esteem, Gallicism, Germanism, international esteem, Global Image, Survey

China’s international esteem continues to hover near all-time lows despite improved marks for its handling of the pandemic, a new poll in 17 advanced economies found.



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China Falls Behind U.S. in Global Image, Survey Data Shows

這在舊俄小說19世紀大家中很平常 Gal·li·cism (găl'ĭ-sĭz'əm) n.

1. A French phrase or idiom appearing in another language.
2. A characteristic French trait.

A Gallicism can be:

• a mode of speech peculiar to the French;
• a French idiom;
• in general, a French mode or custom.
• loanwords, words or phrases borrowed from French.

In speaking or writing English, a Gallicism often results from a direct translation from French, giving an unidiomatic expression. False friends often provide occasions for Gallicisms: For example, using the verb to assist to mean to be present at (as in the French assister à) is a Gallicism.

See also

• Fowler's Modern English Usage
• Francization
• Franglais
• Gallicize
• List of English words of French origin
• List of French phrases used by English speakers
• Gallicanism, a religious-political philosophy from France
• Gallican Rite, an ancient church rite

External links

• French/English false friends

Ger·man·ism (jûr'mə-nĭz'əm) n.

1. An attitude, custom, or feature that seems characteristically German.
2. A linguistic feature of German, especially a German idiom or phrasing that appears in a language other than German.
3. Esteem for Germany and emulation of German ways.

mum's the word, bonhomie, affability, 'Commencement', affability is disarming,

For now, the goal of a vast high-tech security state is out of reach. But the authorities, generally mum about security, are trying to convince the population it’s already arrived.



His affability is disarming, but it also masks a competitive streak that propelled Mr Banga from fast food to one of the top jobs at Citigroup, where he ran the global consumer bank, before joining MasterCard last year with a promise of quickly being promoted to chief executive.

他的亲和力容易让人消除戒心，但同时也掩盖了他勇于竞争的性格，这种性格使彭安杰从快餐行业，成长为花旗集团(Citigroup)的高管，负责该集团的个人银行业务。去年，他转投万事达，该公司承诺他将很快升任首席执行官。



Japan MOF's Ikeda targets deflation, mum on BOJ
Reuters
By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO, June 14 (Reuters) - Japan's new deputy finance minister Motohisa Ikeda said he will do his utmost to help the economy escape ...



Trump and McConnell Strive for Comity Amid Rising Tensions

By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

President Trump and Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, put on a public display of bonhomie, waving aside reports of a disintegrating relationship.

'Commencement'

By J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN
Reviewed by MARIA RUSSO

In this affable first novel, alternating chapters present the viewpoints of four women who establish enduring bonds in their first week at Smith College.

A Genial Conservative for New York’s Archdiocese 
By MICHAEL POWELL
Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan is known for affability and an adherence to Rome’s conservative line.
Abroad, China’s hospitality (towards those who managed to get visas, at least), lavish spectacles and magnificent new stadiums drew widespread praise. But there will be many doubts about whether all the Olympic bonhomie has transformed the way China sees the world. As China’s response to foreign reactions to the unrest in Tibet in March suggested, this can be worryingly xenophobic. The party still sees it as essential to its legitimacy to portray the country as a victim of Western efforts to contain and dismember it.

bonhomie

n. (bŏn'ə-mē')
A pleasant and affable disposition; geniality.和藹可親

[French, from bonhomme, good-natured man : bon, good (from Latin bonus) + homme, man (from Latin homō).]

bonhomous bon'ho·mous (bŏn'ə-məs) adj.

affable
adjective
friendly and easy to talk to:
He struck me as an affable sort of a man.
She was quite affable at the meeting.

affably
adverb
He greeted us affably.

affability
noun [U] FORMAL


mum
adj.
Not verbalizing; silent.

interj.
Used as a command to stop speaking.

idiom:
mum's the word

1. Say nothing of the secret you know: Mum's the word on the surprise party.

[Middle English, perhaps imitative of closing one's lips.]

mum² (mŭm)
intr.v., mummed, mum·ming, mums.

1. To act or play in a pantomime.
2. To go merrymaking in a mask or disguise especially during a festival.

[Middle English mummen, from Old French momer, to wear a mask.]

mum³ (mŭm)
n. Chiefly British
Mother.

[Short for MUMMY².]

disarming
adj.
Tending to allay suspicion or hostility; winning favor or confidence: a disarming smile.

disarmingly dis·arm'ing·ly adv.

bonhomie, affability, 'Commencement'

  

affability[af・fa・bil・i・ty]

• 発音記号[æ`fəbíləti]

[名][U]愛想のよさ, 温和（な物腰）, 優しさ.

 

chlorine, Puerperal fever monthly mortality rates. Natural Pool-Owners Are Kissing Chlorine and Other Chemicals Goodbye

v

No chlorine? No problem. This summer, homeowners are trading traditional pools for natural or "bio" pools, which are completely chemical-free.

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Natural Pool-Owners Are Kissing Chlorine and Other Chemicals Goodbye

産褥熱の予防法

v Puerperal fever monthly mortality rates for the First Clinic at Vienna Maternity Institution 1841–1849. Rates drop markedly when Semmelweis implemented chlorine handwashing mid-May 1847 (see rates).

earthquake, venusquakes. moonquakes or marsquakes, high-altitude balloon

Scientists just detected an earthquake from a balloon and ...
https://www.space.com › earthquake-...
2 日前 — But venusquakes are going to be more difficult to detect than either moonquakes or marsquakes, simply because of how hostile the planet's surface is. No lander has operated on the Venusian surface for much more than two ...

Quake (natural phenomenon) - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Qua...

Venusquake[edit] ... A venusquake is a quake that occurs on the planet Venus. A venusquake may have caused a new scarp and a landslide to form. An image of the landslides was taken in November 1990 during the first flight around Venus by ...
‎Moonquake · ‎Venusquake · ‎Sunquake · ‎Starquake


Caltech

A new study details how, in 2019, a high-altitude balloon from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech made the first balloon-borne detection of an earthquake. 
The technique is being developed to detect venusquakes.



CALTECH.EDU
NASA Balloon Detects California Earthquake – Next Stop, Venus?

vibrator, sexology, masturbation,高風險自淫， anorak, amulet, fascinum,nocturnal emissions, phallic amulet, anorak, furtive, autoeroticism, self-loathing

Illustration by The New York Times

Hallie Lieberman

(Almost) Everything You Know About the Invention of the Vibrator Is Wrong

A Victorian doctor created the “vibratode,” but it was our great-great- grandmothers who saw its real potential.

12h ago

Atlas Obscura
The amulets were shaped like a fascinum, or a divine penis, to ward off disease and the evil eye.
[佛牌是外型像fascinum, 或一個神聖的陰莖, 避凶的疾病和邪惡之眼.
為此翻譯評分






Romans Used to Ward Off Sickness with Flying Penis Amulets
Maybe it worked?
ATLASOBSCURA.COM




What do a bronze phallic amulet; a series of 19th-century steel-plated serrated penis rings designed to prevent masturbation and loss of sperm through nocturnal emissions; and an early 20th-century vibrator made of brass, steel and rubber have in common? They are all part of “The Institute of Sexology”, the latest exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London http://econ.st/1DFF0RL
做一個青銅的陽具護身符 ；一系列旨在防止手淫和精子穿過夢遺 ； 損失的 19 世紀鋼鍍的鋸齒狀的陰莖環早期的 20 世紀振子由黃銅製成，鋼和橡膠有共同點嗎？他們都是"研究所的性學"，韋爾科姆收藏在倫敦 HTTP://econ.st/1DFF0RL 的最新展
翻譯由 Bing 提供

Let's talk about sex

MAKE no mistake: “The Institute of Sexology”, the latest exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London, is not about sex. It deals rather with the study of...
ECON.ST
The Economist

British road-safety adverts are more shocking than those broadcast in America. The British penchant for horror might reflect the nation’s long tradition of public-service broadcasting, which seeks to entertain and inform at once. But do the ads work? Though gory, shocking public-information films linger in people’s heads, they seem not to alter behaviour much http://econ.st/1DHErXJ


Don’t stop, don’t look, don’t listen

CHATTERING schoolchildren don colourful anoraks; clutching hands, they depart for a woodland picnic. Elsewhere a young man leaps into his car and speeds off to work....
ECON.ST


In ancient Roman religion and magic, the fascinus or fascinum was the embodiment of the divine phallus. The word can refer to the deity himself (Fascinus), to phallus effigies and amulets, and to the spells used to invoke his divine protection.

Fascinus - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascinus


【2019年熱點回顧】每年80到100名德國人死於手淫，高風險自淫受害者大多是男性，因為女性在自淫體驗中往往「更小心謹慎」。


Amulet
An amulet is an object whose most important characteristic is the power ascribed to it to protect its owner from danger or harm. Wikipedia

anorak

Line breaks: ano¦rak
Pronunciation: /ˈanərak/

Definition of anorak in English:
NOUN

1A waterproof jacket, typically with a hood, of a kind originally used in polar regions.

Images for ANORAKReport images

2 British informal , derogatory A studious or obsessive person with unfashionable and largely solitary interests:with his thick specs, shabby shoes, and grey suit, he looks a bit of an anorak

"Anorak" /ˈænəræk/ is a British slang term which refers to a person who has a very strong interest, perhaps obsessive, in niche subjects. This interest may be unacknowledged or not understood by the general public. The term is sometimes used synonymously with "geek" or "nerd", the Spanish term "friki", or the Japanese term "otaku", albeit referring to different niches.

Contents

• 1Etymology
• 2Examples of use
• 3Background
• 4References
  
  

Origin

1920s: from Greenlandic anoraq. The British English informal sense dates from the 1980s and derives from the anoraks worn by trainspotters, regarded as typifying this kind of person.

furtive, autoeroticism, masturbation, self-loathing

National Gallery of Art

Examine this Venetian street scene by John Singer Sargent. Is it what you typically think of when you imagine Venice?

Sargent’s scene of Venice eliminates all of the traditional clichéd tourist symbols of Venice—gondoliers, canals, and the Rialto Bridge. Instead, he evokes the atmosphere of a Venice known to local inhabitants, a city of lonely figures and furtive conversation in deserted passageways.

What do you think the woman in the painting could be thinking? Where do yo⋯⋯

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One of those greater, later nightmares is “Last Look” (1985), another Taylor collaboration with Mr. Katz. What kind of hell is this? The dancers all start in — and return to — a single pile, but the women are wearing bright kimonos, and the men green jumpsuits that speak of glamour. Mirrors define the space, but on the few occasions that these characters look at their reflections, they’re likely to recoil or to peer in alarm. Donald York’s commissioned score quotes from Ravel’s “Valse” and other works.

A duet for Mr. Trusnovec and Amy Young suggests that each is furtively masturbating. Both look wracked by desire and shame. At one point she lies down and parts her legs invitingly; his immediate reaction is to stamp between her legs in a gesture of rejection. The whole work is steeped in the misery of self-loathing. There is not one movement that should be labeled a formal dance step; that’s true of “Esplanade” too, but there it’s part of the dancers’ naturalness, whereas here everyone seems stunted.

WordNet: autoeroticism

Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words.

The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: using you own body as a sexual object

Synonym: autoerotism

autoerotique

今天討論到autoerotique

也許梁兄知道翻譯

au·to·er·o·tism.

1. Self-satisfaction of sexual desire, as by masturbation.

2. The arousal of sexual feeling without an external stimulus.

這正是吳翻譯的 請參考p.158

我當時提出它與自戀之關係

博士們都說差多了 其實jk接下來講了兩次自戀

furtive

ˈfəːtɪv/

adjective

1. attempting to avoid notice or attention, typically because of guilt or a belief that discovery would lead to trouble; secretive.

   "they spent a furtive day together"

   synonyms:

   secretive, secret, surreptitious; More

   • suggestive of guilty nervousness.

     "the look in his eyes became furtive"

revelling in low company. mulled wine

mull

verb [ T ]

UK 

 /mʌl/ US 

 /mʌl/

 

to heat wine or beer with added sugar and spices:

Have you ever tried mulling cider?

mulled wine 熱酒

 I enjoy my own company (= I like being alone).

low company  或許是極少人的聚會

revelling in low company

Meaning of revel in sth in English

 

revel in sth

— phrasal verb with revel 

 

to get great pleasure from a situation or an activity:

She's revelling in her newly found freedom.

He revelled in his role as team manager.

favorability, ill-favored, infest, ugly (THREATENING), Bear Market, bite the dust.a flea infestation ravages , Flea Circus,

And there is political peril in Japan: 37 percent is the current favorability rating for Japan’s prime minister, Yoshihide Suga. His political fortunes may be tied too closely to the Games to cancel them.

Beijing has allocated 1.4 billion yuan (US$200 million) for the prevention and control of pests, including locusts and fall armyworms.

UN experts say China unlikely to suffer major locust infestation because Himalaya mountains act as ‘natural barrier’, but the government is not taking the matter lightly.

SCMP.COM

China steps up locust prevention as infestation ravages India, PakistanUN experts say China unlikely to suffer major locust infestation because Himalaya mountains act as ‘natural barrier’, but the government is not taking the matter lightly.

‎Raymond Morelli‎ 發文到 Vintage Weird

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From 1925 to 1969 in Tmes Square there was Hubert’s Dime Museum and Flea Circus

Professor Heckler’s Flea Circus, depicted below (the “fleas” enlarged 700 times, and obviously embellished) in a feature on Prof. Heckler in the March 1930 issue of Modern Mechanics:

an ill-favoured smile讓人不舒服的笑容
我一直覺得英文作者喜歡用「上義詞」(這是邏輯或語意學用語)，an ill-favoured smile就是其中之一。
「讓人不舒服的笑容」的下義詞可能有：邪笑、奸笑、陰測測地笑、不懷好意地笑、不討人喜歡的笑、皮笑肉不笑(淫笑)等。
照我所知，opalescent指的是類似毛玻璃的半透明，而不是色彩，「蛋白石」指的也是半透明，和一般寶石的清澈見底不同。所以文中的The air is opalescent 大致是中文的迷濛。
Bear Market's Bite Could Go Deeper


NEW YORK, Feb. 20 -- With the Dow Jones industrial average plunging past its lowest point since the financial crisis began, panicked investors are asking: How much uglier can it get?
(By Tomoeh Murakami Tse and Alejandro Lazo, The Washington Post)

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"These guys all have monkey godparents. In the event both of us bite the dust, they have a place to go."
DAVE VIGUERS, who with his wife owns six capuchin monkeys, on the future of their pets.

bite the dust
PHRASE
informal

1Be killed.

‘the baddies bite the dust with lead in their bellies’


1.1 Fail or come to an end.

• 1. ‘she hoped the new course would not bite the dust for lack of funding’

bite the dust

Suffer defeat or death, as in The 1990 election saw both of our senators bite the dust. Although this expression was popularized by American Western films of the 1930s, in which either cowboys or Indians were thrown from their horses to the dusty ground, it originated much earlier. Tobias Smollett had it in Gil Blas (1750): "We made two of them bite the dust."

ugly (THREATENING)
adjective
unpleasant and threatening or violent:
There were ugly scenes outside the stadium.
The demonstration turned ugly when a group of protesters started to throw bottles at the police.

ugliness
noun [U]


bear market noun [C]
a time when the price of shares is falling and a lot of people are selling them

bear (FINANCE)
noun [C] SPECIALIZED
a person who sells shares when prices are expected to fall in order to make a profit by buying them back again at a lower price
Compare bull (FINANCE).

bearish
adjective SPECIALIZED
expecting a fall in prices:
The overall oil price outlook is expected to remain bearish.
See also bearish at bear (ANIMAL).


infest
verb [T]
(of animals and insects which carry disease) to cause a problem by being present in large numbers:
The barn was infested with rats.

infestation
noun [C or U]
a flea infestation
an infestation of cockroaches/head lice

in・fest

 

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━━ vt. （山賊などが）横行する, 荒し回る; （害虫などが）たかる.
 in・fes・ta・tion

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Hanching Chung

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張華夫人回美國之前 跟他先生來訪.我才知道張兄年底要退休了 以及他到高雄科博館演講Alice二書中的科學.

梁永安先生趁機會寫下他對張華兄的一些"心得":我與張華兄的淵源：

早在親身認識張兄以前便拜讀過他的大文〈《英漢大詞典》的商榷〉（載於《翻譯學研究集刊》第四輯），驚為天人（評論詞條缺失需要硬橋硬馬工夫，非有深厚蘊積不為功）。若干年後，張兄以本名現身上述提過的翻譯討論網站，一上場也是談《英漢大詞典》（陸谷孫主編）。我起初聯想不起來，但隨即納悶怎麼又有一個人對《英漢》如此熟悉，心血來潮，把〈商榷〉翻出來看，發現作者果然也叫張華。我在網站上點破他的「身分」，後來便通信起來。嗣後，鍾先生弄了個叫Simon University的網站（他也是管理學大師Herbert A. Simon的大粉絲），繼續不時拋些翻譯問題考大家。我和張兄同是常客（另兩位最常參與討論的是學貫中西的鄭小姐和法文了得的繆小姐），時相切磋，不亦樂夫。張兄就像鍾先生一樣，專業不在文科（是位大工程師），卻對文字、詞書與翻譯興趣盎然，孜孜鑽研，又不時抽空下海翻譯，小試牛刀（以文章為主，書本類有兩本）。張兄功底深厚，見解常發人所未發，讓我有茅塞頓開之感。茲舉兩個印象深刻的例子：

an ill-favoured smile讓人不舒服的笑容

我一直覺得英文作者喜歡用「上義詞」(這是邏輯或語意學用語)，an ill-favoured smile就是其中之一。

「讓人不舒服的笑容」的下義詞可能有：邪笑、奸笑、陰測測地笑、不懷好意地笑、不討人喜歡的笑、皮笑肉不笑(淫笑)等。

照我所知，opalescent指的是類似毛玻璃的半透明，而不是色彩，「蛋白石」指的也是半透明，和一般寶石的清澈見底不同。所以文中的The air is opalescent 大致是中文的迷濛。

我曾為文討論過，趙元任把兔眼的pink譯為「淡紅」、後來的譯者都譯為「粉紅」，其間即有透明度與色彩的分別。

She rose with an ill-favoured smile, and taking a few steps towards a wall of holly that was near at hand, dividing the lawn from a kitchen-garden, said, in a louder voice, "Come here!"—as if she were calling to some unclean beast.

 ill-favored

其貌不揚

1: unattractive in physical appearanceespecially : having an ugly face

2: OFFENSIVE, OBJECTIONABLE

Unattractive.

‘a crotchety, ill-favoured human being’

William Shakespeare

Self-love, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting. O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!