2020年11月30日 星期一

ambassador, plenipotentiary, embassy



  • Schoolmaster – Antony's ambassador to Octavius

~ Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare.

2009年1月6日 星期二

an ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary

By the time she died four years ago, Susan Sontag had been for decades a kind of intellectual plenipotentiary, novelist, culture critic and that most unlikely of all job categories, famous essayist.


"The Ambassador of Jesus" by Paula Rego was one of the more than 100 works of art destroyed in the warehouse fire.

【ambassador 
 1. 【人】 大使,使節,特使 ( embassy, minister )
《例句》
the American Ambassador to Japan 美國駐日本大使
the Japanese Ambassador in London [to the Court of St. James's] 日本駐英大使
an ambassador extraordinary 特命大使
an ambassador plenipotentiary 全權大使
an ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary 特命全權大使
an ordinary [resident] ambassador 常駐[駐在]大使
a roving ambassador 巡迴大使,無任所大使.



ambassador


音節am • bas • sa • dor
発音æmbǽsədər
大学入試レベル
[名]C
1(…駐在の)大使≪to,in,at≫(◆国名の場合は to,国名以外の場合は inat を用いる)

the Japanese Ambassador to Great Britain
駐英日本大使
the U.S. Ambassador in Tokyo
東京駐在米国大使
1a(条約交渉などの)(特派)大使
1b(国連などの)常駐首席代表,大使
2(スポーツ・企業・団体などの)使節,代表≪for≫

an ambassador of peace [goodwill]
平和[親善]使節語源[フランス;⇒embassy




embassy

音節em • bas • sy
発音émbəsi
大学入試レベル
[名](複-sies)C
1〔しばしばthe E-〕大使官(邸);〔集合的に;単複両扱い〕大使と全大使館員

the Japanese Embassy in France
在仏日本大使館
1a大使の職[任務]

carry out one's embassy
大使としての役目を果たす
2((主に歴史上))(大使を長とする)使節団;その使命語源[原義は「使節の地位」]

plenipotentiary

adj.

Invested with or conferring full powers: a plenipotentiary deputy.

n.pl. -ies.

A diplomatic agent, such as an ambassador, fully authorized to represent his or her government.

[Medieval Latin plēnipotentiārius, from Late Latin plēnipotēns, plēnipotent-, invested with full power : Latin plēnus, full + Latin potēns, powerful; see potent.]


 plen・i・po・ten・tia・ry


   
━━ n. 全権大使[委員].
━━ a. 全権を有する; 絶対的権力の.

2020年11月26日 星期四

circa, judicial, judicious levity, Boris Johnson promised prosperity and levity. That is now on hold



Thanks to covid-19, Boris Johnson’s supporters who voted for a return to the good times will be waiting rather longer









ECONOMIST.COM

Boris Johnson promised prosperity and levity. That is now on hold



There's no reason that an exhibition whose sole organizing principle is to present photographs taken in a single year should be meaningful, let alone interesting. If anything, the opposite is true: the overall quality of work produced in a given year is apt to be average.
On the other hand, no period is without some good work; judicious selection could make any year look good. And such a selection might suggest other understandings about the period in question.
No doubt that was the thinking behind "1936," at the James Danziger Gallery, and "Circa 1956," a companion show at the 292 Gallery, both in SoHo. Both focus on works made in a given year, although only "1936" adheres closely to that restriction; the show at 292 includes works from throughout the 1950's.



2009.6.30
(英)史蒂文生和奧士本合著《錯箱記》( The Wrong Box by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne)吳均陶、姚書亮譯,灕江出版社【1955初版 ,此為第三家出版社 ;1981 年吳均陶先生寫譯後記時 ,姚先生已逝。 】,1996-

網路上查一下吳先生其他翻譯:

狄更斯『聖誕故事集』,吳均陶 , 江西人民出版社, 587, 1983

『史溫朋 詩一首』(吳均陶 譯,收入『你為什麼沈默不語』外國文學出版社)


吳均陶 先生『《錯箱記》 譯後記』還附 RLS的墓誌詩:


PREFACE

'Nothing like a little judicious levity,' says Michael Finsbury.帶點兒有分寸的輕率是再好不過的

in the text: nor can any better excuse be found for the volume in
the reader's hand. The authors can but add that one of them is
old enough to be ashamed of himself, and the other young enough
to learn better.

R. L. S.
L. O.





judicious
adjective
having or showing reason and good judgment in making decisions:
We should make judicious use of the resources available to us.
NOTE: Do not confuse with judicial.
adj.

Law.
Of, relating to, or proper to courts of law or to the administration of justice: the judicial system.
Decreed by or proceeding from a court of justice: a judicial decision.
Belonging or appropriate to the office of a judge: in judicial robes.
Characterized by or expressing judgment: the judicial function of a literary critic.
Proceeding from a divine judgment.


[Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Latin iūdiciālis, from iūdicium, judgment, from iūdex, iūdic-, judge.] judicially ju·di'cial·ly adv.


judiciously
adverb
a judiciously worded statement
ju・di・cious
━━ a. 思慮(分別)のある, 賢明な.
lev・i・ty
noun [U] FORMAL

amusement or lack of seriousness, especially during a serious occasion:

a brief moment of levity amid the solemn proceedings


━━ n. 軽率, 軽薄; 移り気


circa
preposition (WRITTEN ABBREVIATION c or ca) FORMAL
(used especially with years) approximately:
He was born circa 1600.





promiseの意味 - 小学館 プログレッシブ英和中辞典

promise

音節prom • ise
発音prάmis | prɔ́m-
基本単語レベル
[名]
1C約束すること(解説的語義
約束,保証,誓い(◆待ち合わせの「約束」は appointment)

a promise of tax cuts
減税の約束
keep [fulfill, break] one's promise
約束を守る[果たす,破る]
We've made a promise to come back soon.
すぐに戻ってくるという約束をした
I give you my solemn promise.
天に誓って君に約束するよ
She made herself a promise that she would never see him again.
彼女は2度と彼に会わないと心に誓った
2CU(事の)見込み(解説的語義
見通し,可能性,きざし,徴候,気配≪of≫

Life holds infinite promises.
人生は無限の可能性がある
The morning looked bright with the promise of a sunny day to come.
その朝は明るく晴れていてお天気になりそうな気配がした
2aU明るい見込み(解説的語義
よい見通し[展望],(前途の)有望さ,将来性

promise of a good harvest
豊作の見込み
be full of promise
前途有望である
fulfill one's promise
期待を裏切らない,見込みどおりになる
She shows great promise as an artist.
彼女は画家として非常に有望だ
━━[動]
1他〈人などが〉〈行為などを〉約束[保証]する,請け合う,〈人に〉〈物を〉与えると約束する,〈…することを〉約束する≪to do≫,〈人に〉〈…ということを〉約束する≪that節≫(◆「人に」は省略可),〔promise oneself〕心に決める;自約束する

promise help
援助を約束する
I promised him a slice of cake [a slice of cake to him].
彼にケーキをあげると約束した
He promised to call me back.
彼は電話を掛けなおすと約束した
I promise (you) that I will be there on time.
時間に必ずそこに行くと約束します
They reappeared two hours later, as promised.
約束どおり2時間後に彼らは再び現れた
2他〈物・事などが〉…を期待させる,…のおそれがある;〔promise to be ...〕〈状況が〉きっと…になりそうだ;〈人・事が〉〈将来の状況などを〉約束[保証]する,〈…だと〉断言する≪that節≫;〔promise oneself A〕Aを期待する

The clouds promise snow.
雪が降りそうな雲行きだ
This year's show promises to be a special treat.
今年のショーは特別おもしろくなりそうだ
The new technology promises a better lifestyle.
新技術はよりよいライフスタイルを約束してくれる
I can't promise that I'll stay here permanently.
ここにずっといるとは保証できない
promise oneself a quiet Sunday
静かな日曜を楽しみにする
2a自〔しばしばwell,fairを伴って〕見込みがある,望みがある,有望である

The future of the department doesn't promise well.
その部署の将来は見通しがあまりよくない(◆自明の目的語を省略)

skeezy, period drama, “The Queen’s Gambit” , figurehead, how fame can both help and hinder activism


“I Am Greta” and “David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet” show how fame can both help and hinder activism


“The Queen’s Gambit” has no women in peril, and no skeezy men, writes columnist Monica Hesse.



WASHINGTONPOST.COM
Perspective | ‘The Queen’s Gambit,’ a period drama that erases sexism from 1960, is the best fantasy show of the year



skeezy
adjective
 US informal
UK 
 
/ˈskiː.zi/
 US 
 
/ˈskiː.zi/
used to describe someone, especially a man, who is strange and unpleasant :
saw a skeezy man trying to pick up young girls in a bar.

legacy of risqué and risk-taking, typo, tyro, rocked by scansal, fogey, radiogram





WAP may be breathlessly direct, but it also continues a long legacy of risqué and risk-taking female pop artists.



BBC.COM
From Like a Virgin to WAP: The truly provocative pop songs
Can explicit expressions of female sexuality in pop – from Madonna to Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion – really be empowering, asks Arwa Haider.




 The fifth edition of the American Heritage Dictionary, published by Houghton Mifflin, was released last fall. In the typecast world of dictionary publishing, American Heritage is the “conservative” dictionary. Developed in the 1960s in the wake of company president James Parton’s failed attempt to wrest control of the G. and C. Merriam Co., which had recently become notorious for the publication of the “permissive” dictionary, Webster’s Third, the first edition of the American Heritage Dictionary was deliberately marketed as the choice of squares and fogeys.


Go Daddy Nears Sale for as Much as $2.5 Billion The Go Daddy Group, the Web domain registration company known for its risqué ads, is near a deal to sell itself to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Silver Lake and another investment firm for $2 billion to $2.5 billion, people briefed on the matter told DealBook on Friday.


Politics

New scandal rocks Chinese leadership

A new scandal is causing trouble for China's top party members. The risque details have brought to light the power struggle taking place behind closed doors and the luxurious lives of the party elites and their families.
At first the story was only about fast cars, money and sex. More precisely it was about an accident involving a black Ferrari last March, about a dead playboy and two heavily injured young women who were either completely naked or scantily clad - no one knows for sure.

However, since word got out a few days ago about who was driving the car, the story has become political.
The driver who crashed the car was apparently the son of a high-ranking official named Ling Jihua - one of President Hu Jintao's closest allies. And that's apparently why it was kept quiet for so long.

'The party doesn't care'
Now it's out, the party's image, already rocked by scandal is under fire again.
"But adding one more scandal to all the others hardly makes any difference," says Zhang Ming, a political scientist at Renmin University in Beijing.

"The party's image is already bad but the party doesn't care. And the people have no way of stopping such things from happening."

However, the Ferrari accident has raised a number of questions. For example, how did Ling Jihua's playboy son have enough money to be able to afford such an expensive sports car in the first place?

This video image taken from CCTV shows Gu Kailai, the wife of disgraced politician Bo Xilai, speaks in the dock at Hefei Intermediate People's Court in the eastern Chinese city of Hefei. Photo:CCTV via APTN/AP/dapd Gu Kailai was convicted for murder in August

"He, just like Bo Xilai's wife [who was recently sentenced for murder], has damaged the party's image," says Jin Zhong, the editor-in-chief of Hong Kong's Kaifeng newspaper.

"People like this are taking advantage of their privileges, making illegal profits. It happens all the time. Gu Kailai to Ling Jihua are only the tip of the iceberg. Stories like this are creating resentment both within and outside of the party."
Change of leadership

And the Ferrari incident has already had political repercussions. Ling Jihua, who was considered a shooting star, just lost his influential post as head of the Central Committee's General Office and was demoted unexpectedly.
He was replaced by Li Zhanshu, thought to be a close ally of the "princeling" of Chinese politics, Vice-President Xi Jinping.
"It is quite possible that Xi Jinping wanted to get rid of Hu Jintao's oldest confidant," says Jin Zhong. "And because the son was involved in the incident, he was able to depose him immediately."
Observers say that wiithout his cabinet secretary, President Hu Jintao, who has been reluctant to carry reforms, is much weaker. Reportedly, he was unable to bring in one of his cronies to fill the post.
After the 18th party congress this fall when he is due to leave office, he is likely to have considerable less power than his predecessors.

其實,在那理想主義橫溢的年代裡,我也是一個國內事務和國際政治上的生手。我竟然如此天真,在日本投降後不久,發了一通長電到重慶轉交給我從前的學生毛澤東,嚴肅而又誠懇的向他說明,現在日本既已投降,共產黨已沒有任何理由繼續維持一個龐大的私人部隊……當然,我至今沒有收到回音。
In fact I, too, was just as naive a tyro in national and international politics in those days of expansive idealism. So naive, indeed, was I that shortly after VJ Day I sent a lengthy radiogram to Chungking to be forwarded to my former student Mao Tse-tung, solemnly and earnestly pleading with him that, now that Japan had surrendered there was no more justification for the Chinese Communists to continue to maintain a huge private army...Of course, to this day I have never received a reply .


ty·po
(tī'pō) pronunciation
n. Informal, pl., -pos.
A typographical error.

tyro

noun: One who is beginning to learn something.
(《複数形音節ty・ros 発音記号/[N16-A12A]z/) 初心者初学者.



Etymology
From Latin tiro (young soldier, recruit). Earliest documented use: 1611.

Usage
"It seems as if the latest young tyro is in contact with his inner old fogey." — Donald Clarke; Shadow Lands; The Irish Times (Dublin); Apr 22, 2011.

tyro[ty・ro]

  • 発音記号[táiərou]

[名]初学者, 初心者(tiro).


 fogey=fogy
  • 発音記号[fóugi]

[名]((通例old 〜))時代遅れの頑固者.
fo・gy・ish
[形]時代遅れの;頑迷な.
fó・gy・ìsm
[名][U]時代遅れ, 昔かたぎ.




《中英對照讀新聞》Ochocinco cereal box uses sex-line number 歐邱辛柯的麥片盒使用色情電話號碼
◎張沛元
Charity-minded callers are getting intercepted by a phone-sex line because of a typo on Chad Ochocinco’s Cereal boxes. The phone number is supposed to connect callers to Feed the Children, which benefits from sales of the Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver’s cereal.
美式足球明星查德.歐邱辛柯的麥片盒上的印刷錯誤,導致有心作慈善的致電者被色情電話業者攔截。這個電話號碼本應把致電者的電話連接到「餵養孩童組織」。該組織希望能靠這名辛辛那提孟加拉虎隊外接員所銷售的麥片獲益。
But the box has the wrong toll-free prefix, meaning callers get a seductive-sounding woman who makes risque suggestions and then asks for a credit card number.
但麥片盒上的免付費電話號碼的字頭被印錯,意味致電者聽到的一名語氣挑逗的女子口出有害風化的暗示,然後要求致電者提供信用卡號碼。
Cincinnati-based Kroger Co. said it was pulling all Ochocinco cereal boxes from its grocery shelves because of the error.
總部設在辛辛那提的食品零售商克洛格公司表示,由於發生此一錯誤,店內所有的歐邱辛柯麥片盒已全部下架。
Pittsburgh-based PLB Sports Inc., which specializes in limited-edition products featuring star athletes and their favorite charities, apologized for the error in a statement. The statement said the boxes will be re-issued with the correct toll-free number.
總部設在匹茲堡的PLB公司發表聲明就此錯誤致歉,該公司專門從事運動明星與其喜愛的慈善團體合作的限量版產品。聲明中指出,這些麥片盒會在印上正確的免付費電話號碼後重新推出。
新聞辭典
intercept: 動詞,攔截。例句:The test was to demonstrate the ability of ABMD to intercept a ballistic missile.(本測試在於展示神盾彈道飛彈防禦系統的攔截彈道飛彈的能力。)
specialize in something:慣用語,專攻,專門從事。例句:He specializes in tropical medicine.(他專攻熱帶醫學。)
toll- free:形容詞,免付費。toll,名詞,過橋或過路費;長途電話費;損失;死亡人數。例句:Poverty and inadequate health care take their toll on the quality of a community’s health.(貧窮與不當的醫療照護已拖累社區衛生品質。)


risque
(rĭs-kā') pronunciation
adj.
Suggestive of or bordering on indelicacy or impropriety.
  • [riskéi | –]

[形]きわどい, わいせつ気味の.


[French, from past participle of risquer, to risk, from risque, risk. See risk.]

2020年11月23日 星期一

Laïcité, Air-Independent Propulsion, AIP





Laïcité is neither a form of state atheism, nor the outlawing of religion. Rather, it protects private religious belief but keeps religion out of public affairs

非大気依存推進 - Wikipedia
ja.wikipedia.org › wiki › 非大気依存推進


非大気依存推進(ひたいきいそんすいしん、英: Air-Independent Propulsion, AIP)は、内燃機関(ディーゼル機関)の作動に必要な大気中の酸素を取り込むために浮上もしくはシュノーケル航走をせずに潜水艦を潜航させることを可能にする ...
歴史 · ‎AIPの諸類型 · ‎展望と限界 · ‎AIP潜水艦の建造国と型式

絕氣推進英文Air-Independent PropulsionAIP、亦稱:不倚賴空氣推進),是指無需獲取外間空氣中氧氣的情況下能夠長時間地驅動潛艇的技術。使用該技術的潛艇的自持力比一般需要上水面換氣的柴電潛艇的大一倍以上,也即連續的潛航時間及潛航距離較長,但仍比核潛艇短很多。其造價介乎一般柴電潛艇與核潛艇之間。
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潛艦國造今天上午正式開工,海軍提到其高性能電池能夠取代絕氣推進系統(AIP)。
AIP 到底是什麼?兩者之間真的是替代關係嗎?



Laïcité 世俗主義 Principe de séparation de la société civile et de la société religieuse.

2020年11月22日 星期日

大流行(pandemic)、冠狀病毒(coronavirus)、保持社交距離(social distancing)和封鎖(lockdown)

  牛津詞典放棄選擇單一年度詞彙轉而強調疫情對集體語境的影響。字典出版方表示,該團隊認為2020年最獨特的地方在於其全方位的巨大變化。全球範圍內的大流行主導了公眾對話,並幾乎在一夜之間為我們提供了新的詞彙合集。一些在今年家喻戶曉的流行用詞包括大流行(pandemic)、冠狀病毒(coronavirus)、保持社交距離(social distancing)和封鎖(lockdown)等。


The pandemic turned once-obscure public-health terminology like “social distancing” or “flatten the curve” into household terms, and made words and phrases like “lockdown” and “stay-at-home” common. More subtly, it also altered usage patterns for ho-hum words like “remote” and “remotely.”

2020年11月20日 星期五

The president of the United States (POTUS) , @POTUS account





Twitter says it will give @POTUS account to Biden on ...
www.cnn.com › 2020/11/20 › tech › twitter-biden-trump-...



1 日前 — The @POTUS account is the official account of the President of the United States and is separate from the @realDonaldTrump account that Trump uses to tweet. This will also apply to about a dozen White House accounts, ...






President of the United States - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org › wiki › President_o...


The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States ...
Salary: $400,000 annually
First holder: George Washington
Term length: Four years, renewable once
Appointer: Electoral College
History and development · ‎Legislative powers · ‎Executive powers · ‎Leadership roles


2020年11月17日 星期二

doing more harm than good, capitulate, bear, live, relevance, truly, out of harm's way/ 'Way Out of', WHEN THE FOEMAN BEARS HIS STEEL


The campaign removed an allegation that more than 600,000 votes should be invalidated, capitulating on one of its most aggressive legal claims.
WASHINGTONPOST.COM
Trump campaign jettisons major parts of its legal challenge against Pennsylvania’s election results
The campaign removed an allegation that more th
TRUMP 總統的投訴運動取消了一項指控,即超過60萬張選票應作廢,這是放棄其最激進的法律主張之一。

A majority of people around the world believe capitalism in its current form is doing more harm than good, a survey found ahead of this week's Davos meeting of business and political leaders.


Brexit Cost Rises as Britain Retreats on Divorce Demands

By STEPHEN CASTLE

Britain has capitulated to the E.U., doubling its cash offer as part of exit talks. It was not the first time, analysts say, and won't be the last.


Cruz: My Wife Is 'Way Out of' Trump's League
ABCN.WS|由 ABC NEWS 上傳

In normal circumstances, we would not advocate Congress interfering in the conduct of foreign affairs, the responsibility of the executive branch. However, since 1979 China has brought increasing pressure to bear on U.S. Presidents, so that they have tended to put off arms sales to Taiwan for their successor to handle. As Taiwan's defense becomes more and more precarious, a future U.S. President may have to put Americans in harm's way to defend the island or see a democracy capitulate to an aggressor.
When Microsoft reports its third-quarter earnings Thursday, investors will be watching closely for insights about Windows 8, a coming product vital to ensuring the software giant's relevance in computing.




按下看大圖
漫畫來源: Ted Goff




out of harm's way


In a safe place:some of the fortune was placed overseas out of harm’s way

 relevance
  • 発音記号[réləvəns, -vənsi] [名][U]
1 (当面する問題との)関連性;適切さ, 妥当性((to ...))
have relevance to ...
…に関連している.
2 今日の重大な社会問題との関連.
3 《コンピュータ》(情報検索システムの)検索能力.truly

(trū') pronunciation
adv.
  1. Sincerely; genuinely: We are truly sorry for the inconvenience.
  2. Truthfully; accurately: reported the matter truly.
  3. Indeed: truly ugly.
  4. Properly: not truly civilized.

--

"Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it." — Monica Seles


live

v., lived, liv·ing, lives.v.intr.

  1. To be alive; exist.
  2. To continue to be alive: lived through a bad accident.
  3. To support oneself; subsist: living on rice and fish; lives on a small inheritance.
  4. To reside; dwell: lives on a farm.
  5. To conduct one's life in a particular manner: lived frugally.
  6. To pursue a positive, satisfying existence; enjoy life: those who truly live.
  7. To remain in human memory: an event that lives on in our minds.
v.tr.
  1. To spend or pass (one's life).
  2. To go through; experience: lived a nightmare.
  3. To practice in one's life: live one's beliefs.
phrasal verbs:live down

  1. To overcome or reduce the shame of (a misdeed, for example) over a period of time.
live in
  1. To reside in the place where one is employed: household servants who live in.
live out
  1. To live outside one's place of domestic employment: household servants who live out.
live with
  1. To put up with; resign oneself to: disliked the situation but had to live with it.
idioms:live it up Slang.
  1. To engage in festive pleasures or extravagances.
live up to
  1. To live or act in accordance with: lived up to their parents' ideals.
  2. To prove equal to: a new technology that did not live up to our expectations.
  3. To carry out; fulfill: lived up to her end of the bargain.
[Middle English liven, from Old English libban, lifian.]

live2 (līv) pronunciation
adj.
  1. Having life; alive: live animals. See synonyms at living.
  2. Of, related to, or occurring during the life of one that is living: a live birth; the live weight of an animal before being slaughtered.
  3. Of current interest or relevance: a live topic; still a live option.
  4. Informal. Full of life, excitement, or activity; lively: a live crowd at the parade; a live party.
  5. Glowing; burning: live coals.
  6. Not yet exploded but capable of being fired: live ammunition.
  7. Electricity. Carrying an electric current or energized with electricity: live cables lying dangerously on the ground.
  8. Not mined or quarried; in the natural state: live ore.
    1. Broadcast while actually being performed; not taped, filmed, or recorded: a live television program.
    2. Involving performers or spectators who are physically present: live entertainment; a live audience.
  9. Of, relating to, or containing living, often modified microorganisms: a live vaccine; live yogurt cultures.
  10. Printing. Not yet set into type: live copy.
  11. Sports. In play: a live ball.
adv.
At, during, or from the time of actual occurrence or performance: The landing on the moon was telecast live.

[Short for ALIVE.]
liveness live'ness n.

capitulate

(kə-pĭch'ə-lāt') pronunciation
intr.v., -lat·ed, -lat·ing, -lates.
  1. To surrender under specified conditions; come to terms.
  2. To give up all resistance; acquiesce. See synonyms at yield.
[Medieval Latin capitulāre, capitulāt-, to draw up in chapters, from capitulum, chapter. See chapter.]
  • [kəpítʃulèit]
[動](自)
1 ((形式))(敵に)降伏する;(要求に)屈する((to ...)).
2 抵抗を止める;黙従する.



bear 

v.tr.
  1. To hold up; support.
  2. To carry from one place to another; transport.
  3. To carry in the mind; harbor: bear a grudge.
  4. To transmit at large; relate: bearing glad tidings.
  5. To have as a visible characteristic: bore a scar on the left arm.
  6. To have as a quality; exhibit: "A thousand different shapes it bears" (Abraham Cowley).
  7. To carry (oneself) in a specified way; conduct: She bore herself with dignity.
  8. To be accountable for; assume: bearing heavy responsibilities.
  9. To have a tolerance for; endure: couldn't bear his lying.
  10. To call for; warrant: This case bears investigation.
  11. To give birth to: bore six children in five years.
  12. To produce; yield: plants bearing flowers.
  13. To offer; render: I will bear witness to the deed.
  14. To move by or as if by steady pressure; push: "boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past" (F. Scott Fitzgerald).
v.intr.
  1. To yield fruit; produce: peach trees that bear every summer.
  2. To have relevance; apply: They studied the ways in which the relativity theory bears on the history of science.
  3. To exert pressure, force, or influence.
    1. To force oneself along; forge.
    2. To endure something with tolerance and patience: Bear with me while I explain matters.
  4. To extend or proceed in a specified direction: The road bears to the right at the bottom of the hill.

WHEN THE FOEMAN BEARS HIS STEEL



bear arms

  • 1carry firearms.
2wear or display a coat of arms.

[名][U]
1 鋼鉄, 鋼(はがね)
stainless steel
ステンレス鋼.
2 [C]鋼鉄製品;(石に穴をあける)鋼鉄の棒;火うち金;(包丁などを研ぐ)やすり[とぎ]棒.
3 ((〜s))鋼鉄株[相場].
4 ((単数形))((文))剣, 刀(sword).
5 ((比喩))(鋼鉄のような)堅さ, 強い能力
nerves of steel
強靭(きょうじん)な神経.
6 ((形容詞的))鋼;鋼鉄製
the steel industry
製鋼業
a steel ingot
鋼塊.
7 固い響き.
━━[形](色・堅さ・強さなどが)鋼のような, 何にも動じない.
━━[動](他)
1 …に鋼の先[刃]をつける;…に鋼を張る[着せる];…に鋼めっきをする
steel an ax
おのに鋼の刃をつける.
2 …を(色・堅さなどで)鋼に似せる.
3 〈人の〉心を(…に対して)堅固[不屈, 無情, 頑固]にする((for, against ...));((〜 -self))(…)しようと決心する((to do))
steel oneself to testify in court
法廷で証言しようと決心する.

foe

Syllabification: (foe)
Pronunciation: /fō/
noun
  • an enemy or opponent:join forces against the common foe

Origin:

Old English fāh 'hostile' and gefā 'enemy'; related to feud