2016年11月28日 星期一

temple, Athenaeum, Athena/Athene, Unity Temple, unitarianism

Graduate students from around the country came to Princeton to improve the experiences of women in philosophy.

Nearly 50 graduate students from around the country and beyond gathered at Princeton University for "Athena in Action: A Networking and Mentoring…
PRINCETON.EDU
美 國南卡州查理城、查爾斯敦(Charleston:Charles=Charles II of England; ton=town)的一位一體論(Unitarianism)教會之美。這教派不接受基督宗教信仰中的三位一體論(Trinity, Trinitarism: Holy Father, Holy Son, Holy Spirit是三又是一)。
Unitarian Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

unitarianism

名詞
1


Unity Temple is a Unitarian Universalist church in Oak Park, Illinois, and the home of the Unity Temple Unitarian Universalist Congregation. It was designed by the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and built between 1905 and 1908. Unity Temple is considered to be one of Wright's most important structures dating from the first decade of the twentieth century.[3] Because of its consolidation of aesthetic intent and structure through use of a single material, reinforced concrete, Unity Temple is considered by many architects to be the first modern building in the world. This idea became of central importance to the modern architects who followed Wright, such as Mies Van Der Rohe, and even the post-modernists, such as Frank Gehry.
Unity Temple is located at 875 Lake Street, Oak Park Illinois. (The Unitarian Universalist congregation that owns and worships in Unity Temple was formed in 1871, and has no connection with Unity Church, a religious organization founded in 1889.)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_Temple
Exterior of the Unity Temple.

英國倫敦市中心著名的五星級酒店「雅典娜神殿」(Athenaeum)在聖誕日發生火警,大約150名住客要緊急疏散,當中一人因為吸入過量濃煙,感到不適,要即場接受治療。火警在清晨接近7時半的時候發生,首先是酒店的地庫起火,該處有四分一的地方火光熊熊。 ...

Athene

(also Athena)

PROPER NOUN

Greek Mythology 
  • The patron goddess of Athens, typically allegorized into a personification of wisdom.
    Also called Pallas
    Roman equivalent Minerva
ath·e·nae·um ath·e·ne·um (ăth'ə-nē'əm) also
n.
  1. An institution, such as a literary club or scientific academy, for the promotion of learning.
  2. A place, such as a library, where printed materials are available for reading.
  3. (initial capital lettera sanctuary of Athena at Athens, built by theRoman emperor Hadrian, and frequented by poets and scholars.
[Late Latin Athēnaeum, a Roman school, after Greek Athēnaion, the temple of Athena, from Athēna, Athena.]
As if tailor-made for a weekend getaway, a series of historic athenaeums lines up in New England.

NOUN

  • 1

    Used in the names of libraries or institutions for literary or scientific study:
    ‘the Boston Athenaeum’

    More example sentences1.1 Used in the titles of periodicals concerned with literature, science, and art.

    Example sentences1.2 A London club founded in 1824, originally for men of distinction in literature, art, and learning.

Origin

Mid 18th century: via Latin from Greek Athēnaion, denoting the temple of the goddess Athene in ancient Athens (which was used for teaching).

Ath・e・n(a)e・um


━━ n. (the ~) アテナ神殿 ((詩人・学者が集まった)); (a-) 文芸[科学]研究会; (a-) 読書室, 図書室.


Definition of temple
noun


  • a building devoted to the worship, or regarded as the dwelling place, of a god or gods or other objects of religious reverence.
  • (the Temple) either of two successive religious buildings of the Jews in Jerusalem. The first (957–586 bc) was built by Solomon and destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar; it contained the Ark of the Covenant. The second (515 bc- ad 70) was enlarged by Herod the Great from 20 bc and destroyed by the Romans during a Jewish revolt; all that remains is the Western Wall.
  • (the Temple) a group of buildings in Fleet Street in London that stand on land formerly occupied by the headquarters of the Knights Templar. Located there are the Inner and Outer Temple, two of the Inns of Court.
  • a synagogue.
  • a place of Christian public worship, especially a Protestant church in France.

Origin:

Old English templ, tempel, reinforced in Middle English by Old French temple, both from Latin templum 'open or consecrated space'


temple


  音節
tem • ple1
発音
témpl
レベル
大学入試程度
templeの変化形
temples (複数形)
[名]
1 (古代ギリシャ・ローマ・エジプトの)神殿;(ヒンズー教・仏教の)寺院
the Hōryūji Temple
法隆寺.
2 ((The T-))(聖書時代のJerusalemの)エホバの神殿.
3 ((米))ユダヤ教の礼拝堂(synagogue).
4 (キリスト教の)礼拝堂, 教会堂(▼church, chapelが一般的);(フランスの)プロテスタントの教会堂;モルモン教の神殿.
5 神のいます所[物]:特にキリスト教徒の体〈《聖書》1コリント書6:19〉.
6 殿堂, りっぱな催し会場
a temple of the arts
美術の殿堂.
7
(1) ((T-))(中世の)神殿[聖堂]修道騎士団の殿堂:LondonとParisにあった.
(2) 法学院:LondonのInns of CourtのうちInner TempleとMiddle Templeのいずれか.
[ラテン語templum「聖所」←ギリシャ語témnein(切る)と同系で, 原義は「切り離された土地」]

2016年11月27日 星期日

limerick, cinquain, verse, versifier, haiku, belly-up

Latin poet Horace was a celebrity in his era, "halfway between Bob Dylan and Seamus Heaney". He died on this day in 8 BC, but his writings and aphorisms still furnish us with answers
Satirist and poet Horace died on November 27th, 8 BC
ECON.ST


The Week That Was, In Verse From a hedge fund manager's bad (poker) bet, to a lobbyist in ostrich leather cowboy boots, to a private equity Philly team, a poetic look at the week's top news stories.

The Week That Was, In Verse

David EinhornSteve Bartlett
Jamie DimonBen Wallace
Ethan Miller/Getty Images, Daniel Rosenbaum for The New York Times, Matt Slocum/Associated Press and Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg News Clockwise from top left: David Einhorn, Steve Bartlett, Ben Wallace and Jamie Dimon.
A poetic look at the top news stories of the week:
David Einhorn’s Poker Loss, a haiku
Greenlight’s card shark chief
Busts like a cheap umbrella
Next stop: homelessness?
Apollo’s Josh Harris Buys The Sixers, a limerick
A big private equity king
Took Philly’s team under his wing
A big playoff rout
Would help him block out
His belly-up Linens-n-Things
Wall Street’s Lobbyist, a cinquain
Bartlett
Starts Finance U.
Tells Congress, “I’m not here
to tell you how to legislate.”
O RLY?

Ode to Bank Earnings Season
Sing, o muse, of EPS and such
Each quarter when the big banks pay their calls
A balance sheet can obfuscate so much
And CFOs can spin tales oh so tall.
But journalists with early-morning shifts
Sit waiting in their cubicles, alert
Until the press release drops from on high
O joy! O glorious day! The spirit lifts!
They happily dig up the earnings dirt,
Then think about what life’s become, and cry.




Weird, adj.: a dictionary in limerick form
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada

SPECIAL TO THE STAR

The limerick is poetry, terse,
Oft-rendered not better but worse
By rhymesters ham-fisted,
Their anapests twisted,
Whose doggerel is not worth a curse.



limerick
A light humorous, nonsensical, or bawdy verse of five anapestic lines usually with the rhyme scheme aabba.
limerick [limm‐ĕ‐rik], an English verse form consisting of five anapaestic lines rhyming aabba, the third and fourth lines having two stresses and the others three. Early examples, notably those of Edward Lear in his Book of Nonsense (1846), use the same rhyming word at the end of the first and last lines, but most modern limericks avoid such repetition. The limerick is almost always a self‐contained, humorous poem, and usually plays on rhymes involving the names of people or places. First found in the 1820s, it was popularized by Lear, and soon became a favourite form for the witty obscenities of anonymous versifiers. The following is one of the less offensive examples of the coarse limerick tradition:
There was a young fellow named Menzies
Whose kissing sent girls into frenzies;
 But a virgin one night 
Crossed her legs in a fright
And fractured his bi‐focal lenses.



versifier

noun ver·si·fi·er \ˈvər-sə-ˌfī(-ə)r\
:  one that versifiesespecially :  a writer of light or inferior verse

lim・er・ick



━━ n. リメリック ((五行戯詩)).



belly-up (adjective) Financially ruined.
Synonyms:bankrupt
Usage:The struggling grocery store was forced to lay off several employees to avoid going belly-up.

2016年11月26日 星期六

cauldron, synod, caldron, excommunicate, regimented. petal, comminate, anathema


cauldron of conflict of interst...




The magnificent Gundestrup cauldron is one of the most important and intriguing finds from ancient Europe and features in our current ‪#‎Celts‬exhibition. On loan from Nationalmuseet, the cauldron reveals connections between communities thousands of miles apart. Although it depicts objects used in central and western Europe, it was found in a bog near Gundestrup in Denmark, beyond the northern edge of the Celtic regions. The style of the designs suggests that it was made further east, in Bulgaria or Romania. The strange animals and cross-legged pose of the antlered figure hint at even wider influences, from as far afield as Asia. The scenes on the panels give a glimpse into a world of ancient myths, and the stories of gods and heroes whose names are now lost http://ow.ly/VR5t8






Vatican begins synod on family life

http://bbc.in/10BWyQJ

Cypriots Feel Betrayed by European Union
By LIZ ALDERMAN
Many Cypriots are shocked and angry at what they consider their economic excommunication from the European project.


At the close of the ceremony, watched in the stadium by the 10,000 athletes and 80,000 spectators, the flame was extinguished in dramatic fashion. Each nation will receive one of the cauldron's 204 petals.



BEIJING — In the wake of a fourth horrific attack on Chinese schoolchildren — this time by a crazed man who on Friday beat five toddlers with a hammer, then set himself on fire with two other children in his arms — this shocked and bruised nation was of two distinctly different minds.
On the Internet and in newspapers, people agonized over whether their tightly regimented society, a boiling caldron of change with no pressure valve to let off steam, was blowing its lid.


An elderly couple in Greece are probably involved in the longest engagement in history. They have spent 52 years together and were excommunicated by the Greek Orthodox church because of the nature of their relationship, are appealing to be allowed a religious wedding before they die. Greece's Holy Synod has promised to examine the landmark case. The couple are challenging a church law, dating back to Roman times, which bans what the clergy regards as "spiritually incestuous" partnerships.

Imam Mohammed emerged from the cauldron of religious politics and internal rivalry that characterized the Black Muslims, as the Nation of Islam members were called, in the 1960s and 1970s.
Following Malcolm X, who was drifting away from black separatism toward traditional Islam when he was assassinated in 1965, Imam Mohammed increasingly favored a nonracial approach to religion, without categorizing white people as devils, as Elijah Muhammad did. His father excommunicated him several times for this dissidence.


A Taste of Failure Fuels an Appetite for Success at South Korea’s Cram Schools

By CHOE SANG-HUN
South Koreans say their obsession to get their children into top-notch universities is nothing short of “a war” and are turning to intense, regimented campuses.



anathema L./Gr. (1) 絕罰。詳見 excommunication (2) 譴責異端;詛咒。


comminate
(KOM-uh-nayt)

verb tr.: To threaten with divine punishment; to curse.
Meaning #1: curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment
Synonyms: execrate, anathemize, anathematize, anathematise

Etymology
Back-formation from commination, from com- (intensive prefix) + minari (to threaten). Ultimately from the Indo-European root men- (project), which is also the source of minatory, menace, mountain, eminent, promenade, demean, amenable, and mouth. Earliest recorded use: 1611.

Usage
"I think he deserves comminating, don't you? Nancy said people like that ought to be put down, didn't you, Nancy?" — Mollie Hardwick; Malice Domestic; Fawcett; 1992.


regimented

adjective
too organized and controlled:
a regimented school/society/lifestyle

regimentation
noun [U] DISAPPROVING
extreme organization and control of people






synod

Line breaks: synod
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪnəd , -ɒd/

NOUN

1An assembly of the clergy and sometimes also the laity in a diocese or other division of a particular Church:the deanery synod
2Presbyterian ecclesiastical court above the presbyteries and subject to the General Assembly.

Origin

late Middle English: via late Latin from Greek sunodos'meeting', from sun- 'together' + hodos 'way'.
excommunicate
verb [T]
When the Christian Church, especially the Roman Catholic Church, excommunicates someone, it refuses to give them communion and does not allow them to be involved in the Church.

excommunication:絕罰:屬懲戒罰,舊稱開除教籍、逐出教會、出通功、破門律;與 anathema同。受絕罰者禁止舉行或接受聖事,也不得擔任教會任何職務(法典1331)。
excommunication
noun [C or U]
anathema L./Gr. (1) 絕罰。詳見 excommunication (2) 譴責異端;詛咒。



cauldron, MAINLY US caldron
noun [C] OLD USE OR LITERARY
a large round container for cooking in, usually supported over a firen. - 大釜, 沸騰する釜
also cal·dron n.
    A large vessel, such as a kettle or vat, used for boiling.
  1. A state or situation of great distress or unrest felt to resemble a boiling kettle or vat: a cauldron of conflicting corporate politics.
[Middle English, alteration of cauderon, from Norman French, diminutive of caudiere, cooking pot, from Late Latin caldāria, from feminine of Latin caldārius, suitable for warming, from calidus, warm.]

petal[pet・al]

  • 発音記号[pétl]
[名]《植物》花弁, 花びら.
-al(l)ed
[形]



The lighting of the Olympic cauldron at last night's opening ceremony was, if nothing else, wonderfully unique.
The giant flame's design was so sophisticated the studio where it was crafted looked more like James Bond's gadget workshop, its architect revealed today.
Thomas Heatherwick said he was pleasantly surprised when the idea to have 204 separate petals come together to form one giant flame got the go-ahead from a range of officials including Prime minister David Cameron and London 2012 chairman Lord Coe.
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Complex: The design of the Olympic cauldron was so sophisticated it was made in a workshop that look more akin to James Bond's gadget workshop
Complex: The design of the Olympic cauldron was so sophisticated it was made in a workshop that look more akin to James Bond's gadget workshop
Spectacular: It may be far smaller and lighter than previous cauldrons, bu there can be no denying the impact the flame had at the opening ceremony
Spectacular: It may be far smaller and lighter than previous cauldrons, bu there can be no denying the impact the flame had at the opening ceremony
Going green: Each of the 204 petals is fuelled by natural gas, which means energy consumption can be reduced significantly and the flame will still burn brightly
Going green: Each of the 204 petals is fuelled by natural gas, which means energy consumption can be reduced significantly and the flame will still burn brightly
Measuring just 8.5 metres high and weighing 16 tonnes, it is far smaller and lighter than ones from previous events. The one lit in Beijing four years ago weighed a staggering 300 tonnes.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2180217/Burning-green-Unique-design-Olympic-cauldron-help-make-carbon-neutral.html#ixzz23Qo50YzQ


2016年11月24日 星期四

blasé, descend





Neighbors in Palm Beach See an Upside to All the Clamor
A security cordon and news trucks descended on the area around the president-elect’s Florida resort, but many residents were blasé about the activity.


The modern city was transforming humans, giving them a new relationship to time and space, inculcating in them a "blasé attitude", and altering fundamental notions of freedom and being:


descend
dɪˈsɛnd/
verb
  1. 1.
    move or fall downwards.
    "the aircraft began to descend"
    synonyms:go down, come down; More
  2. 2.
    make a sudden attack on.
    "the militia descended on Rye"

blasé
ˈblɑːzeɪ/
adjective
  1. unimpressed with or indifferent to something because one has experienced or seen it so often before.
    "she was becoming quite blasé about the dangers"