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That Mystery Orb on a Japanese Beach? It Was Just a Buoy. (Sorry.)

Experts said the sphere that washed ashore, drawing rampant speculation, was nothing special. “Maybe everybody is paranoid because of balloons,” one said.

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Jean-Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940) Under the trees (from The Public Gargens), distemper on fabric. 1894
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Japan mulls scrapping tax break for big firms that wine and dine clients

The Abe administration is considering ending an existing special tax break on wining and dining expenses at large companies at the end of fiscal 2019.

So as to be separated or relieved from: robbed of one's dignity; cured of distemper.


Halsband, R. 1953. "New Light on Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Contribution to Inoculation." J. Hist. Med. 8: 390-405. 1956. The Life ..."

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"... London: Apropos of distempers, I am going to tell you a thing that will make you wish yourself here. The small-pox, so fatal, and so general amongst us, is here entirely ... operation, every autumn in the month of September, when the great heat is abated. People send to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have ..." "... fifteen or sixteen together), the old woman comes with a nut-shell full of the matter of the best sort of small-pox, and asks what vein you please to have opened. She ... sores during the distemper, which I don't doubt is a great relief to it. Every year thousands undergo this operation: and the French Ambassador says pleasantly that they take the small-pox ..."

distemper

 noun (1)

Definition of distemper (Entry 2 of 4)

1: bad humor or temper

2: a disordered or abnormal bodily state especially of quadruped mammals: such as

a: a highly contagious virus disease of canines and especially of dogs that is caused by a morbillivirus (species Canine morbillivirus) and is marked by fever, leukopenia, and respiratory, gastrointestinal, and neurological symptoms

— called also canine distemper

b: STRANGLES

c: PANLEUKOPENIA

3: AILMENT, DISORDERvice and folly are situated not in human nature … but in distempers of intellect— George Stade

distemper

 noun (2)

Definition of distemper (Entry 3 of 4)

1: a process of painting in which the pigments are mixed with an emulsion of egg yolk, with size, or with white of egg as a vehicle and which is used for painting scenery and murals

2a: the paint or the prepared ground used in the distemper process

b: a painting done in distemper

3: any of various water-based paints

distemper，政治混亂。時報專欄作者弗蘭克·布魯尼在《為什麼特朗普恨你的狗》一文中寫道，特朗普可能認為狗是愚蠢的，因為它們服從命令，而特朗普本人偏愛不服從的姿態，更鍾意“政治上的動盪(distemper)”。作者在這裡使用了雙關，distemper意為政治混亂，同時還有狗瘟的意思。

orb

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noun

1. a spherical object or shape.

   "a pale orb of hazy reddish light"

   Similar:

   sphere

   globe

   ball

   circle

   ring

   spheroid

   spherule

   round

   • a golden globe surmounted by a cross, forming part of the regalia of a monarch.

     "a crown, an orb, and a sceptre"
   • LITERARY

     a celestial body.