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Our 50th Anniversary Exhibition - Something Fierce - has been open all week and today is your last chance to visit until the end of April!
Entry is FREE and doors are open 12pm-4pm today.
You can find out more information here:http://www.essex.ac.uk/fifty/exhibition/default.aspx
Plus you can watch the exhibition video online:https://vimeo.com/107056718
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EVENING and the flat land, Rich and sombre and always silent; The miles of fresh-plowed soil, Heavy and black, full of strength and harshness; The growing wheat, the growing weeds, The toiling horses, the tired men; The long empty roads, Sullen fires of sunset, fading, The eternal, unresponsive sky. Against all this, Youth, Flaming like the wild roses, Singing like the larks over the plowed fields, Flashing like a star out of the twilight; Youth with its insupportable sweetness, Its fierce necessity, Its sharp desire, Singing and singing, Out of the lips of silence, Out of the earthy dusk.Top Stories of 2011: All Apple All the Time
Apple dominated the corporate headlines this past year, from product launches that stoked frenzy to the somber news of Steve Jobs's death.
All Things D: Former H-P CEO and current Oracle President Mark Hurd lost an appeal before a court in Delaware in which he sought to keep a letter that contained allegations of sexual harassment, confidential.
fierce rivals in cloud computing/ Hamlet
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Richard Holbrooke, special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, are encouraging Sharif and President Asif Ali Zardari to work together, although the two men are fierce rivals.
Almost by accident, Amazon has thus “backed into cloud computing,” as Mr Michalski puts it, using the buzzword for today's next big thing: the trend among both consumers and companies to compute and store data on the internet, rather than on a local computer. If there is a leader in the cloud, it is Google. But Amazon is now right up there. Better yet, although Amazon overlaps with Google in the cloud, it does not rival it directly. Google mostly offers entire applications, such as word processing or spreadsheets, to consumers though their web browsers. Amazon offers services to programmers so they can build and run their own applications.
adjective
1 physically violent and frightening:
a fierce attack/battle
Two men were shot during fierce fighting last weekend.
2 strong and powerful:
Fierce winds/seas prevented the race from taking place.
Fire fighters had to retreat from the fierce heat.
3 showing strong feeling or energetic activity:
The expansion plans will face fierce opposition/resistance from environmentalists.
There is fierce competition to join the Special Branch.
4 US INFORMAL difficult:
The chemistry exam was fierce!
fiercely
adverb
1 in a frightening, violent or powerful way:
to growl/fight fiercely
to burn fiercely
2 extremely:
She's fiercely competitive/independent.
fierceness
noun [U]rival
noun [C]
a person, group, etc. competing with others for the same thing or in the same area:
He beat his closest/nearest rival by 20 marks.
The companies produce rival versions of the toy.幾篇"亞洲三強敵 Rivals"的書介
rival
verb [T] -ll- or US USUALLY -l-
to be as good, clever, beautiful, etc. as someone or something else:
No computer can rival a human brain for/in complexity.
The beauty of the country is only rivalled by (= is equal to) the violence of its politics.
rivalry
noun [C or U]
There's such rivalry among/between my three sons.
There's fierce rivalry for the job/to get the job.━━ n. 競争相手 ((in, for)); 対抗馬; よい相手; 匹敵する人［もの］ ((to)).
━━ a. 競争相手の.
━━ v. （〈英〉-ll-） 競争［匹敵］する ((for)).
ri・val・ry
━━ n. 競争, 対抗.
Hamlet 一開始就有一義現在已不用
n.
v., -valed or -valled, -val·ing or -val·ling, -vals or -vals. v.tr.
To be a competitor or rival; compete.
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Mr. Flake, a Republican of Arizona, said he would "no longer be complicit or silent" in the face of the president's "reckless, outrageous and undignified" behavior.
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Richard Holbrooke, special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, are encouraging Sharif and President Asif Ali Zardari to work together, although the two men are fierce rivals.
Almost by accident, Amazon has thus “backed into cloud computing,” as Mr Michalski puts it, using the buzzword for today's next big thing: the trend among both consumers and companies to compute and store data on the internet, rather than on a local computer. If there is a leader in the cloud, it is Google. But Amazon is now right up there. Better yet, although Amazon overlaps with Google in the cloud, it does not rival it directly. Google mostly offers entire applications, such as word processing or spreadsheets, to consumers though their web browsers. Amazon offers services to programmers so they can build and run their own applications.
fierce
adjective
1 physically violent and frightening:
a fierce attack/battle
Two men were shot during fierce fighting last weekend.
2 strong and powerful:
Fierce winds/seas prevented the race from taking place.
Fire fighters had to retreat from the fierce heat.
3 showing strong feeling or energetic activity:
The expansion plans will face fierce opposition/resistance from environmentalists.
There is fierce competition to join the Special Branch.
4 US INFORMAL difficult:
The chemistry exam was fierce!
fiercely
adverb
1 in a frightening, violent or powerful way:
to growl/fight fiercely
to burn fiercely
2 extremely:
She's fiercely competitive/independent.
fierceness
noun [U]rival
noun [C]
a person, group, etc. competing with others for the same thing or in the same area:
He beat his closest/nearest rival by 20 marks.
The companies produce rival versions of the toy.幾篇"亞洲三強敵 Rivals"的書介
rival
verb [T] -ll- or US USUALLY -l-
to be as good, clever, beautiful, etc. as someone or something else:
No computer can rival a human brain for/in complexity.
The beauty of the country is only rivalled by (= is equal to) the violence of its politics.
rivalry
noun [C or U]
There's such rivalry among/between my three sons.
There's fierce rivalry for the job/to get the job.━━ n. 競争相手 ((in, for)); 対抗馬; よい相手; 匹敵する人［もの］ ((to)).
━━ a. 競争相手の.
━━ v. （〈英〉-ll-） 競争［匹敵］する ((for)).
ri・val・ry ━━ n. 競争, 対抗.Hamlet 一開始就有一義現在已不用
rival
(rī'vəl)n.
- One who attempts to equal or surpass another, or who pursues the same object as another; a competitor.
- One that equals or almost equals another in a particular respect.
- Obsolete. A companion or an associate in a particular duty.
v., -valed or -valled, -val·ing or -val·ling, -vals or -vals. v.tr.
- To attempt to equal or surpass.
- To be the equal of; match: “They achieved more than they had ever dreamed, lending a magic to their family story that no tale or ordinary life could possibly rival” (Doris Kearns Goodwin).
To be a competitor or rival; compete.
[Latin rīvālis, one using the same stream as another, a rival, from rīvus, stream.]
SYNONYMS rival, compete, vie. These verbs mean to seek to equal or surpass another. Rival is the most general: “His ambition led him to rival the career of Edmund Burke” (Henry Adams). To compete is to contend with another or others to attain a goal, as a victory in a contest: Local hardware stores can't compete with discount outlets. Vie, often interchangeable with compete, sometimes stresses the challenge implicit in rivalry: The top three students vied for the title of valedictorian.
1. Also, all the while. Throughout a specific period, as in All the time the music was playing she tapped her foot, or The baby slept all the while the fire was being put out. [Late 1400s]
2. Continuously, without interruption, as in That old refrigerator is running all the time.
3. Frequently, repeatedly, as in He goes to that store all the time.
A quiet BlackBerry store in Michigan serves as a somber reminder of Research In Motion's failed strategy to stave off competition from larger rivals.
Pronunciation: /fɪəs/
Definition of fierce in English:
adjective ( fiercer, fiercest)
adverb
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insupportable
| (adjective) Incapable of being justified or explained. | |
| Synonyms: | unwarrantable, indefensible |
| Usage: | No matter how hard the candidate's aides tried, they could not spin his insupportable comments. |
somber, ((英))sombre[som・ber, ((英))-bre]
レベル：社会人必須
発音記号[sɑ'mbər | sɔ'm-]
[形]
1 〈人・性格・気分などが〉憂うつ［陰気］な；〈声・表情などが〉悲しそうな, 憂いを帯びた, 沈んだ, 重苦しい, 深刻な, 〈意見・報告などが〉暗たんとした, 悲観的な
a somber humor
憂うつな気分
憂うつな気分
a somber personality
陰気な性格
陰気な性格
His face grew somber.
彼の顔がくもった.
彼の顔がくもった.
2 〈場所・空などが〉薄暗い, 暗くて陰気な
somber scenery
薄暗い風景.
薄暗い風景.
3 〈色などが〉くすんだ, じみな
somber brown
暗褐色.
暗褐色.
som・ber・ly
[副]
[形]
1 〈人・性格・気分などが〉憂うつ［陰気］な；〈声・表情などが〉悲しそうな, 憂いを帯びた, 沈んだ, 重苦しい, 深刻な, 〈意見・報告などが〉暗たんとした, 悲観的な
a somber humor
憂うつな気分
憂うつな気分
a somber personality
陰気な性格
陰気な性格
His face grew somber.
彼の顔がくもった.
彼の顔がくもった.
2 〈場所・空などが〉薄暗い, 暗くて陰気な
somber scenery
薄暗い風景.
薄暗い風景.
3 〈色などが〉くすんだ, じみな
somber brown
暗褐色.
暗褐色.
som・ber・ly
[副]
confidential[con・fi・den・tial] 
- レベル：大学入試程度
- 発音記号[kɑ`nfədénʃəl | kɔ`n-]
[形]
1 〈言葉・行為などが〉ないしょの, 秘密の；〈文書が〉機密の, マル秘の（⇒SECRET[名]4）；〈手紙が〉親展の
Confidential
((手紙の上書き))親展
((手紙の上書き))親展
strictly confidential
極秘の
極秘の
a confidential report
機密報告, マル秘報告
機密報告, マル秘報告
keep ... confidential
…を秘密にしておく.
…を秘密にしておく.
2 〈人が〉（…に）ないしょ事を打ち明ける((with ...))；〈口調などが〉ひそひそした
She became more confidential with him.
彼女はいよいよ彼と親密になった.
彼女はいよいよ彼と親密になった.
3 ((限定))〈人が〉信用の置ける, 頼りになる
a confidential secretary
腹心の秘書.
腹心の秘書.
con・fi・den・tial・ness
youth[youth]
- レベル：最重要
- 発音記号[júːθ]
[名]（複 〜s 〔jú
θs | júðz〕, ((集合的))〜）[U]
θs | júðz〕, ((集合的))〜）[U]
2 青年時代, 若いころ, 青春（期）
4 ((集合的にふつう複数扱い))((文))青年（層）, 若い人たち(young people)
［古英語geoguth. △ドイツ語Jugend］
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