roll up, jury president, wall-to-wall, saturaion coverage, no stranger to the red carpet

ANALYSIS

Does CNN’s Turmoil Mean There’s No Room on Cable for Independent News?

Chris Licht’s brief tenure in charge of the network showed how increasingly hard it can be to find success in today’s splintered, on-demand media era.

5 MIN READ

Vincent Tullo for The New York Times

Leaders at CNN are trying to change the channel from wall-to-wall chaos and move on from Chris Licht’s stormy tenure.

3 MIN READ

Jeremy Irons is no stranger to the red carpet in Berlin. This year he has been chosen as jury president for the 70th Berlinale - Berlin International Film Festival

2009年3月10日 星期二

syzygy, prosody, carpet, the red carpet, edition, Lone Star State

朔望

	朔日和望日，陰曆初一與十五。文選˙潘岳˙悼亡詩三首之三：「爾祭詎幾時，朔望忽復盡。」儒林外史˙第四十回：「百姓家男男女女，到朔望的日子，往這廟裡來焚香、點燭、跪拜。」
	朝謁之禮。漢書˙卷九十七˙外戚傳下˙孝成許皇后傳：「其孝東宮，毋闕朔望。」大宋宣和遺事˙元集：「蔡京致仕，仍朝朔望。」

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"There's a yellow rose in Texas, I'm going there to see..." With a song as famous as that, how could we NOT think that the state flower of Texas is the yellow rose? And yet... on this date in 1901, the Bluebonnet was adopted as the state flower of Texas. The bluebonnet is one of the state's most popular wildflowers, carpeting huge areas of Texas when it blooms in the spring. Here are some other tidbits about the Lone Star State: the state bird is the mockingbird; the state motto is "Friendship"; and the name Texas is based on a word used by Native Americans of the Caddo tribe, meaning "friends."



Wim Wenders Goes for More Gold at Cannes Film Festival

The red carpets were rolled out on Wednesday May 14, as the 61st edition of
France's premier film event opened. Films from all over the world are being

screened, including one from the heavyweight German director.

The DW-WORLD Article
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=evyfhbI44va89pI3

wall-to-wall

phrase of wall

1. (of a carpet) fitted to cover an entire floor.

   "he padded across the wall-to-wall carpeting"

   • INFORMAL

     very numerous or extensive.

     "wall-to-wall media coverage"

the red carpet noun [S]
a long, red, floor covering that is put down for an important guest to walk on when they visit somewhere and receive a special official welcome, or a special welcome of this type:
We'll roll out the red carpet for the senator.
The minister was given the red carpet treatment.edition
noun [C]
1 a particular form in which a book, magazine or newspaper is published:
the paperback/hardback edition of the dictionary
The regional editions of the paper contain specific information for that area.

2 a single broadcast of a series of radio or television programmes:
This morning's edition of 'Women's Hour' is at the earlier time of a quarter to ten.

3 the total number of copies of a particular book, newspaper, etc. that are published at the same time:
She collects first editions of nineteenth century authors.

4 US one of a series of repeated events:
The 77th edition of the Indianapolis 500 was held before an estimated 450 000 fans.


Lone Star State 德州

carpet (COVERING)
noun
1 [C or U] (a shaped piece of) thick woven material used for covering floors:
We've just had a new carpet fitted/laid in our bedroom.

UK We've got fitted (= cut to fit exactly) carpets in the bedrooms.

2 [S] a layer of something that covers the ground:
a carpet of snow
Our lawn is a carpet of daisies.

carpet
verb [T]
to cover something with carpet:
We need to carpet the stairs.

carpeted
adjective
covered with carpet

carpeting
noun [U]
material for making carpets

谈译诗中的音韵问题

On the Prosody in Poetry Translation: an Exemplification

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W B Yeats 分享了 SAMUEL BECKETT 的貼文。

prosody

(prŏs'ə-dē) 

n., pl. -dies.

1. The study of the metrical structure of verse.
2. A particular system of versification.

[Middle English prosodie, from Latin prosōdia, accent, from Greek prosōidiā, song sung to music, accent : pros-, pros- + ōidē, song; see ode.]

prosody [pros‐ŏdi], the systematic study of versification, covering the principles of metre, rhythm, rhyme, and stanza forms; or a particular system of versification. In linguistics, the term is applied to patterns of stress and intonation in ordinary speech. Prosody in the literary sense is also known as metrics.

━━ n. 韻律学, 作詩法.
 pro・sod・ic
　━━ a. 作詩法の, 韻律（学）の.

syzygy

発音
n., pl. -gies.

1. Astronomy.
   1. Either of two points in the orbit of a celestial body where the body is in opposition to or in conjunction with the sun.
   2. Either of two points in the orbit of the moon when the moon lies in a straight line with the sun and Earth.
   3. The configuration of the sun, the moon, and Earth lying in a straight line.
2. The combining of two feet into a single metrical unit in classical prosody.

[Late Latin s[ymacr]zygia, from Greek suzugiā, union, from suzugos, paired : sun-, su-, syn- + zugon, yoke.]

syzygial sy·zyg'i·al (sĭ-zĭj'ē-əl) adj.

━━ n. 【天文】朔望; 【生物】連接 ((胞子虫の2個体が接着する現象)).

「EXCEED英和辞典」

• 名
• 1. 朔望｛さくぼう｝◆地球、太陽、月の三つが一線上に並んだ配置のこと
• 2. 《生物》連接｛れんせつ｝
• 3. 《古典韻律》複詞脚

2013年9月7日 星期六

roll up,to carpet, red carpet, carpetbagger, subdued

Energy policy is best addressed across Europe as a whole. If the grids were linked up properly, in a large integrated energy market, then the peaks and troughs would be likely to even out. Rather than carpet grey Germany in solar panels, better to install them in sun-kissed Greece. But full integration is far off http://econ.st/15C5GGx

Pat McGowan, director of engineering at Canonical, demonstrated Ubuntu for phones at an event on MIT’s campus last week. While BlackBerry carpeted several basketball courts for an extravagant Manhattan launch of its new BB10 software the same week (see “BlackBerry’s New Phones Score Points”), Ubuntu’s public debut was more subdued.

1872 cartoon depiction of Carl Schurz as a Carpetbagger

U.S. Rolls Up Red Carpet for Karzai’s Political Rival
By HELENE COOPER and MARK LANDLER
Abdullah Abdullah is getting none of the V.I.P. treatment accorded to his rival, the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, during a visit to a Washington wary of antagonizing Mr. Karzai.

roll up
1. Accumulate, as in He rolled up a fortune in commodity trading, or She rolled up a huge number of votes in this district. [Mid-1800s]
2. Arrive in a vehicle, as in They rolled up in a taxi at exactly eight o'clock.

1. The move from one option position to another with a higher exercise price.

2. In the context of venture capital, when a VC forces small companies to merge in order to reduce costs.

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In United States history, carpetbagger was a pejorative term Southerners gave to Northerners (also referred to as Yankees) who moved to the South during the Reconstruction era, between 1865 and 1877.
The term referred to the observation that these newcomers tended to carry "carpet bags," a common form of luggage at the time (sturdy and made from used carpet). It was used as a derogatory term, suggesting opportunism and exploitation by the outsiders. Together with Republicans they are said to have politically manipulated and controlled former Confederate states for varying periods for their own financial and power gains. In sum, carpetbaggers were seen as insidious Northern outsiders with questionable objectives meddling in local politics, buying up plantations at fire-sale prices and taking advantage of Southerners. Carpetbagger is not to be confused with copperhead, which is a term given to a person from the North who sympathized with the Southern claim of right to Secession.
The term carpetbaggers was also used to describe the Republican political appointees who came South, arriving with their travel carpet bags. Southerners considered them ready to loot and plunder the defeated South.^[1]
In modern usage in the U.S., the term is sometimes used derisively to refer to a politician who runs for public office in an area where he or she does not have deep community ties, or has lived only for a short time. In the United Kingdom, the term was adopted to refer informally to those who join a mutual organization, such as a building society, in order to force it to demutualize, that is, to convert into a joint stock company, solely for personal financial gain.

carpet

noun

• a floor or stair covering made from thick woven fabric, typically shaped to fit a particular room:the house has wall-to-wall carpets throughout the floor was covered with carpet
• a large rug, typically an oriental one:priceless Persian carpets
• a thick or soft expanse or layer of something:carpets of snowdrops and crocuses
• informal, chiefly US a carpetlike artificial playing surface on a tennis court or an athletic field.

verb (carpets, carpeting, carpeted)

[with object]

• 1cover (a floor or stairs) with a carpet:the stairs were carpeted in a lovely shade of red
• cover with a thick or soft expanse or layer of something:the meadows are carpeted with flowers

2British informal reprimand severely.

音節

car • pet

発音

kɑ'ːrpit

レベル

大学入試程度

carpetの変化形

carpets (複数形) • carpeted (過去形) • carpeted (過去分詞) • carpeting (現在分詞) • carpets (三人称単数現在)

carpetの慣用句

on the carpet, pull the carpet from under a person's feet, sweep ... under the carpet, （全4件）

[名]

1 [U][C]じゅうたん（地）, カーペット, もうせん. ⇒RUG

a Persian carpet
ペルシアじゅうたん

lay ［put down］ a carpet
じゅうたんを敷く.

2 ((文))（草花などの）一面の広がり((of ...))

a carpet of moss
一面のこけ.

3 ＝carpet bombing.

on the carpet

(1) ((英))〈事・議題が〉考慮中で, 審議中で.
(2) ((略式))（叱責(しっせき)のために）呼びつけられて；油をしぼられて

be called ［put］ on the carpet
呼びつけられてしかられる.

pull the carpet from under a person's feet

〈人に対する〉援助［指示］を突然中止する.

sweep ［push］ ... under the carpet

((略式))＝sweep ... under the RUG.

walk the carpet

〈召し使いが〉叱責を受ける.

━━[動](他)

1 ((通例受身))…をじゅうたんでおおう, にじゅうたんを敷く；…を（…で）一面におおう((with ...))

a carpeted corridor
じゅうたんを敷いた廊下

The field was quickly carpeted with weeds.
畑はたちまち雑草でおおわれた.

2 ((主に受身))((主に英略式))…を（呼びつけて）しかる.

［後ラテン語carpeta（carpereわかつ＋-ta過去分詞語尾＝わかれたもの→すいて, けばだてされた羊毛）］