2017年2月28日 星期二

truck, trucking, representative, frontman, Fell off the back of a truck





Keep on trucking? Automation will mean massive changes for America's 3.5m truck drivers

Casino Mogul’s Frontman in China Is Focus of Inquiries
Questions over a casino company’s payments to its Chinese representative highlight how often politics and profits are intertwined for Sheldon Adelson, the company’s founder and a major Republican donor.


truck

Verb[edit]

truck (third-person singular simple present truckspresent participle truckingsimple past and past participle trucked)
  1. (intransitive) To drive a truck.
  2. (transitive) To convey by truck.
    Last week, Cletus trucked 100 pounds of lumber up to Dubuque.
  3. (intransitive, US, slang, 1960s) To travel or live contentedly.
    Keep on trucking!
  4. (intransitive, US, slang, 1960s) To persist, to endure.
    Keep on trucking!
  5. (intransitive, film production) To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject.
  6. (transitive, slang) To fight or otherwise physically engage with.  [quotations ▼]
  7. (transitive, slang) To run over or through a tackler in American football.


 representative,(業務) 代表

representative
[名]1(1) (…の)代表(者);後継者, 相続人, 代理人, 代弁[代行]者((of, from, on, at ...)) the last representative of the r...
representatively
[副]典型的に.

 frontman 臺面人物




Urban Dictionary: trucking

www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=trucking
trucking. a euphemism for drug smuggling or trafficking, usually involving the mob. my sister stopped seeing that Giovanni dude after she was informed about the ..

Fell off the back of a truck

A reply generally given by bentnose boys to the law-abiding consumer to convince them goods are legit. Now often used sarcastically to refer to stolen goods.
Lula Mae: This TV is very affordable. It's not stolen is it?
Vinny the Mafioso: Nah, it fell off the back of a truck


Meaning


A euphemism for 'acquired illegally'.

Origin

When anyone accounts for their possession of an article by saying it 'fell off the back of a truck' or 'fell off the back of a lorry', they may be assumed not to be its legal owner - i.e. it is stolen. 'Lorry' is the British version; in the USA and Australia things fall from trucks. This coy language, which feigns innocence but actually emphasizes illegality by using a phrase that is reserved for illegal dealing, is similar to The Godfather's 'an offer he can't refuse'. Others that relate specifically to stolen goods are the 'five finger discount' and 'I got it from a man in a pub'. Had 'air quotes' been in use at the time they might well have been called on when this phrase was first spoken.
The earliest printed versions of 'fell off the back of a lorry' come surprisingly late - like this early example from The Times, 1968:
"The suggestion of the finder, a casual motorist, that the records 'must have fallen off the back of a lorry'."
There are many anecdotal reports of the phrase in the UK from much earlier than that, and it is likely to date back to at least WWII. It's just the sort of language that the 'wide-boys' or 'flash Harrys' who peddled illegal goods during and after WWII would have used. These were exemplified in plays and films by the actors George Cole, Sid James, etc. I'm sure a thorough scan of the scripts of the post-war Ealing comedies would throw up a pre-1968 example.
Having been brought up in the truck-free UK with the 'fell off the back of a lorry' version, I have to now concede supremacy to 'fell off the back of a truck'. Versions of that from both Australia and the USA predate the English examples by many years. The earliest that I can find is from the official record of debates in the Australian House of Representatives - Hansard, 1928:
"We heard, through something that had fallen of the back of a truck onto a reporter's table."
In the USA the expression is found just a few years later - as in this example from The Tuscaloosa News, February 1937:
Many transients in Manhattan are constantly being trimmed by suave 'chauffers' in light delivery trucks who whisper confidentially that there are some bolts of cloth in the rear seat which fell of the back of a truck.
The meaning seems to have changed slightly since the phrase was coined. Almost all of the early references cite it as being used as patter in a scam to sell the unwary shoddy goods. The current usage is as a reference to a straightforward 'nudge, nudge/I won't tell if you won't' sale of stolen or smuggled goods.
A nostalgic word about lorries. Trucks are now travelling the world and, in the same way that the voracious American Grey Squirrel has overwhelmed the retiring European Red Squirrel, they are, on the road and in the dictionary, becoming dominant. The older generation in the UK is holding out and will have no truck with 'truck' but, as time goes by, lorries will turn into trucks, just a charabancs turned into coaches.

infringe, infringer, travesty, in the hunt, parody, encroach, fair, fair use,


美国一家独立机构的一份最新报告说,假冒商品、盗版软件以及商业秘密窃取造成美国每年高达6000亿美元的损失。与此同时,报告还把中国列为“世界最主要的侵犯知识产权者”(world’s principal IP infringer)。全文:https://goo.gl/l7ANzJ


Trump is running as a left-winger’s caricature of selfish, unprincipled conservatism. If elected Republicans embrace that travesty, they have themselves to blame for the damage that he will surely do their cause

Secretary of State John Kerry gives his take on what happens if Congress rejects the Iran nuclear deal. The full conversation airs tomorrow on Morning Edition.


Why films about painters always get the actual painting wrong

A brush with Mr Turner: why can’t films about painters get the painting right?
They get the period clothes and the buildings spot-on. So why not the actual work? Turner expert Andrew Wilton on when inaccuracies become travesties
THEGUARDIAN.COM



United Nations' Rights Chief says Israel may be committing war crimes.

UN Human Rights Council Launches Inquiry into Gaza Conflict
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls vote to open inquiry a "travesty"
TIME.COM   Pakistan’s Tyranny of Blasphemy
Islamists are using laws against religious offenses to encroach on both state and society.


 In Silicon Valley, Patents Go on Trial
In a trial starting next week, Apple will argue that Samsung had a deliberate strategy of copying Apple's smartphone designs.Samsung will likely say that Apple's designs aren't unique and that Apple is infringing on some Samsung patents.

 Google, Oracle Head to Showdown
Opening arguments are expected to begin as soon as Tuesday in the legal showdown between Google and Oracle. Oracle alleges that Google's Android mobile-phone software infringes on Java patents and copyrights.


HTC Sues Apple Using Patents Obtained From Google Last Week
Bloomberg
(2498), Asia's second-biggest maker of smartphones, filed infringement claims against Apple Inc. today, using patents it bought from Google Inc. (GOOG) last week. The nine patents originated with Palm Inc., Motorola Inc. and Openwave Systems Inc., ...

fair use: the US Supreme Court ruled in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music that parodies are not copyright infringements (1994)

Apple Sues Google Phone Maker
Apple is suing HTC, the maker of several Google-based smart phones, claiming patent infringement on the iPhone's user interface and hardware.
Ganging Up on Internet Pirates
Internet users who upload and download pirated movies and music online may soon be getting an unpleasant surprise: Warnings from their service providers that detail their alleged copyright infringement and threaten action if they don't stop.


in the hunt

  1. (informal) having a chance of success   ⇒ that result keeps us in the hunt

infringe[in・fringe]

  • 発音記号[infríndʒ]
[動](他)〈法律・契約・義務・権利・誓い・原理などを〉犯す, 破る, 侵害する, に違反する, 違背する
infringe a copyright [a patent
版権[特許権]を侵害する.
━━(自)[infringe on [upon] A]〈A(法律・権利など)を〉侵害する
infringe on women's rights
女性の権利を侵害する.
[ラテン語infringere(in-中に+frangere破る=破り入る). △FRAGILE, FRACTION
in・fríng・er


[名]
in·fringe·ment (ĭn-frĭnj'mənt) pronunciation
n.
  1. A violation, as of a law, regulation, or agreement; a breach.
  2. An encroachment, as of a right or privilege. See synonyms at breach.
parody
noun
1 [C or U] writing, music, art, speech, etc. which intentionally copies the style of someone famous or copies a particular situation, making the features or qualities of the original more noticeable in a way that is humorous:
He was an eighteenth-century author who wrote parodies of other people's works.
There is a hint of self-parody in his later paintings.
Compare travesty.

2 [C] DISAPPROVING something which so obviously fails to achieve the effect that was intended that it is ridiculous:
"It was a parody of a trial, " said one observer.

parodist
noun [C]
a person who writes parodies

parody
verb [T]
to copy the style of someone or something in a humorous way:
One of the papers is running a competition in which you've got to parody a well-known author.








travesty 
Line breaks: trav|esty
Pronunciation: /ˈtravɪsti /


NOUN (plural travesties)

A false, absurd, or distorted representation of something:the absurdly lenient sentence is a travesty of justice
VERB (travestiestravestyingtravestied)
[WITH OBJECT]Back to top  
Represent in a false, absurd, or distorted way:Michael has betrayed the family by travestying them in his plays

Origin

mid 17th century (as an adjective in the sense 'dressed to appear ridiculous'): from French travesti 'disguised', past participle of travestir, from Italian travestire, fromtrans- 'across' + vestire 'clothe'.

fair use
In copyright law, quotation or reproduction of a small portion of copyrighted material (with proper acknowledgment), which does not require the permission of the copyright holder. The amount varies in proportion to the length of the original, the governing theory being that the use should not decrease the market for the original.



fair (RIGHT)
adjective
1 treating someone in a way that is right or reasonable, or treating a group of people equally and not allowing personal opinions to influence your judgment:
a fair trial
Why should I have to do all the cleaning? It's not fair!
It's not fair on Joe (= It is not right) to make him do all the work!
It's not fair that she's allowed to go and I'm not!
It's not fair to blame me for everything!
She's scrupulously fair with all her employees (= she treats them all equally).
She claims her article was a fair comment on (= a reasonable thing to say about) a matter of public interest.
He offered to do all the cleaning if I did all the cooking, which seemed like a fair (= reasonable) deal.

2 If something, such as a price or share, is fair, it is reasonable and is what you expect or deserve:
I thought it was a fair price that she was offering.
I'm willing to do my fair (= equal) share of the work.
All the workers want is a fair wage for the work that they do.

3 If a game or competition is fair, it is done according to the rules:
It was a fair fight.

fairly
adverb
If you do something fairly, you do it in a way which is right and reasonable and treats people equally:
He claimed that he hadn't been treated fairly by his employers.
Officials will ensure that the election is carried out fairly.
See also fairly at fair (QUITE LARGE).

fairness
noun [U]
the quality of treating people equally or in a way that is right or reasonable:
He had a real sense of fairness and hated injustice.
The ban on media reporting during the election has made some people question the fairness of the election (= ask whether it was fair).
See also fairness at fair (BEAUTIFUL).



encroach

Line breaks: en|croach
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈkrəʊtʃ
 
, ɛn-/







verb

[no object] (usually encroach on/upon)
  • 1Intrude on (a person’s territory, rights, personal life, etc.): rather than encroach on his privacy she might have kept to her room
  • 1.1Advance gradually beyond usual or acceptable limits: the sea has encroached all round the coast

Derivatives








encroacher

noun

Origin

late Middle English (in the sense 'obtain unlawfully, seize'; formerly also as incroach): from Old French encrochier 'seize, fasten upon', from en- 'in, on' + crochier (from croc 'hook', from Old Norse krókr).

birder, Piper, bird-watcher, the Pied Piper, ethos, meteor shower, meteorite,skywatcher,meteorogy, cytology




In a bridal shower scene, the bride-to-be is relieved to be given a return receipt along with a horrible gift. The video ends with these words: "Paper can make any gift, the perfect gift."


A few weeks ago, my friend came back from Brooklyn raving about the food served at a baby shower.
"Savory cupcakes!" she exclaimed. Lasagna, grilled cheese, chicken potpies and even a mac n' cheese cupcake — all shaped like the trendy dessert and served on a cupcake tree.

As Goldman Thrives, Some Say an Ethos Has Faded
By JENNY ANDERSON
Some current and former executives of Goldman Sachs are convinced that, under the leadership of Lloyd C. Blankfein, it now puts quick profits above all else.



LONDON -- Tesco PLC said Thursday it will sell Apple Inc.'s iPhone in the U.K., potentially bringing its lower-priced ethos to the smartphone market.
The British retailer didn't confirm a start date or tariffs for the iPhone but said in a brief press release that both the original iPhone 3G and the new iPhone 3GS would be available shortly.

James Crumley

A hard liver who understood the take-it-as-you-find-it ethos of the American West

Sep 29th 2008 Web only



Google's best practices: valuing workers
Seattle Times - United States
By Beth Fitzgerald Engineers in bluejeans glide by on scooters at the Manhattan office of Google, the absurdly young and wildly successful pied piper to a ...

meteorite, birder, bird-watcher, skywatcher,meteorogy, cytology
People in Chelyabinsk, Russia, watching the trail of what was identified as a meteorite fragment on Friday.
Vyacheslav Nikulin/European Pressphoto Agency

Meteorite Fragments Reported in Siberia

MOSCOW — About 500 injuries were reported after bright objects streaked through the sky in Chelyabinsk, above, accompanied by a loud boom that damaged buildings.

Dr. Bruun, a neurologist and an amateur ornithologist, wrote or helped write more than a dozen books, but none has been more popular than “Birds of North America,” part of the Golden Field Guides series. First published in 1966, it became an instant hit with birders (a term they prefer to bird-watchers), and more than four million copies have been sold.


Meteors shower hits second peak
-- Sat, 14 Aug 2010 03:15:21 GMT Skywatchers across Europe enjoy another dazzling display as the annual Perseid meteor shower reached the second day of its peak.



meteor shower 流星雨

一切從流星雨開始 (阿尾的落地窗)

  Bird enthusiasts, this one is for you: Caltech-Cornell University collaboration develops the Merlin Bird Photo ID mobile app that can help you identify hundreds of North American species it "sees" in photos.


A new computer vision app identifies North American bird species from photographs.
CALTECH.EDU

  

Define birderbirder synonyms, birder pronunciation, birder translation, English dictionary definition ofbirder. n. 1. A bird watcher. 2. a. A breeder of birds. b.


me·te·or·ol·o·gy ('tē-ə-rŏl'ə-jē) pronunciation
n.
The science that deals with the phenomena of the atmosphere, especially weather and weather conditions.

[French météorologie, from Greek meteōrologiā, discussion of astronomical phenomena : meteōron, astronomical phenomenon; see meteor + -logiā, -logy.]
meteorological me'te·or·o·log'i·cal (-ər-ə-lŏj'ĭ-kəl) or me'te·or·o·log'ic adj.
meteorologically me'te·or·o·log'i·cal·ly adv.


cy·tol·o·gy (sī-tŏl'ə-jē) pronunciation

n.
The branch of biology that deals with the formation, structure, and function of cells.

cytologic cy'to·log'ic (-tə-lŏj'ĭk) or cy'to·log'i·cal adj.
cytologist cy·tol'o·gist n.

 

本片創意籌備加上製作,前前後後大約花了3年時間。短短6分鐘的動畫片能廣受喜愛,不僅僅是鷸寶寶萌得能讓人們的心酥酥,而是它暖得讓那些終日冷漠的大人都覺得被治癒。
《鷸》(Piper)内容简单暖人心

  pied peacock


Definition of pied

adjective

having two or more different colours:the pied flycatcher
pied
adjective [before noun] SPECIALIZED
(used especially in the names of birds) having fur or feathers of two or more colours, usually black and white:
pied kingfishers



the Pied Piper (of Hamelin)
noun
a character in a children's story who led all the children away from the town of Hamelin by playing beautiful music after the town officials refused to pay him for getting rid of all the rats

How to Play Like a New Yorker

A “charismatic Pied Piper of experimentalism,” the photographer, filmmaker conceptual artist and restaurateur Gordon Matta-Clark grew mushrooms in the basement of a gallery, sliced buildings in half and showered on the roof of the Clock Tower. The retrospective of these adventures embodies “that messianic, carefree ethos that arose when New York was a crumbling capital with mean streets, cheap rents and bad air and when art wasn’t worth much either, so nothing was impossible,” Michael Kimmelman says. “It’s heavenly.” There’s a rare screening of his films today, and an even rarer discussion with his widow, Jane Crawford.


shower[show・er1]

  • 発音記号[ʃáuər]
[名]
1 シャワー(shower bath)
takehave] a quick shower
さっとシャワーを浴びる .
2 ((しばしば〜s))短時間で止む雨, にわか雨, 夕立
be caught in a shower
にわか雨にあう.
3 ((しばしばa 〜))(涙・弾丸などの)雨, 多量((of ...))
a shower of bullets [kisses]
弾丸[キス]の雨
a shower of presents
たくさんの贈り物 .
4 ((米))(主に花嫁・母になる人の)祝い品贈呈パーティー(shower party).
5 ((英略式))おろかな[不愉快な, だらしのない, 怠惰な]人(々).
━━[動](他)
1 …をにわか雨でぬらす;…に水を注ぐ.
2 〈物・恩顧・非難などを〉(人に)浴びせる, 注ぐ((on ...));〈人に〉(…を)惜しみなく与える((with ...))
shower questions on a person [=shower a person with questions]
人に矢つぎばやに質問を浴びせる.
━━(自)
1 ((itを主語にして))にわか雨が降る.
2 ((比喩))(…に)雨のように降る, 多量に来る((down/on, upon ...)).
3 シャワーを浴びる.

shower[show・er2]
  発音記号[ʃóuər]

[名]示す人[物].

e・thos

━━ n. 気風; 民族精神; (芸術作品の)気品, 「エトス」.

2017年2月27日 星期一

prefect, prefecture, diocese, state, log



    The gay scandal however gives the army-obsessed house captain Fowler (Tristan Oliver) a welcome reason to scheme against Bennett. Fowler dislikes him and Judd and wants to stop The gay scandal however gives the army-obsessed house captain Fowler (Tristan Oliver) a welcome reason to scheme against Bennett. Fowler dislikes him and Judd and wants to stop Bennett from becoming a "God" - a school title for the two top prefects.


  1. A Greek Politician Willing to Face the People - NYTimes.com

    www.nytimes.com/.../a-greek-politician-willing-to-face-the-people-.html
    Sep 26, 2014 - ATHENS — Rena Dourou, the new prefect of Athens and a member of the left-wing Syriza Party, was taking stock of the cavernous office she  ...
There has been lots of media focus on our Essex alumni with links to Syriza this week. David Howarth from the Department of Government has been speaking to The Independent about the ideas which have influenced Rena Dourou and the wider anti-austerity movement.
http://www.independent.co.uk/…/the-success-of-syriza-in-gre…

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In five prefectures, or states, more than 215,000 people are now living in 1,350 temporary shelters.

The authorities at first said that an evacuation radius of six miles from the stricken 40-year-old Daiichi 1 reactor plant in Fukushima prefecture was adequate, but, an hour later, the boundary was extended to 13 miles. Vapour, said to consist of minimally radioactive steam, could be seen rising from the plant. And then, in the early hours this morning, there came a 6.4 Richter scale aftershock. More may come.



Workers clear logs that drifted down a flooded river and piled up on the tracks of the JR Kishin Line in Sayo, Hyogo Prefecture, on Monday morning. (SHINICHI IIZUKA/ THE ASAHI SHIMBUN)




prefect

Line breaks: pre|fect
Pronunciation: /ˈpriːfɛkt /


Definition of prefect in English:

NOUN


1chiefly British (In some schools) a senior pupil who is authorized to enforce discipline.

2chief officermagistrate, or regional governor in certain countries:each department is governed by a prefect appointedby the President
2.1senior magistrate or governor in the ancient Roman world:Avitus was prefect of Gaul from AD 439

Origin

late Middle English (in sense 2): from Old French, fromLatin praefectus, past participle of praeficere 'set in authority over', from prae 'before' + facere 'make'. sense 1 dates from the early 19th century.


Derivatives


prefectoral

1

Pronunciation: /-ˈfɛkt(ə)r(ə)l/
ADJECTIVE

prefectorial

2

Pronunciation: /-ˈtɔːrɪəl/
ADJECTIVE

prefecture

[名]
1 (日本・フランス・イタリアなどの)県, 府
Saitama Prefecture
埼玉県.
2 [U][C]prefectの職[官舎].

A prefecture (from the Latin Praefectura) is an administrative jurisdiction or subdivision in any of various countries and within some international church structures, and in antiquity a Roman district governed by an appointed prefect.
Prefecture most commonly refers to a self-governing body or area since the tetrarchy when Emperor Diocletian divided the Roman Empire into four districts (each divided into dioceses, grouped under a Vicarius (a number of Roman provinces, listed under that article), although he maintained two pretorian prefectures as an administrative level above the also surviving dioceses (a few of which were split).


diocese :教區;主教轄區:聖座所指派由主教全權管理的教會行政區域,亦即託付給主教並在司鐸團協助下所牧養部份天主子民的地區教會。如臺灣地區共分七個教區:即臺北、新竹、台中、嘉義、台南、高雄、花蓮。由本堂神父管理的區域稱「堂區」,與教區有別。