2023年1月15日 星期日

vigilante[名]C自警団員, reprise, rebus, Offertorium, supplicate, supplicatory

In the late 1960s, the fury of vigilante Red Guard youth prompted Ms. Chen and her husband to send their young son away to live with his grandmother in Shanghai. Ms. Chen’s husband was at one point punished for being elite, given a new job cleaning toilets and banished to a slum. He would die in 1995, two decades after the family finally escaped.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador arouses the wrath of the bond vigilantes
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Britain's heatwave has made it easier for archaeologists to discover ancient sites, leading to one of the most fruitful summers in decades for historical discoveries
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Archaeologists are digging Britain's heatwave
Crops planted over ancient sites grow taller and greener in droughts, giving away their location

卡洛爾一封怪信
英文文字遊戲裡有一種叫Rebus(畫謎),主要用諧音的東西代表某一個字,例如用眼睛(eye)代表I(我)、用hand代表and。這是卡洛爾用畫謎寫給愛麗絲大姊Ina (即Lorina) 的生日信,逐行譯文如下:
The Chestnuts (卡洛爾的住處)
My dear Ina , 
Though I don't give
birthday presents, still I
may write a birthday letter.
I came to your door to
wish you many happy returns
of the day, but the cat met
me, and took me for a mouse,
and hunted me up and down
till I could hardly stand.
However somehow I got
into the house,
and there a mouse
met me, and took me
for a cat, and petted me...



rebus

音節re・bus 発音記号・読み方/ríːbəs/名詞可算名詞


Offertorium

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  • Latin for Offertory, where the alms of a congregation are collected in church, or at any religious service.
  • A musical setting of the offertory text (see Propers.)


Offertorium (10 minutes)
  • Domine Jesu Christe (boys' choir)
  • Sed signifer sanctus (chorus)
  • Quam olim Abrahae (chorus)
  • Isaac and Abram (tenor and baritone soli) – Owen's "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young"
  • Hostias et preces tibi (boys' choir)
  • Reprise of Quam olim Abrahae (chorus)



reprise
rɪˈpriːz/提交
noun
1.
a repeated passage in music.
verb
1.
repeat (a piece of music or a performance).
"he reprises his role as the vigilante architect"


vigilante
/ˌvɪdʒɪˈlanti/
noun
plural noun: vigilantes  [名]C自警団員
  1. a member of a self-appointed group of citizens who undertake law enforcement in their community without legal authority, typically because the legal agencies are thought to be inadequate.



supplicatory








supplicate

[suhp-li-keyt]


verb (used without object), sup·pli·cat·ed, sup·pli·cat·ing.

  1. to pray humbly; make humble and earnest entreaty or petition.
verb (used with object), sup·pli·cat·ed, sup·pli·cat·ing.

  1. to pray humbly to; entreat or petition humbly.
  2. to seek or ask for by humble entreaty.
Origin of supplicate

1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin supplicātus (past participle of supplicāre to kneel), equivalent to supplic-, stem of supplex submissive, suppliant (see supple) + -ātus -ate1

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