2017年6月30日 星期五

place, climbed six places, exclusive, exclusivity, spit, spittle, unmatched, mugging, Ad hominem, know your place, grievance


2017年ALA年會於6 月22日至6月28日在芝加哥的麥考密克廣場(McCormick Place)舉行。

Taiwan climbed six places to 45th in the latest global press freedom ranking.
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Costco cards account for one out of every 10 American Expresscards in circulation.

American Express Co. said its merchant agreement with Costco Wholesale Corp. is set to end on March 31, 2016, amid reports that the bulk retailer is negotiating with other credit-card companies.
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The estuary of the Veleka in the Black Sea. Longshore drift has deposited sediment along the shoreline which has led to the formation of a spit, Sinemorets, Bulgaria Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.S.A.'s

By SCOTT SHANE and COLIN MOYNIHAN

The scale and longevity of a data storage program run by the government in partnership with AT&T was unmatched by other government programs, including the National Security Agency's gathering of phone call logs.


 The pugnacious style, sweeping generalizations and ad hominem attacks often found in his writing made him an alienating figure. “Andy Greeley shoots from the hip at practically everyone with whom he has some grievances,” Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum, a leading advocate of improving relations between Judaism and the Catholic Church, complained to The Times in 1976.


 "There have been thirty or more anthropologists who began fieldwork among the Yanomamö after I began," Mr. Chagnon writes, his fury practically spitting from the page. "They all could have easily collected comparable data on [killers] and variations in reproductive success similar to the data [Mr. Chagnon collected]. Not one of them did this." Mr. Chagnon is exaggerating here—anthropologists John H. Moore and R. Brian Ferguson provided data-based critiques, for instance—but only slightly. The majority of the attacks were ad hominem.



Google's repository of information remains unmatched. It said it has indexed 30 trillion unique Web pages across 230 million sites. Last year, Google changed it search engine to make it easier for people to quickly get detailed information about people, places and real-world things by displaying photos, facts and other 'direct answers' to search queries at the top of the search-results page, rather than just spitting out blue links.
 谷歌的信息庫規模目前仍是其他公司望塵莫及的。該公司說﹐已索引了2.3億個網站上的30萬億個獨立網頁。去年﹐谷歌改變了搜索引擎﹐使之能更方便地讓網友 迅速找到有關人、地方和現實事物的詳細信息。具體來說﹐就是在搜索結果頁面的最上端顯示搜索查詢的圖片、事實和其它“直接答案”等﹐而不是簡單地給出藍色鏈接。

排他的経済水域(EEZ)

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spittle

Syllabification: spit·tle
Pronunciation: /ˈspitl/





noun

  • Saliva, especially as ejected from the mouth.
    More example sentences
    • Watching him perform, spittle flying from his mouth, veins bulging and neck tendons taut as wires, I hope that performance is catharsis for him.
    • His face was redder than the tomatoes he was squashing under foot and spittle flew from his mouth as he lumbered toward his wife.
    • During the subsequent backlash, he lost his rag and threw a total hissy fit, complete with flecks of spittle flying from his mouth.

Derivatives






spittly

adjective

Origin

late 15th century: alteration of dialect spattle, by association with spit1.








A mugging changes the lives of several characters in Penelope Lively's novel.

mugging
(mŭg'ĭng) pronunciation
n.
An assault upon a person especially with the intent to rob.



Ad hominem
(hŏm'ə-nĕm', -nəm) pronunciation
adj.
Appealing to personal considerations rather than to logic or reason: Debaters should avoid ad hominem arguments that question their opponents' motives.


[Latin : ad, to + hominem, accusative of homō, man.]
ad hominem ad hom'i·nem' adv.



Pornography or porn is the explicit portrayal of sexual subject matter. Pornography may use a variety of media, including books, magazines, postcards, photos, sculpture, drawing, painting, animation, sound recording, film, video, and video games. The term applies to the depiction of the act rather than the act itself, and so does not include live exhibitions like sex shows and striptease. A pornographic model poses for still photographs. A pornographic actor or porn star performs in pornographic films. If dramatic skills are not involved, a performer in porn films may be also be called a model.

2012年07月06日 07:59 AM

餐桌布置艺术最显身份
Know your place


food porn,
A couple of weeks ago, an odd message appeared on Twitter. An American food writer, sitting in a very exclusive restaurant, posted a picture of a spoon. Unlike the average tweeted food porn, this was accompanied by a plaintive request: what is this thing and what is it for? The tweeter, Kat Kinsman, is managing editor of CNN Eatocracy and she was sharing a table with a group of other high-powered foodists at a dinner honouring Thomas Keller at the time she hit “send”. Kinsman has prior form with flatware, as she mentioned later: “I have an MFA [master of fine arts] degree in Metalsmithing and am always deeply amused by antiquated or single-purpose items like grape shears, lamb handles, fish knives, etcetera.” The spoon, as a rapid Google search established, was a cuillère à sauce individuelle, with a flat spatula-like bowl, so sauce can be scraped from the plate without tilting it, and a notch through which any superfluous fat can drain.几周前,Twitter上出现了一条怪信息:在一家很高档的餐馆,美国某美食作家当场在 Twitter上贴出了一张勺子照片。与其它通常张贴的美食图片不一样的是:这张照片后面附了一则略带忧郁的设问:这是什么?能作何用?发照片者为CNN Eatocracy美食博客总编辑凯特•金斯曼(Kat Kinsman),点击“发送”键时,正与一伙高级美食家就坐一桌,参加给托马斯•凯勒(Thomas Keller)捧场的晚宴。金斯曼之前也曾在网上发过扁平餐具的照片,正如她事后所说:“本人获得过金属加工的美术硕士学位,一直对有年头或是功能单一的 餐具(葡萄剪、羊肉手柄、食鱼刀等)情有独钟。”快速搜索一下Google网,就知道它是带有扁铲状匙底、单独舀汤用的勺子,有了它,从盘子里舀汤就不再 怕倾斜,勺子上的缺口则能滤掉多余的油。
It’s reassuring to a food geek, of course, that such a specialised piece of kit exists. Yet the idea that a culinary Pythia of Kinsman’s stature had to connect with a worldwide network of food nerds to find out what the hell she was eating with means something is a little out of whack. As she puts it, “I felt in the presence of exceptional schmanciness.”当然,美食专家坐拥这么一件具有专门用途的餐具会显得底气十足。但一想起金斯曼这样高造诣的美食专家还得与全球的美食网民套近乎,以确认自己享用大餐所用的餐具是否上档次,这事本身就有点不正常。正如她所言:“看到如此华丽精致的餐具,感觉有点茫然不知所措。”
Any way you look at it, the use of utensils at table is culturally specific. In our own history, it was common to carry a knife in readiness for food. Only in the 17th century did the fork finally reach the English aristocracy, by way of France and Italy. Even then, it was regarded as an affectation and occasionally banned by the Church in various parts of Europe as an affront to God. The use of cutlery by ordinary people wasn’t common in England until the 18th century, when cheaper methods of mass production began to make such aspirational objects more widely available.不管怎么看待它,如何使用餐桌用具蕴含特定的文化内涵。纵观人类历史,饭前备一把刀司空见惯。 直到17世纪,在法国与意大利的影响下,叉子才正式被英国贵族社会所接受。即便那时,使用叉子仍被视为做作之举,欧洲基督教会还时不时以其冒犯上帝之由发 出禁令。在英国,一般民众18世纪才普遍使用餐具,成本更低的规模化生产让这种梦寐以求的餐具成为寻常百姓的日常用具。
Like pretty much everything else the English have adopted, we quickly made cutlery into a class signifier. Throughout the Georgian and Victorian periods place settings expanded with great armouries of increasingly specialised and elaborately decorated utensils. Some, such as the soup spoon – with a wide, deep bowl and offset to remain level when bringing the soup to the mouth – were fantastically useful when eating socially and sumptuously dressed. Others, such as the fish knife – supposed to be useful in separating and lifting off cooked fillets – were worse than useless and became symbolic of arriviste ostentation. Perhaps this is the root of the longstanding rumour in foodie circles that the royal household doesn’t use fish knives (though they do appear at formal banquets). The Buckingham Palace press office politely “refuse to confirm or deny” this.与英国人所接受的其它事物大同小异的是,他们很快把餐具变身为身份等级的标志。纵观整个英王乔 治及维多利亚统治时期(Georgian and Victorian periods),随着分工越发明确、装饰越发精巧的餐具的出现,餐位餐具的摆放也越趋复杂。对于衣冠楚楚、但又希望有好吃相的人来说,匙底宽深、有一定 弧度,能确保喝汤时仍呈水平状态的汤匙就有了大显身手的机会。其它餐具如食鱼刀——想当然地以为它方便切夹熟鱼片——则一无是处,成了暴发户卖弄的象征。 这也许就是美食界一直传言王室家族不使用食鱼刀说法的由来吧,虽说它们也现身于正式宴会场合。对此说法,白金汉宫(The Buckingham Palace)新闻办公室则用“不置可否”来礼貌地做出回应。
John Betjeman’s poem “How to Get on in Society” ruthlessly minces such pretensions, listing fish knives, serviettes, frills on cutlets, cruets, pastry forks and doilies. That’s six references to place settings in a 20-line poem widely regarded as one of the wittier comments on the British class distinction. Let’s face it, as a nation we’re probably more obsessed with what’s set around our plates than we are with what’s on them.在自己的诗作《如何在社交场得心应手》(How to Get on in Society)中,约翰•贝杰曼(John Betjeman)以食鱼刀、餐巾、烤肉架、调味瓶、点心叉以及桌布为例,对餐桌礼仪的细枝末节娓娓道来。在总共20行的诗句中,通过这六种东西阐述了餐 位餐具的安排,被视为是对英国身份划分最为睿智的评述。我们得正视此事,因为从整体而言可能更多“沉迷”于餐盘周围的摆放,而不是在乎餐盘里摆放的东西。
The haute cuisine restaurant is the exemplar of the notion that to dine well, one must lay the table well. My chance to understand the extent of contemporary table theatre came when I was offered a place on “The Art of Fine Dining” masterclass at the three-star Alain Ducasse restaurant at The Dorchester. The dining room contains what is often billed as the most beautiful table in London, “Table Lumière”, which is “surrounded by a luminescent oval curtain of 4,500 shimmering fibre optics” and equipped with what I can only describe as the Mother of All Sideboards, a floor-to-ceiling display cabinet containing the three sets of Hermès china, Puiforcat silverware and Saint-Louis crystal from which diners can select their own settings. Table Lumière also has its own separate dishwasher: that’s a man, not an appliance.要想吃好,就得讲究餐桌布置,高档餐馆是贯彻此种理念的典范。本人获邀参加在伦敦多切斯特酒店 (The Dorchester)三星级餐厅艾伦•杜卡斯(Alain Ducasse)举办的名为“舌尖上的艺术”(The Art of Fine Dining)高级培训班,算是有幸了解了当代餐桌礼仪之博大精深。杜卡斯餐厅拥有一张名为Table Lumière的餐桌,被誉为是全伦敦最漂亮的餐桌,四周挂着拥有4500根闪着微光光纤的椭圆形窗帘,并配备着各种最精华餐具。在整整一面墙的陈列柜 里,摆放着爱马仕(Hermès)瓷器、皮福尔卡(Puiforcat)银器以及圣路易(Saint-Loui)水晶三整套餐具,用餐者可任意组合,还配 有单独的洗碗工:一位男士,而非洗碗机。
Nicolas Defrémont, the effortlessly suave restaurant director, dressed me in a brown overall and a pair of cotton gloves and took me through the process of setting one of the more ordinary tables. Table and chairs are aligned to the geometry of the room and centred under individual pools of light. The tablecloth is ironed into position. Crockery and cutlery are wheeled to the table on a special cart and polished individually, before being laid out using a complex system of measures based on the width of a finger (God help you if you don’t have Michelin-approved digits). As each piece is placed relative to the last, a simple error of millimetres at the beginning of the set-up can snowball, resulting in the whole table having to be reset. Defrémont believes that a setting should actually be as simple as possible – there’s no terrifying phalanx of weaponry these days. The starter instruments are laid on either side of the “show” or decorative plate and the waiter will exchange them for the correct bespoke tools according to your order.温文尔雅的餐厅总管尼古拉•德弗雷蒙特(Nicolas Defrémont)让我穿上棕色工作服,戴上棉质手套,然后让我体验布置普通餐桌餐具的整个流程。餐桌与椅子要与房间的形状成一线,并位于各种灯具的正 下方。桌布要熨烫平整后铺摆到位。器皿与餐具要用专用推车推至餐桌旁,再一件件擦亮,然后根据复杂的度量方法(由手指的宽度来确定,这是米其林星级餐厅的 通行做法,若您没有手指,嘿嘿,那就没辙了)把它们摆放到位。由于餐具相互之间的摆放环环相扣,若一开始失之毫厘,最终则可能谬以千里,到头来只能推倒重 来。德弗雷蒙特认为餐桌的布置实际上应尽可能简单——如今不再里三层外三层地摆放各种餐具。刚开始的餐具就摆放在装饰盘的一边,服务员会根据你所点的菜, 适时把它们换成相应的专用餐具。
Today’s show plates have a pattern on the front which must be aligned perfectly to the diner. On days when the aesthetic of the food requires plain ones, Defrémont explains, they are set so that, should the diner decide to flip them over to read the manufacturer’s name on the underside, they will be able to do so without the need for any troublesome rotation.如今的装饰盘前面都有花样,它必须与用餐者完全保持在一线上。德弗雷蒙特解释道,有时食物的美观需要搭配花样简单的装饰盘,它们这样摆放的好处是:用餐者若想翻看盘子背面厂商的名字,可以直接翻看,而无需再麻烦地转个查看。
Sessions followed on napkin folding and the selection of the correct glass for various kinds of wine. Every single element was entirely logical, and planned so the customer’s experience should be seamlessly enjoyable. In fact, my abiding impression was of the incredible amount of work that goes into the setting that should never be noticed – a kind of antithesis of ostentation created with some of the most reassuringly expensive kit I’ve ever been allowed to handle.培训课接下来讲授的是餐巾纸的叠法以及如何选择品味各种葡萄酒的玻璃酒杯。每一个环节都完全条 理分明,安排妥当,让用餐者的体验至始至终是一种享受。事实上,本人一贯的印象是:布置餐桌所付出的N多努力可能永远难以觉察——这种布置并非出于卖弄, 而是本人通过亲身操弄那些最贵重餐具器皿后的真实感受。
As Ducasse represents the very highest level of three-star table art, there is an opposing philosophy.It doesn’t have a name, but you’ll sense its presence in restaurants that use plain white crockery and simple, even unmatched, cutlery. Probably the best example is St. John – no “art” to distract, no background music and staff in something more like chef whites than the starched outfits of traditional waiters. Simplicity usually extends to doing away with the side plate altogether and relying on the clean expanse of white tablecloth or paper slip on which to break the hand-made sourdough. Places such as Andrew Edmunds or Hereford Road have a similar, almost monastic, aesthetic which is intended to focus attention on the food while escaping any of the social pressures of formality.杜卡斯代表的正是米其林三星级餐厅最高水准的餐桌布置艺术,另外还有另一种截然不同的餐桌布置 哲学。它没有具体名称,但很多餐馆里可以感觉其存在——使用纯白色餐用器皿与简单、甚至不配套的餐具。最好的例子也许要数圣•约翰餐厅(St. John)了——没有所谓的“艺术”去分散用餐者的注意力,也没有背景音乐,员工穿的是厨师的白色工作服而非传统服务员所穿的那种刻板工装。更有甚者,简 约得干脆把小寸盘悉数去掉,只留下平整的白桌布或纸卷,径直在上面切手工酵母面包。安德鲁•埃德蒙兹(Andrew Edmunds)与禧福道(Hereford Road)等餐厅的审美情趣大同小异、几乎堪比修道院,目的就是让用餐者专注饭菜质量,同时可以避免正式社交场合之繁文缛节。
At both ends of the scale the table setting remains a social bellwether – cutlery and crockery are still about class. We either espouse the pretensions of our forebears in new and subtle ways, or knowingly subvert them to show how little we care for bourgeois values (while remaining resolutely bourgeois). In the end, both positions rely on a forensic reading of social convention. Betjeman would have approved.不管是简约型还是繁杂型,餐桌布置依然是社交中的重头戏——餐具与器皿的放置仍攸关用餐者的身 份地位。我们不是以全新微妙的方式奉行先祖们繁文缛节的那一套,就是有意颠覆之,表明对这套布尔乔亚的价值观多么不屑一顾(同时依然信守布尔乔亚式的生 活)。不管怎样,这两种方式都取决于对社会传统习俗的辩论式解读。我想贝杰曼肯定也会赞成这么做。
Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester, 53 Park Lane, London W1, 020 7629 8866, www.alainducasse-dorchester.com. Tim Hayward is The Guild of Food Writers’ Food Journalist of the Year伦敦多切斯特酒店的艾伦•杜卡斯餐厅位于伦敦W1帕克巷(Park Lane)53号,电话:020 7629 8866,网址:www.alainducasse-dorchester.com。蒂姆•海沃德是《美食写作指南》(The Guild of Food Writers)评选出的美食报道年度记者(Food Journalist of the Year)。

spit


音節
spit1
発音
spít

spitの変化形
spits (複数形) • spat (過去形) • spat (過去分詞) • spitting (現在分詞) • spits (三人称単数現在)
spitの慣用句
within spitting distance, spit and polish, spit and sawdust, (全4件)
[動](spit or((主に英))spat 〔spǽt〕, 〜・ting)(自)
1I([副])]つばを吐く;(…に)つばを吐きかける;(…を)軽蔑する((at, in, on, upon ...));吐き出すように言う
spit aton] a person
人につばを吐きかける
spit at the offer
その申し出をばかにする
spit in a person's face
人の顔につばを吐きかける
I spit on riches.
金なんてなんだい
I could just spit.
((話))けたくそ悪い.
2 〈猫などが〉(…に)フウッとうなる((at ...)).
3 ぶつぶつ言う;〈物が〉パチパチ[ジュージュー]いう
The coffee was beginning to spit on the gas ring.
コーヒーがガスこんろの上に吹きこぼれてジュージューいい始めた.
4 ((しばしばitを主語にして進行形で))(雨が)ぱらぱら降る
It's only spitting (with rain).
(雨が)ぱらついているだけだ.
━━(他)
1 〈つば・血などを〉吐く;…を吐き出す((up, out));〈食べ物を〉戻す((up))
spit saliva
つばを吐く
spit up blood
吐血[喀血(かっけつ)]する
spit out gum
ガムを吐き捨てる.
2 …を吐き出すように言う((out))
spit one's contempt at a person
人に軽蔑の言葉を吐きかける
Spit it out
((話))(隠さずに)言ってしまえ;白状しろ.
3 …に火をつける;〈火器などが〉〈火を〉ふく.
within spitting distance
((話))(…の)すぐ近く[そば]に[で], 目と鼻の先に[で]((of ...)).
━━[名]
1 [U]唾液(だえき), (吐き出した)つば;[C]つばを吐くこと[音].
2 (雨・雪が)パラパラ降ること
a spit of rain
雨のぱらつき.
3 ((略式))生き写し, そっくり.
spit and polish
(兵士・船員などの)磨き作業, 苦役;((略式))ぴかぴかに磨き上げること.
spit and sawdust
((英話))大衆向きのパブ.
the spit and image of .../the spitting image of .../((英))the dead spit of ...
…のまったくの生き写し, …とまったくよく似たもの.

spit

音節spit 発音記号/spít/
【名詞】【可算名詞】
2
砂嘴(さし), 出州(です).
【動詞】 【他動詞】

spit

音節spit 発音記号/spít/
【名詞】【可算名詞】









grievance

Pronunciation: /ˈgriːv(ə)ns/

Definition of grievance
noun
  • a real or imagined cause for complaint, especially unfair treatment:a website which enabled staff to air their grievances
  • an official statement of a complaint over something believed to be wrong or unfair:three pilots have filed grievances against the company
  • a feeling of resentment over something believed to be wrong or unfair:he was nursing a grievance

Origin:

Middle English (also in the sense 'injury'): from Old French grevance, from grever 'to burden' (see grieve1)



unmatched

Pronunciation: /ʌnˈmatʃt/

adjective

not matched or equalled:he has a talent unmatched by any other politician


exclusivityLine breaks: ex|clu¦siv|ity
Pronunciation: /ˌɛkskluːˈsɪvɪti/

Definition of exclusivity in English:

NOUN

[MASS NOUN]
1The practice of excluding or not admitting other things:these banks maintain their exclusivity by settingminimum entry standardsthe event was criticized for its gender exclusivity
1.1The inability to exist or be true if something elseexists or is true:those that maintain exclusivity of religion—that is, one particular religion is the only truereligion
2Restriction to a particular person, group, or area:those inside the circle cultivate an air of exclusivity[AS MODIFIER]: we have exclusivity agreements with companies
2.1The fact of an item or story not being publishedor broadcast elsewhere:there is no sense in us sharing coverage, and we would insist on exclusivityagents and publishers can demand exclusivity
3The state of catering for or being affordable by only a few, select customers:the hotel’s emphasis is on exclusivity and luxury
译者/常和



2017年6月29日 星期四

backtrack stance, "class warfare", convo, rational conversation about the issue



Pres. Donald J. Trump’s personal lawyers postponing filing complaints with the DOJ and Senate Judiciary Committee related to Comey’s admission that he leaked details of his convos with the president to reporters.




"I'm Sorry."
He wrote in a blog post that he does not "have the courage" to publish additional proof.
BLOOMBERG.COM

Gingrich Backtracks on Bain Criticism


The GOP contender claims that Obama’s "class warfare" makes it impossible to have a rational conversation about the issue.



Then another leading contender, Laurence Fink, head of asset-manager BlackRock, told the board that it should be talking to Mr. Mack instead, people who spoke with him say. The company came under fresh criticism after it appeared that it might backtrack on an April announcement that it would pursue a spinoff of its Discover credit-card operations as a public company.





convo
ˈkɒnvəʊ/
noun
AUSTRALIANinformal
  1. a conversation.

    "I struck up a convo with the girl sitting next to me"



backtrack stance (OPINION)

Samsung Chairman Shifts Stance
Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee appeared to backtrack about his involvement in alleged corruption being investigated at the group.


stance (OPINION)
noun [C]
a way of thinking about something, especially expressed in a publicly stated opinion:
The doctor's stance on the issue of abortion is well known.backtrack
verb [I]
1 to go back along a path you have just followed:
We went the wrong way and had to backtrack till we got to the right turning.

2 to say that you did not mean something you said earlier or say that you have changed your opinion:
[+ speech] "All right, " he backtracked, "It's possible that I was mistaken."
The officers were forced to backtrack on their statements.
She refused to backtrack from her criticisms of the proposal.

băk'trăk') pronunciation
intr.v., -tracked, -track·ing, -tracks.
  1. To go back over the course by which one has come.
  2. To return to a previous point or subject, as in a lecture or discussion.
  3. To reverse one's position or policy.

2017年6月28日 星期三

strenuous, laborer, brier, toil, toilsome, slow down, OK, blatant piece of plagiary


Cardinal George Pell said he 'strenuously denied' all the allegations.

In recent weeks the Chinese government has been making unusually strenuous efforts to block access to “virtual private networks” (VPNs). Foreign companies which provide them have been warning customers that these problems will persist as China’s countermeasures become ever more sophisticated http://econ.st/1CaYXx3


As in Japan, students in China tend to do their most strenuous studying in high school. In college, they can slow down, whether to pursue more diverse interests — or, like many students around the world, to spend a lot of time at parties.


F.B.I. Investigates Olympus Fee A pair of Japanese bankers toiled away in relative anonymity on Wall Street, hopping from firm to firm.

Now the two - Hajime Sagawa and Akio Nakagawa - are at the center of a growing firestorm over a mysterious $687 million payout by the Japanese company Olympus. The F.B.I. is now investigating the payment, according to two people briefed on the case. The focus of the investigation is not yet clear, and a spokesman for the F.B.I. in New York, James M. Margolin, declined to comment.

The money has been described as a fee for advising Olympus on the 2008 takeover of a British company, the Gyrus Group. But the fee amount was more than 30 times the norm on Wall Street. And it went, in part, to a tiny unknown firm run by Mr. Sagawa and Mr. Nakagawa, a review of public records shows.


"If you're going to stop a band playing every time some one has an accident, you'll lead a very strenuous life." 
- Katherine Mansfield, "The Garden Party"

曼殊裴兒小說集   徐志摩 著/譯 (1927)

園會: 要是每次有人碰著了意外,你的音樂隊就得停下來,你的一輩子也就夠受了。

曼斯菲爾德《園會》文潔若等多人合譯,北京:人民文學出版社,2006
"要是每回出事你都要取消樂隊,你的生活就太緊張了。" 頁159

Katherine Mansfield :徐志摩:《曼殊裴兒小說集》;《哀曼殊裴兒》。曼斯菲爾德《園會》

http://hcbooks.blogspot.tw/2016/03/katherine-mansfield.html



http://books.google.com/books?id=rlQBAZ8o2vIC&printsec=frontcover&hl=zh-TW&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false


OK,  blatant piece of plagiary


Published: April 3, 2009

With 663,000 more jobs disappearing from the American economy last month, swelling the total number of jobs surrendered to the recession beyond five million, the government’s response to the downturn is being put to a strenuous test.




He had a strenuous objection to the poem "Suddenly What Sings in Me Dies of Boredom": it was a blatant piece of plagiary.



So then okay memoirs are a aspect of this, fictions are a part of this, and the growing use of diplomacy is a part of it, ....



"The Booker Prize changed my life in many ways," Mr. Rushdie said. "Before then my career as a writer was completely obscure. Overnight it wasn't. I gained confidence." Later he put it differently: "I walked into literary London as a stranger and I ran off with a check, which feels O.K."Salman Rushdie and Midnight's Children




OK1

(ō-kā'pronunciation Informal.
or o·kay n.pl. OK's or o·kays.
Approval; agreement: Get your supervisor's OK before taking a day off.
adj.
  1. Agreeable; acceptable: Was everything OK with your stay?
  2. Satisfactory; good: an OK fellow.
  3. Not excellent and not poor; mediocre: made an OK presentation.
  4. In proper or satisfactory operational or working order: Is the battery OK?
  5. Correct: That answer is OK.
  6. Uninjured; safe: The skier fell but was OK.
  7. Fairly healthy; well: Thanks to the medicine, the patient was OK.
adv.
Fine; well enough; adequately: a television that works OK despite its age.
interj.
Used to express approval or agreement.
tr.v.OK'ed or OK'd or o·kayedOK'·ing or o·kay·ingOK's or o·kays.
To approve of or agree to; authorize.
[Abbreviation of oll korrect, slang respelling of all correct.]
WORD HISTORY OK is a quintessentially American term that has spread from English to many other languages.
Its origin was the subject of scholarly debate for many years until Allen Walker Read showed that OK is based on a joke of sorts. OK is first recorded in 1839 but was probably in circulation before that date. During the 1830s there was a humoristic fashion in Boston newspapers to reduce a phrase to initials and supply an explanation in parentheses. Sometimes the abbreviations were misspelled to add to the humor. OK was used in March 1839 as an abbreviation for all correct, the joke being that neither the O nor the K was correct.
Originally spelled with periods, this term outlived most similar abbreviations owing to its use in President Martin Van Buren's 1840 campaign for reelection. Because he was born in Kinderhook, New York, Van Buren was nicknamed Old Kinderhook, and the abbreviation proved eminently suitable for political slogans.
That same year, an editorial referring to the receipt of a pin with the slogan O.K. had this comment: “frightful letters … significant of the birth-place of Martin Van Buren, old Kinderhook, as also the rallying word of the Democracy of the late election, ‘all correct’ .... Those who wear them should bear in mind that it will require their most strenuous exertions … to make all things O.K.”


Definition
blatant
adjective
describes something bad that is very obvious or intentional:
a blatant lie
The whole episode was a blatant attempt to gain publicity.

blatantly
adverb
It was blatantly obvious that she was telling a lie.



strenuous
adjective
needing or using a lot of physical or mental effort or energy:
He rarely does anything more strenuous than changing the channels on the television.
His doctor advised him not to take any strenuous exercise.
Strenuous efforts were made throughout the war to disguise the scale of civilian casualties.

strenuously
adverb
He strenuously denies all the allegations against him.
Most local residents strenuously object to the building proposals.

[形]
1 〈人・知力などが〉活発な, 精力的な, たゆまず奮闘努力する;〈行動・努力などが〉激しい
a strenuous existence
精力的な生活ぶり
a strenuous dance
激しい踊り
engage in strenuous activities
激しい活動にたずさわる.
2 〈仕事などが〉多大な努力を要する, 骨のおれる
a strenuous examination
難しい試験.
stren・u・ous・ly
[副]
stren・u・ous・ness
[名]




ADJECTIVE



Requiring or using great effort or exertion:the government made strenuous efforts to upgradethe quality of the teaching profession

Origin

early 17th century: from Latin strenuus 'brisk' -ous.

pla・gia・rize



 
━━ v. (他人の文章・考案などを)盗む, 剽窃(ひょうせつ)する ((from)).
 pla・gia・rism ━━ n. 剽窃(物).
 pla・gia・rist ━━ n. 剽窃者.
 pla・gia・ry
 ━━ n. 剽窃(者).




laborer
n.
[Written also labourer.]
One who labors in a toilsome occupation; a person who does work that requires strength rather than skill, as distinguished from that of an artisan.

brier
also bri·ar (brī'ər) pronunciation
n.
Any of several prickly plants, such as certain rosebushes or the greenbrier.

[Middle English brer, from Old English brēr.]
briery bri'er·y adj.toil
(toil) pronunciation
intr.v., toiled, toil·ing, toils.
  1. To labor continuously; work strenuously.
  2. To proceed with difficulty: toiling over the mountains.
n.
  1. Exhausting labor or effort: "A bit of the blackest and coarsest bread is . . . the sole recompense and the sole profit attaching to so arduous a toil" (George Sand). See synonyms at work.
  2. Archaic. Strife; contention.
[Middle English toilen, from Anglo-Norman toiler, to stir about, from Latin tudiculāre, from tudicula, a machine for bruising olives, diminutive of tudes, hammer.]
toiler toil'er n.


[動](自)
1 (…に)精を出して働く;(…に)こつこつ[せっせと]働く((away, on/at, on, over, through ...))
toil at [on, through] a task
こつこつ仕事する
toil away [on]
根をつめて働く.
2 苦労して[骨折って]歩く[進む]
toil up a mountain path
山道を苦労して登る
toil (on) through a book
本を苦労して読み進める.
━━(他)
1 〈人・動物・頭脳などを〉疲れさせる.
2 〈仕事などを〉苦労して達成する((out));〈道などを〉苦労して進む.
3 〈土地を〉耕す.
━━[名]((形式))
1 [U]苦労, 骨折り, 労役;[C]一仕事. ▼骨が折れるつらい仕事に用いる
sparing no toil
骨身を惜しまず
This book is a toil to read.
この本は読むのがひと苦労だ.
2 ((古))闘争, 争い;戦闘.
[アングロフランス語←ラテン語tudiculāre (tundere打つ+-culus -cule+-āre=骨を折らせる)]
toil・er
[名]


toilsome
tɔ'ilsəm]
[形]〈生活・登山・旅などが〉つらい, 苦しい, 骨の折れる.
toil・some・ly
[副]苦しい思いで.
toil・some・ness
[名]