2018年6月29日 星期五

Overdiagnosis, savings. Shut /finish it The Hell Up

CNN

"Whatever you got, finish it the hell up." Rep. Trey Gowdy, a South Carolina Republican, grills Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray, telling them to finish up special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation https://cnn.it/2tGbBdb

Millennials want to buy homes, but many don’t have savings. These lenders say that’s no problem.


WSJ.COM
No Savings? No Problem. These Companies Are Helping Home Buyers With Down Payments
Lenders are coming up with novel ways for buyers to cobble together down payments.










“People are mixing up general gaming, and excessive gaming, with gaming disorder. There is hardly any crossover between those two things whatsoever.” http://ow.ly/HZVs30kJ4hn

WIKITRIBUNE.COM
Cases of overdiagnosis are likely to follow the World Health Organization's announcement…

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Overdiagnosis is the diagnosis of "disease" that will never cause symptoms or death during a patient's ordinarily expected lifetime. Overdiagnosis is a side effect of screening for early forms of disease.

Overdiagnosis - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overdiagnosis



"Shut up" is a direct command with a meaning very similar to "be quiet", but which is commonly perceived as a more forceful command to stop making noise or otherwise communicating, such as talking. The phrase is probably a shortened form of "shut up your mouth" or "shut your mouth up".

Shut up - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shut_up

Urban Dictionary: Shut The Hell Up

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Shut%20The%20Hell%20Up
Another word for saying "be quiet" in an angry manner.



2018年6月28日 星期四

period. on her period, periods ovulation






Labour MP Danielle Rowley tells MPs she is on her period as she highlights the cost of sanitary products. During women and equalities questions, she told MPs: 'I would like to announce to you today and to the house, and perhaps you'll excuse me for my lateness, that today I'm on my period – and it's cost me this week already £25'




Women's guide to getting the timing right - Your Fertility

https://yourfertility.org.au/for-women/timing-and-conception/
The best time to try and conceive is during the 'fertile window' of the menstrual cycle; this is different for different ... If you have 28 days between periods ovulation typically happens on day 14, and the most fertile days are days 12, 13, and 14.


研究社 新英和中辞典での「period」の意味

period

音節pe・ri・od 発音記号・読み方/pí(ə)riəd/音声を聞く
名詞
1
可算名詞 期間 《★【類語】 period は長短に関係なく期間一般era は根本的な変化重要な事件などで特徴づけられる時代epoch は era とほぼ同義age はある大きな特色またはある権力者代表される時代》.
2
a
可算名詞 (歴史上ある特色をもつ)時代時期.
b
可算名詞 (発達過程の)段階.
c
[the period] 現代問題としている時代.
3
可算名詞
In our school a period lasts 50 minutes. わが校では 1 時限は 50 だ.
b
(試合の) 1 区切り 《前半後半など》.
4
a
b
[a period] 終わり終結.
come to a period 終わる.
5
可算名詞 月経(), 生理.
menstrual period 月経.
6
可算名詞 【・理】 周期.
natural period 自然周期.
7
可算名詞 【医学】 過程周期段階.
the incubation period 潜伏期.
8
【修辞】
a
可算名詞 掉尾() (⇒periodic 3).
b
9
可算名詞 【地質】  《 (eraの下区分で, (epochの上区分》.
10
可算名詞 【数学】 (循環小数の)周期.
11
可算名詞 【音楽】 楽節.

名詞としての「period」のイディオムやフレーズ
pùt a périod to…
形容詞
1
家具衣装建築など〉ある(過去の)時代の.
2
period pains 生理痛.
間投詞
【語源】
ギリシャ語ひと回り」の (PERI‐+hodós 「」); 形容詞 periodicperiodical


2018年6月25日 星期一

mantua, terrifyingly close shave with nuclear Armageddon


In 1983, NATO’s “Able Archer” exercise was wildly misinterpreted—the Kremlin was convinced it masked war preparations. A routine change of NATO codes made the Soviets assume a nuclear first strike was imminent


The world almost ended in 1983
ECONOMIST.COM

絕望的情況下(in an Armageddon situation)
According to the Book of Revelation in the New Testament of the BibleArmageddon (/ˌɑːrməˈɡɛdən/, from Ancient GreekἉρμαγεδώνHarmagedōn,[1][2] Late LatinArmagedōn,[3] from Hebrew: הר מגידו‬ Har Megiddo) is the prophesied location of a gathering of armies for a battle during the end times, variously interpreted as either a literal or a symbolic location. The term is also used in a generic sense to refer to any end of the world scenario.





close shave
noun
  1. 1.
    a shave in which the hair is cut very short.
  2. 2.
    informal
    a narrow escape from danger or disaster.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantua_(clothing)

The beauty of this 18th c. mantua dress is indisputable. What was its effect on nature though?
The dyestuffs came from plants and insects native to Europe or imported from the Middle East and South America. The silk was ‘cooked’ for at least three and a half hours in boiling water with white soap and the contents were then emptied into the river.
This is not the only dress #FashionedfromNature, discover the true story behind more objects at our exhibition: https://goo.gl/znHvbx