alderman, brace, embrace, bracing, encapsulate

Saintines encapsulates many of the difficulties of rural decline—but its 73-year-old mayor is leading a distinctly French effort to fight it

A new report offers a bracing autopsy of the 2016 election — and lays out a plan for revitalization.

British composer Joseph Phibbs' 'Rivers to the Sea' aims to encapsulate a
variety of emotions and places. The composer speaks about its performance
at the 2012 Beethovenfest in Bonn and its tip of the hat to Manhattan.

December 5, 2011 -- 3:00 p.m. EST MANAGEMENT Yahoo's Brain Drain

Some of Yahoo's 14,000 employees are considering other opportunities as morale declines at the company, which is bracing for a jump in departures following the holidays.

Investors Brace as Europe Crisis Flares Up Again

By LIZ ALDERMAN and NELSON D. SCHWARTZ

Fresh doubts about the health of French banks, which hold billions of euros' worth of Greek bonds, have investors bracing for more market turmoil this week.

Print Empire Embraces a New Order

By DAVID CARR

The announcement that Laura Lang, the head of the digital advertising agency Digitas, would be the new chief executive of Time, Inc. was a bracing moment for the print romantics among us.

Sandell, which has said it owns about 5.4 million Sybase shares, earlier said it acquired the shares because it believed they were "undervalued" and hinted at nominating its own slate of board candidates.

"Some kind of local museum attention could be given to the realist painter Rackstraw Downes, the abstract painters Thomas Nozkowski, Larry Poons and Stanley Whitney, or to an artist like Dona Nelson, who refuses to commit to either camp and whose eccentricities are a good match for Joe Zucker's. These painters seem slated to become the forgotten artists of the future.


”I wanted to kiss her. It was not just the word, so sharp in contrast to the soft drivel that nearly everyone lets rip whenever they discuss diversity. It was also the bracing sentiment that delighted me, even if I had a nagging doubt that she might be wrong. Surely, I protested, the ideal number of egos on a board was zero?
我簡直都想吻她一下了。不光是因為她敢用這麼直白的字眼兒（這種字眼兒與甭管誰說到董事會多樣性時都會扯上兩句的那種空話形成鮮明對比），更是因為她這種觀點令我耳目一新、如沐春風，儘管我還是隱隱感覺她說的可能不完全對。我反駁道，董事會裡自大狂的理想人數顯然是“零”吧？

Mell is one of the 50 aldermen on the Chicago City Council. It is 1987. Mell and a bloc of white alderman are selecting a successor to Harold Washington, Chicago’s first black mayor, who has just died. The name of their game is power, just as the name of Mrs. Huxtable’s game is art.

alderman

ˈɔːldəmən/

noun

1. historical

   a co-opted member of an English county or borough council, next in status to the Mayor.

   • NORTH AMERICANAUSTRALIAN

     an elected member of a city council.

1. 市会議員

Origin

Old English aldormann (originally in the general sense ‘a man of high rank’), from aldor, ealdor ‘chief, patriarch’ (from ald ‘old’) + man. Later the sense ‘warden of a guild’ arose; then, as the guilds became identified with the ruling municipal body, ‘local magistrate, municipal officer’.

brace
v.tr.

1. To furnish with a brace.
2. To support or hold steady with or as if with a brace; reinforce.
3. To prepare or position so as to be ready for impact or danger: Union members braced themselves for a confrontation with management.
4. To confront with questions or requests.
5. To increase the tension of.
6. To invigorate; stimulate: "The freshness of the September morning inspired and braced him" (Thomas Hardy).
7. Nautical. To turn (the yards of a ship) by the braces.

bracing
(brā'sĭng)
adj.
Invigorating or refreshing; strengthening: a bracing tonic.

n.

1. A support; a brace.
2. Braces considered as a group.

bracingly brac'ing·ly adv.

• [bréisiŋ][形]

1 元気［活気, 力］づける；身を引き締めるような；〈空気・風などが〉さわやかな.

2 支えの, 支えて［突っ張って, 引き締めて］いる.

━━[名]

1 筋かい, 突っ張り, 支柱(brace).

2 [U]緊張（力）.

embrace
v., -braced, -brac·ing, -brac·es. v.tr.

1. To clasp or hold close with the arms, usually as an expression of affection.
2. 1. To surround; enclose: We allowed the warm water to embrace us.
   2. To twine around: a trellis that was embraced by vines.
3. To include as part of something broader. See synonyms at include.
4. To take up willingly or eagerly: embrace a social cause.
5. To avail oneself of: "I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace" (Henry James).

v.intr.
To join in an embrace.

n.

1. An act of holding close with the arms, usually as an expression of affection; a hug.
2. An enclosure or encirclement: caught in the jungle's embrace.
3. Eager acceptance: your embrace of Catholicism.

[Middle English embracen, from Old French embracer : en-, in; see en-¹ + brace, the two arms; see brace.]

en-or em- or in-
pref.

1. 1. To put into or onto: encapsulate.
   2. To go into or onto: enplane.
2. To cover or provide with: enrobe.
3. To cause to be: endear.
4. Thoroughly. Used often as an intensive: entangle.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin in-, in.]

en-² or em-
pref.
In; into; within: enzootic.

[Middle English, from Latin, from Greek.]

encapsulate

 to express or show the most important facts about something:

It was very difficult to encapsulate the story of the revolution in a single one-hour documentary.

She encapsulates the stereotyped image that the British have of Americans.

音節

en • cap • su • late

発音

inkǽpsjulèit | -sju-

encapsulateの変化形

encapsulated (過去形) • encapsulated (過去分詞) • encapsulating (現在分詞) • encapsulates (三人称単数現在)

[動](他)(自)カプセルに包む［入れる］；（カプセルに包まれたように）たいせつに保護する；〈事実・思想などを〉代表する, 要約する；〈都合の悪いものの〉正体を隠す.

en・càp・su・lá・tion

[名]