sordid, colliery, flatly, collier, shantytown, shack, plastic surgery, hackwork

Besides taking part in local Ayrshire affairs, McAdam operated the Kaims Colliery. The colliery supplied coal to the British Tar Company, of Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald and partners in the coal tar trade; McAdam ran its kilns. 



Bernie Sanders flatly disavows the very heart of socialism as defined by Karl Marx: “I don’t believe government should own the means of production”, he says



The closure of the Kellingley colliery heralds the end of the British coal mining industry. Taking with it decades of camaraderie and history, this local tragedy is shrouding Yorkshire in sadness




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Art crime takes many forms, from faking the provenance of paintings, to swiping Old Masters from dusty country houses, to trafficking illicit antiquities. 

Unlike the history of Nazi-looted art, which triggers public disgust, one type of art crime can engender quiet admiration: the perfectly executed heist of a masterpiece from a museum.

But this crime is really a far more sordid affair:

www.bbc.com/culture/story/20131113-the-sordid-reality-of-art-crime/1

 

North Korea has finally responded to persistent rumours that leader Kim Jong-Un had plastic surgery to look like his revered grandfather, issuing an angry denial criticising "sordid" media reports.

傳聞北韓領導人為了讓自己更像他尊敬的祖父，動過整形手術，北韓終於回應，憤怒地否認，批評媒體報導「卑鄙」。◎陳維真

 

The rumours have been partly fed by the undeniable fact that Kim Jong-Un has sought to evoke memories of his grandfather in numerous ways, through his dress, haircut, gestures and public appearances. And there is a clear physical resemblance. But Pyongyang’s patience with reports of plastic surgery appears to have run out.

但金正恩以服裝、髮型、手勢等不同方式，試圖要讓民眾想起他的祖父，卻是不爭的事實，且更助長傳聞。而且，兩人外貌的確明顯相似。不過，平壤當局容忍整形報導的耐性似已消磨殆盡。

 

Insisting that the very idea of Kim undergoing plastic surgery was "unimaginable," KCNA flatly rejected what it described as "sordid hackwork by rubbish media." （AFP）

北韓中央通信社堅稱，金正恩接受整形手術的想法「難以想像」，對其所謂「垃圾媒體的卑鄙報導」斷然駁斥。（法新社）

 

With Google Earth, India Can No Longer Hide Its Shantytowns and 'Slumdogs'

By Julien Bouissou / Le Monde / Worldcrunch

An NGO in India has started to use Google Earth satellite technology to shine a light on whole neighborhoods of wretched slums, which authorities had long pretended didn't even exist

Watching the Murder of an Innocent Man

By BARRY BEARAK

In a shantytown near Johannesburg, an angry mob committed a horrifying crime that was caught on video.

shantytown(shăn'tē-toun')
n.
A town or a section of a town consisting chiefly of shacks.(shăk)

shack
n.
A small, crudely built cabin; a shanty.

intr.v., shacked, shack·ing, shacks.
To live or dwell: farm hands shacking in bunkhouses.

idiom:
shack up Slang.

1. To sleep together or live in sexual intimacy without being married.
2. To live, room, or stay at a place: I'm shacking up with my cousin till I find a place of my own.

[Possibly from American Spanish jacal, from Nahuatl xacalli, adobe hut : xámitl, adobe + calli, house, hut.]

col·lier (kŏl'yər)
n.

1. A coal miner.
2. A coal ship.

[Middle English colier, from col, coal, from Old English.]

col·lier·y (kŏl'yə-rē)
Meaning #1: a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it
Synonym: pit

sor·did (sôr'dĭd)
sordid：形容詞，卑鄙的、不誠實的。例句：The story paints a sordid picture of bribes and scams.（故事描繪貪污與騙局的黑暗面。）
adj.

1. Filthy or dirty; foul.
2. Depressingly squalid; wretched: sordid shantytowns.
3. Morally degraded: "The sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils" (James Joyce). See synonyms at mean².
4. Exceedingly mercenary; grasping.

[Middle English sordide, festering, purulent, from Latin sordidus, dirty, from sordēre, to be dirty.]

sordidly sor'did·ly adv.
sordidness sor'did·ness n.

hideous：形容詞，可怕的、難以忍受的。例句：His family was subjected to a hideous attack by the gang. （他的家人遭受幫派份子可怕的襲擊。）

flatly：副詞，斷然地、直截了當地。例句：He flatly dismissed the idea as impossible.（他覺得這個想法不可能，直接拒絕了。）

A nostril (or naris), sophomoric, toupée, naff, nasal

Sinatra with a cold is Picasso without paint, Ferrari without fuel—only worse. For the common cold robs Sinatra of that uninsurable jewel, his voice, cutting into the core of his confidence, and it affects not only his own psyche but also seems to cause a kind of psychosomatic nasal drip within dozens of people who work for him, drink with him, love him, depend on him for their own welfare and stability. A Sinatra with a cold can, in a small way, send vibrations through the entertainment industry and beyond as surely as a President of the United States, suddenly sick, can shake the national economy.^[1]

Anatomy and medicine

• Nares, the plural of naris (Latin) nostril; the scientific term for many animal, and specifically bird, nostrils   納雷斯，納麗絲（拉丁）鼻孔的複數; 科學術語為許多動物，特別是鳥，鼻孔
• 
  
• Anterior nares, the external or frontal part of the nasal cavity, significant in rhinoplasty and infection (especially Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) or antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus)前鼻孔，鼻腔的外部或正面部分，在鼻整形術和感染（特別是耐甲氧西林金黃色葡萄球菌（MRSA）或抗生素抗性葡萄球菌）中顯著，

 IT IS hard to explain the enduring appeal of Bruce Forsyth—especially, perhaps, to anyone who isn't British. Mr Forsyth, who turns 80 next month, sports a silly toupee and an elongated chin. The jokes he makes in his high-camp nasal voice are too naff for reproduction in an upmarket newspaper.

toupée 
noun [C]
a piece of artificial hair worn by a man to cover part of his head where there is no hair

naff 
adjective UK SLANG
not stylish or fashionable:
His haircut was a bit naff.

naff² (năf) 
intr.v. Chiefly British Slang., naff·ed, naff·ing, naffs.
To fool around or go about: “naffing about in a tutu” (Suzanne Lowry).
phrasal verb:

naff off

1. Used in the imperative as a signal of angry dismissal.

sophomore Show phonetics
noun [C] US
a student studying in the second year of a course at a US college or high school (= a school for students aged 15 to 18)

sophomoric Show phonetics
adjective US
silly and childish:
a sophomoric sense of humour



高中二年級學生最有青春氣息

I try to find ideas from something seemingly unrelated and extrapolate its essence to arrive at new and fresh ideas. That’s a good way to avoid sophomoric statements.

Becoming a Product Designer 可悲的翻譯

A nostril (or naris /ˈneɪrɪs/, plural nares /ˈneɪriːz/) is one of the two channels of the nose, from the point where they bifurcate to the external opening. In birds and mammals, they contain branched bones or cartilages called turbinates, whose function is to warm air on inhalation and remove moisture on exhalation. Fish do not breathe through their noses, but they do have two small holes used for smelling, which may, indeed, be called nostrils.

The Procellariiformes are distinguished from other birds by having tubular extensions of their nostrils.

In humans, the nasal cycle is the normal ultradian cycle of each nostril's blood vessels becoming engorged in swelling, then shrinking.

The nostrils are separated by the septum. The septum can sometimes be deviated, causing one nostril to appear larger than the other. With extreme damage to the septum and columella, the two nostrils are no longer separated and form a single larger external opening.

Like other tetrapods, humans have two external nostrils (anterior nares) and two additional nostrils at the back of the nasal cavity, inside the head (posterior nares, posterior nasal apertures or choanae). Each choana contains approximately 1000 strands of nasal hair. They also connect the nose to the throat (the nasopharynx), aiding in respiration. Though all four nostrils were on the outside the head of our fish ancestors, the nostrils for outgoing water (excurrent nostrils) migrated to the inside of the mouth, as evidenced by the discovery of Kenichthys campbelli, a 395-million-year-old fossilized fish which shows this migration in progress. It has two nostrils between its front teeth, similar to human embryos at an early stage. If these fail to join up, the result is a cleft palate.^[1]

It is possible for humans to smell different olfactory inputs in the two nostrils and experience a perceptual rivalry akin to that of binocular rivalry when there are two different inputs to the two eyes.^[2]

甲鼻孔（或鼻孔 / Ñ eɪ ř ɪ 小號 /時，多個鼻孔 / Ñ eɪ ř 我Ž /）是的兩個通道中的一個鼻子，從那裡它們分叉到外部開口的點。在鳥類和哺乳動物中，它們含有稱為鼻甲的分支骨或軟骨，其功能是在吸入時加熱空氣，並在呼氣時除去水分。魚不能通過鼻子呼吸，但他們確實有兩個小孔用於嗅覺，其實可以稱為鼻孔。

的鹱從其他鳥類通過使它們的鼻孔的管狀延伸區分。

在人類中，鼻週期是正常的超聲週期，每個鼻孔的血管變得腫脹，然後收縮。

鼻孔由隔膜隔開。隔膜有時可能偏離，導致一個鼻孔看起來比另一個更大。對隔膜和大腸桿菌造成極大的傷害，兩個鼻孔不再分離，形成一個較大的外部開口。

像其他四足動物一樣，人類在鼻腔後面有兩個外鼻孔（前鼻孔）和另外兩個鼻孔，鼻後部鼻孔或鼻孔。每隻蟒蛇包含大約1000股鼻毛。他們還將鼻子連接到咽喉（鼻咽），幫助呼吸。雖然所有四個鼻孔都在我們的魚祖先的外面，但出水的鼻孔（排出的鼻孔）遷移到口腔內部，正如發現了Kenichthys campbelli所證明的，這是一種3.99億歲的化石顯示正在進行的遷移的魚。它的前牙之間有兩個鼻孔，類似於人類的胚胎在早期階段。如果這些不能加入，結果就是腭裂。^[1]

當兩隻眼睛有兩個不同的輸入時，人類有可能在兩個鼻孔中聞到不同的嗅覺輸入，並且經歷類似於雙目對抗的感知對抗。^[2]

brooks no tardiness /no complement, "brass",effigy, effrontery, sobriety, insobriety or whingeing

Hong Kong Free Press HKFP

Hong Kong prides itself on making it easy to do business in the city, with light-touch regulation, discretion and non-cooperation with foreign tax authorities.

But it has also earned a reputation for murky dealings -- the 2016 Panama Papers leak exposed the city as playing a key role in channelling money to tax havens via thousands of shell companies, including some linked to China's top political brass.

[ARTWORKOFTHEWEEK] Meditation or the Inner Voice: ‪#‎Rodin‬ had to remove her arms and amputate part of her legs. Incomplete artwork ? No: "Nothing vital is missing. One stands before them as if before a completed whole that brooks no complement" said ‪#‎Rilke‬, poet and admirer of Rodin.

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Protests and strikes often go hand in hand with roadblocks. When tens of thousands of Colombian protesters announced they would take to the streets on August 19th, President Juan Manuel Santos warned that he would brook no blocked highways (or violence). He ordered the police to tear down barricades wherever they cropped up. Predictably, protesters did not heed Mr Santos's warning http://econ.st/16cPvJ9

Egyptian Liberals Embrace the Military, Brooking No Dissent

By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK

Liberal Egyptians have long had an uneasy relationship with the military, but since the military pushed out President Mohamed Morsi, a majority of liberals have been intolerant of dissenters. 

 The protesters danced and sang around a large effigy of the late prime minister and chanted slogans.


 IT IS easy for outsiders to admire those in Japan who sport tattoos. First, think of the pain. The body art known as irezumi is inflicted on a wearer’s torso with wooden needles and charcoal ink. During up to 50 sessions, the irezumi master brooks no tardiness, insobriety or whingeing.

Full Definition of COMPLEMENT

1

a :  something that fills up, completes, or makes perfect

b :  the quantity, number, or assortment required to make a thing complete complement

of eyes and ears — Francis Parkman>; especially :  the whole force or personnel of a ship

c :  one of two mutually completing parts :  counterpart

2

a :  the angle or arc that when added to a given angle or arc equals a right angle in measure

b :  the set of all elements that do not belong to a given set and are contained in a particular mathematical set containing the given set

c :  a number that when added to another number of the same sign yields zero if the significant digit farthest to the left is discarded —used especially in assembly language programming

3

:  the musical interval required with a given interval to complete the octave

4

:  an added word or expression by which a predication is made complete (as president in “they elected him president” and beautiful in “he thought her beautiful”)

5

:  the thermolabile group of proteins in normal blood serum and plasma that in combination with antibodies causes the destruction especially of particulate antigens (as bacteria and foreign blood corpuscles)

See complement defined for English-language learners 

See complement defined for kids 

brass
n.

1. 1. A yellowish alloy of copper and zinc, sometimes including small amounts of other metals, but usually 67 percent copper and 33 percent zinc.
   2. Ornaments, objects, or utensils made of this alloy.
2. Music.
   1. The section of a band or an orchestra composed of brass instruments. Often used in the plural.
   2. Brass instruments or their players considered as a group. Often used in the plural.
3. A memorial plaque or tablet made of brass, especially one on which an effigy is incised.
4. A bushing or similar lining for a bearing, made from a copper alloy.
5. Informal. Bold self-assurance; effrontery.
6. Slang. High-ranking military officers or other high officials.
7. Chiefly British. Money.

[Middle English bras, from Old English bræs.]

brass brass adj.

effigy 

音節

ef • fi • gy

発音

éfidʒi

effigyの変化形

effigies (複数形)

effigyの慣用句

burn a person in effigy, （全1件）

[名]

1 彫像；（貨幣面などの）肖像, 画像.

2 （その人の姿をわざと醜く模した）人形, 偶像.

burn ［hang, execute］ a person in effigy

(1) （怒り・軽蔑・嘲笑を公然と示すために）〈人の〉肖像［人形］を焼く［絞首刑にする, 処刑する］.
(2) 非難［酷評］する；嘲笑する.
so·bri·e·ty (sə-brī'ĭ-tē, sō-)
n.

1. Gravity in bearing, manner, or treatment.
2. Moderation in or abstinence from consumption of alcoholic liquor or use of drugs: "three years of drug-free sobriety" (Ron Rosenbaum). See synonyms at abstinence.

[Middle English sobriete, from Old French, from Latin sōbrietās, from sōbrius, sober. See sober.]

  insobriety

 [ìnsəbráiəti]

[名][U]不節制；暴飲.

brook

 (brʊk)
n. Chiefly Northeastern U.S.
See creek (sense 1). See Regional Note at run.

[Middle English, from Old English brōc.]

brook² (brʊk)
tr.v., brooked, brook·ing, brooks.
To put up with; tolerate: We will brook no further argument.

[Middle English brouken, from Old English brūcan, to use, enjoy.]

verb

[with object, with negative] formal

• tolerate or allow (something, typically dissent or opposition):Jenny would brook no criticism of Matthew

Origin:

Old English brūcan 'use, possess', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bruiken and German brauchen. The current sense dates from the mid 16th century, a figurative use of an earlier sense 'digest, stomach'

whinge[whinge]

• レベル：社会人必須
• 発音記号[hwíndʒ | wíndʒ]

[名][動](自)((豪・英))泣き事（を言う）.

whíng・er

[名]

lewd, till, tribute, filly, polo, on the case

The decision comes after an FT report on lewd activity at a dinner attended by high-profile figures in UK business and politics.

The Presidents Club to close after revelations of sexual harassment at all-male dinner

The UK charity faced a rush of criticism after the FT reported on an event the trust held last Thursday in which hostesses hired as staff said they faced…

FT.COM

Germany's wood detectives

How can you tell if mahogany is really mahogany? And can you really know
whether the wood in your table wasn't illegally felled? Germany's wood
detectives are on the case with DNA analysis.

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'Boleto'
By ALYSON HAGY
Reviewed by BRUCE MACHART
In Alyson Hagy's novel, a young ranchman dreams of training a bay filly for a life in polo.

Editor's note

We are very sorry to announce that Peter David, our Washington bureau chief, Lexington columnist and former foreign editor, died in a car accident on Thursday night. He had worked at The Economist since 1984 and was a much-loved colleague and friend. We will pay fuller tribute to him in next week’s issue.

Today, at 86, Delpire seems to sum up his accomplishments with a deceptively simple statement: “A publisher’s job is to showcase the work of others,” says Delpire. “It’s not just the work of a team; it requires deep mutual understanding. I’ve never published anyone who was of no interest to me.”
The Pace/MacGill Delpire tribute opens May 10 in New York City. Five simultaneous companion exhibitions across the city will expand on Delpire’s work.

This is London from dawn till night ( 1953photo books of the world)

此舊書找不到出版年代 原來是1953
This is London from dawn till night.

114 photos. by Cas Oorthuys. Text by Neville Braybrooke.

Published 1953 by B. Cassirer; distributed by Faber & Faber, London in Oxford .
Written in English.

Publicly, a whole new lewdness
Everywhere you look, porn is suddenly inescapable
(By Monica Hesse, The Washington Post)

Chinese Internet operators apologize for lewd content
Reuters - USA
Officials named and shamed 19 Internet operators and websites, including search engines Google and Baidu, it said had flouted warnings about pornography and ...


Krefeld Cops Stop Sex in the City

German police who arrested two women for engaging in lewd behavior in a
pedestrian zone showed their humorous side, dubbing their report "Sex in
the City."

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Daily Highlights Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Spotlight

Édouard Manet's In the Garden of the Villa Bellevue
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Édouard Manet, born on this date in 1832, was a painter who greatly influenced impressionists, though he chose not to be identified as one himself. Many of his works scandalized the French, who were especially shocked by his paintings of nudes. In his Luncheon on the Grass a young female sits nude, having lunch with several fully clothed men. When the Salon refused to show the painting, Manet submitted it to the Salon des Refusés, where it was hung and still drew criticism for what viewers considered lewd content.

on the case

phrase of case

1. 1.

   actively engaged in an official investigation.

   
   

   "officers on the case are unable to find a motive"

lewd
DISAPPROVING ━━ a. みだら［好色］な; 卑わいな.
(of behaviour, speech, dress, etc.) sexual in an obvious and rude way:
Ignore him - he's being lewd.



till² (tĭl)
prep.
Until.

conj.
Until.

[Middle English, from Old English til, from Old Norse.]

USAGE NOTE Till and until are generally interchangeable in both writing and speech, though as the first word in a sentence until is usually preferred: Until you get that paper written, don't even think about going to the movies. • Till is actually the older word, with until having been formed by the addition to it of the prefix un-, meaning "up to." In the 18th century the spelling 'till became fashionable, as if till were a shortened form of until. Although 'till is now nonstandard, 'til is sometimes used in this way and is considered acceptable, though it is etymologically incorrect.

a lewd suggestion

lewd

l(j)uːd/

adjective

1. crude and offensive in a sexual way.

   "she began to gyrate to the music and sing a lewd song"

tribute[trib・ute]

• 発音記号[tríbjuːt][名]

1 [C][U]感謝［賞賛, 尊敬］のしるし, （…への；に対する）賛辞, 捧げ物((to ...；for ...))

a tribute in sculpture
記念の彫像

a tribute of acclamation
賛辞

floral tributes
花の贈り物；（葬式・墓の）供花

pay a (high) tribute to a person
人に（大いに）賛辞を呈する

pay (a) tribute to the memory of
…に弔辞を述べる

This work is in tribute to all mankind everywhere.
この作品を全世界の人々に捧げる.

2 [U][C]（他国への）貢ぎ物；《歴史》（臣下が君主に納める）地代, 税金, 貢税；（一般に）強制的な納付物；[U]貢物［納税］義務；進貢国の地位

pay (a) tribute to a ruler
支配者に進貢する

lay ［impose］ (a) tribute on a country ［＝lay ［bring］ a country under tribute］
国に進貢させる.

3 [U]((英))《鉱物》配分, 配当.

be a tribute to ...

〈事が〉…の所産である, のすばらしさを実証する

It is a tribute to the conductor that the orchestra received three encores.
オーケストラがアンコールを3回受けたことが指揮者のすばらしさを実証している.

［ラテン語tribūtum（tribuere支払う＋-tum）＝支払われるもの］

filly[fil・ly]

• 発音記号[fíli][名]

1 雌の子馬（⇔colt）.

2 ((略式))（陽気な）少女, 小娘.(fĭl'ē)
n., pl., -lies.

1. A young female horse.
2. Informal. A lively, high-spirited girl or young woman.

[Middle English filli, from Old Norse fylja.]

scudo“Scudorama”, befogged, alma mater, plethora of hapless opposition

The maker of Huggies and Kleenex says it faces a plethora of challenges as women are having fewer babies, denting demand for diapers and other baby-related products.


 Barnes purists may consider this heresy, but Barnes’s installation should sometimes change and move a little. There are moments, especially in the upstairs galleries among the plethora of drawings and Greek and African objects, where the presentation palls and oppresses a bit, even now. The symmetrical patchwork doesn’t always come across as meticulously assembled; it can seem arbitrary and maniacally crowded. More generally, there is simply too much there for everything to remain in perpetual lockdown.



Those displaced are not the only ones worrying about the project. The project abuts territory controlled by the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO), one of a plethora of ethnic insurgencies that have battled the central government for decades.

C-Span has been uploading its history for several years, working its way to 1987, when its archives were established at Purdue University, Mr. Lamb’s alma mater.

GM Says New Car Is Capable of 230 MPG
General Motors announced Tuesday that its forthcoming electric vehicle, the Chevrolet Volt, will get fuel economy of 230 miles per gallon in city driving, an achievement that both accelerates and befogs the industry's race to produce more efficient cars.
(By Peter Whoriskey, The Washington Post)




The cosmetic nature of the change reinforces the perception that the LDP is flailing. Dissatisfaction has been brewing for a decade and a half, though a plethora of hapless opposition parties has failed to do more than briefly interrupt LDP rule (for an 11-month stint in 1993-94). One former prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, even won his mandate in 2001-06 after vowing to “destroy” his own party.


But Mr. Taylor’s imagination works less like a novelist’s than like a poet’s. Some of his works are dreamscape dramas composed in extraordinarily free verse. One such is “Scudorama” (1963), which hadn’t been seen onstage for decades until the current revival, which I caught in St. Louis in November and which arrived in New York on Friday: even most Taylor devotees haven’t seen it before.


Its set and costumes are by Alex Katz. The backdrop looks like a shoal of thunderclouds. The costumes cover a whole range of crazy possibilities, not least those of three women in black tights and white ruffs that make them look half like Puritan Sisters (but only half). Blankets and rugs are used; dancers are dragged across the stage on them or secreted under them.
The score, specially created by Clarence Jackson, includes overt references to composers from Stravinsky to Gershwin, as well as the loud blowing of a whistle. The recording being used for the current season, which I assume was made at a live performance in the 1960s, contains a loud cough that somehow seems all part of the fabric.
And neither the music nor the design is as wild as the choreography. Spasms pass through most of the dancers at various points, but so do sequences of strict control. At one moment two of the Puritan Sisters start to wind the third down, round, up and about, as if she were part of a machine. Ms. Halzack (dressed in scarlet tights), her torso bent low, grips her lower thighs with her splayed hands and slowly extends one leg up to the side. (This step recurs verbatim in Merce Cunningham’s very dissimilar 1968 “RainForest” — were both choreographers quoting their alma mater, Martha Graham?) Later the three Puritans do it briskly.
I have seen this work twice now, and am still happily befogged by it. We don’t know whose dream this is or why it covers such a plethora of nightmare chaos. Ms. Halzack and Sean Mahoney are superb in leading roles; Michael Trusnovec (in jacket and tie) and the other performers are all excellent. I think Mr. Taylor went on to give us dreams whose imagination now hits harder, but there is a frenzy here that releases something in these dancers. (Julie Tice, who is having a good season generally, here moves her torso with a weightiness I haven’t seen before.)

hapless

adj.
Luckless; unfortunate. See synonyms at unfortunate.
haplessly hap'less·ly adv.
haplessness hap'less·ness n.

plethora
n.

1. A superabundance; an excess.
2. An excess of blood in the circulatory system or in one organ or area.

[Late Latin plēthōra, from Greek, from plēthein, to be full.]

• [pléθərə]

[名]

1 ((形式))大量；過多, 過剰

a plethora of grain
多量の穀物.

2 [U]多血症, 赤血球過多症.

alma mater
noun
1 (ALSO Alma Mater) FORMAL your alma mater the school, college or university where you studied

2 [S] US the official song of a school, college or university


befog
tr.v., -fogged, -fog·ging, -fogs.

1. To cover or obscure with or as if with fog.
2. To cause confusion in; muddle.

scudo
n., pl. -di (-dē).
A monetary unit and coin formerly used in Italy and Sicily.

[Italian, shield, scudo, from Latin scūtum, shield.]

The Scudo has been used as a unit of currency in several different states:

• Bolivian scudo
• Italian scudo
• Maltese scudo
• Papal States scudo

Other meanings:

• Fiat Scudo, a medium-sized van