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Notes of a word-watcher, Hanching Chung. A first port of call for English learning.

2016年11月28日 星期一

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

Princeton University
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Graduate students from around the country came to Princeton to improve the experiences of women in philosophy.
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Workshop for graduate students in philosophy focuses on mentoring women
Nearly 50 graduate students from around the country and beyond gathered at Princeton University for "Athena in Action: A Networking and Mentoring…
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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)。
INSIDE OUTSIDE Magazine 和 Patricia Timmie Astri 跟其他 4 個人
Unitarian Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

unitarianism

【名詞】
1
個々の信念の自由を強調して、三位一体を拒絶するキリスト教の教義
(Christian doctrine that stresses individual freedom of belief and rejects the Trinity)


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.

Historic American Buildings Survey photograph

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 letter) a 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.]
Athenaeum Alley
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」]
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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
Horace: lessons from a Latin versifier
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.

July 15, 2011, 4:49 pmHedge Funds

The Week That Was, In Verse

By KEVIN ROOSE
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
Bill Taylor
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 versifies; especially :  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.

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2016年11月24日 星期四

detractor, demotic, argot, passeggiata, a share of something - synonyms



Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee and former Massachusetts governor, is one of Donald J. Trump's leading candidates for secretary of state.
Republicans Divided Between Romney and Giuliani for Secretary of State

By JEREMY W. PETERS and MAGGIE HABERMAN

The leading candidates are both high-profile politicians with their share of detractors.


Apple's CEO Tim Cook announces that he is "proud to be gay". Yet in many countries, gay sex is still punishable by death http://econ.st/13liSiZ
Tainting love
IN THE argot of human rights, LGBT means lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender—a catch-all term for sexual minorities. But Yahya Jammeh, president of Gambia for 20...
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 Regulators Take a Look at Patent Firms' Impact
U.S. antitrust authorities are examining whether specialized patent-holding firms—or "trolls" to their detractors—are disrupting competition in high-tech markets, adding a new front to a long-standing Silicon Valley battle.


 Dictionary Translates Ancient Egypt Life
New York Times
A workshop for specialists in Demotic research was held at the university last month as the dictionary section for the letter S, the last of 25 chapters to be finished, is being posted on the Oriental Institute's Web site, where the dictionary is ...

demotic worlds

detractor
noun [C]
someone who criticizes something or someone, often unfairly:
His detractors claim that his fierce temper makes him unsuitable for party leadership.

demotic
adj.
  1. Of or relating to the common people; popular: demotic speech; demotic entertainments.
  2. Of, relating to, or written in the simplified form of ancient Egyptian hieratic writing.
  3. Demotic Of or relating to a form of modern Greek based on colloquial use.
n.
Demotic Greek.

[Greek dēmotikos, from dēmotēs, a commoner, from dēmos, people.]

demotic[de・mot・ic]

  • 発音記号[dimɑ'tik | -mɔ't-]

[形]((形式))
1 民衆[人民]の.
2 (古代エジプトの)民衆文字の.
━━[名]((形式))
1 民衆文字.
2 ((D-))現代ギリシャ日常語(⇔Katharevusa).

workshop argot
 argot
n.
A specialized vocabulary or set of idioms used by a particular group: thieves' argot. See synonyms at dialect.

[French.]
Italy's daily passeggiata evening stroll


Passeggiata is a babble of lively conversation as everyone window shops their
way up and down the street, everyone checking out everyone else (and even more



troll
[名](北欧伝説で)ほら穴や地下に住む巨人;いたずら好きな小人(▼超自然力をもつとされ, その人形は魔よけに用いられる).



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a share of something - synonyms and related words | Macmillan .



moiety

 noun
formal one of two parts of something

share

 noun
a part of a total number or amount of something that is divided between several people or things

proportion

 noun
maths a quantity of something that is a part or share of the whole

portion

 noun
a part of an amount or total

allocation

 noun
an amount or share of something that is given to someone or used for a particular purpose

allotment

 noun
part of an amount of something that is given to someone

slice

 noun
informal a part or share of something

share

 noun
a part of the total amount of work or responsibility of several people

the cake

 noun
used for talking about something that must be shared among several people or organizations, especially an amount of money

the lion’s share


the largest part of something

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2016年11月23日 星期三

hose, silverback, footbridge, double chin

Don't share this


Donald Trump really wants you to stop sharing these photos of his double chin
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The typical chief executive is more than six feet tall, has a deep voice, a good posture, a touch of grey in his thick, lustrous hair and, for his age, a fit body. It seems getting to the top is as much to do with how you look as what you achieve http://econ.st/1vEyxjB

The look of a leader
IN GORILLA society, power belongs to silverback males. These splendid creatures have numerous status markers besides their back hair: they are bigger than the rest...
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Deregulation under Reagan and Bush spawned savage inequalities ...


Robert Reich: Insider Traders are Hosing Us All
The former secretary of labor examines how deregulation under Reagan and Bush spawned savage inequalities.
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sil¦ver|back
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪlvəbak
  
/




Definition of silverback in English:

NOUN

A mature male mountain gorilla, which is distinguishedby an area of white or silvery hair across the backand is the dominant member of its social group.




Definition of hose in English:

NOUN

1A flexible tube conveying water, used chiefly forwatering plants and in firefighting:a sprinkler hose
MORE EXAMPLE SENTENCESSYNONYMS
2[TREATED AS PLURAL] Stockings, socks, and tights(especially in commercial use):her hose had been laddered
MORE EXAMPLE SENTENCES
2.1historical Breeches:Elizabethan doublet and hose
MORE EXAMPLE SENTENCES

VERB

[WITH OBJECT]Back to top  
Water or spray with a hose:he was hosing down the driveway
MORE EXAMPLE SENTENCES

Origin

Old English hosa, of Germanic origin; related to Dutchhoos 'stocking, water hose' and German Hosen'trousers'. Originally singular, the term denoted a covering for the leg, sometimes including the foot but sometimes reaching only to the ankle.





foot|bridge 行人天橋
Pronunciation: /ˈfʊtbrɪdʒ
  
/



Definition of footbridge in English:

NOUN

A bridge designed to be used by pedestrians:he took a short cut across a railway footbridge


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