托孤
美國撒離越南，父母在起飛前把女兒送上飛機。這項行動稱為babylift.
The Dirt on Clean Beauty
More and more products promise “clean beauty,” along with plumper lips and fewer wrinkles. But what does that actually mean?
For its part, China says it will refuse to discuss Mr. Trump’s two toughest trade demands when U.S. officials arrive in Beijing this week. Those are a mandatory cut in America’s trade deficit and curbs on Beijing’s plan to bankroll the country’s move into advanced technologies.
Juicy returns give fund managers a voracious appetite for African debt, and governments say the money could fund the roads, railways and power lines that so many countries need
“Being haunted is a permanent condition below the Mason-Dixon, one that defines the region as much as the voracious kudzu and the iced tea so sugary it hurts your teeth.”
Mr. Shin, representative of South Korea’s new, voracious appetite for musical theater, bankrolled the production: royalties for American artists, a local cast, costumes and a $1.5 million set.
2007.8
Two National Museums Get a Pricey Facelift
This summer, the National Portrait Gallery and the American Art Museum will be reopened, and museum officials are hoping the building itself will be as big an attraction as the art inside. Web Extra: First Look Inside
「……我自己不對！留白不夠。
二ＯＯ五年編舞時頭腦想著張旭、懷素，一路往「狂」走。空間的留白照顧了。時間的留白琢磨得不夠。首演以來一直在大戲院演，舞台精力經過空間過濾，到了觀眾席有張力，無過分的壓力。像沙德勒之井的狀況沒發生過。
但是，好的編舞設計本身應該站得住腳，不能過度依賴舞者的詮釋，舞者累了，甚至用稍差一點的舞者來跳，在每個戲院仍然要發光。
「狂草」要拉皮！到巴塞隆納就動手！」
二ＯＯ五年編舞時頭腦想著張旭、懷素，一路往「狂」走。空間的留白照顧了。時間的留白琢磨得不夠。首演以來一直在大戲院演，舞台精力經過空間過濾，到了觀眾席有張力，無過分的壓力。像沙德勒之井的狀況沒發生過。
但是，好的編舞設計本身應該站得住腳，不能過度依賴舞者的詮釋，舞者累了，甚至用稍差一點的舞者來跳，在每個戲院仍然要發光。
「狂草」要拉皮！到巴塞隆納就動手！」
【拉皮】：去除臉部皺紋的手術。在耳朵前﹑髮鬚後將皮割開，把臉部的皮膚拉緊，切除掉多餘的皮膚再行縫合，刀痕可以用頭髮來掩飾。施行拉皮手術，最多可使人看起來年輕十歲左右，但時間一久照樣會老化。(教育部國語辭典)
我突然想到，這「拉皮」應該是 1922年開始用的” face-lifting”，經過十來年（1934）定形為”
face-lift/facelift ”。
可是一般字典不收這「拉皮」的俗稱。而這樣解釋：
vt. (及物動詞 transitive verb)：1為(建築物,汽車等)作外觀上的改善 2給...整容
n. (名詞 noun)：整容;翻新;改裝
日文：美容整形; （自動車などの）モデルチェンジ; 改装.
Plump lips definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
https://www.collinsdictionary.com › dictionary › plump...
You can describe someone or something as plump to indicate that they are rather fat or rounded. [...] plumpness uncountable noun. See full entry.
Plump lips definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
https://www.collinsdictionary.com › dictionary › plump...
You can describe someone or something as plump to indicate that they are rather fat or rounded. [...] plumpness uncountable noun. See full entry.
voracious
vəˈreɪʃəs/
adjective
- wanting or devouring great quantities of food.
"a voracious appetite"- engaging in an activity with great eagerness or enthusiasm.
"she's a voracious reader"
noun
1 [C] a medical treatment which tightens loose skin to make the face look younger 拉臉皮
2 [S] treatment to improve something, for example a building, to make it look more attractive:
The bank is planning to give its 1930s building a complete facelift.
face-lift(ing)
美容整形; （自動車などの）モデルチェンジ; 改装.
例:紐約時報 May11,2007
Harlem’s Cultural Anchor in a Sea of Ideas By FELICIA R. LEE
As the Schomburg Center unveils its $11 million facelift, Harlem itself is also undergoing one of its periodic renaissances.
bankroll
verb [T] INFORMAL
to support a person or activity financially:
a joint program bankrolled by the U.S. space agency
看一下 似乎無從注解起
a notably face-lift recasts the mainframe
recast
verb [T] recast, recast
to change the form of something, or to change an actor in a play or film:
She recast her novel as a musical comedy.
In despair, the theatre director recast the leading role. ━━ n. 改鋳; 改作; 配役［キャスト］変更.
━━
vt. （～） 改作する; 配役を変える; 鋳直す.main・frame
【コンピュータ】メインフレーム, 大型コンピューター （mainframe computer）.
voraciousadjective
very eager for something, especially a lot of food:
He has a voracious appetite (= he eats a lot).
He's a voracious reader of historical novels (= He reads a lot of them eagerly and quickly).
紐約時報
I.B.M. to Introduce a Notably Improved Mainframe
The mainframe, the aged yet surprisingly resilient survivor of computing, is getting a face-lift. A model called the I.B.M. z10, which is being introduced Tuesday, is far faster and has three times the data-juggling memory of its three-year-old predecessor, the z9.
But the significance of the new machine, analysts say, is that it is a big step in a broad campaign by I.B.M. to make the mainframe computer a high-performance, energy-efficient engine for running all kinds of nonmainframe software.
The goal, according to I.B.M. executives and analysts, is to recast the mainframe as a nimble supercomputer in corporate and government data centers, running Web-based programs, Linux, advanced data mining and business intelligence software.
To do that, I.B.M. has refined its mainframe hardware and come up with new software tools, as part of a five-year, $1.5-billion overhaul.
“The mainframe’s ability to survive is only as good as its ability to innovate and compete for these new computing workloads of the future,” an analyst at Forrester Research, Brad Day, said. “And I.B.M. is starting to succeed at that.”
The stakes are high. Though the sales of mainframes account for less than 4 percent of I.B.M.’s revenue, the sales of mainframe software, storage and services are a big, profitable business. The overall business dependent on mainframes represents about 25 percent of company revenue and nearly half of its profit, said A. M. Sacconaghi, an analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein & Company.
At Hannaford Brothers in Scarborough, Me., a supermarket chain with stores in five states, the company has consolidated many programs onto its two mainframes. They include its consumer Web site, its Web portal for tracking shipments from suppliers and store and customer data that were once housed on computers in individual stores.
“The mainframe has become very flexible and very scalable for us,” said Bill Homa, Hannaford’s chief information officer.
Robert Woeckener, a senior technology manager at Nationwide Insurance in Columbus, Ohio, said his company had consolidated more than 1,300 programs onto 480 virtual computers — software that emulates a machine — that run on two mainframes.
Nationwide began the program more than two years ago, projecting savings in energy, administration and other costs at $15 million over three years. “We’re probably running ahead of that,” Mr. Woeckener said.
I.B.M. competitors say that some individual success stories among mainframe users do not change the reality that the mainframe is in retreat.
In 2004, Microsoft founded the Mainframe Migration Alliance, a group of technology companies that helps corporations move software applications from mainframes to smaller computers powered by low-cost microprocessors and typically running Microsoft’s Windows server operating system. Microsoft tracked 85 mainframe migration projects last year, and the company says 55 more are under way.
I.B.M., to the contrary, says that the mainframe is in the midst of a revival. It is adding customers in developing nations, the company maintains, as banks, corporations and government agencies expand and need the kind of reliability and security that the mainframe delivers. I.B.M.’s mainframe revenue in India, China, Brazil and Russia grew 18 percent last year.
Six hundred software applications, it says, were introduced on the mainframe last year.
Rising energy costs and environmental concerns are putting pressure on growing computer data centers, with their voracious appetites for electricity. The z10, I.B.M. says, delivers the computing power of 1,500 industry-standard servers, running on personal computer microprocessors, while consuming 85 percent less energy and covering 85 percent less floor space.
So the mainframe, it argues, has become the low-cost data center technology, although the machines cost $1 million and up.
“The market economics are moving in our direction, and we’re seeing a return to the mainframe,” said James Stallings, general manager of I.B.M.’s System Z division.
Traditionally, mainframe computers run at utilization rates of 85 percent and more. PC-style servers, by contrast, have had utilization rates of 15 percent or so, because they have been less able to run many computing chores at once, as if mimicking the work of several machines — a capacity the mainframe has had for decades.
But this so-called virtualization technology is increasingly coming to industry-standard servers, led by the software company VMware.
Several computer makers, including Dell and Hewlett-Packard, are announcing Tuesday that they will embed VMware’s basic software into the hardware of the server computers, with shipments to begin within 60 days.
“We can get up to 80 and 85 percent capacity utilization now,” Diane Greene, chief executive of VMware, said in an interview from a company gathering for partners, attended by 4,500 people in Cannes, France.
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