Notes of a word-watcher, Hanching Chung. A first port of call for English learning.
2024年1月10日 星期三
gross, grossing, awfully, absorbedly, engross, engrossing, grossness. turned this strife into engrossing parables of a Golden Age in decline
5 Novels About Plagiarism
Wilson WongReporting for the Book Review
Plagiarism accusations have been in the news recently. It’s a writer’s worst nightmare, and one that also happens to be an engrossing plot device.
Here are 5 books that explore this fraught terrain →
Murillo, Not So Saintly: A Quiet Master Reassessed
In the 17th century, plague and famine devastated Seville. The Baroque painter turned this strife into engrossing parables of a Golden Age in decline.
Gallery view of “Murillo: From Heaven to Earth,” at the Kimbell Art Museum. Center, “Portrait of Don Antonio Hurtado de Salcedo y Mendoza, Marquis de Legarda,” circa 1664, one of more than 50 paintings of secular life in Seville.Credit...Kimbell Art Museum; Photo by Robert LaPrelle
Trump Was Warned Early and Often: Examining His Halting Response
President Trump was slow to absorb the scale of the virus’s risk and to act accordingly, focusing instead on controlling the message and protecting gains in the economy.
Dozens of interviews and a review of records revealed a fuller picture of the extent of Mr. Trump’s halting response.
“Wolf Warrior 2”, a film about a Chinese soldier in Africa who saves hundreds of people from wicked Americans, had standing ovations from cinema goers. And it has grossed $870mn
Obama's Dalai Lama chat irks China
US President Barack Obama hosts the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, a move denounced by China as "gross interference".
她警告說，中國視美國領導人會晤達賴喇嘛為「對中國內政的粗暴干涉」，稱這一舉動將「嚴重損害中美關係」。
Unblinking, rather like a great porcelain idol, U Po Kyin gazed out into the fierce sunlight. He was a man of fifty,
so fat that for years he had not risen from his chair without help, and yet shapely and even beautiful in his
grossness; for the Burmese do not sag and bulge like white men, but grow fat symmetrically, like fruits swelling.
No writer is better placed than Chinua Achebe to tell the story of the Nigerian Biafran war from
a cultural and political perspective. Yet, apart from an interview with
Transition magazine in 1968 and a book of Biafran poems, Nigeria's
most eminent novelist has kept a literary silence about the civil war
in which he played a prominent role – until now. In his engrossing new
memoir, There Was A Country, Achebe, now 81, finally speaks about his life during the conflict that nearly tore Nigeria apart in the late 60s.
Author Lindsay Ashford moved to Austen’s
village of Chawton three years ago. She soon became engrossed in old
volumes of Austen’s letters, and one morning spotted a sentence Austen
wrote just a few months before she died："I am considerably better now
and am recovering my looks a little, which have been bad enough, black
and white and every wrong colour." 作家琳賽艾希佛德3年前搬到奧斯汀住的小鎮喬頓。奧斯汀大量的舊信件馬上就讓她沉迷其中，有一天早上，她發現奧斯汀在生前幾個月寫的一句話：「我現在好多了，外貌也稍微恢復。之前狀況很糟，又黑又白的，什麼不該出現的顏色都出現了。」 Having
researched modern forensic techniques and poisons for her crime
novels, Ashford immediately realised the symptoms could be ascribed to
arsenic poisoning, which can cause "raindrop" pigmentation, where
patches of skin go brown or black, and other areas go white. 艾希佛德為了自己的犯罪小說研究過現代法醫技術與毒藥，立刻發現奧斯汀的症狀可歸因於砒霜中毒，導致「雨滴」般的色素狀病變，讓皮膚有的呈現塊狀的褐色或黑色，有的則是白色。 Professor Janet Todd, editor for the Cambridge edition of Jane Austen, said that murder was implausible.
"I doubt very much she would have been poisoned intentionally. I think
it’s very unlikely. But the possibility she had arsenic for
rheumatism, say, is quite likely." 劍橋版奧斯汀小說集的編輯珍娜陶德表示，珍奧斯汀的死因若是謀殺不太合理。「我非常懷疑她是遭人蓄意毒殺，我覺得這不太可能。不過她如果因為風濕而服用砒霜，可能性就很大。」
新聞辭典 engross：動詞，使人全神貫注、吸引。例句：He’s engrossed in his work.（他專心工作。）
Definition ofengross
verb
[with object]
1 (often be engrossed in) absorb all the attention or interest of:they seemed to be engrossed in conversationthe notes totally engrossed him (as adjective engrossing)the most engrossing parts of the book
archaic gain or keep exclusive possession of:the country had made the best of its position to engross trade
2 Law produce (a legal document, especially a deed or statute) in its final form:the solicitors will submit a draft conveyance and engross the same after approval
Derivatives
engrossingly adverb
Origin:
late Middle English (formerly also as ingross): based on en-1, in-2 'in' + late Latin grossus 'large'. Sense 1 is from Old French en gros, from medieval Latin in grosso 'wholesale'; sense 2 comes from Anglo-Norman French engrosser, medieval Latin ingrossare, from Old French grosse, medieval Latin grossa 'large writing', with reference to clerks writing out documents in large, clear writing
produce or earn (an amount of money) as gross profit or income:the film went on to gross $8 million in the U.S.
noun grossing
2 (plural grosses) a gross profit or income:the box-office grosses mounted1 (plural same) an amount equal to twelve dozen; 144:fifty-five gross of tins of processed milk
[From French grosse douzaine, literally 'large dozen']
It was awfully cold in Buffalo, New York.
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