2018年12月29日 星期六

hood, hooding, zip, hoodie (or hoody), zipper, entrapment, zip through, unfettered undoability

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As late as the 1930s the zip was seen as too sexual to catch on, especially on women’s clothing. It represented easy access, unfettered undoability



Division of the Humanities Diploma and Hooding Ceremony, Spring 2014
Want a 9/11 hoodie? You can pick one up at the new 9/11 museum gift shop.
Early visitors to the 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York have...
The Guardian|由 Leo Benedictus 上傳
The barons of high-tech like to think of themselves as very different creatures from the barons of Wall Street. They create cool devices that let us carry the world in our pockets. They wear hoodies, not suits. And they owe their success to their native genius rather than to social connections. But for many people in San Francisco this is a distinction without a difference http://econ.st/1l5p3Oj

 

Zipper up.
That's what a number of designers hope shoppers will be doing in the coming seasons. Designer labels, including Altuzarra, Calvin Klein Collection, Dior, Elie Tahari, Giambattista Valli, Michael Kors and the Row are putting bold and exposed zippers on sweaters, dresses and blazers, turning the typically utilitarian closure into an attention-grabbing design detail.
Zippers are even being used to identify the looks. Michael Kors showed a neon orange "zip suit," and a black and white Donegal, jacquard "zipper suit," among other looks prominently featuring zippers, in his fall 2013 runway show in February.

 

 

 

On Snowy Slopes, Fingers Glide Down the Touch Screen

By KIT EATON
Be sure to zip your smartphone in your ski jacket; it can help you navigate a resort, prepare for the weather and even become a better skier.
The job of corporate hell-raiser strikes me as much more worthwhile than the more common retirement route of joining a government taskforce and keeping lips zipped tighter than ever.

Zuckerberg's hoodie

Should Facebook founder wear hooded top to meetings?



France struggled to digest the scandal around Dominique Strauss-Kahn, with his defenders questioning the initial New York police account and speculating about entrapment.

Fast Phones, Dead Batteries
Users of 4G smartphones are discovering their speedy broadband service also zips through battery life.


hood


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音節
hood1
発音
húd
レベル
社会人必須
hoodの変化形
hoods (複数形) • hooding (現在分詞) • hoods (三人称単数現在)
[名]
1 フード,ずきん
raincoat with a hood
フードの付いたレインコート.
2
(1)フード[ずきん]状の物(僧帽形の花弁・がく片,電灯・煙突のかさ,レンズのフード,車・うば車のおおいなど).
(2)((米))(車の)ボンネット(((英))bonnet).
(3)(タカ狩り用タカの)頭おおい.
(4)競馬メンコ,ずきん.
3 (大学の式服・裁判官の法服などの)背の飾り布.
4 (鳥・動物の)冠毛,とさか.
━━[動](他)…にずきんをつける;…を(ずきん状の物で)おおう((in ...)).
[古英語hōd. △HAT
hood・less
[形] 
hóod・lìke
[形] 

zip


  音節
zip2
発音
zíp
zipの変化形
zips (複数形) • zipped (過去形) • zipped (過去分詞) • zipping (現在分詞) • zips (三人称単数現在)
[動](〜ped, 〜・ping)(他)
1 …をチャック[ジッパー]で締める[開ける]((up));〈人の〉衣服のチャックを締めてやる((up));…のチャックを締めて[開けて](…の状態に)する
zip up one's jacket
上着のチャックを締める
She zipped her purse openshut].
ハンドバッグのチャックを開けた[締めた]
Zip it up! [=Zip (up) your lip!]
((米話))黙れ.
2 …を(チャックを締めて[はずして])入れる[出す].
3 …をチャックで取りつける((on)).
━━(自)
1 チャックで締まる[開く]((up))
a zipper that refuses to zip
締まらないジッパー.
2 チャックを締める[はずす].
━━[名]((英))ジッパー(((米))zipper);チャック, ファスナー
do upundoone's zip
チャックを締める[おろす].

zip through something to deal with or complete something very quickly

hoodie

 noun
noun, Brit

A hooded sweatshirt, fleece, or other garment; also, a young person wearing such as garment, esp. regarded as being potentially violent, criminal, or otherwise antisocial. (1990 —) .
Daily Telegraph Members of this demographic wear the dodginess of their surroundings as a badge of honour on their Marks & Spencer hoodies (2005).
Observer Until recently, Cameron wanted to hug hoodies; now he wants to string 'em up (2007).

[From hood noun + -ie.]



entrap
  • [intrǽp]
[動](〜ped, 〜・ping)(他)((しばしば受身))((形式))
1 〈動物を〉わなにかける, わなで捕える.
2 〈人を〉(危険・困難に)陥れる((in, into ...));〈人を〉だまして[計略にかけて](…)させる((into doing))
entrap a person into committing a crime
うまく計って人に罪を犯させる.
en・trap・ment
[名][U]わな(にかけること).



Quiksilver Recalls Girls' Hoodies with Waist Drawstrings Due to Entrapment Hazard <http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml09/09330.html>


A hoodie (or hoody), short for "hooded sweatshirt", or a "bunnyhug" is a heavy upper-body garment with a hood. The characteristic design includes large frontal pockets, a hood, and (usually) a drawstring to adjust the hood opening. Hoodies with zippers are called "zip hoodies" or "zip-ups".[citation needed] It is also a metonym, referring to a sector of youth culture in the UK.[1]
Spotlight:
Zzzzip!

Zzzzip!
Who invented the zipper? Early in the 20th century, an engineer named Gideon Sundback built upon previous inventions to develop a better fastener. The "Hookless No. 2" was a series of interlocking teeth in which where the tiny projection at the top fit into the dimple at the bottom as a slider traveled up the row. On April 29, 1917, Sundback received a patent for the "separable fastener," which would come to be known as the zipper. Soldiers fighting in World War I used the first zippers, mostly for money belts, life vests and flying suits. The B.F. Goodrich Company incorporated the new fastener into rubber boots and gave them the name "zipper," which was originally intended to indicate the kind of boot. It was in the 1940s that the zipper became more popularly used for the flies of pants and on skirts and dresses.


Quote:
"The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour." Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

2018年12月27日 星期四

til, cater, caterer, orderly, piquancy, naïf, faux-naïf, piquant and unsparing


Water Willow, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. 1871. A portrait of Jane Morris with Kelmscott Manor in the upper left background.
William Morris, the owner of Kelmscott Manor, by letter (c. 1871) to Edward Burne-Jones, describes Kelmscott as: “a beautiful and strangely naif house, Elizabethan in appearance though much later in date, as in that out of the way corner people built Gothic til the beginning or middle of last century.”
Memorials of Sir Edward Burne-Jones, v.2


THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES is here published together with Darwin’s earlier THE VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE. This 1839 account of the journeys to South America and the Pacific islands that first put Darwin on the track of his remarkable theories derives an added charm from his vivid description of his travels in exotic places and his eye for the piquant detail. READ more here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/…/the-origin-of-species…/



Olympus Investigation Shows a Caterer With Clout

Two years after admitting to accounting fraud, Olympus, the camera manufacturer, hired its cafeteria operator to handle a dispute with Chinese customs authorities. Soon after, the case was inexplicably dropped.

 In praise of … old dictionaries
The Guardian (blog)
But what about old dictionaries? Shelved in some dusty corner of the library, they suffer near-universal neglect. Yet antique dictionaries contain a piquant history. The word homosexual doesn't exist in a 1925 English dictionary. By 1962 it's an ...


such a piquancy or ironic,



Warren E. Buffett, known for piquant and unsparing criticism of his own performance, has been uncharacteristically silent on the ratings agencies, including Moody's, in which he owns a minority stake.

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You can’t get better publicity for a book than “Banned in Boston.” But as product endorsements go, “Banned in China” sends a more mixed message, even if it still wins points for piquancy. Seeing this legend on the dust jacket of Yan Lianke’s faux-naif novel, “Serve the People!” — the first of his books to be translated into English — you have to wonder what Chinese officials are banning books for these days.
閻連科:《為人民服務》


Set in 1967, near the outset of the Cultural Revolution and at the height of the Maoist cult of personality, “Serve the People!” tells the story of a docile, doctrinaire peasant soldier named Wu Dawang, whose word-perfect memory of Mao’s sayings (coupled with his excellent kitchen skills) leads to a plum job: cook and general orderly for the commander of his military division.

專門負責給師長家裏做飯的老公務班長吳大旺,提著一籃青菜站在師長家的廚房門口時,那件事情就嘰哩咣啷,氫彈爆炸樣,展開在了他的面前。

Wu Dawang, Sergeant of the Catering Squad, now General Orderly for the Division Commander and his wife, stood in the doorway to the kitchen, a bunch of pak-choi in hand, acknowledging a devastating new presence in the room.


But businesses still cater to the poor, and do not want to lose customers, even poor ones. And the poorest participants in a market society have more influence over what they receive as consumers than they do as voters.
但企業仍要迎合窮人;它們不希望丟掉客戶,即便是窮 人。市場社會中最貧窮的參與者,對於自己以消費者身份所得到的服務的影響力,要大於他們作為選民的影響力。

Verizon Wireless plans to talk to different hardware manufacturers and the carrier didn't discuss potential pricing plans for the new devices. On the software side, Mr. McAdam said the new model will be "additive" to its current service, and that it will cater to subscribers looking for complete control of their device. "We see an opportunity to tap into a huge development community," Mr. McAdam said.

Industry Caters to Eating at the Wheel 業者滿足開車時用膳的需求



Americans Renew Love for Cars -- Online
Scores of new automotive Web sites are being launched that cater to car enthusiasts, demonstrating that Americans' love affair with cars is alive and well..


The Rose Group uses the building of the Third Church of Christ, Scientist.                                                 
Neighbors' Battle With Park Avenue Caterer Goes All the Way to Cuomo

By CHARLES V. BAGLI

A fight between the Rose Group and its Park Avenue neighbors over a special exemption for a liquor license has reached the office of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.



新聞辭典

cater to sb/sth phrasal verb
to try to satisfy a need, especially an unpopular or generally unacceptable need:
This legislation simply caters to racism.

cater to:迎合、滿足。例句:Those newspapers cater to the lowest tastes.(那些報紙迎合最下層的趣味。)



cater 
verb [I or T]
to provide, and sometimes serve, food:
I'm catering for twelve on Sunday, all the family are coming.
Which firm will be catering at the wedding reception?
US Who catered your party?


catering 
adjective [before noun]
a high-class catering company

━━ vi. 料理などを調達する, まかなう ((for, at, 〈米〉to)); 娯楽を提供する ((〈英〉for, 〈米〉to)).
━━ vt. (宴会等の)準備を引き受ける.
 ca・ter・er ━━ n. (宴会などの)仕出し業者; 飲食[喫茶]店の支配人.
 ca・ter・ing ━━ n. 仕出し(屋), 配膳業.

cater for sb/sth phrasal verb MAINLY UK
to provide what is wanted or needed by someone or something:
The club caters for children between the ages of 4 and 12.

 or・der・ly

━━ a., n. きちんとした; 秩序をよく守る; 従順な; 行儀のいい; 【軍】伝令[当直]の; 当番兵; 伝令(兵); 病院の雑役夫.
or・der・li・ness n.
orderly officer 当直将校.
orderly room 【軍】(兵舎内の)中隊事務室.



piquant

Translate piquant | into German
Definition of piquant
adjective

  • having a pleasantly sharp taste or appetizing flavour:a piquant tartare sauce
  • pleasantly stimulating or exciting to the mind.

Derivatives


piquantly

adverb

pi·quant ('kənt, -känt', pē-känt') pronunciation
adj.

  1. Pleasantly pungent or tart in taste; spicy.
    1. Appealingly provocative: a piquant wit.
    2. Charming, interesting, or attractive: a piquant face.
  2. Archaic. Causing hurt feelings; stinging.
[French, from Old French, present participle of piquer, to prick. See pique.]
piquancy pi'quan·cy or pi'quant·ness n.
piquantly pi'quant·ly adv. piquant (INTERESTING)
adjective SLIGHTLY FORMAL
interesting and exciting, especially because mysterious:
More piquant details of their private life were revealed.

piquancy
noun [U] SLIGHTLY FORMAL ━━ a. ぴりっとする; きびきびした, すきっとして魅力的な.
pi・quan・cy ━━ n. ぴりっとしたうまさ; 辛辣さ, 小気味よさ.

unsparing (HIDING NOTHING)
adjective
showing no kindness and no desire to hide the unpleasant truth:
The documentary went through all the graphic details of the operation in unsparing detail.

unsparing (GENEROUS)
adjective FORMAL
extremely generous with money, time, help, etc:
Last of all, our thanks go to the caterers who have been unsparing in their efforts to make this afternoon such a success.




cater
v., -tered, -ter·ing, -ters. v.intr.
  1. To provide food or entertainment.
  2. To be particularly attentive or solicitous; minister: The nurses catered to my every need. The legislation catered to various special interest groups.
v.tr.
  1. To provide food service for: a business that caters banquets and weddings.
  2. To attend to the wants or needs of.
[From obsolete cater, a buyer of provisions, from Middle English catour, short for acatour, from Norman French, from acater, to buy, from Vulgar Latin *accaptāre : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin captāre, to chase; see catch.]
caterer ca'ter·er n.



naïf
/nʌɪˈiːf,nɑːˈiːf/
adjective
  1. 1.
    naive or ingenuous.
noun
  1. 1.
    a naive or ingenuous person.

faux-naïf

(fō-nä-ēf') pronunciation
also faux-naif adj.
Marked by a false show of innocent simplicity: “Their gee-whiz, faux-naif comportment is not always convincing” (Madison Smartt Bell).
[French : faux, false + naïf, naive.]



Conjunction[edit]

til
  1. (colloquial) untiltill quotations ▼

Preposition[edit]

til
  1. (colloquial) untiltill quotations ▼
  2. (archaic) ~ to: as far as; down to; up to, until

2018年12月25日 星期二

cred, street credibility, filter bubble

Kristen Hartke/NPR

Gingerbread Cred: Bakers Craft Winning Edible Art Down To The Last Detail

Tiny working gingerbread clock gears, meticulously hand-painted playing cards, scenes that tell stories — all comes into play at the annual National Gingerbread House Competition in North Carolina.



A phenomenon called "filter bubble", in which algorithms limit the information people encounter online, may be growing in Japan.




filter bubble – a term coined by Internet activist Eli Pariser – is a state of intellectual isolation that allegedly can result from personalized searches when a website algorithm selectively guesses what information a user would like to see based on information about the user, such as location, past click-behavior ...

過濾氣泡英語:filter bubble同溫層、個人化資料過濾[1]、篩選小圈圈)是一種網站針對個人化搜尋而提供篩選後內容的結果。網站內嵌的演算法會透過使用者的地區、先前活動紀錄或是搜尋結果來給予使用者想要的或是觀點一致的結果。這種結果可能會導致使用者越來越看不到他們不同意的觀點或資訊,使得認知過於單向,並處於他們的文化、意識形態氣泡之中。
主要的例子為Google的個人化搜尋結果以及Facebook的個人化動態消息、亞馬遜Netflix的過濾性推薦系統。這個詞彙被網路活動者Eli Pariser提出。



cred

NOUN

informal 
  • ‘a few tales here and there could wreck my cred completely!’
    another term for street credibility

street credibility
mass noun
  • Acceptability among fashionable young urban people.
    ‘the Liverpudlian is to use his street credibility to try to get the anti-vandalism message across to schoolchildren’