diva, prima donna, operatic take, double take, fixated, junkie, fixation, operatically scaled

Va-Va-Va-Volume: Fashion Looks Beyond the Skinny-Jean Look W1

The chic new breed of voluminous clothing—operatically scaled trousers, skirts and tunics—may make women weary of skinny jeans want to live a whole lot larger

  "Is it a coincidence that an Oscar season that is so fixated on “genius” is also so feeble when it comes to women and minorities?"

As the music and literary worlds remember the life and career of Maya Angelou, another eminent American author and poet is drawing attention in New York this week.

Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Raven' Gets an Operatic Take

"The Raven" has had a rich and recurring place in American popular...

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1. BlackBerry's Storm Aims to Blow the iPhone Away
By Anita Hamilton

Research in Motion is reportedly gearing up to launch a hot new phone that will make iPhone junkies do a double-take

'The East, the West, and Sex'

By RICHARD BERNSTEIN
Reviewed by TONI BENTLEY

A wide-ranging history of Western man’s erotic fixation on the East, from ancient Chinese sex manuals to Flaubert in Egypt to today’s Bangkok.

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Letter from China: A double take on Mao in money-fixated ChinaQ: [Reader]
I did a double take when I saw that Des Moines was mentioned in your New York Times e-mail newsletter last week. Yes, good ol' DSM, for something other than happening to have the caucuses.
Letter from China: A double take on Mao in money-fixated China




《國際先驅論壇報》的“中國來鴻”則是把毛澤東和如今的中國社會做了對比。作者是七十年代曾經在北京居住的伯恩斯坦。
他說，現在已經無法以懷舊的心情看待北京。不但景觀不一樣，連人的想法也不同了。
伯恩斯坦的老朋友告訴他，“如今我們最關心的三件事，就是錢、錢、錢。”
他還提到了湖南官員包二奶、超生以及食品藥品監管局局長被處決的事件。
他回憶毛澤東主政時期，丟個刮鬍刀片都會有人撿回來還給你。


diva, prima donna, nonoperatic
"A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering."

Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/freeman-dyson#ixzz1ShMDz5hy

porn diva Vanessa del Rio,"歌劇在西方的藝術神龕之上，何等尊貴！尤其擁有DIVA封號的歌劇女神，更是皇冠上的鑽石。當派蒂來到倫敦演出，但凡她下車走路之處，皆要鋪上紅色絲絨！然而她們對藝術的自尊自重，並未無限上綱到妄尊自大；因為她們深知：歌，是唱給知音聽的；偶爾搏君一粲，自嘲又何妨？ "


diva

(dē'və) 
n., pl., -vas, or -ve (-vā).

1. An operatic prima donna.
2. A very successful singer of nonoperatic music: a jazz diva.

[Italian, from Latin dīva, goddess, feminine of dīvus, god.]

• [díːvə]

[名]（複〜s, -ve 〔-ve〕）（オペラの）著名［偉大］な女性歌手；プリマドンナ.

［イタリア語］



operatic

• [ɑ`pərǽtik | ɔ`p-]

[形]オペラの, 歌劇の；オペラ風［向き］の.

━━[名]((通例〜sで単数・複数扱い))オペラ上演の技術；芝居がかった身ぶり.


The noun double take has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a delayed reaction indicating surprise
n.
A delayed reaction to an unusual remark or circumstance, often used as a comic device

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The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1: a delayed reaction indicating surprise

fix·ate (fĭk'sāt')

v., -at·ed, -at·ing, -ates.

v.tr.
To make fixed, stable, or stationary.
To focus one's eyes or attention on: fixate a faint object.
To command the attention of exclusively or repeatedly; preoccupy obsessively: “TV and newspapers were fixated on high-technology as the solution to almost everything” (Jay Walljasper).

Psychology.
To attach (oneself) to a person or thing in an immature or neurotic fashion.
In classical psychoanalysis, to cause (the libido) to be arrested at an early stage of psychosexual development.



double take　（喜劇役者が）初めはうっかり聞いて笑っているが途中で気がついてぎょっとする仕草.

1. (對...)過後才恍然大悟
2. 再次的細看

junkie
also junk·y n. Slang., pl. -ies.

1. A narcotics addict, especially one using heroin.
2. One who has an insatiable interest or devotion: a sports junkie.

Robert Coles: From Tykes to Tolstoy 1997

fixation
n.

1. The act or process of fixing or fixating.
2. An obsessive preoccupation.
3. Psychology. A strong attachment to a person or thing, especially such an attachment formed in childhood or infancy and manifested in immature or neurotic behavior that persists throughout life.

fixate
v., -at·ed, -at·ing, -ates. v.tr.

1. To make fixed, stable, or stationary.
2. To focus one's eyes or attention on: fixate a faint object.
3. To command the attention of exclusively or repeatedly; preoccupy obsessively: “TV and newspapers were fixated on high-technology as the solution to almost everything” (Jay Walljasper).
4. Psychology.
   1. To attach (oneself) to a person or thing in an immature or neurotic fashion.
   2. In classical psychoanalysis, to cause (the libido) to be arrested at an early stage of psychosexual development.

v.intr.

1. To focus the eyes or attention.
2. Psychology.
   1. To become attached to a person or thing in an immature or pathological way; form a fixation.
   2. To be arrested at an early stage of psychosexual development.
3. 
   

fixated

a. (形容詞 adjective)

1. 念念不忘的;迷戀的
He seems to be fixated on this idea of travelling around the world.
他似乎對周遊世界這一想法十分迷戀

take

noun

• 1A scene or sequence of sound or vision photographed or recorded continuously at one time: he completed a particularly difficult scene in two takes
  

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  • I wanted to keep cool throughout the take and not show that my foot was caught.
  • I think it was totally different to any animation movie I have seen before, it was another type of take.
  • When one of them kisses Robbie a little too passionately, Tasha yells out and ruins a take.
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  Synonyms
• 1.1A particular version of or approach to something: his own whimsical take on life
  

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• 2An amount of something gained or acquired from one source or in one session: the take from commodity taxation
  

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• 2.1chiefly US The money received at a cinema or theatre for seats.
  

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3 Printing An amount of copy set up at one time or by one compositor.More example sentences