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Special Counsel Robert Mueller Impanels Washington Grand Jury in Russia Probe A1

Special Counsel Robert Mueller has impaneled a grand jury in Washington to investigate Russia’s interference in the 2016 elections, a sign that his inquiry is growing in intensity and entering a new phase, according to people familiar with the matter.

The Blind Assassin Epilogue : The other hand

…Between his fingers is the stub of a cigarette.
She retrieves the photograph when she 's alone, and lies it flat on the table and stares down into it.. She examines every detail: his smoky fingers, the bleached folds of their clothing, the unripe apples hanging in the tree, the dying grass in the foreground. Her smiling face.
…You'd be as ruined as God…

……他指間夾根煙蒂。
她獨處的時候會取出該照片，將它平放在桌上，盯著它入神。她會審視每一細微處：他煙霧迷漫的手指、他衣服上洗白了的褶子、樹枝上未熟的蘋果、前方地上行將枯萎、消失的草。還有她笑意盈盈的的臉。…….你將會無聊透頂得像上帝。

As this view became accepted, the focus turned to how organizations
everywhere could transform themselves from mass producers into lean
exemplars. Given the magnitude of the task and its many dimensions
it's understandable that lean tools came to the foreground: 5S, setup
reduction, the five whys, target costing, simultaneous and concurrent
engineering, value-stream maps, kanban, kaizen. Indeed, I think of the
period from the early 1990s up to the present as the Tool Age of the
lean movement.

Michael Sima, via Museum of Modern Art

Measuring nearly 3 by 4 feet, the painting depicts a woman, her face left blank and featureless, sitting at a table against a heavily saturated rust-red and ocher background, with a tall vase of blooming flowers dominating the foreground. It is among seven interiors that Matisse painted in 1947 and 1948 in his studio in Vence, in the south of France. As an ensemble, the canvases form a panorama of the artist's work environment in his final years.

2 the area of most importance and activity, or which people pay attention to:
Historically, issues of this kind have not occupied the foreground of political debate.
... raised panel furniture doors.panel assembling

A bungalow is the best place to enjoy sunset along the Nam Song River in Van Vieng. With plenty of options for kayaking and caving, the town is emerging as an adventure destination. However, the simple pleasure of tubing down the river remains one of the most popular activities.

小泉首相の私的諮問機関：「私的諮問機関」は a private advisory panel (body) to... で良く、原文はその名称、「安全保障と防衛力～」を示していますが、英訳では訳文が長すぎないように、次のパラグラフで触れるようにしました。

「死の商人」となることとは異なる：「死の商人」は a merchant of death で確定ですが、「となることとは異なる」のフィーリングを英語に反映させるのはどうすればよいかが問題です。...totally different from just exporting weapons, like a merchant of death（まるで死の商人のように、ひたすら武器を輸出するのとはまったく違う）としました。

▼日英対訳＆解説　読売社説
武器輸出　防衛大綱に明記すべき新原則
Govt must devise new rules for arms exports

當然對此狀況，業者並非都沉默不語。在整個行業進入爭先恐後狀態的稍早時分，在某國際會議的聯歡會上，筆者巧遇京瓷的前會長西口泰夫。當時西口擔任業務本 部長，統管液晶業務。西口環指著場內說：“看看吧，這裡是死亡商人的巢穴”。死亡商人原本指軍火商。因為軍火商總是今天在這邊煽風：“對手已經配備了最新 式武器。貴方如果不對抗的話就會……”，明天又在那邊點火：“對方已經拿出對策來了。現在不強化實力就無法保持軍事平衡啦”。軍火商的形象與當時設備廠商 的推銷異常相似，所以西口用半開玩笑半認真的方式指出了問題所在。


その西口氏が会場をぐるりと指差してこう言われた。「ほらほら見てごらん、ここは死の商人の巣窟だよ」。死の商人とは本来は武器商人のこと。こちらでは「敵は最新鋭の武器を配備しましたよ。

empanel

ɪmˈpan(ə)l,ɛmˈpan(ə)l/

verb

verb: impanel

1. enlist or enrol (a jury).

   • enrol (someone) on to a jury.

     
     

     "several of her friends have been empanelled"

TUBE

n.

1. 1. A hollow cylinder, especially one that conveys a fluid or functions as a passage.
   2. An organic structure having the shape or function of a tube; a duct: a bronchial tube.
2. A small flexible cylindrical container sealed at one end and having a screw cap at the other, for pigments, toothpaste, or other pastelike substances.
3. Music. The cylindrical part of a wind instrument.
4. Electronics.
   1. An electron tube.
   2. A vacuum tube.
5. Botany. The lower, cylindrical part of a gamopetalous corolla or a gamosepalous calyx.
6. Chiefly British.
   1. An underground railroad tunnel.
   2. An underground railroad system, especially the one in London, England.
7. A tunnel.
8. 1. An inner tube.
   2. An inflatable tube or cushion made of rubber or plastic and used for recreational riding, as behind a motor boat or down a snow-covered slope.
9. Informal.
   1. Television: What's on the tube?
   2. A television set.
10. tubes Informal. The fallopian tubes.

v., tubed, tub·ing, tubes. v.tr.

1. To provide with a tube; insert a tube in.
2. To place in or enclose in a tube.

v.intr.

To ride or float on an inflated tube for recreation.

idiom:

down the tubes (or tube) Slang.

1. Into a state of failure or ruin: saw her plans go down the tubes.

[French, from Old French, from Latin tubus.]

panel (PART)
noun [C]
a flat, usually rectangular part, or piece of wood, metal, cloth, etc., that fits into or onto something larger:
a beautiful old door with oak panels
White silk panels were inset into the sides of the dress.
At the bottom of each page is a panel with grammatical information.

panel 
verb [T] -ll- or US USUALLY -l-
The walls of the dining hall were panelled in oak.
a panelled room/wall/door

panelling UK, US USUALLY paneling
noun [U]
wood panelling[名]

1

(1)パネル：天井・窓などの一仕切り.

(2)（窓などの）小枠；鏡［羽目］板.

2

(1)パネル, 団：公開討論会の出席者, 助言者, コンテストの審査員；クイズ番組の解答者などとして選ばれた人の一団

・

a panel of experts 専門家委員会

・

select a panel パネリストを選ぶ.

(2)パネルディスカッション(panel discussion).

3 《法》陪審員候補者（名簿）；陪審員団；《スコット法》被告人.

4 パネル（機械の制御器や目盛り盤を取りつける台）；（電話の）交換器；《電》配電盤

・

a panel of instruments （自動車などの）計器盤.

5 《画》画板；パネル画；《写》パネル版（の写真）；（漫画の）こま.

6 （スカートなどで縦に使う）細長い布.

7 ((英))健康保険医［患者］名簿

・

a panel patient 健康保険患者.

8 《製本》パネル：本の背表紙の2つのとじ糸の間.

9 《建》2本の支柱の間.

10 《採鉱》炭区.

11 《空》翼［胴体］の一区画.

12 鞍(くら)敷き；鞍代わりの座ぶとん.

13 羊皮紙の1枚.

14 ライトバン.

━━[動]（～ed, ～・ing or((英))～led, ～・ling） (他)

1 〈壁・部屋などに〉（…で）鏡［羽目］板を張る((in, with ...))；…を枠にはめる.

2 〈服などを〉縦切れで飾る.

3 〈陪審員を〉選定する；〈人を〉陪審員候補者名簿に載せる；《スコット法》〈人を〉起訴する.

［古フランス語panel （pan一片の布＋-el（指小辞））］

パネル ₁ [panel]

(1)壁板・扉板など一定の枠にはめ込む一枚板。鏡板。羽目板。
(2)建築用の、規格の寸法・仕様で製造された板。金属製・コンクリート製・木製など。
(3)絵を描くための板。また、その板に描いた画。パネル画。
(4)展示のために写真・ポスターなどを貼る板。また、貼ったもの。
(5)配電盤。
(6)スカートなどの上に重ねて垂らし、はなやかな感じを出す装飾布。また、たての切り替え線ではめ込んだ別布。
「―-スカート」
(7)陪審員。陪審員名簿。
(8)登録名簿。

foreground ━━ n. 前景; 最も目立つ位置［場所］; 【コンピュータ】フォアグラウンド.
foreground job　【コンピュータ】フォアグラウンド・ジョブ.
foreground processing　【コンピュータ】前景処理, フォアグラウンド処理.
foreground program　【コンピュータ】前景プログラム.


His essay André Breton (1948) foregrounds Breton's prose style and comes across as a literary portrait of singular empathy, perhaps even an oblique self-portrait. (Gracq)

the foreground
noun [S]
1 the people, objects, countryside, etc. in a picture or photograph that seem nearest to you and form its main part:
In the foreground of the painting is a horse and cart.
Compare background (THINGS BEHIND).

2 the area of most importance and activity, or which people pay attention to:
Historically, issues of this kind have not occupied the foreground of political debate.

foreground 
verb [T]
to give the most importance to a particular subject, etc:
His speech foregrounded the history of the decision.