2019年10月31日 星期四

make heads or tails of, guesswork

China’s plans: The Communist Party announced it would roll out steps to “safeguard national security” in Hong Kong. The vague language leaves plenty of guesswork about what may be coming.




Economic forecasting isn't guesswork

Each year, banks, research institutions and other experts in Germany issue
annual forecasts about how they expect the economy to perform. And just
about every year, they end up making some corrections.



Unfortunately, making heads or tails of Google Voice transcripts often requires a lot of guesswork, since the text I receive frequently bears little resemblance to the original message the caller left. I

guesswork

(gĕs'wûrk') pronunciation
n.
  1. The process of making guesses.
  2. An estimate or judgment made by guessing.


make heads or tails of
  1. To understand: I couldn't make heads or tails of the report.

2019年10月30日 星期三

epithet, human scum, scab and scum, yeoman’s service.the scum of the earth


In producing the first comprehensive narrative history of what will surely remain one of the most controversial presidential administrations in U.S. history, Baker has done yeoman’s service. All subsequent writers dealing with the subject will find his book indispensable. 


The opposition group distributes materials denouncing Falun Gong as an evil cult, an epithet that the organization incorporates into its name, the Chinese Anti-Cult World Alliance.

這個反法輪功團體分發的傳單把法輪功斥為「邪教」,這兩個字也出現在了該團體的名稱中:全球華人反邪教聯盟





















Yesterday morning, about 2,000 machinists gathered on the main road leading from the assembly plant in Renton, Wash., where Boeing's 737s are built. During a short march that temporarily shut down traffic on a major street, the workers chanted, waved flags and blew air horns.

Machinist Brad Herrick, 43 years old, brought his three dogs, each wearing "Scab Buster" T-shirts. Mr. Herrick said the company didn't offer a large enough pension increase. He said he was also opposed to paying more for health-care coverage.

Replacements interviewed this week say they do not regret their move, despite being derided as "scabs," "scum*" and more unprintable epithets by the striking Northwest workers, who yell and sometimes spit down at them from sidewalks above the tarmac.



yeoman service


Pronunciation: /ˌjəʊmən ˈsəːvɪs/ 

Efficient or useful help in need:the minister has performed yeoman service for Mulroney



epithet 

Pronunciation: /ˈɛpɪθɛt/ 

NOUN

1An adjective or phrase expressing a quality or attribute regarded as characteristic of the person or thing mentioned:old men are often unfairly awarded the epithet ‘dirty’
1.1An epithet used as a term of abuse:the woman begins to hurl racial epithets at them


Derivatives


epithetic


Pronunciation: /ɛpɪˈθɛtɪk/ 
ADJECTIVE



epithetical


Pronunciation: /ɛpɪˈθɛtɪk(ə)l/ 
ADJECTIVE



epithetically


Pronunciation: /-ˈθɛtɪk(ə)li/ 
ADVERBOrigin
Late 16th century: from French épithète, or via Latin from Greek epitheton, neuter of epithetos'attributed', from epitithenai 'add', from epi 'upon' + tithenai 'to place'.



scab (SKIN COVERING)
noun かさぶた(を生じる); (家畜の)疥癬(かいせん); 【植】腐敗病;
1 [C] a rough surface made of dried blood which forms over a cut or broken skin while it is healing
Compare scar.Drive against sheep scab a success ... so far
Scotsman - United Kingdom
... the Mutton Research Committee, says there is growing interest in top quality mutton at ... highs, which resulted in buyers at best covering their costs, but more ...


I don't have any emotional energy to devote to thay. There is nothing for me that justifies picking on those scabs.
--Andy Grove


2 [U] a plant or animal disease which causes rough areas on the skin

scabby
adjective
a scabby knee
scabby potatoesscab (WORKER)
noun [C] INFORMAL DISAPPROVING 〔話〕 〔非難して〕 非組合員; 〔話〕 スト破り(をする); 〔俗〕 ならず者.
an insulting word for a person who continues working while other people in the organization are on strike

*
scum (IMMORAL PERSON)
noun [C or U] plural scum INFORMAL
a very bad or immoral person or group of people:
People who organize dog fights are scum in my opinion!
Those racist scum have been attacking Pakistanis.
His boss treats him like scum (= very badly).
the scum of the earth INFORMAL
the worst type of people that can be imagined:
These men are the scum of the earth.



:human scum,人渣。特朗普日前在Twitter上將共和黨的批評人士稱為“人渣”,又將彈劾調查描述為“私刑”,引髮質疑。時報專欄作家弗蘭克·布魯尼寫到,特朗普既不擅長治理國家,也不擅長英語。他拼寫潦草、胡亂造句、隨口亂噴,創造出一套拙劣的特朗普式魔鬼英語 。

blockchain


To understand why blockchain matters, we must look back at the dot-com bubble of the 1990s and the 14th century.
TECHNOLOGYREVIEW.COM


blockchain, originally block chain, is a growing list of records, called blocks, that are linked using cryptography. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, a timestamp, and transaction data (generally represented as a ...

slim, slurry, soggy, pink slime, goo, gunge, custard, political sliming, amoeboid/ameboid,

'I would like my pictures to look as if a human being has passed by them, like a snail leaving its trail of the human presence... as a snail leaves its slime.' - Francis Bacon



A back-of-the-envelope calculation shows that Hillary Clinton has a 96% chance of winning the White House

Polls from past presidential elections do not bode well for Mr Trump
ECONOMIST.COM


Norway is famed for its fish, oil and a claim to lead on corporate gender equality. Yet the nation is in dire need of reform into a slimmer Scandinavian state modelled on Sweden


McDonald’s answers pink slime and worm meat rumours by inviting cameras into their burger factory

Daniel Libeskind, when he was hired as master planner for a new trade center complex in 2003, spoke of the slurry wall as the soul of his design, and by then it had already served as a multipurpose symbol of urban recovery, democracy, communal strength, the human spirit, not to mention the virtues of sound engineering.


泥灰牆局部

INTERVIEWER
Do you ever revise a story after it’s been published? Apparently, before he died, Proust rewrote the first volumes of Remembrance of Things Past.
MUNRO
Yes, and Henry James rewrote simple, understandable stuff so it was obscure and difficult. Actually I’ve done it recently. The story “Carried Away” was included in Best American Short Stories 1991. I read it again in the anthology, because I wanted to see what it was like and I found a paragraph that I thought was really soggy. It was a very important little paragraph, maybe two sentences. I just took a pen and rewrote it up in the margin of the anthology so that I’d have it there to refer to when I published the story in book form...


創世紀

7上主天主用地上的灰土形成了人,在他鼻孔內吹了一口生氣,人就成了一個有靈的生物。7And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth: and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

 

5. McDonald's Takes 'Pink Slime' Off the Menu

By Josh Sanburn
For years, the world's leading fast-food chain used a "pink slime" as beef filler for its burgers in the U.S. After a campaign by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, McDonald's has abandoned the goo.

One Year Later, The Makers of ‘Pink Slime’ Are Hanging On, and Fighting Back


Japan scientists hope slime holds cleverness key
Khaleej TimesHAKODATE — A brainless, primeval organism able to navigate a maze might help Japanese scientists devise the ideal transport network design. Not bad for a mono-cellular being that lives on rotting leaves. Amoeboid yellow slime mold has been on Earth ...



Pink slime is a colloquial term[1] for ammoniated boneless lean beef trimmings or similar products, which are considered "unfit for human consumption" until ammonia has been added.[2] The product is sold by a number of beef processing companies, including Cargill Meat Solutions and Beef Products, Inc.[3] The lean beef sold by BPI has become known for increasing the pH of the beef trimmings by adding ammonium hydroxide to remove pathogens such as E. coli and Salmonella, while the Cargill product uses antimicrobial treatments that lower the pH.[3] This beef product is USDA-approved and is a component (typically less than 25 percent) of a majority of ground beef in the United States.[4]


Production process (?)

ameboid[a・me・boid]

  • 発音記号[əmíːbɔid]
[形]アメーバ状の
ameboid movements
アメーバ運動.




Art Gallery of Alex Alien
Soggy Slime Self Portrait (2000). Soaked Self Portrait (2000) .... Francis Bacon, The Last Interview: Francis Giacobetti, The Art Newspaper, June 2003. ...

slurry


 
音節
slur • ry
発音
slə'ːri | slʌ'ri
[名][U](水と粘土・土・石灰・しっくいを混ぜた)泥漿(でいしょう).






slime

Pronunciation: /slʌɪm/

Definition of slime
noun

[mass noun]
  • un unpleasantly thick and slippery liquid substance:the cold stone was wet with slime

verb

[with object]
  • cover with slime:what grass remained was slimed over with pale brown mud

Origin:

Old English slīm, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch slijm and German Schleim 'mucus, slime', Latin limus 'mud', and Greek limnē 'marsh'

slime
n.
  1. A thick sticky slippery substance.
  2. Biology. A mucous substance secreted by certain animals, such as catfishes and slugs.
  3. Soft moist earth; mud.
  4. A slurry containing very fine particulate matter.
  5. Vile or disgusting matter.
  6. Slang. A despicable or repulsive person.
tr.v., slimed, slim·ing, slimes.
  1. To smear with slime.
  2. To remove slime from (fish to be canned, for example).
[Middle English, from Old English slīm.]

[名][U]
1 ねば土, 軟泥;ヘドロ.
2 (きたない, または悪臭のする)粘液物;(カタツムリ・魚・植物などの)粘液.
3 ((しばしば〜s))泥鉱.
4 ((米俗))いやなやつ.
━━[動](slimed, slim・ing)(他)
1 …をねば土でおおう[塗る].
2 〈魚などから〉(缶詰にするために)粘液を取り除く.

political sliming, gunge, goo, custard, slim


衛生署呼籲停用一種減肥產品
商業電台
衛生署呼籲市民不要購買或服用一種名為「Marsha Slim Plus」的減肥產品。產品以「瑪沙醫學美容補身美肌配方」的盒裝形式發售,盒內有一樽60粒的樽裝及30個茶包,署方驗出產品含有西藥「西布曲明」及 「酚酞」成分,服用後可能會引致嚴重副作用,包括血壓上升及心跳加劇, ...

Mandelson custard attack probed

The moment custard was thrown at Lord Mandelson

Police have said they are investigating an incident in which an environmental campaigner threw green custard at Business Secretary Lord Mandelson.
No complaint has yet been made against Leila Deen after she confronted Lord Mandelson before he was due to take part in a low-carbon summit in London.


political sliming, gunge, goo, custard, slim
衛生署呼籲停用一種減肥產品
商業電台
衛 生署呼籲市民不要購買或服用一種名為「Marsha Slim Plus」的減肥產品。產品以「瑪沙醫學美容補身美肌配方」的盒裝形式發售,盒內有一樽60粒的樽裝及30個茶包,署方驗出產品含有西藥「西布曲明」及 「酚酞」成分,服用後可能會引致嚴重副作用,包括血壓上升及心跳加劇, ...

Mandelson custard attack probed

The moment custard was thrown at Lord Mandelson

Police have said they are investigating an incident in which an environmental campaigner threw green custard at Business Secretary Lord Mandelson.
No complaint has yet been made against Leila Deen after she confronted Lord Mandelson before he was due to take part in a low-carbon summit in London.

Political sliming

  • Posted by Paul Evans
  • 06 March 2009
Politicians ought to be used to having things hurled at them by now. Purple powder at Blair, shoes at Bush, an egg at John Prescott. This week, Lord Mandelson became the latest victim of wordless but eloquent protest – and was drenched in green gunge.
Leila Deen was angry at Mandelson's support for the Heathrow expansion, according to Plane Stupid's Richard, whose blog documents some of the other stunts that the anti-aviation group has pulled.


slime 
noun [U]
a sticky liquid substance which is unpleasant to touch, such as the liquid produced by fish and snails and the greenish brown substance found near water:
There was a revolting green slime in between the bathroom tiles.
You could see trails of slime where the slugs had been.

slimy 
adjective
1 covered in slime:
Although snakes look slimy their skin is actually dry to the touch.

2 DISAPPROVING If you describe a person or their manner as slimy, you mean that they appear to be friendly but in a way that you find unpleasant:
He was the very worst sort of slimy salesman.

sliminess 
noun [U]tr.v., slimed, slim·ing, slimes.
  1. To smear with slime.
  2. To remove slime from (fish to be canned, for example).
[Middle English, from Old English slīm.]


goo  
noun [U] INFORMAL
an unpleasantly sticky substance
gunge
noun [U] (ALSO gunk)
any unpleasant soft dirty substance, often one which you can not recognize:
It was amazing how much gunge had accumulated in the pipe.

custard 
noun [U]
a (usually warm) sweet sauce made from eggs, milk and sugar and poured over sweet dishes:
apple pie and custard



slim
 
adj., slim·mer, slim·mest.
  1. Small in girth or thickness in proportion to height or length; slender.
  2. Small in quantity or amount; meager: slim chances of success.
intr. & tr.v., slimmed, slim·ming, slims.
  1. To become or make slim.
  2. To lose or cause to lose weight, as by dieting or exercise.
[Dutch, bad, sly, from Middle Dutch slimp, slim, bad, crooked.]
slimly slim'ly adv.
slimmer slim'mer n.
slimness slim'ness n.


Political sliming

  • Posted by Paul Evans
  • 06 March 2009
Politicians ought to be used to having things hurled at them by now. Purple powder at Blair, shoes at Bush, an egg at John Prescott. This week, Lord Mandelson became the latest victim of wordless but eloquent protest – and was drenched in green gunge.
Leila Deen was angry at Mandelson's support for the Heathrow expansion, according to Plane Stupid's Richard, whose blog documents some of the other stunts that the anti-aviation group has pulled.



slim[slim]

  • 発音記号[slím]

[形](〜・mer, 〜・mest)
1 〈人・体格などが〉細い, ほっそりした, やせた. ▼よい意味で用いる. ⇒SLENDER[類語]
a slim waist [figure]
ほっそりした腰[体つき].
2 〈通路などが〉狭い, 細い
a slim passage between the reefs
さんご礁の間の狭い水路.
3 〈かばん・本などが〉薄い.
4 不十分な, 乏しい, 少ない;〈可能性などが〉わずかな;〈収入などが〉少ない
a slim possibility of escape
逃亡のわずかな可能性
a slim triumph
辛勝
the slim literature on the topic
このテーマに関する乏しい文献
between slim and none
無きに等しい.
5 ずるい
You slim rascal!
((親愛の情をこめて))ずるいやつ.
━━[動](〜med, 〜・ming)(他)
1 …を(減食などをして)やせさせる((down));細くする.
2 …規模を縮小する, …を削減する((down)).
━━(自)やせる((down));細くなる.
slim・ly
[副]
slim・ness
[名]



Definition of soggy
adjective (soggier, soggiest)



  • wet and soft:the sandbags were soggy and split open figurative the chorus sings powerfully but the interpretation is ultimately soggy
Derivatives


soggily

Pronunciation: /ˈsägəlē/
adverb
sogginess
noun

Origin:

early 18th century (in the sense 'boggy'): from dialect sog 'a swamp' + -y1

raspy, rumble, rumbling, BASE jump, deep-fry, skydiving,


With alarming speed, India has gone from being the world’s fastest-growing large economy to something more like a rumbling Indian railway train




On his 100th birthday, Verdun Hayes asked if he could go skydiving...
Watch his amazing, record-breaking jump in full: http://bbc.in/1XrvECz

Richard Strauss's place in popular culture comes down to one rumbling giant of a fanfare: the 22-bar opening of his "Also Sprach Zarathustra."
This 1896 orchestral work, inspired by Nietzsche's philosophical novel of...
WQXR


China boosted its military spending by more than 12 percent last year.
Experts used to say Beijing would never resort to military action over disputed waters. This time may be different
Bloomberg Businessweek|由 Joshua Kurlantzick 上傳

Netflix Moves Into Pay-TV Big League
Netflix, in signing a movie-rights deal with Disney, signaled that it is ready to rumble with traditional pay-TV channels such as HBO and Showtime.

As Life Spins On, the Midway Beckons

By RICK LYMAN
State fairs still rumble to life each year, celebrating half-forgotten American traditions and deep-fried everything.

deep-fry
(dēp'frī')
tr.v., -fried, -fry·ing, -fries.
To fry by immersing in a deep utensil of fat or oil: deep-fry doughnuts; deep-fried the chicken wings.

Ready to Rumble - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The movie draws its title from ring announcer Michael Buffer's catchphrase, "Let's get ready to rumble!" The movie was talent licensed by World Championship ...


SO MANY things work properly in Gujarat that it hardly feels like India. In a factory packed with kit from Germany and China, slabs of rubber and bags of carbon black are turned into tyres. After being X-rayed for imperfections, they will be distributed across India or sent for export within three days. Sandeep Bhatia, a manager for CEAT, the firm that owns the project, says it took only 24 months to complete, including the normally fraught process of buying land. There is constant electricity, gas and abundant water. The state government, he says, kept red tape to a minimum, did not ask for bribes, and does not interfere much now.


Engineers have tried repeatedly since the accident last August to recover the device, which appears to have gotten stuck. They will make another attempt as early as next week.
But critics warn that the recovery process is fraught with dangers because the plant uses large quantities of liquid sodium, a highly flammable substance, to cool the nuclear fuel.





Who was the winner of the Rumble in the Jungle? Thirty-five years ago today, promoter Don King brought together in Kinshasa two of the era's greatest boxers for the Rumble in the JungleMuhammad Ali and George Foreman. Foreman was younger and had just beaten Joe Frazier and Ken Norton, the two only men at the time to have defeated Ali, making Foreman the favorite in this battle. Ali had lost his heavyweight title to Frazier a few years earlier, and was fighting his way back to the top. In the eighth round of a 15-round bout, using his wits as well as his fists, Ali knocked out Foreman and regained his heavyweight title. The robe and gloves Ali wore in the fight are now part of the collections of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.

Would you jump off a bridge just because everyone else was doing it? Maybe, if it was a BASE jump. BASE is an acronym for buildings, antennas, spans (bridges) and earth (cliffs). In the extreme sport of BASE jumping, participants leap — with a parachute — from heights of up to about 1,000 ft/305 m. It's like skydiving, but without the plane. The sport is fraught with perils.


Capitalist for the Common Man
The scene was a low-rent Manhattan auditorium, circa 1978. A young Congressman from Buffalo with a raspy voice was debating a liberal from central casting about the necessity of tax-cutting to stimulate growth.



North Korea assembling longest-range missile-paper
Reuters - USA
If fired successfully, it will likely go over Japan, experts said. Market players expect sentiment to be dampened by any test but the recent rumblings have ...

Skies Silent Over Gaza, but the Wait to Hear the Rumble of Rebuilding Lingers
By SABRINA TAVERNISE
In Gaza, even cement is political, and plans for reconstruction are caught in a web of fraught relationships that could take months to untangle.


He rumbled in that deep, raspy voice.

rumble

v., -bled, -bling, -bles. v.intr.
  1. To make a deep, long, rolling sound.
  2. To move or proceed with a deep, long, rolling sound.
  3. Slang. To engage in a gang fight.
v.tr.
  1. To utter with a deep, long, rolling sound.
  2. To polish or mix (metal parts) in a tumbling box.
n.
  1. A deep, long, rolling sound.
  2. A tumbling box.
  3. A luggage compartment or servant's seat in the rear of a carriage.
  4. Slang.
    1. Pervasive, widespread expression of unrest or dissatisfaction.
    2. A gang fight.
[Middle English romblen, perhaps from Middle Dutch rommelen or from Middle Low German rummeln.]
rumbler rum'bler n.
rumblingly rum'bling·ly adv.
rumbly rum'bly adj.

rumble (SOUND)
verb [I]
to make a continuous low sound:
Please excuse my stomach rumbling - I haven't eaten all day.
The tanks rumbled (= moved slowly, making a continuous noise) across the battlefield.

rumble
noun [C]
We could hear the rumble of distant guns/thunder.

rumblings
plural noun
rumblings of distant guns/thunder



rumbling Show phonetics
noun [C usually plural]
a sign of dissatisfaction:
There are rumblings of annoyance throughout the workforce.

rum・ble1


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━━ n., v. ごろごろ, がらがら(と鳴る,とどろく[かせる]); (車が)がらがらと行く; がらがら声で言う ((out)); 〔米〕 (自動車後部の)無蓋折りたたみ座席 (rumble seat); 馬車の後部の従者席[荷物席]; 〔米俗〕 決闘, けんか.
rumble strip 運転者に減速を促すために作られた道路の凸凹区間.
rumble-tumble がたがた車; ひどい揺れ.
rum・bling ━━ n. ごろごろ[がらがら](と鳴る音); 不平, 不満; (pl.) うわさ.


rasp (SOUND)
noun [S]
a rough unpleasant noise, like metal being rubbed against metal:
There was the rasp of a bolt and the door suddenly opened.

rasp
verb [I or T]
to make a rough unpleasant sound, especially while breathing or speaking:
I heard his breath rasping in his chest.
The gunman rasped (out) an urgent order (= gave it in an unpleasant-sounding voice) to the other members of the gang.

raspy
adjective
A raspy voice sounds unpleasantly rough.fraught
adj.
  1. Filled with a specified element or elements; charged: an incident fraught with danger; an evening fraught with high drama.
  2. Marked by or causing distress; emotional: “an account of a fraught mother-daughter relationship” (Francesca Simon).
n. Scots.
Freight; cargo.
[Middle English, past participle of fraughten, to load, from fraght, cargo. See freight, and from Middle Dutch vrachten, to load (from vracht, freight).]