NB, Hall of Fame, raconteur, U-turn

David Tang, Fashion Retailer and Raconteur, Dies at 63

Humphrey Lyttelton was perhaps the UK's most influential jazz performer.Beyond this, he was a noted raconteur and wit and chairman of BBC Radio 4's long-running I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.

Australia welcomes Japan whaling U-turn but lodges protest
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SYDNEY (AFP) — Australia welcomed Saturday Japan's backdown on plans to hunt humpbacks but said it had still lodged a formal protest with Tokyo calling for ...

迴轉(道)

NB, Hall of Fame

NB 3

See definition in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Line breaks: NB

abbreviation

1New Brunswick (in official postal use).

2Nota bene; take special note.

[Latin]

【聯合報╱王岫／報導】
2008.06.15 02:24 am
六 月初，美國NBA職籃進入總冠軍戰，開打兩個月的美國職棒大聯盟MLB也逐漸加溫。球壇上新秀登場，也有名將高掛運動鞋退休；他們可否在運動史上留名，退 休五年後能不能擠進名人堂將是重大指標。像五月二十一日剛退休的大都會隊強打捕手皮亞薩（Mike Piazza），是大聯盟史上最多全壘打的捕手，還連續十個球季入選明星賽，預估未來很有機會進入棒球名人堂，留名棒球史。

美國熱愛運動，對表現傑出的運動員也特別尊敬，許多運動項目都分別設立名人堂，以博物館形式保存球員文物和各項紀錄；事實上，「名人」的範圍，還包括傑出的教練和球團老闆及裁判、行政人員等，表彰他們對運動事業的貢獻。

以美國國家棒球名人堂為例，1936年開始票選傑出選手，1939年在紐約州古柏鎮成立博物館，館藏包括棒球相關文物、藝術品、文學作品、相片、紀念品 等，還有入選名人堂英雄們的各類物件、紀錄等。進入名人堂的入選標準是：球員必須具備十年以上資歷，退休五年後經美國棒球記者協會會員四分之三以上同意， 才可以留名在此棒球聖殿。

棒球名人堂成立後，冰上曲棍球／1945年、足球／1950年、籃球／1959年、美式足球／1963年，也紛紛成立名人堂。五大運動名人堂到目前究竟有 哪些運動明星上榜，關心的球迷可參閱稻草人出版社（Scarecrow Press）新近出版的《運動名人堂百科全書》（The Sports Hall of Fame Encyclopedia）一目瞭然。《運動名人堂百科全書》由2004年編過《國際名人堂指南》（Hall of Fame: An International Directory）的專業工具書編輯布雷文斯（Dave Blevins）主編，他以姓名字母A-Z排序，羅列從全壘打王漢克‧阿倫（Hank Aaron）到活塞隊老闆佐納（Fred Zollner），收錄五大球類運動名人堂運動英雄計一千四百多人，兩大冊厚達一千五百頁。除以運動員查檢，也有按球類和年代順序編排簡目的附錄和索引可 用。

A hall of fame (sometimes HOF) is a type of museum established for any a field of endeavour to honour individuals of noteworthy achievement in that field. In some cases, these halls of fame consist of actual halls or museums which enshrine the honourees with sculptures, plaques, and displays of memorabilia. In other cases, the hall of fame is more figurative, and simply consists of a list of names of noteworthy individuals maintained by an organization.
The opposite of hall of fame is called hall of shame (sometimes HOS).
Wikipedia article "Hall of fame".
hall was found in the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary at the entries listed below.

• foyer
• hall (ENTRANCE)
• hall (BUILDING)
• mess (ROOM)
• vaudeville
• city hall
• concert hall
• dance hall
• dining hall
• hall of fame
• hall of residence
• lunch room
• music hall
• town hall

U-turn

━━ n. Uターン; 180度の転換, 大転換.

U-turn lane 迴轉道

回心轉意。紅樓夢˙第四回：「寶玉又自悔言語冒撞，前去俯就，那黛玉方漸漸的迴轉來。」亦作「回轉」。

U-turn Show phonetics
noun [C] (US AND AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH INFORMAL U-ie)
1 a turn made by a car in order to go back in the direction from which it has come:
It is illegal to do/make a U-turn on a motorway.

2 MAINLY DISAPPROVING a complete change from one opinion or plan of action to an opposite one:
The Prime Minister did/made a quick U-turn in response to all the adverse publicity.


David Tang, Fashion Retailer and Raconteur, Dies at 63 ，採用的善說軼事、故事的人的法語源 raconteur：

raconteur

(răk'ŏn-tûr')
n.n. 話上手な人.
One who tells stories and anecdotes with skill and wit.

[French, from raconter, to relate, from Old French : re-, re- + aconter, to count up, reckon; see account.]

"a colourful raconteur"

synonyms:

storyteller, teller of tales, spinner of yarns, narrator, relater, recounter; More

outdoor, cooped up, canon (PRIEST), security system, bandstand, hole up (somewhere)

I was moved into a general intensive care unit that evening and, for the first time in my life, experienced sleeping in an open ward in a long room with five beds on one side facing a long counter of doctors and nurses. In the middle of the night, in my half slumber and weak waking moments, I realised that sleeping in a space like an open office was rather nicer than being cooped up in a private room. 


"While the house is being dusted/ People not involved escape outdoors."
While able-bodied family members worked busily around the house, the elderly, the infirm and the children were cooped up in a room or told to stay outside. Apparently, those who wanted to goof off simply made themselves scarce.

Living Planet | 06.03.2008 | 04:30

"Forest Kindergartens" are Booming in Germany

Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Forest kindergartens bring children back in touch with what was once our daily home

It is a Scandinavian concept, but it is booming in many countries. At Forest kindergartens, children spend the entire day outdoors, rain or shine. Living Planet visits one such kindergarten in Osnabrück, Germany.

Many children these days have little chance to experience nature. Their lives are spent holed up in classrooms or seated in the backseats of cars on their way from one scheduled activity to the next.

In Germany, however, a growing number of parents and educators are making the connection between early childhood learning and the outdoors. The growth of so-called "Forest Kindergartens," where children play entirely outside, rain or shine, is helping develop their bodies and brains as well as creating a lasting appreciation of nature.

Living Planet visits one such kindergarten in Osnabrück in the German state of Lower Saxony.

Reporter: Alison Hawkes


After lead worth £7,500 was taken from the roof of St. Peter & St. Paul, in Rutland, a county neighboring Leicestershire, the church canon, Stephen Evans, installed a security system with outdoor cameras. Movement on the roof sets off warnings that are sent to up to six mobile phones.

As Price of Lead Soars, British Churches Find Holes in Roof

類似 lead sheet或 leadwork等在"歐洲和近東之羅馬文化圈都很平常
看些近代的產品就可以了解

canon (PRIEST) Show phonetics
noun [C]
a Christian priest with special duties in a cathedral
secure (PROTECTED)


（屋根つきの）野外音楽堂.
n.

1. An outdoor stand or platform, often roofed, for a band or orchestra.
2. An indoor stand or platform for musicians and other performers.

Wikipedia article "Bandstand".


hole up (somewhere) phrasal verb INFORMAL
to stay in a safe place, often as a way of escape:

We'd better find some shelter and hole up until the storm passes.

cooped upadjective

 UK ​ /ˌkuːpt ˈʌp/ US ​ /ˌkuːpt ˈʌp/

​

If you are cooped up somewhere, you are in a small closed spacefrom which you cannot escape, or you feel as if you are:

I hate being cooped up inside working when its a sunny day outside.

It's such a tiny office - don't you ever feel cooped up here?

coop sb/sth up phrasal verb [M]
to keep someone or something in an enclosed space:
I feel like I've been cooped up in this flat for days.

outing, tout, the long and the short of it

The long and the short of it was five doctors and 10 nurses saved my life at Hillingdon that Sunday afternoon.


Boris Johnson’s past as a colourful newspaper columnist caught up with him.

Boris Johnson’s first outing as foreign secretary was an uncomfortable one

US journalists accused him at a Foreign Office press conference of insulting President Barack Obama and telling “outright lies”.

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the long and the short of it

informal

​

said when you want to explain the general situation without givingdetails:

The long and the short of it is that they are willing to start the work in January.

Testifying under oath in the Upper House Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defense on Thursday, Moriya had tears in his eyes as he defended the ministry and its officials, insisting that he alone was to blame for repeatedly accepting paid golf outings and other forms of entertainment lavished on him by the defense contractor.



outing 
noun [C]
when a group of people go on a short journey, usually for pleasure or education:
Rosie's going on a class/school outing to the Museum of Modern Art. ━━ n. 遠足, 遊山(ゆさん);


（特に同性愛者であるという）秘密を暴露すること.

See also outing at out (MADE PUBLIC).out (MADE PUBLIC) Show phonetics
adjective [after verb], adverb INFORMAL
1 (of information) no longer kept secret:
You can't hide your gambling any longer - the secret's out.

2 (of a homosexual) not keeping their sexual preferences a secret:
She's been out for three years.
Don't let his sister know he's gay, because he hasn't come out to his family yet.

out
verb [T often passive]
If a famous person is outed, their homosexuality (= sexual attraction to people of their own sex) is made public when they want to keep it secret:
Hardly a week went by without someone famous being outed.

outing
noun [C or U]
There have been several outings of well-known film stars recently.

outing 

Pronunciation: /ˈaʊtɪŋ/ 

NOUN

1A trip taken for pleasure, especially one lasting a day or less:a family outing to Weston-super-Mare

More example sentencesSynonyms

1.1A brief journey from home:her daily outing to the shops

More example sentences

1.2informal An appearance in something, especially a sporting event or film:Madonna’s first screen outing in three years

More example sentences

2[MASS NOUN] The practice of revealing the homosexuality of a prominent person:the outing of gays by the press

More example sentencesSynonyms

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense 'the action of going out or of expelling'): from the verb out+ -ing¹.

tout (MAKE KNOWN)

verb
1 [T] to advertise, make known or praise something or someone repeatedly, especially as a way of encouraging their sale, popularity or development:
As an education minister, she has been touting these ideas for some time.
He is being widely touted as the next leader of the Social Democratic party.
Several insurance companies are now touting their services/wares on local radio.The Circulation report is the latest in a string of studies touting the benefits of chocolate. The flavonoids in chocolate, which include the antioxidants called flavanols, are similar to those found in tea, red wine and some fruits and vegetables, foods also known for their heart-healthy effects.

2 [I] to repeatedly try to persuade people to buy your goods or services:

There were hundreds of taxis at the airport, all touting for business/custom.

Froggy. Frogs and rosbifs: “candid”, versatile,

Do not compliment a Frenchman for being “candid”, when for him "candide" means “naive”, and certainly do not say he is versatile, which he will take to mean either volatile or fickle

Analysing England and France's love-hate relationship through language

Frogs and rosbifs: from the archive

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Urban Dictionary: ros bif

www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ros%20bif

rosbifunknown. A derogatory term used by the French for Englishmen, probably because of the enjoyment and pride the English take in their roast beef. "Gordon ...

Froggy

a.Abounding in frogs. Sherwood.
法國佬

Frog

法語

"They speak English?"

"Most of 'em speak Frog. There's the Greek chap who teaches English with you. Cocky little bastard. Gave him a black eye one day."

"You've really prepared the ground for me."

--The Magus

burlesque, extravagance, extravaganza, pestle, inextricable

The Bartholomew Fair took place #onthisday each year from 1133 to 1855. Mechanical puppets, waxworks, exotic wild animals, wrestlers, strong men and musical extravaganzas音樂狂歡節 – here’s how things looked at the Fair in the early years of the 19th century.


On March 30th Prada announced that profits for 2014 had dropped by 28% from the previous year, to just €451m ($484m). It is the first time that the firm has reported a drop in annual profits since it was floated on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2011. Anti-extravagance rules can be bad for business if you make handbags http://econ.st/19IN1vc

The Paris Review

“The word “burla” is some kind of antique Italian. It means “joke,” and the first burlesque was imitations of what went on uptown. It was a family affair. People brought their lunches and stuff.” An interview with Peter Larkin on the history of burlesque and his flashy pop-up books:http://tpr.ly/1zj7vWA

A Pop-Up Book Brings Classic Burlesque Acts to Life

Peter Larkin designed “Panties Inferno,“ an eye-popping homage to the...

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Petrushka (ballet) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Petrushka (French: Pétrouchka; Russian: Петрушка) is a ballet burlesque in four scenes. It was composed in 1910–11 and revised in 1947. Igor Stravinsky ...

Scholar Saw a Multicolored American Culture
By MEL WATKINS


Mr. Murray, whose prose style was influenced by jazz and the blues, wrote about black culture as inextricable from American culture.

The Venice Biennale’s Rookies of the Year
By KEVIN MCGARRY





Ten new countries opened pavilions for the first time at the Italian art extravaganza this year.


AMG AllMovie Guide:
Burlesque

Plot

Christina Aguilera makes her dramatic feature debut as Ali, a small-town singer who takes her shot at stardom performing at a neo-burlesque nightclub in Los Angeles. Situated in a regal old theater that's still dazzling despite having fallen into disrepair, The Burlesque Lounge is the kind of club where legends are born. When club owner Tess (Cher) hires charismatic Ali as a cocktail waitress, the ambitious big-city newcomer goes to great lengths to make a good impression. Taken under the wing of a friendly featured dancer (Julianne Hough), Ali quickly realizes that not everyone is quite as nice when she forms a friendship with bartender/aspiring musician Jack (Cam Gigandet) and incurs the wrath of the club's cattiest showgirl (Kristen Bell). After making her leap to the stage with a little help from a sympathetic stage manager (Stanley Tucci) and the club's playfully androgynous host (Alan Cumming), Ali becomes the star attraction at The Burlesque Lounge, and the crowds start packing in. Later, a wealthy businessman (Eric Dane) makes a bid for the club while trying to charm the talented young performer straight into his arms. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/burlesque-film#ixzz1ja6MrPCL

The collection includes the haunting prose dialogue ''Conversation in the Mountains,'' which appears as well in ''Last Poems'' - two translations are none too many for this important extravaganza of language, inventing characters who turn out to be memorably real. Celan's ''Conversation,'' for all its appeal (like ''The Meridian'') to the work and example of Georg Buchner, will remind us of the dialogic form that his hated and loved Martin Heidegger restored to modern philosophy; it bears here on the inextricable knot of Jewishness and the word. We recall that the dialectic is rooted not only in the Platonic dialogue but in the Mishna.

 

inextricable

Pronunciation: /ɪnˈɛkstrɪkəb(ə)l, ˌɪnɪkˈstrɪk-, ˌɪnɛk-/

Translate inextricable | into Italian
adjective

• impossible to disentangle or separate:the past and the present are inextricable
• impossible to escape from:an inextricable situation

inextricability

Pronunciation: /-ˈbɪlɪti/

noun

inextricably
adverb

Origin:

mid 16th century: from Latin inextricabilis, from in- 'not' + extricare 'unravel' (see extricate)

 extravaganza

Pronunciation: /ɪkˌstravəˈganzə, ɛk-/

Translate extravaganza | into Italian | into Spanish

Definition of extravaganza

noun

• an elaborate and spectacular entertainment or production:an extravaganza of dance in many forms

Origin:

mid 18th century (in the sense 'extravagance in language or behaviour'): from Italian estravaganza 'extravagance'. The change was due to association with words beginning with extra-

 

extravaganza [ex・trav・a・gan・za]

• 発音記号[ikstræ`vəgǽnzə]

[名][U][C]

1 はでなショー［行事］.

2 狂想的音楽劇.

［イタリア語estravaganza. ex-はEXTRAVAGANCEの影響］

extravaganceLine breaks: ex|trava|gance

Pronunciation: /ɪkˈstravəɡ(ə)ns/

 /ɛkˈstravəɡ(ə)ns/

Definition of extravagance in English:

noun

[MASS NOUN]

1Lack of restraint in spending money or usingresources:his reckless extravagance with other people’s money

1.1[COUNT NOUN] A thing on which too much money has been spent or which has used up too manyresources:salmon trout is an unnecessary extravagance

1.2Excessive elaboration:the extravagance of the decor

bur·lesque (bər-lĕsk')
n.

[名]

1 [U][C]
(1) 茶番仕立て：演劇・文学において, まじめな主題を茶化す手法.
(2) こっけいな風刺文, 戯作, もじり詩；風刺的喜劇, 道化芝居, 茶番狂言. ⇒CARICATURE 1, PARODY 1, TRAVESTY[名]1

2 こっけいな所作, おどけた模倣.

3 [U]((米))バーレスク：わいせつな歌・ストリップなどを呼び物にする通俗的な音楽喜劇.

━━[動](他)…をこっけいに演じる［まねる］, 茶番化する, 茶化す.

━━(自)漫画にする, こっけいに描く, 戯画化する.

［フランス語←イタリア語burlesco （burla冗談＋-ESQUE様式の）］

bur・lés・quer

[名]

1. A literary or dramatic work that ridicules a subject either by presenting a solemn subject in an undignified style or an inconsequential subject in a dignified style. See synonyms at caricature.
2. A ludicrous or mocking imitation; a travesty: The antics of the defense attorneys turned the trial into a burlesque of justice.
3. A variety show characterized by broad ribald comedy, dancing, and striptease.

v., -lesqued, -lesqu·ing, -lesques. v.tr.
To imitate mockingly or humorously: "always bringing junk . . . home, as if he were burlesquing his role as provider" (John Updike).

v.intr.
To use the methods or techniques of burlesque.

[From French, comical, from Italian burlesco, from burla, joke, probably from Spanish, from Vulgar Latin *burrula, diminutive of Late Latin burrae, nonsense, from burra, wool.]

burlesque bur·lesque' adj.
burlesquely bur·lesque'ly adv.
burlesquer bur·lesqu'er n.

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In literature, comic imitation of a serious literary or artistic form that relies on an extravagant incongruity between a subject and its treatment. It is closely related to parody, though burlesque is generally broader and coarser. Early examples include the comedies of Aristophanes. English burlesque is chiefly drama. John Gay's The Beggar's Opera (1728), Henry Fielding's Tom Thumb (1730), and Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Critic (1779) are parodies of popular dramatic forms of the period. Victorian burlesque, usually light entertainment with music, was eclipsed by other popular forms by the late 19th century, and burlesque eventually came to incorporate and be identified with striptease acts (see burlesque show).
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burlesque [ber‐lesk], a kind of parody that ridicules some serious literary work either by treating its solemn subject in an undignified style (see travesty), or by applying its elevated style to a trivial subject, as in Pope's mock‐epic poem The Rape of the Lock (1712–14). Often used in the theatre, burlesque appears in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (in the Pyramus and Thisbe play, which mocks the tradition of interludes), while The Beggar's Opera (1728) by John Gay burlesques Italian opera. An early form of burlesque is the Greek satyr play. In the USA, though, burlesque is also 0a disreputable form of comic entertainment with titillating dances or striptease. See also extravaganza, satire.

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burlesque (bûrlĕsk') [Ital.,=mockery], form of entertainment differing from comedy or farce in that it achieves its effects through caricature, ridicule, and distortion. It differs from satire in that it is devoid of any ethical element. The word first came into use in the 16th cent. in an opera of the Italian Francesco Berni, who called his works burleschi. Early English burlesque often ridiculed celebrated literary works, especially sentimental drama. Beaumont and Fletcher's Knight of the Burning Pestle (1613), Buckingham's The Rehearsal (1671), Gay's Beggar's Opera (1728), Fielding's Tom Thumb (1730), and Sheridan's Critic (1779) may be classed as dramatic burlesque. In the 19th cent. English burlesque depended less on parody of literary styles and models. H. J. Bryon was a major writer of the new, pun-filled burlesque. The extravaganza and burletta were forms of amusement similar to burlesque, the latter being primarily a musical production. They were performed in small theaters in an effort to evade the strict licensing laws that forbade major dramatic productions to these theaters. American stage burlesque (from 1865), often referred to as "burleycue" or "leg show," began as a variety show, characterized by vulgar dialogue and broad comedy, and uninhibited behavior by performers and audience. Such stars as Al Jolson, W. C. Fields, Mae West, Fannie Brice, Sophie Tucker, Bert Lahr, and Joe Weber and Lew Fields began their careers in burlesque. About 1920 the term began to refer to the "strip-tease" show, which created its own stars, such as Gypsy Rose Lee; in c.1937 burlesque performances in New York City were banned. With the increase in popularity of nightclubs and movies, the burlesque entertainment died.
Bibliography
See studies by C. V. Clinton-Baddeley (1952, repr. 1974); R. P. Bond (1932, repr. 1964), and J. D. Jump (1972).
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Wikipedia article Burlesque.

	(noun pestle) A heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone.
Synonyms:	pounder, muller
Usage:	Sometimes she might have been seen … kneading poee-poee with terrific vehemence, dashing the stone pestle about as if she would shiver the vessel into fragments.

pestle(pĕs'əl, pĕs'təl)
n.

1. A club-shaped, hand-held tool for grinding or mashing substances in a mortar.
2. A large bar moved vertically to stamp or pound, as in a press or mill.

v., -tled, -tling, -tles. v.tr.
To pound, grind, or mash with or as if with a pestle.

v.intr.
To use a pestle.

[Middle English pestel, from Old French, from Latin pistillum.]

(Click to enlarge) pestle
mortar and pestle
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