2018年10月29日 星期一

commoner, Don’t let filler words become a crutch.



Japan's Princess Ayako married commoner Kei Moriya, who works for a major shipping company, in a ritual-filled ceremony Monday at Tokyo's Meiji Shrine. Her decision means leaving the imperial family.


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Don’t let filler words become a crutch.


HBR.ORG

How to Stop Saying “Um,” “Ah,” and “You Know”
To eliminate filler words, understand the role they play in your speech.

2018年10月25日 星期四

Ultracrepidarian, remain a Remainer


ultracrepidarian
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Definition: one who is presumptuous and offers advice or opinions beyond one’s sphere of knowledge
The meaning of this word comes from a story in antiquity, in which the famed Greek painter Apelles one day heard a cobbler criticizing the way he had rendered a foot in a painting. Apelles then said to the shoemaker something very cutting and witty about how he shouldn’t presume to judge beyond his station. The exact remark has, unfortunately, been lost in time, but since the Latin phrase ultra crepidam means “beyond the sole,” we may imagine that Appeles used this, or something similar, in his rebuke. Hence, an ultracrepidarian is one who, as a shoemaker might, goes “beyond the sole,” and offers advice on matters they perhaps should leave alone.
The fatal dowry has been cobbled sure, by some purblind ultracrepidarian. 
—Thomas Lovell Beddoes, letter to Thomas F. Kelsall, 11 Jan., 1825




Simon Kuper thinks it's a patriotic duty to keep fighting Brexit.


FT.COM

Opinion: Why I remain a Remainer
‘If Brexiters had come out with a proper plan, they would have soon bored most Remainers into irrelevance’

2018年10月24日 星期三

caravan, breezy, scamper, pull up (STOP), cursory


After 24 hours stuck on a bridge between nations, the 7,000+ migrant caravan found another way. Now it's a 2,500-mile walk north to America. And that walk will include jungles and deserts and monsoon rains. https://cnn.it/2EEfpUh


"Corbyn went to war on a manifesto that was the breeziest defence of European social democracy I’ve seen in my adulthood."


BOHMTE, Germany -- Like countless other communities, this west German town lived for years with a miserable traffic problem. Each day, thousands of cars and big trucks barreled along the two-lane main street, forcing pedestrians and cyclists to scamper for their lives.



In my first lecture, as Sue said, I took a long view, trying to bring Confucius into the present era - a long scamper as it were of a lecture from the 5th century BC down to the year 2008; but in this lecture, In my first lecture, as Sue said, I took a long view, trying to bring Confucius into the present era - a long scamper as it were of a lecture from the 5th century BC down to the year 2008; but in this lecture,
正如Sue說,我在第一次講座採取長遠觀點,試圖把孔子召回當代—-從公元前5世紀談到2 008年,快步旅行過長歷史,但這一講我可不再如此勇敢,而想看看中國和西方之間的互動關係,特別是它與英國和美國的。
Until recently, Robert Allen Stanford was known mainly as a colorful Texas financier and a power broker in the breezy money haven of Antigua.

But on Tuesday, a caravan of cars and trucks carrying federal authorities pulled up to the headquarters of his company, the Stanford Group, to shut down what the regulators described as a "massive ongoing fraud" stretching from the Caribbean to Texas, and around the world.

For decades, Chinese scientists say, they have known of the risk of a potentially catastrophic earthquake along the Longmenshan belt, the area where the Wenchuan earthquake struck, and repeatedly raised their concerns with government authorities. But they say preparations for a quake there were cursory at best, and building codes remained well short of the codes that have become standard in other well-known earthquake zones, including Beijing itself.


美國總統川普表示,約七千中美洲民眾所組成、正在朝美國邊界前進的旅行隊伍(caravan),已成為國家緊急事件。



caravan
Caravan (travellers), a group of travellers journeying together
Caravanserai, a place where a caravan could stop
Camel train, a convoy using camels as pack animals
Convoy, a group of vehicles or ships traveling together for mutual support
Caravan (towed trailer), a self-contained trailer based camper or recreational vehicle containing beds, a kitchenette, dining and storage areas; chiefly British usage

breezy
ˈbriːzi/
adjective
  1. 1.
    pleasantly windy.

    "it was a bright, breezy day"
    synonyms:windyfreshbriskairyMore
  2. 2.
    appearing relaxed, informal, and cheerily brisk.

    "the text is written in a breezy matter-of-fact manner"


cursory 
adjective
quick and probably not detailed:
a cursory glance/look
a cursory examination

cursorily 
adverb
He glanced cursorily at the letter, then gave it to me.

pull up (STOP) phrasal verb
When a car or someone driving a car pulls up, the driver stops the car, often for a short time:
A car pulled up outside my house.

scamper Show phonetics
verb [I + adverb or preposition] ━━ n., vi. 走り回る; 素早く逃げる ((away, off)); 走り読みする; 駆け抜けるように旅行する ((through)).
━━ n. 走り回ること; 急ぎ旅; 走り読み.
When small children and animals scamper, they run with small quick steps, in a playful or frightened way:
The children scampered off into the garden.

incipit, Canidae, Incipit Evangelium secundum Matthaeum,


Written in gold. #DidYouKnow many precious books from Anglo-Saxon times were penned in gold ink? #BLAngloSaxons http://bit.ly/2SdpNoC
This image shows the beginning of St Matthew’s Gospel, from the Harley Golden Gospels, E Francia (Aachen), first quarter of the 9th century: Harley MS 2788, f. 14r.
#BLAngloSaxons







The New York Times Chinese -Traditional 紐約時報中文網

 寵物食品看似不太可能成為中美貿易戰的目標,但美國進口的卡比(Canidae)等寵物食品品牌已經受到了附帶傷害。
專家表示,自五月以來,懷有報復心態的中國官員一直在拖延通關時間,以報復美國。七月的新關稅也讓進口寵物食品變得更加昂貴。
一名廣州的寵物主人一直在為自己的橘色虎斑貓囤貨,以防他購買的美國貓糧成為下一個目標。 「這是第一次,」他說,「發現貿易戰這麼深刻地影響自己和我的貓。」

CN.NYTIMES.COM

貿易戰的附帶傷害:中國寵物吃什麼?
拖延美國品牌寵物食品通關成了中國官員的報復手段之一,新關稅也讓進口貓狗糧變得更昂貴。由於消費者對國產糧質量缺乏信任,進口糧在中國擁有巨大市場。


Canids[1]
Temporal range: 39.75–0 Ma 
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Late Eocene-Holocene
Familia Canidae.jpg
Ten of the 12 extant canid genera left-to-right, top-to-bottom: CanisCuonLycaonCerdocyonChrysocyonSpeothosVulpesNyctereutesOtocyon and Urocyon
Scientific classificationedit
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Carnivora
Suborder:Caniformia
Family:Canidae
G. Fischer de Waldheim, 1817[2]
Genera and species
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The biological family Canidae /ˈkænɪd/ [3] (from Latin, canis, “dog”) is a lineage of carnivorans that includes domestic dogswolvescoyotesfoxesjackalsdingoes, and many other extant and extinct dog-like mammals. A member of this family is called a canid (/ˈkænɪd//ˈknɪd/).[4]
The cat-like feliforms and dog-like caniforms emerged within the Carnivoramorpha 43 million years before present.[5] The caniforms included the fox-like genus Leptocyon whose various species existed from 34 million years before present before branching 11.9 million YBP into Vulpini (foxes) and Canini (canines).[6]:174–5



犬科動物包括狐狸等。犬科動物是地球上較為成功的一種肉食哺乳動物。犬科家族包括大約三十七種現存的狼、胡狼、狐和其他野生動物及家犬。它們全部都是肉食性動物,身體構造已演化成特別適合狩獵生活的形態。犬科動物通常春秋兩季會發情,所以說,原則上一年可交配兩次,若有懷孕成功,則一年交配一次。體型越大者,一次所懷的胎數較多,正常排卵者一次可產下6隻以上,小型者在3~4隻以下。




incipit
/ˈɪnsɪpɪt/
noun
  1. the opening of a manuscript, early printed book, or chanted liturgical text.


Johann David Michaelis - 1823 - ‎Bible
... Incipit Evangelium Jesu Christi, in the same manner as we find in the Latin manuscripts at the head of each Gospel, Incipit Evangelium secundum Matthaeum, ...