upside, downside, eff, walk-up, remotely, seclude, seclusion, ivory tower, incriminate

Robert M. Pirsig’s “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” won him the adulation of general readers and drove him into seclusion. He emerged now and then to lament that the academic world wasn’t taking his philosophy more seriously.

Delegate Count Leaves Sanders a Steep Climb to Catch Clinton

By PATRICK HEALY

The delegate count in the Democratic primary shows Senator Bernie Sanders slipping behind Hillary Clinton, and the odds of him overtaking her are growing increasingly remote.

"Those individuals who have led secluded or isolated lives, or have hitherto moved in other spheres than those wherein well-bred people move, will gather all the information necessary from these pages to render them thoroughly conversant with the manners and amenities of society." _Manners and Rules of Good Society_ _By a Member of the Aristocracy_




He paused, with a straight glance of his sunken eyes which was a full equivalent of the unspoken termination “and you know it.” The head of the so-called Special Crimes Department debarred by his position from going out of doors personally in quest of secrets locked up in guilty breasts, had a propensity to exercise his considerable gifts for the detection of incriminating truth upon his own subordinates. That peculiar instinct could hardly be called a weakness. It was natural. He was a born detective. It had unconsciously governed his choice of a career, and if it ever failed him in life it was perhaps in the one exceptional circumstance of his marriage—which was also natural. It fed, since it could not roam abroad, upon the human material which was brought to it in its official seclusion. We can never cease to be ourselves
.


Inquiry About Runner Angers South Africans
By BARRY BEARAK
For many South Africans, the brouhaha about whether Caster Semenya is too masculine to compete in women’s track events has been an affront to everyone. 

 2009.6.26
The Walk-Up to Yahoo's Annual Meeting

Let's be honest -- even with the sassy stylings of CEO Carol Bartz, who will be appearing at her first Yahoo annual meeting this morning -- there are few of these affairs that are even remotely exciting.

 Repsol Upside Is Seen After YPF Seizure

Repsol YPF has lost nearly one-fifth of its valuation after the Argentine government's move to seize control of its YPF unit sliced a huge chunk of the Spanish oil company's production and earnings. But some investors and analysts are starting to devise a potential upside scenario for Repsol.

 

A Little Land That the Subway Forgot

The upsides of relative remoteness: Buildings don’t block sunlight. Properties have lawns. And stores offer parking.

upside

(ŭp'sīd') 
n.

1. The upper side or portion.
2. An advantageous aspect: the upsides and downsides of home ownership.
3. An upward tendency, as in business profitability or in the prices of a stock.

prep. Slang
On: "If you still didn't get it, well, sometimes you have to hit people upside the head ... to get their attention" (Howie Carr).



ivory tower (EYE-vuh-ree TOU-uhr)

noun: A place or state of privileged seclusion, disconnected with practical matters and harsh realities of life.

Etymology
Translation of French tour d'ivoire, from tour (tower) + de (of) + ivoire (ivory). The term was first used in the figurative sense in 1837 by literary critic Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804-1869).

Notes
The term is often applied to academia for its supposed preoccupation with lofty intellectual pursuits. While the term in its figurative sense is first attributed to the French critic Sainte-Beuve, it is found in the Song of Solomon 7:4 in a literal sense: "Your neck is like an ivory tower."

Usage
"In a democratic system, the true leaders have to remain constantly in touch with, and reach out to, the people and not remain like a king in an ivory tower." — C L Manoj; The Agony of the Hereditary Turks; The Economic Times (New Delhi, India); Aug 9, 2010.

seclude

Pronunciation: /sɪˈkluːd/

verb

[with object]

• keep (someone) away from other people:I secluded myself up here for a life of study and meditation

Origin:

late Middle English (in the sense 'obstruct access to'): from Latin secludere, from se- 'apart' + claudere 'to shut'

seclusion

Pronunciation: /sɪˈkluːʒ(ə)n/

noun

[mass noun]

• the state of being private and away from other people:they enjoyed ten days of peace and seclusion
• [count noun] archaic a sheltered or private place.

Derivatives
seclusive

Pronunciation: /-sɪv/

adjective

Origin:

early 17th century: from medieval Latin seclusio(n-), from secludere 'shut off' (see seclude)

Definition of walk-up

noun

North American

• a building allowing access to the upper floors by stairs only: a studio apartment in an ungentrified walk-up [as modifier]:a walk-up hotel
• a room or flat in a walk-up building.

walkup
also n.

1. An apartment house or office building with no elevator.
2. An apartment or office in a building with no elevator.

remote
adj., -mot·er, -mot·est.

1. 1. Located far away; distant in space.
   2. Hidden away; secluded: a remote hamlet.
2. Distant in time: the remote past.
3. Faint; slight: a remote possibility; had not the remotest interest.
4. Far removed in connection or relevance: a cause remote from everyday concerns.
5. Distantly related by blood or marriage: a remote cousin.
6. Distant in manner; aloof.
7. Operating or controlled from a distance: remote sensors.
8. Computer Science. Located at a distance from another computer that is accessible by cables or other communications links: a remote terminal.

n.

1. A radio or television broadcast originating from a point outside a studio.
2. A remote control device.

[Middle English, from Old French remot, from Latin remōtus, past participle of removēre, to remove. See remove.]

remotely re·mote'ly adv.
remoteness re·mote'ness n.

eff

━━ vi. 〔俗〕 〔婉曲〕 ＝fuck.
eff off　＝FUCK off.
eff and blind　悪態をつく.

"It's remote. Let's face it, bloody remote. And you'd find the people in the villas pretty damn dull, I can tell you. There's one that you might say isn't, but I don't suppose you'll meet him."

"Oh?"

"Actually, we had a row and I told him pretty effing quick what I thought of him."

affront

tr.v., -front·ed, -front·ing, -fronts.

1. To insult intentionally, especially openly. See synonyms at offend.
2. 1. To meet defiantly; confront.
   2. Obsolete. To meet or encounter face to face.

n.

1. An open or intentional offense, slight, or insult: Such behavior is an affront to society.
2. Obsolete. A hostile encounter or meeting.

[Middle English afrounten, from Old French afronter : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin frōns, front-, face; see front.]

incriminate

Pronunciation: /ɪnˈkrɪmɪneɪt/

Translate incriminate | into German | into Italian | into Spanish

verb

[with object]

• make (someone) appear guilty of a crime or wrongdoing:he refused to answer questions in order not to incriminate himself (as adjective incriminating)incriminating evidence

Derivatives

incrimination

Pronunciation: /-ˈneɪʃ(ə)n/

noun

incriminatory

adjective

Origin:

mid 18th century (earlier (mid 17th century) as incrimination): from late Latin incriminat- 'accused', from the verb incriminare, from in- 'into, towards' + Latin crimen 'crime'

quittance, acquittal, acquitted, path grew steeper

Fury over the acquittal — stoked by years of racial and economic inequality in the city — spilled over into the streets, resulting in five days of rioting in Los Angeles.

Kerry Faces Mounting Obstacles in Mideast Talks

By MARK LANDLER and JODI RUDOREN 6:11 PM ET

Secretary of State John Kerry’s path grew steeper as Israeli and Palestinian officials clashed over settlements and Avigdor Lieberman’s acquittal posed a new risk.

Rome Court Overturns Acquittal of Amanda Knox

By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO

ROME — The implications for the American exchange student, who was accused of murdering her roommate in 2007, were unclear, particularly whether she could face extradition.

I should have flung at him a quittance for my foolish stepfather's debts, and then dismissed him.


A dictionary of Shakespeare's sexual puns and their significance - Google 圖書結果

Frankie Rubinstein - 1995 - Drama - 372 頁

Tim, ii290: 'no gift to him/ But breeds the giver a return exceeding/ All use of quittance'. The GIFT (of sex) given Timon by his sycophantic followers, ...



 On May 26, 1868, the Senate impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson ended with his acquittal as the Senate fell one vote short of the two-thirds majority required for conviction.

On Feb. 24, 1868, the United States House of Representatives impeached President Johnson following his attempted dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton; Johnson was later acquitted by the Senate.

Bill Clinton: impeachment trial ended in Senate acquittal (1999)
acquittal ━━ n. （無罪）放免; 返済; 遂行.
⇒acquit


sycophant
n.
A servile self-seeker who attempts to win favor by flattering influential people.

[Latin sȳcophanta, informer, slanderer, from Greek sūkophantēs, informer, from sūkon phainein, to show a fig (probably originally said of denouncers of theft or exportation of figs) : sūkon, fig + phainein, to show.]

sycophantic syc'o·phan'tic (-făn'tĭk) or syc'o·phan'ti·cal (-tĭ-kəl) adj.
sycophantically syc'o·phan'ti·cal·ly adv.

Literary usage of Quittance

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary to the Works of William Shakespeare by Alexander Dyce (1902)
"133. quittance, a requital: Rendering faint quittance^ return of blows," ... 34; All use of quittance ("All the customary returns made in discharge of ..."

2. Roman Private Law in the Times of Cicero and of the Antonines by Henry John Roby (1902)
"An instance of a quittance on receipt of money (probably a loan) is given in ... As examples of a quittance or receipt may be taken those found in 1875 in a ..."

3. The Institutes of the Law of Nations: A Treatise of the Jural Relations of by James Lorimer (1884)
"A quittance d'usage is a document of debt somewhat resembling a bill which the ... Germany, for example, in granting a quittance d'usage to a French peasant ..."

4. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by Sir William Wilson Hunter (1885)
"There are tenants who have paid a quittance in money for their rents altogether; and there are tenants who pay at a lower rate than others in consideration ..."

quittance

Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary

 Noun

quittance (plural quittances)

1. a release or acquittal
2. a discharge from a debt or obligation; a document that shows this discharge
3. a recompense or reprisal

ronunciation: /əˈkwɪt(ə)l/Translate

 acquittal | into German | into Italian

noun

a judgement or verdict that a person is not guilty of the crime with which they have been charged: the trial resulted in an acquittal [mass noun]:the women felt their chances of acquittal were poor

 

音節

ac • quit • tal

発音

əkwítl

acquittalの変化形

acquittals (複数形)

[名][C][U]

1 無罪（宣告）, （無罪）放免, 釈放

verdict of acquittal
無罪判決

two acquittals and three convictions
無罪2件と有罪3件

win an acquittal
無罪放免になる.

2 （義務・任務などの）免除, 解除.

all but, leverage, injunction, flip, demesne, summer stock

John Kasich's new book, "Two Paths: America Divided or United", can be summarised in a single, faith-tinged injunction: "Love your neighbour"

Musings of a vanquished Republican moderate

John Kasich's lament

ECONOMIST.COM

When she was 19 years old, Odetta landed a role in the Los Angeles production of Finian's Rainbow, which was staged in the summer of 1949 at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. It was during the run of this show that she first heard the blues harmonica master Sonny Terry. The following summer, Odetta was again performing in summer stock in California. This time it was a production of Guys and Dolls, staged in San Francisco.

As a result, some smaller publishers in the United States have signed service agreements with Amazon. But a few refused Amazon’s demand to shift the instant printing of their books to BookSurge, which they say has been demanding a discount of as much as 52 percent on the retail price.
“They’re still threatening us and other publishers, but they haven’t flipped the switch yet,” said Angela Hoy, the co-owner of Booklocker.com, a print-on-demand publisher in Bangor, Me., which filed a lawsuit in May seeking an injunction to keep Amazon from imposing BookSurge’s services on publishers.

CAPITAL JOURNALU.S.-China Relations Get Trickier
North Korea's weekend shot tests Obama's ability to work with China, the country that has the most leverage on North Korea yet seems less willing to use it than it was just a couple of years ago.• Video: Missile Tests U.S.-China Ties

MercExchange sued eBay in September 2001, in a dispute that centered on eBay's online auctions and other ecommerce operations. The case attracted wide attention, highlighting controversies associated with the patents over methods of doing business on the Internet and the ability of patent plaintiffs to win injunctions in cases.

Plaintiffs had all but automatically been granted injunctions in patent cases, giving them strong leverage in pressing for large payments from defendants. The Supreme Court in May 2006 issued a ruling that put some limits on the practice, stating that judges should weigh such factors as the public interest in deciding whether to grant injunctions.

中國以經濟槓桿撬動世界中國在上週20國峰會上扮演的活躍角色向外界發出了強有力的信號：中國領導人希望在全球經濟轉型中發揮更大的作用。
leverage
槓桿作用
all but
almost:
The game was all but over by the time we arrived.

in・junc・tion 

━━ n. 命令; 【法】禁止命令, 履行命令.

flip (TURN QUICKLY)
verb [I or T; usually + adverb or preposition] -pp-
If you flip something, you turn it over quickly one or more times, and if something flips, it turns over quickly:
When one side is done, flip the pancake (over) to cook the other side.
I lost my place in my book when the pages flipped over in the wind.
You turn the television on by flipping (= operating) the switch at the side.
The captains flipped a coin into the air (= made it turn over in the air to see which side it landed on) to decide which side would bat first.

flip 
noun [C]
when something turns over quickly or repeatedly:
a flip of a coin
The acrobats were doing somersaults and flips (= jumping and turning their bodies over in the air).

stock

1. 1. A theatrical stock company.
   2. The repertoire of such a company.
   3. A theater or theatrical activity, especially outside of a main theatrical center: a small role in summer stock.

Demain

n.
[See Demesne.]
1. Rule; management. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. (Law) See Demesne.

Webster 1913 Dictionary edited by Patrick J. Cassidy

Wikipedia article "Demesne".

demesne

(dĭ-mān', -mēn')

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n.

1. Law. Possession and use of one's own land.
2. Manorial land retained for the private use of a feudal lord.
3. The grounds belonging to a mansion or country house.
4. An extensive piece of landed property; an estate.
5. A district; a territory.
6. A realm; a domain.

[Anglo-French, respelling (probably influenced by French mesne, variant of Anglo-Norman meen, middle, in legal phrase mesne lord, lord who holds a manor of a superior lord) of Middle English demeine, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French demaine. See domain.]

Tutor's tip: The lord of the manor protected his "demesne" (the possession of land) by making sure that his neighbors thought it was their "domain' (complete and absolute ownership of land) too.

de・mesne

,

━━ n. 【法】（不動産の）所有; 所有地; 領地; 範囲, 領域 ((of)).

arena-style, one-acts, age-old, émigré, emigré, playhouse, playwright

‘The Theatre no doubt stank on warm days. Standing room cost a penny, gallery space two pennies, and 'quiet standing' three. As open-air performances, the penny-audiences were at the mercy of the elements; rain, sleet, or sunshine beat down with equal fervor on the bare necks of those standing in the yard, unshielded by any sort of roof’

Professor Eric Rasmussen and Ian DeJong explore Elizabethan playhouses.

Via The British Library

Shakespeare's playhouses

From the open-air Globe to the candlelit Blackfriars, Professor Eric Rasmussen and Ian DeJong explore early modern playhouses.

BL.UK

The Washington Post leads with the latest he said, she said from the campaign trail as the candidates campaigned furiously before the critical Tuesday primaries in Indiana and North Carolina. The Wall Street Journal leads its world-wide newsbox with a look at how Sen. Barack Obama has gone back to addressing voters in a more intimate setting. Even though the large rallies draw lots of people, they don't necessarily help him gain new voters and Obama's campaign now sees the arena-style events as one of the main reasons why he lost the popular vote in Texas.



Mr. Foote spent two years studying acting at the Pasadena Playhouse in California, then went to New York to become a Broadway star. He continued his studies there with Tamara Daykarhanova, a Russian émigré, and joined Mary Hunter’s American Actors Company. While rehearsing a production of one-acts, Ms. Hunter had her cast perform improvisations based on life in the actors’ hometowns. After Mr. Foote performed his, Agnes De Mille, who was doing choreography for another show, asked Mr. Foote if he had ever considered writing.
“No,” he replied. “What on earth would I write about?”
Ms. DeMille, who became a lifelong friend, gave Mr. Foote the age-old advice to every beginning playwright. “Write what you know about,” she said.
*****

émigré, emigré [C]
someone who has had to leave their country permanently, usually for political reasons

A one act play, or more commonly in the US "one act", or "one-act", is a play that takes place in one act or scene, as opposed to plays that take place over a number of acts.

age-old
adjective [before noun] LITERARY
very old:
an age-old story of love and betrayal
a・re・na

 

━━ n. （円形劇場の中央の）闘技場, アリーナ; 争いの場所; 土俵.
arena theater　＝theater-in-the-round.

Arena‐Style Theatre (Theatre‐in‐the‐Round). Although some hailed the proliferation after World War II of arena‐style playhouses, in which audiences surround the stage, as a revolutionary departure, others saw it as the extension of the more open, thrust‐stage playhouses that had characterized many Elizabethan and Jacobean theatres before the proscenium‐style auditoriums took over at the time of the Restoration.

an entr'acte, Having a blast

Having a blast with Chris Thile and Edgar Meyer on our "Bach Trios" tour!
(Chicago Symphony Orchestra, #SymphonyCenter)

Having a blast

Have a blast - Idioms by The Free Dictionary - The idiom dictionary

idioms.thefreedictionary.com/have+a+blast

to enjoy doing something very much Sky watchers are having a blast keeping track of the comet. They had a blast poking around the farmers' market looking at ...

tea for two 音樂作品
一譯"鴛鴦茶"

Song by Youmans, comp. for musical No, No, Nanette (1925). In 1928 orch. version was made by Shostakovich in, it is said, 45 mins. at the request of the cond. Malko who wanted something extra to perf. at a concert of Shostakovich's mus. at Moscow Cons. on 25 Nov. 1928. The cond. Aleksandr Gauk included it as an entr'acte in Shostakovich's ballet The Age of Gold. Shostakovich gave the arrangement the title Tahiti Trot (Taiti trot) because this was the Russ. name for the song.



 Orhan Pamuk; born 7 June 1952) 的父母是在電影院的幕間休息 (entr'acte)認識的。
n.

1. 1. The interval between two acts of a theatrical performance.
   2. Another performance, as of music or dance, provided between two acts of a theatrical performance.
2. An interval likened to the one occurring between two acts of a drama.

[French : entre, between (from Latin inter; see inter–) + acte, act (from Old French; see act).]

traduce, treachery, depiction, irk, languor

By Rupert Murdoch

Inheriting a legendary brand is both a burden and blessing. Bob Iger could have been haunted by the past, but he has instead created a powerhouse for the company’s future, diversifying the portfolio and yet not traducing the tradition.

Inheriting a legendary brand is both a burden and blessing. Bod Iger could have been haunted by the past, but he has instead created a powerhouse for the company’s future, diversifying the portfolio and yet not traducing the tradition.

Treachery becomes a principle with them, and mischief a conscience, that is, a livelihood. They not only damn the work in the lump, but vilify and traduce the author, and substitute lying abuse and sheer malignity for sense and satire.




Bavarians Irked About Ex-Leader's Depiction in Berlin

Bavarians are a friendly bunch -- as long as you don't question the
integrity of their late leaders, like one Berlin wax museum has.

The DW-WORLD Article
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=evyz3pI44va89pIb

Walled in! - The inner German border
			For the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Deutsche Welle has developed a unique project in cooperation with the Berlin Wall Foundation: an animated depiction of the former German-German border. [more]

Monet, Flaubert and Sarah Bernhardt all loved Belle-Île-en-Mer in France. The island may have fallen out of fashion since the late 19th century—but it’s still the ideal place for a low-key holiday.

Our travel story from The Economist’s 1843 magazine

Belle-Île-en-Mer: good food, Breton cider and a languorous pace

There’s excellent sailing, diving and surfing to be had, too

ECON.ST

lean languorously

 A virile new Britain cannot continue indefinitely to be traduced in the eyes or rather ears, of the world by the effete languors of Langham Place, brazenly masquerading as "standard English." 

languor 

Pronunciation: /ˈlaŋɡə/ 

NOUN

[MASS NOUN]

1Tiredness or inactivity, especially when pleasurable:her whole being was pervaded by a dreamy languor

More example sentencesSynonyms

2An oppressive stillness of the air:the afternoon was hot, quiet, and heavy with languor

More example sentencesSynonyms

Derivatives

languorous

Pronunciation: /ˈlaŋɡərəs/ 

ADJECTIVE

Example sentences

languorously

Pronunciation: /ˈlaŋɡərəsli/ 

ADVERB

Example sentences

Origin

Middle English: via Old French from Latin, from languere (see languish). The original sense was 'illness, distress', later 'faintness, lassitude'; current senses date from the 18th century, when such lassitude became associated with a romantic yearning.

irk
verb [T] SLIGHTLY FORMAL
to annoy someone:
The negative reply to my complaint really irked me.

irksome
adjective SLIGHTLY FORMAL
The vibration can become irksome (= annoying) after a while.

depict
verb [T]
to represent or show something in a picture or story:
Her paintings depict the lives of ordinary people in the last century.
In the book, he depicts his father as a tyrant.
[+ ing form of verb] People were shocked by the advertisement which depicted a woman beating her husband.

depiction
The painter's depictions of the horror of war won her a worldwide reputation.
I disapprove of the depiction of violence on television.


treachery


━━ n. 裏切り（行為）; 反逆.
treach・er・ous
 ━━ a. 裏切り［反逆］の ((to)); あてにならない.

treach・er・ous・ly　ad.
treach・er・ous・ness　n.

traduce

To cause humiliation or disgrace to by making malicious and false statements. See synonyms at malign.

(© Houghton Mifflin Company)

Line breaks: tra|duce

Pronunciation: /trəˈdjuːs/

Definition of traduce in English:

verb

[WITH OBJECT]

Speak badly of or tell lies about (someone) so as todamage their reputation:it was regarded as respectable political tactics to traduce him