plastinate, anatomist, reindeer, doe, deer rut

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• Reindeer

Anatomist Gunther von Hagens has developed a technique for plastinating anatomical tissue, so that organs, blood vessels, bone and muscle can be observed in extraordinary detail. Photo taken April 14, 2011.

The annual deer rut helps usher in Autumn

Hear a pair of Fallow Deer bucks lock antlers in Knole Park, Kent.

Sound Archive recording by Phil Riddett (ref 250012)

Illustration by Alfred Russel Wallace, 07209.dd.1

一年一度的鹿發情有助於迎來秋天

在肯特郡的諾爾公園（Knole Park）聽到一對小鹿雄鹿鎖鹿角。

Phil Phil Riddett的聲音存檔錄音（ref 250012）

🦌插圖由阿爾弗雷德·羅素·華萊士（Alfred Russel Wallace），07209.dd.1

rut noun (SEXUALLY ACTIVE PERIOD)

 

[ S ]

the period of the year during which particular male animals, especially deer and sheep, are sexually active:

During the rut, stags can be seen fighting for females.

 in rut

 

(of particular male animals) sexually excited

 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

慣用句

(stuck) in a rut

doe

Pronunciation: /dəʊ/

Translate doe | into German | into Italian | into Spanish

noun

• a female deer, especially a female roe, fallow deer, or reindeer.
• a female hare, rabbit, rat, ferret, or kangaroo: [as modifier]:doe rabbits

Origin:

Old English dā, of unknown origin

plastinate


IN BRIEF: v. - Preserve (tissue) with certain materials, as for teaching and research purposes.

puberty, fortunes, go off, go off the rails, Chekhov’s narrative principle

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Chekhov’s narrative principle—that a gun hung on the wall in the first act must eventually go off—has become a metaphorical rule of storytelling. To reflect American reality, Jennifer Clement puts a gun on every wall in every room

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Chekhov's gun. Chekhov's gun is a dramatic principle that states that every element in a story must be necessary, and irrelevant elements should be removed; elements should not appear to make "false promises" by never coming into play. ... "Remove everything that has no relevance to the story.

“Today, the President of the United States ripped open wounds that have barely begun healing in Charlottesville," CNN's Anderson Coopersaid at the start of his show after President Donald J. Trump's controversial news conference at Trump Tower. http://cnn.it/2x2GiIM

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One week after voting to leave the EU, Britain has seldom looked so wildly off the rails

The idea of combining solar power with automaking is a bit like Ford Motors buying ExxonMobil—if both were losing hundreds of millions a year.

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“I don’t know if girls can go through puberty any earlier,” says Dr. Frank Biro, who is first author on the study. “We may be approaching a biological minimum.”

For More Children, Puberty Signs Start at 8

Researchers find more children appearing to hit puberty earlier, a concern given the higher associated risks.

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Regarded as a whole, Mann's career is a striking example of the "repeated puberty" which Goethe thought characteristic of the genius. In technique as well as in thought, he experienced far more daringly than is generally realized. In Buddenbrooks he wrote one of the last of the great "old-fashioned" novels, a patient, thorough tracing of the fortunes of a family.

—Henry Hatfield in Thomas Mann, 1962.



go off
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/go-off

go off

to explode, or to fire bullets: The deer ran away just before the hunter's gun went off.

off the rails. (idiomatic) In an abnormal manner, especially in a manner that causes damage or malfunctioning. (idiomatic) Insane. If someone has gone off the rails, they have lost track of reality.

go off the rails

informal Begin behaving in an uncontrolled or unacceptable way:sport saved them from going off the rails as youngsters

(fortunes) The success or failure of a person or enterprise over a period of time:he is credited with turning round the company’s fortunes

the fortunes of war

The unpredictable events of war:from then on, the fortunes of war favoured the Scots

puberty noun [U] ━━ n. 性的成熟（期）, 思春期, 年ごろ.
the stage in a person's life when they develop from a child into an adult because of changes in their body that make them able to have children:
At puberty, pubic hair develops and girls begin to menstruate.

puberty

NOUN

[MASS NOUN]

The period during which adolescents reach sexual maturity and become capable of reproduction:the onset of pubertya particularly traumatic puberty

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pubertal

ADJECTIVE

Example sentences

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin pubertas, from puber 'adult', related to pubes (see pubes).

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• Puberty is from Latin pubertas, from puber ‘adult’, related to pubes ‘genitals’ (source of pubic (early 19th century)).

pubescent
adjective
describes someone who is at the stage in their life when they are developing from a child into an adult and becoming able to have children:
pubescent girls/boys

hole, holed, in the hole, Uncollected taxes, are responsible for the biggest hole in public coffers/ anti-money-laundering system

Some experts reckon Dubai may be the single biggest hole in the global anti-money-laundering system



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Uncollected taxes, not money squandered or stolen, are responsible for the biggest hole in public coffers in Africa

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African governments are trying to collect more tax

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2010年3月29日 星期一

當飛行員把臺灣人類比成貓時，卻有臺灣的目擊者指出「飛機駛員看呆了，飛機掉進下淡水溪 去了」。真的有這一回事嗎？我們查閱當天的任務報告，發現美軍的損傷紀錄為：「在屏東機場與淡水溪之間的三個位置遭受中度砲火，一位無線電操作員受輕傷， 兩架飛機穿孔」(One radio operator was injured slightly and two airplanes were holed by the moderate, medium, accurate to inaccurate fire received from three positions between Heito Airdrome and Tansui River.) 但是，並沒有任何飛機墜毀。如此看來，「飛機掉進下淡水溪」的說法應該是訛傳。

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air·drome (âr'drōm') 
n.

1. An airport.
2. A military air base.

hole

n.

1. A hollowed place in something solid; a cavity or pit: dug a hole in the ground with a shovel.
2. 1. An opening or perforation: a hole in the clouds; had a hole in the elbow of my sweater.
   2. Sports. An opening in a defensive formation, such as the area of a baseball infield between two adjacent fielders.
   3. A fault or flaw: There are holes in your argument.
3. A deep place in a body of water.
4. An animal's hollowed-out habitation, such as a burrow.
5. An ugly, squalid, or depressing dwelling.
6. A deep or isolated place of confinement; a dungeon.
7. An awkward situation; a predicament.
8. Sports.
   1. The small pit lined with a cup into which a golf ball must be hit.
   2. One of the divisions of a golf course, from tee to cup.
9. Physics. A vacant position in a crystal left by the absence of an electron, especially a position in a semiconductor that acts as a carrier of positive electric charge. Also called electron hole.

v., holed, hol·ing, holes. v.tr.

1. To put a hole in.
2. To put or propel into a hole.

v.intr.
To make a hole in something.

phrasal verbs:
hole out Sports.

1. To hit a golf ball into the hole.

hole up

1. To hibernate in or as if in a hole.
2. Informal. To take refuge in or as if in a hideout.

idiom:
in the hole

1. Having a score below zero.
2. In debt.
3. At a disadvantage.

[Middle English, from Old English hol.]

2011年7月17日 星期日

pass over, taken in by, in the hole

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Former Speaker of the House in the hole while Romney, Bachmann rake in contributions.

in the hole
1. In debt; in trouble, especially financial trouble. For example, Joan is too extravagant; she's always in the hole, or Buying all these Christmas presents will put us in the hole for the next few months. [Colloquial; early 1800s] Also see in a bind.
2. In trouble in a competitive sport. For example, At three balls and no strikes, the pitcher's in the hole, or The batter's got two strikes on him; he's in the hole. [Slang; late 1800s]
3. In a card game, scoring lower than zero. For example, Only one hand's been dealt and I'm already three points in the hole. This expression alludes to the practice of circling a minus score in the old game of euchre. The antonym for all three usages is out of the hole, as in It took careful financial management to get Kevin out of the hole, or An experienced pitcher often can manage to get out of the hole. Also see ace in the hole.

pass over
vDefinition: ignore, disregard
Antonyms: attend, heed, take care, tap