"In Victorian times it was our love for home fires that politicians were reluctant to upset; today it is our love for cars and other private means of transport. It took many decades to act on the knowledge that pea-soupers cost lives. How many decades will it take in our own time?"
2017年1月31日 星期二
2017年1月30日 星期一
staging a walkout over Trump’s immigration ban
2,000 Google employees just went out to protest the immigration ban.
walkout
noun [C]
the act of leaving an official meeting as a group in order to show disapproval, or of leaving a place of work to start a strike:
Senior union workers staged (= had) a walkout this afternoon at the annual conference over the proposed changes in funding.
See also walk out.2012年4月5日 星期四
edible, Face OWS-Like Walkout
AT&T Faces Possible Walkout
AT&T could see 40,000 wireline employees walk off the job Sunday morning if the union can't reach an agreement with the telecommunications giant for a new contract.
Harvard Students Stage Walkout in OWS-Like Protest Intro econ class walks out, criticizes professor as favoring the rich.
wálkòut[wálk・òut][名]
1 ストライキ(strike)
2 ((主に米略式))（抗議のための）退場, 欠場.
stage a walkout
ストライキをする. |
in the flesh, investigative journalist/ reporting
"This effort is not a response to the administration in Washington, but it's certainly well-timed," said CNN Vice President Andrew Morse.
China’s greatest fear is that Trump will encourage, if not support, moves toward Taiwan’s independence. This potentially threatens the geopolitical integrity of the country, as it could strengthen similar movements in other separatist regions, such as Hong Kong and Xinjiang. Already on alert after Trump’s unprecedented phone call with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, Beijing warned against allowing Tsai to stop over in the United States this month during an international trip. More threateningly, the government has stated that any attempt by Trump to change the status quo over Taiwan would cross a “red line” and incur “revenge.” A meeting in the flesh between Trump and Tsai would cause the most serious crisis in U.S.-China relations since normalization in 1979.
in the flesh
phrase of flesh
- 1.in person or (of a thing) in its actual state.
"they decided that they should meet Alexander in the flesh"
2017年1月29日 星期日
Chart shows 'what the British say, what they really mean, and what others understand'
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/chart-shows-
Chart shows 'what the British say, what they really mean, and what others understand'
The table claims that when British people say it's 'quite good' - it's really 'a bit disappointing'
A chart that claims to show the differences between what British people say, what they really mean - and what non-British people understand by it - is being shared widely on social media.
But what is behind its success?
The three-part table was first reported in 2011, and is split into three columns. It details examples such as, "I hear what you say", a phrase commonly used by British people in a range of social and business situations.
Contrary to what Britons think they are saying, however, what they really mean when they use the expression is, "I disagree and do not want to discuss it further" - according to the chart.
And as for what people from outside of Britain understand, it's another translation entirely.
The chart claims that rather than picking up on a lack of enthusiasm, non-native English speakers or those from other parts of the EU or beyond are actually likely to take Britons at face value and assume they are saying, "I accept your point of view".
And rather than realising that when British people murmur, "That's not bad" - and really mean "That's good" - non-Brits think they've done a terrible job.
What's more, the chart claims the phrase "very interesting", when spoken by a British person, really means "This is clearly nonsense" - while a fellow European would read it as, "they are impressed".
The chart discusses veiled language and cultural stereotypes
The nuances of such loaded conversations, which have also been analysed by Business Insider, may seem rather baffling.
Dr Matthew Melia, a senior lecturer in Performance and Screen Studies at Kingston University, who teaches about cultural linguistics and stereotypes, told The Independent the truth behind what we say and what we really mean may depend a little on individual - and regional - characteristics.
"I’m from Liverpool and we just say what we mean," he said. "I teach television and in our first year classes we talk about how meaning is constructed and how an image can show you one thing and say something else.
"The thing that really pops into my mind is the kind of phrase you hear a lot, such, ‘I’m not racist, but…’. When people say that, it’s a subsconscious recognition that what you’re about to say is, actually, incredibly racist. And it shows that very often, people don't say what they're really thinking or what they mean because they're scared of being judged."
Dr Melia also said that the kind of language we use may depend on our career or the kind of business we're involved in.
"When I’m with my students and giving them feedback I tend to be direct," he said. "If it’s bad, it’s bad – if it’s good then it’s good. As a lecturer and tutor I have a duty to be direct with students, whereas in business there’s likely to be a whole lexicon of sayings and language, such as the phrase, ‘blue sky thinking’.
"As someone who works within academia, I don’t think it’s good to be indirect. Students need to be able to be on the same page and you can’t give them mixed messages. For me, the same rules apply with friends and family, which is probably why my mouth gets me into trouble sometimes!"
Dr Melia criticised the chart, however, for propagating an "us vs them" mentality.
"By labelling these columns, 'what the British say' and making it appear differently to those from other parts of the EU, very much marks it out as an 'us vs them' mentality," he said.
"Whereas what we say depends very much on the situation, and I would question how applicable this chart is to a wider set of social interactions.
"The first column of the chart appears to me to be a very antiquated, softened, white middle-class, polite and decorous way of making a point. It's a very loose version of what we say, and disregards all nuance."
Dr Melia said he did recognise some of the phrases that the chart claims British people use often, but that he felt more familiar with the second column.
He said: "I recognise the first column, certainly - but these kind of phrases are often ways of disguising someone making a bad point. From my own experience, I recognise the second column, 'What the British mean', much more.
"I think it is always better to be direct and to let people know where you stand. It kind of annoys me when people sugar the pill. There are occasions when it needs to be done – when you're trying to be sensitive or delicate. But if you’re down the pub with your mates and someone says something clearly ridiculous then you should make your case and challenge it directly. If you do that by going around the houses then it lacks impact.
"Language doesn’t have a fixed point, it changes, it’s culturally coded."
But as for the chart's popularity, Dr Melia says that while we may think we're comfortable with stereotypes, the reality is a little different.
"Are we comfortable with stereotypes?" he says.
"Or is it actually cliche? The reason we are comfortable with cliché is because the words we say, or hear, have a recognised meaning to them."
slip, slip up (MISTAKE), beat it, mulled wine
在過去的一年中，我們經歷了茲卡病毒的肆虐、巴拿馬文件的曝光、英國脫歐、川普就任美國總統……時報漫畫作者用畫筆刻畫了這讓人困惑、混亂無序的一年。
John Roberts, Fallible: Who's responsible for the oath of office slip-up--Roberts or Obama? Slate deconstructs the mangled oath of office, instructing readers on how it was supposed to go down, complete with video.
Most presidents traditionally add the words So help me God at the end, as did Obama.
Here's how it went down today:
ROBERTS: (working without a text, and also without an overcoat): Are you prepared to take the oath, Senator?
OBAMA: I am.
ROBERTS: I Barack Hussein Obama ...
OBAMA: (interrupting) I Barack ...
ROBERTS: Do solemnly swear ...
OBAMA: I, Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear ...
ROBERTS: That I will execute the office of president to the United States faithfully...
OBAMA: That I will execute ... (pauses, smiles, waits for Roberts to put "faithfully" in correct spot)
ROBERTS: ... The off ... faithfully the pres ... the office of president of the United States...
OBAMA: The office of president of the United States, faithfully ... (if you can't beat 'em, join 'em)
ROBERTS: And will to the best of my ability ...
OBAMA: And will to [the] best of my ability ...
ROBERTS: Preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.
OBAMA: Preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.
ROBERTS: So help you God?
OBAMA: So help me God.
ROBERTS: Congratulations, Mr. President.
Hairdresser Highlights Security Slip-Up at Bundesbank
German tabloid Bild reported Thursday that a Berlin hairdresser rifling
through his garbage cans has come across top secret plans for the
Bundesbank's new maximum security safe.
The DW-WORLD Article
http://newsletter.dw-world.de
Google Inverts Australian Exchange Rate, Pays AdSense Publishers ...
Search Engine Roundtable - USA
A WebmasterWorld thread has confirmed reports that Google has slipped up majority with payment to their Australian and New Zealand publishers. ...
Texas Prosecutor Apologizes for Messages to His Secretary
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL
A day after a slip-up exposed intimate e-mail exchanges with his executive secretary, Texas’ most powerful prosecutor issued a public apology to his family and others.
mulled wine
Red or white wine that is heated with various citrus fruits and spices such as cinnamon, cloves, allspice or nutmeg. Mulled wine is generally sweetened with sugar and often fortified with a spirit, usually brandy. Some recipes call for stirring the hot wine mixture into beaten eggs, which adds flavor and body to the beverage.
(Tell a person to leave)
If you don't like somebody just tell them beat it
mull4
━━ vt. 酒に香料・砂糖・卵を入れ温める.
slip up phrasal verb
to make a mistake:
These figures don't make sense - have we slipped up somewhere?
slip up phrasal verb
to make a mistake:
These figures don't make sense - have we slipped up somewhere?
slip-up
noun [C]
a mistake or something which goes wrong
slip (MISTAKE)
noun [C]
a small mistake:
She's made one or two slips - mainly spelling errors - but it's basically well written.
slip of the tongue
when someone says something that they did not intend to say:
I called her new boyfriend by her previous boyfriend's name - it was just a slip of the tongue.
slip of the pen, mistake in writing, misspelling.
●機密をもらしたことを責められて 「口が滑っちゃったんです」→ It was a slip of the tongue. 【解説】 slip は「滑ること、スリップ」の意ですから、 It was a slip of the tongue.（それは舌の滑りだった）は日本語の 「口が滑った」に対応する言い回しになります。 なお、a slip of the pen（書き損じ）、a slip of the press（誤植）、 a slip of memory（記憶違い）などの言い方もありますよ。 【会話例】 A: I told you not to tell anyone. It was a secret. (他言無用だって言っただろう。あれは機密事項だったんだぞ) B: I'm sorry. It was a slip of the tongue. (すみません。口が滑っちゃったんです) A: Well, just try to be more careful. (まあ、とにかく、もっと気をつけるようにしろよ)
carriage, grande, grande dame, clientele,
What a grande gesture.
Time Warner Cable said it reached a deal with Viacom on carriage fees, avoiding a blackout of 19 cable channels including MTV and Comedy Central.
Once a Hostess, Now a Bar’s Grande Dame
By SUSAN DOMINUSShow up at the storied Café des Artistes anytime after 6:30 most evenings, and you might notice an elderly woman nursing a glass of red wine at the bar, her carriage erect, her suit jacket immaculate, her gaze resting nowhere in particular. Her small smile suggests that she’s not waiting for anyone, and that she’s comfortable with that. She’s old enough that even among the restaurant’s graying clientele, she stands out. Maybe you’d even avoid an empty seat next to her, for fear it might open the door to a rambling tirade about some government conspiracy involving vitamins or aluminum foil.
Grande means "large" or "great" in many of the Romance languages
grande dame
(grănd' dăm', gränd' däm')
n., pl. grandes dames also grand dames (grănd' dăm', gränd' däm').
- A highly respected elderly or middle-aged woman.
- A respected woman having extensive experience in her field: the grande dame of women's professional tennis.
[French : grande, great + dame, lady.]
carriage (BODY MOVEMENT)noun [U] FORMAL
the way in which a person moves or keeps their body when they are standing, sitting or walking
carriage
n.
- A wheeled vehicle, especially a four-wheeled horse-drawn passenger vehicle, often of an elegant design.
- Chiefly British. A railroad passenger car.
- A baby carriage.
- A wheeled support or frame for carrying a heavy object, such as a cannon.
- A moving part of a machine for holding or shifting another part: the carriage of a typewriter.
- The act or process of transporting or carrying.
- (kăr'ē-ĭj) The cost of or the charge for transporting.
- The manner of holding and moving one's head and body; bearing. See synonyms at posture.
- Archaic. Management; administration.
car・riage
immaculate
adjective APPROVING
1 perfectly clean or tidy:
dressed in an immaculate white suit
an immaculate garden
2 perfect and without any mistakes:
He gave an immaculate performance as the aging hero.
immaculately
adverb
immaculately dressed
cli・en・tele
━━ n. ((集合的に；単複両扱い)) 訴訟依頼人; 顧客, 常連.
2017年1月28日 星期六
cauterize, cauterization (or cauterisation, or cautery)
Cauterization (or cauterisation, or cautery) is a medical practice or technique of burning a part of a body to remove or close off a part of it. It destroys some tissue in an attempt to mitigate bleeding and damage, remove an undesired growth, or minimize other potential medical harm, such as infections when antibiotics are unavailable.[1]
The practice was once widespread for treatment of wounds. Its utility before the advent of antibiotics was said to be effective at more than one level:
- To stop severe blood-loss and to prevent exsanguination
- To close amputations
cauterize
ˈkɔːtərʌɪz/
verb
- burn the skin or flesh of (a wound) with a heated instrument or caustic substance in order to stop bleeding or to prevent infection."I'll freeze the hand and cauterize the wound"
“misogyny”, indefensible, downswing, misandry, misogynistic, nascent upswing, mass murder
When someone—like Donald Trump—has such a long history of saying loathsome things, we should apply “misogyny” without qualms. But misogyny isn't merely a strong version of sexism
“Misogyny” should not become a simple synonym for “sexism”
From the archive
ECONOMIST.COM
"The irony is all too often lost."
Sorry, Feminists: Misandry Isn't Funny
It may be ironic, but it's bad for the cause
TIME.COM
Yes, Elliot Rodger was a misogynist — but blaming a cultural hatred for women for his actions loses sight of the real reason why isolated, mentally ill young men turn to mass murder.
China PMI rise points to nascent upswing
A rise in China's key PMI economic indicator suggests that manufacturing
activity in the world's second largest economy is picking up. The reading
for November is fueling hopes that the global downturn has bottomed out.
downswing,
| Synonyms: | downturn |
| Usage: | Panicked investors scrambled to secure their assets as the market took a severe downswing for the third time in a month. |
UKIP foster ruling 'indefensible'Education Secretary Michael Gove and Rotherham Borough Council launch separate investigations into why three children were removed from a foster...
But who’s the “we” here? Bradley wants to legitimize rap by setting it in a canonical context, but aren’t we past the point of justifying it? True, CNN is clueless enough to ask, as it did on a 2007 program, “Hip-Hop: Art or Poison?” But no one is really still debating whether hip-hop is a bona fide art form. “Rap rhymes are often characterized as simplistic,” writes Bradley, who admits to finding himself “in the position of defending the indefensible, of making the case to excuse the coarse language and the misogynistic messages.” He needn’t try so hard; in his tone of unwarranted protectiveness, he seems to forget that hip-hop now earns highbrow props worldwide. After three decades, it doesn’t require a defense attorney.
downswing
- 音節
- dówn • swìng
- downswingの変化形
- downswings (複数形)
[名]
1 《ゴルフ》ダウンスイング.
2 （商況・出生率などの）下降, 減少(downturn)((in ...)).indefensible
- in • de • fen • si • ble
- 発音
- ìndifénsəbl
[形]
1 弁護の余地のない, 言い訳のたたない.
2 （攻撃を）防ぎえない；（批判・否認から）守りようのない.
ìn・de・fèn・si・bíl・i・ty
[名]
in・de・fen・si・bly
misogynistic
(-sŏj'ə-nəs)
adj.
Of or characterized by a hatred of women.
misandry
Line breaks: mis|andry
Pronunciation: /mɪˈsandri/
NOUN
Origin
late 19th century: from Greek miso- 'hating' + anēr,andr- 'man', on the pattern of misogyny.
misogyny
Line breaks: mis|ogyny
Pronunciation: /mɪˈsɒdʒ(ə)ni /
Derivati
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