2017年7月24日 星期一

trip, Trip sitter, transport, transportive, Fall all over, transporting reads, Lazy Susans, Unlazy Susan, tray


His craft is based in the notion that things of quality are meant to be fixed, even repeatedly, rather than discarded and replaced.
A shoe is your most basic vehicle, the means of transport for nearly every experience outside of your own home.
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Maine Sen. Angus King weighs in on what he learned from a closed briefing on the Russia probe with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, joins Judy Woodruff to discuss revelations from a full-Senate briefing by the Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on the…
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The best beach books encourage you to sink into unfamiliar ways of life. The Economist’s 1843 magazine picks the most transporting reads, from sprawling sagas to historical thrillers


His memoirs, including “Clinging to the Wreckage” (1982), “Murderers and Other Friends: Another Part of Life” (1994), drop dozens of names of the theater and movie people he spent time with. There are trays upon trays of cocktails in his stories, and interviews late in his life note the presence of what was described in one as a “comfortably large Guinness that he is drinking for his health even though it is still a long time until lunch.”

Sontag Book Review: Unlazy Susan


Portrait of American author and critic Susan Sontag (1933-2004)
Portrait of American author and critic Susan Sontag (1933-2004)
Lazy Susans are rotating trays, usually circular, placed on top of a table to aid in moving food on a large table or counter tops.
This term may also refer to corner cabinets on which the shelves are mounted on a vertical axle such that items may be retrieved by pushing on the shelves to turn them. This type is usually found in kitchens. Closed, this type of lazy Susan appears to be two normal cabinets at right angles to each other. When pushed on, the cabinet "doors" reveal the shelves, which are circular except for the ninety degree cutout where the doors are mounted.
The term "Lazy Susan" made its first written appearance in a Vanity Fair advertisement for a "Revolving Server or Lazy Susan" in 1917. Prior to that time they were called dumbwaiters, a term also applied to a type of small elevator for transporting food.

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transport

VERB

Pronunciation: /tranˈspɔːt/ 
 /trɑːnˈspɔːt/ 
[WITH OBJECT]
1Take or carry (people or goods) from one place to another by means of a vehicle, aircraft, or ship:the bulk of freight traffic was transported by lorry
1.1historical Send (a convict) to a penal colony:he was convicted of theft and transported
1.2Cause (someone) to feel that they are in another place or time:the book transported her to new worlds
2Overwhelm (someone) with a strong emotion, especially joy:she was transported with pleasure

NOUN

Pronunciation: /ˈtranspɔːt/ 
 /ˈtrɑːnspɔːt/ 
1[MASS NOUN] A system or means of conveying people or goods from place to place:many possess their own forms of transportair transport
1.1The action of transporting something or the state of being transported:the transport of crude oil
1.2[COUNT NOUN] A large vehicle, ship, or aircraft used to carry troops or stores:the invasion force sailed from Cadiz in twenty-five transports
1.3[COUNT NOUN] historical A convict who was transported to a penal colony.
2(usually transports) An overwhelmingly strong emotion:art can send people into transports of delight


Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French transporter or Latin transportare, from trans- 'across' +portare 'carry'.



tea tray noun [C]
a small tray (= flat surface for carrying especially food and drink)








  transportive 

Meaning "to carry away into banishment" is recorded from 1660s. The noun is attested from mid-15c., originally "mental exaltation;" sense of "means of transportation" is recorded from 1690s. transport in Medicine.

Transportive | Define Transportive at Dictionary.com

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Trip sitter, or sometimes a sober sitter or co-pilot, is a term used by recreational or spiritual drug users to describe a person who remains sober to ensure the safety of the drug user while he or she is under the influence of a drug; they are especially common with first-time experiences or when using psychedelics, dissociatives and deliriants. This practice can be qualified as a means of harm reduction.


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Fall all over - Idioms by The Free Dictionary


idioms.thefreedictionary.com/fall+all+over

Fig. to give a lot of attention, affection, or praise to someone. My aunt falls all over me whenever she comes to visit. I hate for someone to fall all over me.

trip

    1. 4.1 Turn (a yard or other object) from a horizontal to a vertical position for lowering.
  • 5informal no object Experience hallucinations induced by taking a psychedelic drug, especially LSD.
    ‘a couple of boys were tripping’
    ‘he smoked weed and tripped out on acid’
    1. 5.1be trippingNorth American Be behaving in an irrational or crazy way.
      ‘you're tripping if you think I'm hanging around’
      ‘I would like to know if I'm the one who's trippin' or if it's him’
  • 6no object, with adverbial of direction Go on a short journey.
    ‘when tripping through the Yukon take some time to explore our museums’

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