2021年6月30日 星期三

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.



WSJ.COM
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) pronunciation n.
  1. A French phrase or idiom appearing in another language.
  2. A characteristic French trait.

A Gallicism can be:

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.

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Ger·man·ism (jûr'mə-nĭz'əm) pronunciation 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.

2021年6月29日 星期二

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.


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-məsadj.

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) pronunciation
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) pronunciation
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.

 

2021年6月27日 星期日

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.




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).

all but, clinch, title, final, passage (LAW), play hardball, clinch with aide

Britain's health minister Matt Hancock quit on Saturday after he was caught breaking Covid-19 rules by kissing and embracing an aide in his office, enraging colleagues and the public who have been living under lockdown.
Row over clinch with aide

Steve Patrizi, head of partner marketing at Pinterest, said stores were going

Retailers Seek Partners in Social Networks

By ELIZABETH A. HARRIS
Brick and mortar stores like Target and Walmart are engaging heavily with social networks, notably Pinterest, to clinch holiday sales.
Vonn and Miller All but Clinch Titles
Lindsey Vonn and Bode Miller all but assured themselves an American double at the World Cup Alpine skiing finals.


"The deal all but clinches passage of one of the largest economic rescue programs since Franklin Roosevelt launched the New Deal," notes the Wall Street Journal.


Democrats Woo Abortion Foes in Push for Health Bill
By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and ROBERT PEAR
House Democratic leaders were exploring a deal that would clinch the votes to pass the legislation, but they faced stiff resistance from lawmakers who support abortion rights.



passage
(LAW) 
noun [U] FORMAL
the official approval of something, especially a new law:
He again urged passage of a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion.




all but

almost:
The game was all but over by the time we arrived.clinch (WIN) Show phonetics
verb [T] INFORMAL
to finally get or win something:
I hear he finally clinched the deal to buy the land he wanted.

clinch (DECIDE) 
verb INFORMAL
clinch it to make someone decide what to do after a lot of consideration or discussion:
When they said the job would involve travelling to Paris, that clinched it (for her) (= that made her certain that she wanted the job).

clincher 
noun [C usually singular]
It was the offer of a large discount on the TV that was the real clincher (= the fact that made us decide to buy it).

clinch (HOLD) noun [C]
the position two people are in when they are holding each other tightly in their arms, when fighting or showing affection

title (SPORTS PRIZE)
noun [C]
the position you get by beating all other competitors in a sports competition:
Hendry won the world snooker title after a tense 35-frame final.

final (COMPETITION)
noun [C]
the last in a series of games, races or competitions, usually the one in which the winner is chosen:
Last year we got through to the final.
The men's basketball final will be on Sunday.

finalist 
noun [C]
a person or group competing in a final

the finals plural noun
the last set of games in a competition:
Do you think Scotland will qualify for the European Championship finals?

Big Wins for Clinton in Texas and Ohio; McCain Clinches Race as Foe Concedes


Microsoft may simply raise its offer to clinch a deal. But Mr. Liddell, speaking generally about negotiations last week to The Times, seemed to suggest he was willing to play hardball. "You have to be willing to walk away," he said.

Breaking the Clinch
By DAVID BROOKS
Iraq already has the psychological conditions that have undergirded the great bloodbaths of recent years.




play hardball MAINLY US INFORMAL
to be firm and determined in order to get what you want:
He's a nice guy, but he can play hardball when he needs to.





Microsoft may simply raise its offer to clinch a deal. But Mr. Liddell, speaking generally about negotiations last week to The Times, seemed to suggest he was willing to play hardball. "You have to be willing to walk away," he said.

Microsoft is planning to crisscross the nation to meet with Yahoo's largest shareholders in an election-style campaign, hoping they can put pressure on Yahoo's board, people briefed on the company's plans told The Times.

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━━ v. (抜けないようにくぎの頭を)打ち曲げる; 締める; (議論・契約などを)決定する; 【ボクシング】クリンチする; 〔俗〕 (恋人同士などが)しっかり抱き合う.
━━ n. くぎ先の打ち曲げ; 【ボクシング】クリンチ; 〔俗〕 (男女の)抱擁.
clinch・er ━━ n. 打ち曲げる道具; 〔話〕 決定的な議論, 決め手.


2021年6月26日 星期六

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?





2021年6月23日 星期三

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


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.

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
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:secretivesecretsurreptitiousMore
    • 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


 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