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2008年5月27日 星期二
foster, unsourced, counting house,
De-emphasis on Race in Adoption Is Criticized
By RON NIXON
A report says that minority children in foster care are being ill-served by a federal law that plays down race and culture in adoptions.
counting house
1938 The King Was in His Counting House. Cabell publishes a satirical romance set in sixteenth-century Italy.
A counting house, or compting house, literally is the building, room, office or suite in which a business firm carries on operations, particularly accounting. By an obvious synecdoche, it has come to mean the accounting operations of a firm, however housed. The term is British in origin and is primarily used in the context of the 19th century or earlier periods.
Air One is ready to renew its efforts to buy rival Alitalia, Bloomberg News said citing an unsourced report in newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore.
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source
noun [C]
1 the place something comes from or starts at, or the cause of something:
a source of heat/energy/light
a heat/energy/light source
Oranges are a good source of vitamin C.
Experts are trying to track down the source of the contamination in the water supply.
We walked up the river to its source in the hills.
Money is often a source of tension and disagreements in young married couples.
2 someone or something that supplies information:
The journalist refused to reveal her sources (= say who had given the information to her).
According to Government sources (= people in the Government) many MPs are worried about this issue.
Always acknowledge your sources (= say which books you have used) at the end of an essay.
source
verb [T often passive]
to get something from a particular place:
Where possible the produce used in our restaurant is sourced locally.
foster (TAKE CARE OF) Show phonetics
verb [I or T]
to take care of a child, usually for a limited time, without being the child's legal parent:
Would you consider fostering (a child)?
Compare adopt (TAKE CHILD).
foster Show phonetics
adjective [before noun]
a foster care/home/child/mother
She was taken into care by the local council and placed with a foster family.
As a child, he had lived with a succession of foster parents.
By RON NIXON
A report says that minority children in foster care are being ill-served by a federal law that plays down race and culture in adoptions.
counting house
1938 The King Was in His Counting House. Cabell publishes a satirical romance set in sixteenth-century Italy.
A counting house, or compting house, literally is the building, room, office or suite in which a business firm carries on operations, particularly accounting. By an obvious synecdoche, it has come to mean the accounting operations of a firm, however housed. The term is British in origin and is primarily used in the context of the 19th century or earlier periods.
Air One is ready to renew its efforts to buy rival Alitalia, Bloomberg News said citing an unsourced report in newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore.
Go to Article from Bloomberg News»
source
noun [C]
1 the place something comes from or starts at, or the cause of something:
a source of heat/energy/light
a heat/energy/light source
Oranges are a good source of vitamin C.
Experts are trying to track down the source of the contamination in the water supply.
We walked up the river to its source in the hills.
Money is often a source of tension and disagreements in young married couples.
2 someone or something that supplies information:
The journalist refused to reveal her sources (= say who had given the information to her).
According to Government sources (= people in the Government) many MPs are worried about this issue.
Always acknowledge your sources (= say which books you have used) at the end of an essay.
source
verb [T often passive]
to get something from a particular place:
Where possible the produce used in our restaurant is sourced locally.
count1
━━ vt. 数える, 計算する ((up)); …まで数を順に言う; 数［勘定に］入れる ((among)); 考慮に入れる; …と思う.
━━ vi. 数を数える; 勘定に入る; 影響力を持つ, 重きをなす; 当てにする ((on, upon)); 【楽】拍子を取る.
count down （ロケット発射などの際に）秒読みする.
count for little [much] 取るにたりない［重要である］.
count in 考慮に入れる.
count off 【米軍】番号を唱える; 〔米〕 番号を付ける; （数えて）等分する.
count out 数えながら取出す; 〔話〕 除外する; 【ボクシング】ノックアウトを宣する; 【英下院】定数不足により流会する; （票の不正操作をして）（候補者を）落選させる.
count the days [hours] 指折り数えて待つ, そわそわする.
count up to 合計…になる.
Every minute counts. 寸刻もむだにできない.
make every minute count 時間を有効に使う.
━━ n. 計算; 【政】（選挙後の）票計算; 総計; （問題）点; 【法】訴因; 【ボクシング】（the ～） カウント; 【野】ボールカウント; 【繊維】番手; 〔古〕 考慮.
be out for the count 【ボクシング】ノックアウトされる; （疲れ果てて）熟睡している.
keep count of …の数を覚えている.
lose count of （途中で）…を数えそこなう.
out of count 無数の.
take no count of …を無視する.
take the count 【ボクシング】ノックアウトされる.
count・a・ble ━━ a., n. 数えられる（もの）; 【文法】可算名詞.
count・down 秒読み.
count・er1 ━━ n. 計算者［機器］; 勘定台, カウンター; 代用貨幣; （ゲームの得点計算用）チップ.
over the counter 【株】（取引所を通さず）店頭で; 処方箋なしに.
under the counter （取引を）こっそり, 不法に.
counting・house 会計事務所.
count・less ━━ a. 無数の.
count noun ＝countable.
count-out 【英下院】定数不足による流会; 【ボクシング】カウントアウト.
━━ vi. 数を数える; 勘定に入る; 影響力を持つ, 重きをなす; 当てにする ((on, upon)); 【楽】拍子を取る.
count down （ロケット発射などの際に）秒読みする. count for little [much] 取るにたりない［重要である］. count in 考慮に入れる. count off 【米軍】番号を唱える; 〔米〕 番号を付ける; （数えて）等分する. count out 数えながら取出す; 〔話〕 除外する; 【ボクシング】ノックアウトを宣する; 【英下院】定数不足により流会する; （票の不正操作をして）（候補者を）落選させる. count the days [hours] 指折り数えて待つ, そわそわする. count up to 合計…になる. Every minute counts. 寸刻もむだにできない. make every minute count 時間を有効に使う.━━ n. 計算; 【政】（選挙後の）票計算; 総計; （問題）点; 【法】訴因; 【ボクシング】（the ～） カウント; 【野】ボールカウント; 【繊維】番手; 〔古〕 考慮.
be out for the count 【ボクシング】ノックアウトされる; （疲れ果てて）熟睡している. keep count of …の数を覚えている. lose count of （途中で）…を数えそこなう. out of count 無数の. take no count of …を無視する. take the count 【ボクシング】ノックアウトされる. count・a・ble ━━ a., n. 数えられる（もの）; 【文法】可算名詞. count・down 秒読み. count・er1 ━━ n. 計算者［機器］; 勘定台, カウンター; 代用貨幣; （ゲームの得点計算用）チップ. over the counter 【株】（取引所を通さず）店頭で; 処方箋なしに. under the counter （取引を）こっそり, 不法に. counting・house 会計事務所. count・less ━━ a. 無数の. count noun ＝countable. count-out 【英下院】定数不足による流会; 【ボクシング】カウントアウト.foster (TAKE CARE OF) Show phonetics
verb [I or T]
to take care of a child, usually for a limited time, without being the child's legal parent:
Would you consider fostering (a child)?
Compare adopt (TAKE CHILD).
foster Show phonetics
adjective [before noun]
a foster care/home/child/mother
She was taken into care by the local council and placed with a foster family.
As a child, he had lived with a succession of foster parents.
2012年12月28日 星期五
rights offering, at steep discount
Nokia's Lumia Offered at Discounts
Board of Wynn Resorts Forcibly Buys Out Founder
The board of Wynn Resorts has accused Steve Wynn's former ally, Kazuo Okada, of making improper payments and forcibly bought out his 20% stake in the company at a steep discount.
InBev's $52 billion deal to buy St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch hit a snag this week, when the Belgian brewer announced that it was forced to postpone a $9.8 billion rights offering intended to help fund the purchase.
The gleanings turn out to be a mixture of the obvious, the paradoxical and the ambiguous. Take emotion. Brain-imaging experiments suggest that older people are better at regulating it. Young people get more neurologically fired up at the prospect of loss. And they are less willing to pass up a small reward today for a greater one tomorrow; in other words, they “discount” the future more steeply than the older people, even though it is the oldies who, with their limited time horizon, ought to be the big temporal discounters.
[形]
1 〈坂などが〉険しい, 急な；〈増加などが〉急激な
a steep slope
険しい坂
険しい坂
The roof is steep.
その屋根は勾配(こうばい)が急だ.
その屋根は勾配(こうばい)が急だ.
2 〈値段・金額が〉不当に高い, 法外な；〈仕事などが〉ひどく骨のおれる；〈要求などが〉不当な, 酷な, 〈話などが〉おおげさな, 信じられない
a steep tax
不当に高い税金
不当に高い税金
a steep task
難儀な仕事
難儀な仕事
a pretty steep tale
信じがたい話
信じがたい話
That's ［It's］ a bit steep.
((英話))それはあんまりだ.
((英話))それはあんまりだ.
━━[名] 急勾配の場所, 急な坂, 断崖(だんがい)；（丘などの）傾斜面
climb a steep
急な坂を上る.
急な坂を上る.
［古英語stēap（高い）. stūpian（前にかたむく）と同系. △STOOP1］
1 〈物を〉（液体に）浸す, つける((in ...))；…を浸してふやかす；…をぬらす；…をせんじる, 振り出す；((通例過去分詞形))…をずぶぬれにする, …に水分をしみ込ませる
a courser steeped in sweat
汗でびっしょりの競走馬.
汗でびっしょりの競走馬.
2 ((受身または〜 -self))（学問などに）没頭する, 夢中になる；（悪事に）すっかり染まる((in ...))
He steeped himself ［＝was steeped］ in English literature.
英文学に打ちこんでいた
英文学に打ちこんでいた
He is steeped in crime.
すっかり悪に染まっている.
すっかり悪に染まっている.
━━(自) （←(他) ）
1 （水などに）つかって［浸って］いる((in ...)).
2 〈お茶などの成分が〉浸み出る.
━━[名] [U] [C] 浸す［浸される］こと；浸されて［つかって］いる状態；浸す液
be in steep
rights offering
Issuing rights to a company's existing shareholders to buy a proportional number of additional securities at a given price (usually at a discount) within a fixed period.
Investopedia Says:
Rights are often transferable, allowing the holder to sell them on the open market.
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discount
v., -count·ed, -count·ing, -counts. v.tr.
- To deduct or subtract from a cost or price.
- To purchase or sell (a bill, note, or other commercial paper) at a reduction equal to the amount of interest that will accumulate before it matures.
- To lend money on (a commercial paper not immediately payable) after deducting the interest.
- To sell or offer for sale at a reduced price.
- To reduce in quantity or value.
- To leave out of account as being untrustworthy or exaggerated; disregard: discount a rumor.
- To underestimate the significance or effectiveness of; minimize: took care not to discount his wife's accomplishments.
- To regard with doubt or disbelief.
- To anticipate and make allowance for; reckon with in advance.
To lend money after deduction of interest.
n. (dĭs'kount')
- A reduction from the full or standard amount of a price or debt.
- The interest deducted prior to purchasing, selling, or lending a commercial paper; the discount rate.
- The act or an instance of discounting a bill of exchange, note, or other commercial paper.
[Alteration (influenced by DIS-COUNT1) of French décompter, from Old French desconter : des-, away; see dis- + conter, to count; see count1.]
discountable dis'count'a·ble adj.
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