2017年9月29日 星期五

secession, peacekeeping/peacekeeper, fractional, cyberattack, interrogating, charging and trying

Editorial

Hobbling the Fight Against Terrorism

Congress's push to increase the role of the military in interrogating, charging and trying most terrorism cases is bad policy.




US Expresses Concern Over Cyberattacks in Japan
New York Times
By HIROKO TABUCHI TOKYO — The United States gave a stern warning on Wednesday over recent cyberattacks on Japan's top defense contractors, the latest in a series of security breaches that have fueled worries over Tokyo's ability to handle delicate ...








NATO Troops Step in as Violence Flares at Kosovo Border

NATO peacekeepers on Tuesday engaged in their first military action
after Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia as
angry ethnic Serbs, who oppose Kosovo's secession, attacked frontier
posts.

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 In the middle of May 1860, delegates to the Republican National Convention met in Chicago to choose the party's nominee for president. The United States faced its greatest crisis since the Revolutionary War. The Democratic Party was so bitterly divided that it had been unable to even choose a candidate at its own convention, so the man the Republicans selected would almost certainly become president and face the Herculean task of dealing with secession.




But perhaps he doesn’t need one. In 1859, John Brown sought not only to free slaves in Virginia but to terrorize the South and incite a broad conflict. In this he triumphed: panicked whites soon mobilized, militarized and marched double-quick toward secession. Brown’s raid didn’t cause the Civil War, but it was certainly a catalyst.


secede verb [I] FORMAL
to become independent of a country or area of government:
There is likely to be civil war if the region tries to secede from the south.

secession
noun [U] FORMAL

secessionist noun [C]adjective FORMAL

secession
sɪˈsɛʃ(ə)n/
noun
  1. the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state.
    "the republics want secession from the union"
    synonyms:withdrawalbreakbreakawayseparationseveranceschismapostasy, leaving, quitting, split, splitting, disaffiliation, resignation, pulling out, dropping out, desertiondefection
    "the republic's secession from the Soviet Union"
    • historical
      the withdrawal of eleven southern states from the US Union in 1860, leading to the Civil War.
      singular proper noun: Secession; noun: the Secession
    • variant of Sezession.
      noun: the Secession


獸醫學 restraint,breeding hobble 配種用足枷保定

hobble

v.
, -bled, -bling, -bles. v.intr.
To walk or move along haltingly or with difficulty; limp.
v.tr.
  1. To put a device around the legs of (a horse, for example) so as to hamper but not prevent movement.
  2. To cause to limp.
  3. To hamper the action or progress of; impede. See synonyms at hamper1.


hobble (LIMIT)
verb [T]
1 to limit something or control the freedom of someone:
A long list of amendments have hobbled the new legislation.

2 LITERARY If you hobble an animal, especially a horse, you tie two of its legs together so that it cannot run away.



fraction Show phonetics
noun [C]
a number that results from dividing one whole number by another, or a small part of something:
¼ and 0.25 are different ways of representing the same fraction.
Although sexual and violent crimes have increased by 10%, they remain only a tiny/small fraction of the total number of crimes committed each year.
They can produce it at a fraction of the cost of (= much more cheaply than) traditional methods.

fractional Show phonetics
adjective
extremely small:
The fall in the value of the yen might result in a fractional increase in interest rates of perhaps a quarter of one per cent.

fractionally Show phonetics
adverb
Despite substantial price cuts, sales have increased only fractionally (= by a very small amount).

frac・tion



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━━ n. 断片; 少部分; (a ~) ((副詞的)) ほんの少し; 【数】分数; 【化】留分.
frac・tion・al ━━ a. ごくわずかな; 【数】分数の.
frac・tion・al・ly ad. ごくわずかに.
fractional crystallization 【化】分別結晶作用, 分別晶出.
fractional distillation 【化】分留, 分別蒸留.
fractional share 【株】端株.


fecund, fecundity and fertility, offspring, alchemy, assisted reproductive technology


The result is a compact yet liberated primer of Bourgeois’s implicitly feminist art, its fecund repeating forms, alternately architectonic and fleshy figures, intimations of pregnancy and birth and, most famously, giant spider sculptures in bronze or steel.


AN APPRAISAL | GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ, 1927-2014
Entwining Tales of Time, Memory and Love
Gabriel García Márquez, foreground, with Colombian journalist José Salgar in 2003. As a writer, Mr. García Márquez found the familiar in the fantastic.
Mr. García Márquez — who died on Thursday at his home in Mexico City, at the age of 87 — used his fecund imagination and sleight of hand to conjure the miraculous in his fiction.
 German women have fewer children

German women are having fewer babies, new research has found. The
revelation is likely to further fuel domestic debate about whether states
should give more funding to fertility treatment services for childless
couples.


OPINION | Op-Ed Contributors

Selling the Fantasy of Fertility

By MIRIAM ZOLL and PAMELA TSIGDINOS

Assisted reproductive technology fails much more often - and leaves more scars - than we are led to believe.




That spending includes pensions and benefits – in other words, redistributing money to the unemployed, the retired and the fecund from childless people with well-paid jobs. Then there’s free healthcare, free education, the army, the police, the courts, and infrastructure such as roads.
这些支出包括养老金和福利——换句话说,将资金从没有子女的高薪人士再分配给失业者、退休人士以及生育多个孩子的母亲。此外,还包括免费医疗、免费教育、军队、警察部门、法院和道路等基础设施。

If population policy can do little more to alleviate environmental damage, then the human race will have to rely on technology and governance to shift the world’s economy towards cleaner growth. Mankind needs to develop more and cheaper technologies that can enable people to enjoy the fruits of economic growth without destroying the planet’s natural capital. That’s not going to happen unless governments both use carbon pricing and other policies to encourage investment in those technologies and constrain the damage that economic development does to biodiversity.
Falling fertility may be making poor people’s lives better, but it cannot save the Earth. That lies in our own hands.



Birth Defects Tied to Fertility Techniques

By DENISE GRADY
Infants conceived with techniques commonly used in fertility clinics are two to four times more likely to have certain birth defects than are infants conceived naturally, a study found.
Future of Giant Turtle Still Uncertain
An attempt to mate two elderly turtles during this year’s breeding season ended without producing any offspring.





sleight of hand

Manual dexterity, typically in performing conjuring tricks:a nifty bit of sleight of hand got the ashtray into the correct position
MORE EXAMPLE SENTENCES
  • There is every chance that he performed a little sleight of hand and other conjuring.
  • After my first success I became intensely interested and gave up the sleight of hand and conjuring work I had been doing.
  • These people are magicians - expert architects of enjoyment - performing incredible sleights of hand.
SYNONYMS
Skilful deception:this is financial sleight of hand of the worst sort
MORE EXAMPLE SENTENCES
  • He freely admitted that magic depended on deception and sleight of hand but said: ‘Origami is real magic!’
  • One of the most startling public acts of deception and sleight of hand has been undertaken by the provincial government.
  • However, people of the present day are getting more enlightened; and although they see something done beyond their ken, yet they know it is only a piece of deception or sleight of hand on the part of the performers.
offspring
[名](複 ~, ~s)
1 (人・動物の)子.

2 生じたもの, 所産, 結果.

生育力 Fecundity (經濟學)
新帕尔格雷夫经济学大词典专题
公共衛生
Fecundity and Fertility
Literally, "fecundity" means the ability to produce live offspring, and "fertility" means the actual production of live offspring. So fecundity refers to the potential production, and fertility to actual production, of live offspring. Fecundity cannot be measured, but it can be assessed clinically. Fertility and its impairments and aberrations are recorded for individuals in their medical charts and are measured in the population by routinely collected vital statistics about reproductive outcomes such as births, stillbirths, miscarriages, and so on. Fecundity and fertility are often confused. The confusion is further confounded by the fact that in French the meanings of the two similar-sounding words are reversed: fécondité means "fertility," and fertilité means "fecundity." Communication among demographers and others about these demographic details therefore requires care and awareness of this fact.
(SEE ALSO: Pregnancy; Reproduction)

It would be impossible in the brief space of an introduction such as this to discuss at any length the characteristics of Hugo as a literary artist, but a few remarks may be made on some of the features of his art which are most conspicuous in the poems selected for this volume. It is scarcely necessary to dwell upon the poet's extraordinary fecundity of words and images.
史詩 La Légende des siècles ( 1859)之 中文翻譯本,厚約702頁(『雨果文集 第三卷 /20卷』河北教育出版社)

Although this all makes for a more discursive and at times less focused narrative than that of Volume 2, “The Triumphant Years,” like its predecessors, is informed by Mr. Richardson’s consummate knowledge of Picasso’s work — his intimate understanding of the artist’s temperament and endlessly inventive styles, his expansive vocabulary of myths and motifs and, most important, the mysterious nature of the alchemy by which he transformed his own experiences and emotions into art. So incisive and revealing are Mr. Richardson’s commentaries on individual Picasso paintings and sculptures that the reader’s one serious complaint about this book is that photos of individual works discussed are not always included in this volume or do not appear on the same page on which they are so artfully deconstructed. Mr. Richardson leaves us not only with a deep appreciation of Picasso’s Promethean ambition and prodigious fecundity, but also with a shrewd understanding of his tumultuous, subversive and often disturbing art.More on the Career of the Genius Who Boldly Compared Himself to God





fertile (REPRODUCTION)
adjective
1 describes animals or plants that are able to produce (a lot of) young or fruit:
People get less fertile as they get older.
NOTE: The opposite is infertile.

2 describes a seed or egg that is able to develop into a new plant or animal


I wouldn't want to call him a liar, but he certainly has a fecund imagination.



fecund
adjective FORMAL
1 able to produce a lot of crops, fruit, babies, young animals, etc:
fecund nature/soil

2 active and productive:
a fecund career/imagination

fecundity noun [U] FORMAL

fecund

Line breaks: fec¦und
Pronunciation: /ˈfɛk(ə)nd, ˈfiːk-/

ADJECTIVE

  • 1Producing or capable of producing an abundance of offspring or new growth; highly fertile:a lush and fecund garden
  • 1.1Producing many new ideas:her fecund imagination
  • 1.2• technical Capable of bearing children.

Derivatives

fecundity[fe・cun・di・ty] 

音記号[fikʌ'ndəti]

[名][U]
1 多産性, (特に雌の動物の)多産能力;肥沃(ひよく).

2 (才能の)豊かさ.
fecundity

Pronunciation: /fɪˈkʌndɪti/
NOUN

Origin

late Middle English: from French fécond or Latinfecundus.
fertility
noun [U]
a fertility symbol
declining fertility rates

fertilize, UK USUALLY fertilise
verb [T]
to cause an egg or seed to start to develop into a new young animal or plant by joining it with a male cell:
Bees fertilize the flowers by bringing pollen.
Once an egg is fertilized by the sperm, it becomes an embryo.

fertilization, UK USUALLY fertilisation
noun [U]
In humans, fertilization is more likely to occur at certain times of the month.
alchemy /alchemist千年前舊式化學,阿拉伯追求將廉價金屬轉為貴重金屬(Transmutation of base metals into gold.);隨著這種過程,人也從出生時的基本,逐漸在性靈上發展、發現,甚至於取得魔術般能力,這有如再生(Jung心理學將這種追求渾圓、完全的過程,稱為"individulation",經驗的一些階段就稱為"archetypes"--最早從孤立無援的孤兒"Orphan"到有神助的魔術師"Magician"。這樣的轉型就是"alchemy")。 組織中的人"being"一直懼怕--而變化更是懼怕的引擎,使人們更怕。

The Pop Alchemist
追求長生不老之藥; 文藝復興期相信上帝以化學方式創造世界,所以舊式化學成為了解宇宙構成的線索。


The Alchemy of Fear, How to Break the Corporate Trance and Create Your
Company's Successful Future by Kay Gilley
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0750699094/learningorg
Newton was an alchemist.
The authors discovered that all of them--young and old alike--had endured intense, often traumatic, experiences that transformed them and became the source of their distinctive leadership abilities. Bennis and Thomas call these shaping experiences "crucibles," after the vessels medieval alchemists used in their attempts to turn base metals into gold.


lead sb by the nose, wily, prequel to “Walden.” , excerpt


By JOHN PIPKIN
Reviewed by BRENDA WINEAPPLE
This novel of a young Thoreau setting fire to 300 acres of Concord forest is in effect a wily prequel to “Walden.”




The fifth book in the series introduces 1,120 words and 80 idioms (adding up to the 1,200 items mentioned in the title), giving readers an opportunity to learn important words and idioms in business-related English concerning general topics ranging from management strategies to finance and banking matters through interesting excerpts from articles, mainly from The Economist. Three compact discs are included.


Taiwan actress Stephanie Hsiao will play a wily Cupid on TV in excerpts from the Peking Opera "Matchmaker." Acclaimed as the "most beautiful woman in Taiwan ..



Bourgeois also had the advantage of a long life: from 1911, when she was born in Paris into a family of tapestry dealers and restorers, to 2010, when she died in New York at the age of 98, a wily, celebrated art star. That’s seven years more than Picasso had and, like him, she worked almost to the end.


Give the wily Mr Aso credit, too, for leading the opposition by the nose since he came to office on September 24th.


lead sb by the nose INFORMAL
to control someone and make them do exactly what you want them to do

wily
adjective
(of a person) clever, having a very good understanding of situations, possibilities and people, and often willing to use tricks to achieve an aim:
a wily politician
See also wiles.



wi·ly ('pronunciation
adj.-li·er-li·est.
Full of wiles; cunning.

excerpt Show phonetics
noun [C]
a short part taken from a speech, book, film, etc:
An excerpt from her new thriller will appear in this weekend's magazine.

excerpt Show phonetics
verb [T] MAINLY US
This passage of text has been excerpted from her latest novel.

紐約時報
Cloak and Dollar Oversight 
It is time to bring the almighty dollar in from the cold as a principal agent in the wily art of avoiding intelligence oversight.
稍深

The surest way to track power on Capitol Hill is to follow the money through the precincts of “the old bulls” — the ranking committee appropriators who paw the floor at any threat to their authority. All the more interesting, then, that the incoming House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, would risk their ire by forming a select committee to force the two discordant spheres of intelligence committees — budget wielders and policy watchdogs — to find common ground.
For decades, rival committees and egos have been at the heart of Congress’s failure to effectively oversee the government’s mass of overlapping spy agencies. The results have been so bad that the 9/11 commission said they contributed to the lack of preparedness for the terrorist attacks...



Books of The Times

More on the Career of the Genius Who Boldly Compared Himself to God




He was a Nietzschean shaman who regarded art as a mysterious, magical force, offering the possibility of exorcism and transfiguration; a chameleon who effortlessly moved back and forth between Cubism and classicism, irony and sentimentality, cruelty and tenderness; a wily, self-mythologizing sorcerer who inhaled history, ideas and a cornucopia of styles with fierce, promiscuous abandon — all toward the end of exploding conventional ways of looking at the world and remaking that world anew.



top-heavy, Do outside (or out of) the box

Nearby hangs another bit of brilliant upgrading: the 36 airy, tragi-comedic images of “The Fragile.” All were originally sketchbook doodles — Munch-scream faces, top-heavy women or heads. Digitally printed on fabric, these images were supplemented with spider’s legs, nipples and so forth in pale red or blue dye. Bourgeois did this for seven editions, meaning that every print in every edition is unique.




America's corporate world has grown top-heavy thanks to the dominance of large firms. This stagnation in competition isn't hurting profits, but workers' wages instead
Workers benefit when firms must compete aggressively for them
ECONOMIST.COM



The genre represents only about 1.2% of recorded and streamed albums sold—compared with the 26.8% for rock and 22.6% for hip-hop, rhythm and blues combined
Playing outside the box
ECONOMIST.COM

頭重腳輕

top-heavy 

Pronunciation: /tɒpˈhɛvi/ 


ADJECTIVE

1Disproportionately heavy at the top so as to be in danger of toppling:double-decker carriages proved to be unsafe and top-heavy
2(Of an organization) having a disproportionately large number of senior administrative staff:a top-heavy bureaucracy



think outside (or out of) the box




informal Think in an original or creative way.

2017年9月28日 星期四

standout, outstanding, litter, runt, carcasses, insatiable, standoff ,stalemate, oust, outstanding



Dane Boedigheimer, the creator of the

Animated Fruit With Ambition


By BROOKS BARNES


The "Annoying Orange" has embarked on the road to television, a path littered with the carcasses of other Internet standouts.



Restaurant Report: Anton's Taproom in Kansas City, Mo.
By JOHN ELIGON
This spot, which opened in October, boasts everything from a butcher shop to a tilapia farm to standout steaks.

From the deluge of art, a critic chooses some standouts. Readers are invited to add their own impressions in six words.

In Bo’s Rise and Fall, a Ruthless Arc

Bo Xilai’s talents came with what friends and critics say was an insatiable ambition and studied indifference to the wrecked lives that littered his path to power.



The era in which Japan was the , example of an advanced economy in Asia appears to be reaching an end. The rise of the South Korean economy in recent years has created a new progressive model. South Korea's technology and products are gaining increasing international recognition.




China Auto Sales Soar
Beijing's policies to support China's auto market drove sales up 34% in May as the country remained a standout in the struggling global car industry.

TOKYO -- Panasonic Corp. joined a growing list of Japanese electronics firms forecasting a huge loss for the current fiscal year and said it plans to cut about 15,000 jobs to combat a sharp slowdown in demand and to ease the burden of a strong yen.
The announcement by Panasonic, which is considered one of the standout performers within Japan's electronics industry, is further evidence of how grim the outlook is for the country's flagship manufacturing industries.

Zimbabwe rival to enter coalition

Zimbabwe's opposition agrees to enter a unity government with President Mugabe next month, ending months of stalemate.


What You Need to Know About Gold

Of all the major assets, gold was one of last year's few standouts, posting a gain of about 4.3% an ounce. Could 2009 be as bright?


He said he wanted to get out of the way for a new leader to break the current stalemate in parliament, where the opposition controls the upper house, and to prepare the party for the elections.
“This is the perfect timing to not cause people too much trouble,” Mr. Fukuda said.

Stand-off over anti-whalers held by Japan ship


By Julian Ryall in Tokyo
Last Updated: 11:01am GMT 16/01/2008

Japanese whalers and environmental campaigners are involved in a stand-off in waters off Antarctica, with both sides describing the other as terrorists that are endangering human life and breaking international law.

May 30, 2008 -- 3:01 a.m. EDT
BP, Russian Partners in Standoff
BP's partners in Russian oil venture TNK-BP sought the ouster of the unit's British CEO, but the U.K. energy company refused. The escalating dispute could shape BP's future and the role of foreign companies in Russia under its new president.



oust
verb [T]
to force someone to leave a position of power, job, place or competition:
The president was ousted (from power) in a military coup in January 1987.
Police are trying to oust drug dealers from the city centre.
The champions were defeated by Arsenal and ousted from the League Cup.

ouster noun [C or U] US
the removal of someone from an important position or job:
The committee's chairperson is facing a possible ouster.


standoff

noun [C]
a situation in which agreement in an argument does not seem possible; stalematestalemate 
noun [C or U]
1 a situation in which neither group involved in an argument can win or get an advantage and no action can be taken:
Tomorrow's meeting between the two leaders is expected to break a diplomatic stalemate that has lasted for ten years.
Despite long discussions, the workers and the management remain locked in stalemate.

standout
n.
One that is conspicuous by virtue of excellence or superiority: “In the hard-working … supporting cast, there are two standouts” (New York).

stand out (BETTER) phrasal verb
to be much better than other similar things or people:
We had lots of good applicants for the job, but one stood out from the rest.

standout Show phonetics
noun [C] US
an excellent or the best example of something:
While all the desserts are pretty good, the clear standout is the lemon pie.



outstanding (EXCELLENT) Show phonetics
adjective
excellent; clearly very much better than what is usual:
an outstanding performance/writer/novel/year
It's an area of outstanding natural beauty.

outstandingly Show phonetics
adverb
He was an outstandingly successful mayor from 1981 to 1984.





standout
(stănd'out')


pronunciation
[名]((米))傑出している物[人], 異彩を放つ物[人].
━━[形]きわだった, 異彩を放つ, すぐれている.

standout

Pronunciation: /ˈstandaʊt/
informal




noun

  • a person or thing of exceptional quality or ability:standouts include the home-made ravioli and the pizzas

adjective

[attributive]
exceptionally good:he became a standout quarterback in the NFL

insatiable[in・sa・tia・ble]

  • レベル:社会人必須
  • 発音記号[inséiʃəbl]
[形]飽くことを知らない, 満足することのない, 強欲な
insatiable curiosity
飽くことを知らぬ好奇心.
in・sà・tia・bíl・i・ty, ・ness
[名]
in・sa・tia・bly
[副]n.
One that is conspicuous by virtue of excellence or superiority: "In the hard-working ... supporting cast, there are two standouts" (New York).


outstanding
(out-stăn'dĭng, out'stăn'-) pronunciation
adj.
  1. Standing out among others of its kind; prominent. See synonyms at noticeable.
  2. Superior to others of its kind; distinguished.
  3. Projecting upward or outward; standing out.
  4. Still in existence; not settled or resolved: outstanding debts; a long outstanding problem.
  5. Publicly issued and sold: outstanding stocks and bonds.
outstandingly out·stand'ing·ly adv.

litter

Pronunciation: /ˈlɪtə/
Translate litter | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish




noun

  • 1 [mass noun] rubbish such as paper, tins, and bottles left lying in an open or public place:always clear up after a picnic and never drop litter [as modifier]:a litter bin
  • [in singular] an untidy collection of things lying about:a litter of sleeping bags on the floor
  • 2a number of young animals born to an animal at one time:a litter of five kittens
  • 3 (also cat litter) [mass noun] granular absorbent material lining a tray in which a cat can urinate and defecate when indoors: [as modifier]:a plastic litter tray
  • 4 [mass noun] straw or other plant matter used as bedding for animals: the plant burns discarded litter from poultry farms
  • (also leaf litter) decomposing but recognizable leaves and other debris forming a layer on top of the soil, especially in forests: the spiders live in leaf litter
  • 5 historical a structure used to transport people, containing a bed or seat enclosed by curtains and carried on men’s shoulders or by animals.
  • a framework with a couch for transporting the sick and wounded.

verb

[with object]
  • 1make (a place or area) untidy with rubbish or a large number of objects left lying about:clothes and newspapers littered the floor the sitting room was littered with books
  • [with object and adverbial] leave (rubbish or a number of objects) lying untidily in a place:there was broken glass littered about
  • (usually be littered with) fill with examples of a particular thing, typically something bad or unpleasant:news pages have been littered with doom and gloom about company collapses
  • 2 archaic provide (a horse or other animal) with litter as bedding.

Origin:

Middle English (in sense 5 of the noun): from Old French litiere, from medieval Latin lectaria, from Latin lectus 'bed'. Sense 1 dates from the mid 18th century




litter

v., -tered, -ter·ing, -ters. v.tr.
  1. To give birth to (a litter).
  2. To make untidy by discarding rubbish carelessly: Selfish picnickers litter the beach with food wrappers.
  3. To scatter about: littered towels all over the locker room.
  4. To supply (animals) with litter for bedding or floor covering.
v.intr.
  1. To give birth to a litter.
  2. To scatter litter.

[名]
1 [U]散乱した[散らかった]もの, くず, ごみ. ⇒GARBAGE[類語]
a piece of litter
ごみ
No litter
((掲示))ごみを捨てるな(▼No litteringも可).
2 乱雑, 散乱状態.
3 (動物の)一腹の子
a litter of pigs
一度に生まれた子豚.
4 担架;担いかご(昔の乗り物).
5 [U](動物の)寝わら;ペットの汚物処理材;(植物の)敷きわら;腐葉土.
━━[動](他)
1 (…で)〈場所を〉散らかす, よごす((up));〈場所に〉(物が)散在する, 散らばる, 〈場所を〉(物で)散らかす((with ...));〈物を〉(…の辺りに)散らかす, 乱雑に置く((about, around ...))
litter (up) the park with bottles and cans
あき瓶やあき缶を捨てて公園をよごす
litter trash about the room
部屋にがらくたを乱雑に置く.
2 〈多産の動物が子を〉産む.
3 〈動植物に〉寝[敷き]わらを敷く((down));〈わら・干し草などを〉敷きわらに用いる.
━━(自)
1 〈動物が〉一腹の子を産む.
2 物を散らかす.
[もとは中ラテン語lectāria(lectus床+-ER2=床のまわりの物→まき散らされた物)]

carcass
  • [kɑ'ːrkəs]
[名]
1 (動物・鳥などの)死骸(しがい);(畜殺獣の臓物などを除いた)胴体
carcass meat
(缶詰め肉などに対して)生肉.
2 ((俗・軽蔑))(人間の)死体(corpse);(生きた)人体
Shift [Move] your carcass!
((話))そこどいて.
3 (一般に)残骸(ざんがい), 形骸;(廃船・廃屋などの)骨組み, 骨格;(鳥の)がら.
save one's carcass
((米略式・古風))わが身を守る.


runt

Pronunciation: /rʌnt/
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noun

  • 1a small pig or other animal, especially the smallest in a litter.
  • derogatory an undersized or weak person.
  • 2a pigeon of a large domestic breed.
  • 3a small ox or cow, especially one of various Scottish Highland or Welsh breeds.





Derivatives







runty

adjective (runtier, runtiest)

Origin:

early 16th century (in the sense 'old or decayed tree stump'): of unknown origin