communal strength, the human spirit, not to mention the virtues of sound engineering.


泥灰牆局部

INTERVIEWER
Do you ever revise a story after it’s been published? Apparently, before he died, Proust rewrote the first volumes of Remembrance of Things Past.
MUNRO
Yes, and Henry James rewrote simple, understandable stuff so it was obscure and difficult. Actually I’ve done it recently. The story “Carried Away” was included in Best American Short Stories 1991. I read it again in the anthology, because I wanted to see what it was like and I found a paragraph that I thought was really soggy. It was a very important little paragraph, maybe two sentences. I just took a pen and rewrote it up in the margin of the anthology so that I’d have it there to refer to when I published the story in book form...


創世紀

7上主天主用地上的灰土形成了人,在他鼻孔內吹了一口生氣,人就成了一個有靈的生物。7And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth: and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

 

5. McDonald's Takes 'Pink Slime' Off the Menu

By Josh Sanburn
For years, the world's leading fast-food chain used a "pink slime" as beef filler for its burgers in the U.S. After a campaign by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, McDonald's has abandoned the goo.

One Year Later, The Makers of ‘Pink Slime’ Are Hanging On, and Fighting Back


Japan scientists hope slime holds cleverness key
Khaleej TimesHAKODATE — A brainless, primeval organism able to navigate a maze might help Japanese scientists devise the ideal transport network design. Not bad for a mono-cellular being that lives on rotting leaves. Amoeboid yellow slime mold has been on Earth ...



Pink slime is a colloquial term[1] for ammoniated boneless lean beef trimmings or similar products, which are considered "unfit for human consumption" until ammonia has been added.[2] The product is sold by a number of beef processing companies, including Cargill Meat Solutions and Beef Products, Inc.[3] The lean beef sold by BPI has become known for increasing the pH of the beef trimmings by adding ammonium hydroxide to remove pathogens such as E. coli and Salmonella, while the Cargill product uses antimicrobial treatments that lower the pH.[3] This beef product is USDA-approved and is a component (typically less than 25 percent) of a majority of ground beef in the United States.[4]


Production process (?)

ameboid[a・me・boid]

  • 発音記号[əmíːbɔid]
[形]アメーバ状の
ameboid movements
アメーバ運動.




Art Gallery of Alex Alien
Soggy Slime Self Portrait (2000). Soaked Self Portrait (2000) .... Francis Bacon, The Last Interview: Francis Giacobetti, The Art Newspaper, June 2003. ...

slurry


 
音節
slur • ry
発音
slə'ːri | slʌ'ri
[名][U](水と粘土・土・石灰・しっくいを混ぜた)泥漿(でいしょう).






slime

Pronunciation: /slʌɪm/

Definition of slime
noun

[mass noun]
  • un unpleasantly thick and slippery liquid substance:the cold stone was wet with slime

verb

[with object]
  • cover with slime:what grass remained was slimed over with pale brown mud

Origin:

Old English slīm, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch slijm and German Schleim 'mucus, slime', Latin limus 'mud', and Greek limnē 'marsh'

slime
n.
  1. A thick sticky slippery substance.
  2. Biology. A mucous substance secreted by certain animals, such as catfishes and slugs.
  3. Soft moist earth; mud.
  4. A slurry containing very fine particulate matter.
  5. Vile or disgusting matter.
  6. Slang. A despicable or repulsive person.
tr.v., slimed, slim·ing, slimes.
  1. To smear with slime.
  2. To remove slime from (fish to be canned, for example).
[Middle English, from Old English slīm.]

[名][U]
1 ねば土, 軟泥;ヘドロ.
2 (きたない, または悪臭のする)粘液物;(カタツムリ・魚・植物などの)粘液.
3 ((しばしば〜s))泥鉱.
4 ((米俗))いやなやつ.
━━[動](slimed, slim・ing)(他)
1 …をねば土でおおう[塗る].
2 〈魚などから〉(缶詰にするために)粘液を取り除く.

political sliming, gunge, goo, custard, slim


衛生署呼籲停用一種減肥產品
商業電台
衛生署呼籲市民不要購買或服用一種名為「Marsha Slim Plus」的減肥產品。產品以「瑪沙醫學美容補身美肌配方」的盒裝形式發售,盒內有一樽60粒的樽裝及30個茶包,署方驗出產品含有西藥「西布曲明」及 「酚酞」成分,服用後可能會引致嚴重副作用,包括血壓上升及心跳加劇, ...

Mandelson custard attack probed

The moment custard was thrown at Lord Mandelson

Police have said they are investigating an incident in which an environmental campaigner threw green custard at Business Secretary Lord Mandelson.
No complaint has yet been made against Leila Deen after she confronted Lord Mandelson before he was due to take part in a low-carbon summit in London.


political sliming, gunge, goo, custard, slim
衛生署呼籲停用一種減肥產品
商業電台
衛 生署呼籲市民不要購買或服用一種名為「Marsha Slim Plus」的減肥產品。產品以「瑪沙醫學美容補身美肌配方」的盒裝形式發售,盒內有一樽60粒的樽裝及30個茶包,署方驗出產品含有西藥「西布曲明」及 「酚酞」成分,服用後可能會引致嚴重副作用,包括血壓上升及心跳加劇, ...

Mandelson custard attack probed

The moment custard was thrown at Lord Mandelson

Police have said they are investigating an incident in which an environmental campaigner threw green custard at Business Secretary Lord Mandelson.
No complaint has yet been made against Leila Deen after she confronted Lord Mandelson before he was due to take part in a low-carbon summit in London.

Political sliming

  • Posted by Paul Evans
  • 06 March 2009
Politicians ought to be used to having things hurled at them by now. Purple powder at Blair, shoes at Bush, an egg at John Prescott. This week, Lord Mandelson became the latest victim of wordless but eloquent protest – and was drenched in green gunge.
Leila Deen was angry at Mandelson's support for the Heathrow expansion, according to Plane Stupid's Richard, whose blog documents some of the other stunts that the anti-aviation group has pulled.


slime 
noun [U]
a sticky liquid substance which is unpleasant to touch, such as the liquid produced by fish and snails and the greenish brown substance found near water:
There was a revolting green slime in between the bathroom tiles.
You could see trails of slime where the slugs had been.

slimy 
adjective
1 covered in slime:
Although snakes look slimy their skin is actually dry to the touch.

2 DISAPPROVING If you describe a person or their manner as slimy, you mean that they appear to be friendly but in a way that you find unpleasant:
He was the very worst sort of slimy salesman.

sliminess 
noun [U]tr.v., slimed, slim·ing, slimes.
  1. To smear with slime.
  2. To remove slime from (fish to be canned, for example).
[Middle English, from Old English slīm.]


goo  
noun [U] INFORMAL
an unpleasantly sticky substance
gunge
noun [U] (ALSO gunk)
any unpleasant soft dirty substance, often one which you can not recognize:
It was amazing how much gunge had accumulated in the pipe.

custard 
noun [U]
a (usually warm) sweet sauce made from eggs, milk and sugar and poured over sweet dishes:
apple pie and custard



slim
 
adj., slim·mer, slim·mest.
  1. Small in girth or thickness in proportion to height or length; slender.
  2. Small in quantity or amount; meager: slim chances of success.
intr. & tr.v., slimmed, slim·ming, slims.
  1. To become or make slim.
  2. To lose or cause to lose weight, as by dieting or exercise.
[Dutch, bad, sly, from Middle Dutch slimp, slim, bad, crooked.]
slimly slim'ly adv.
slimmer slim'mer n.
slimness slim'ness n.


Political sliming

  • Posted by Paul Evans
  • 06 March 2009
Politicians ought to be used to having things hurled at them by now. Purple powder at Blair, shoes at Bush, an egg at John Prescott. This week, Lord Mandelson became the latest victim of wordless but eloquent protest – and was drenched in green gunge.
Leila Deen was angry at Mandelson's support for the Heathrow expansion, according to Plane Stupid's Richard, whose blog documents some of the other stunts that the anti-aviation group has pulled.



slim[slim]

  • 発音記号[slím]

[形](〜・mer, 〜・mest)
1 〈人・体格などが〉細い, ほっそりした, やせた. ▼よい意味で用いる. ⇒SLENDER[類語]
a slim waist [figure]
ほっそりした腰[体つき].
2 〈通路などが〉狭い, 細い
a slim passage between the reefs
さんご礁の間の狭い水路.
3 〈かばん・本などが〉薄い.
4 不十分な, 乏しい, 少ない;〈可能性などが〉わずかな;〈収入などが〉少ない
a slim possibility of escape
逃亡のわずかな可能性
a slim triumph
辛勝
the slim literature on the topic
このテーマに関する乏しい文献
between slim and none
無きに等しい.
5 ずるい
You slim rascal!
((親愛の情をこめて))ずるいやつ.
━━[動](〜med, 〜・ming)(他)
1 …を(減食などをして)やせさせる((down));細くする.
2 …規模を縮小する, …を削減する((down)).
━━(自)やせる((down));細くなる.
slim・ly
[副]
slim・ness
[名]



Definition of soggy
adjective (soggier, soggiest)



  • wet and soft:the sandbags were soggy and split open figurative the chorus sings powerfully but the interpretation is ultimately soggy
Derivatives


soggily

Pronunciation: /ˈsägəlē/
adverb
sogginess
noun

Origin:

early 18th century (in the sense 'boggy'): from dialect sog 'a swamp' + -y1

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