2022年8月27日 星期六

mascaron, tinder, snood, hairnet


Woman with Hairnet " 1949
By Pablo Picasso
Lithograph printed in color ink on wove paper
At Detroit Institute of Arts in USA





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Circle of Leonardo da Vinci in the Renaissance city of Milan 🧝‍♀️👨‍🎨
This colourful female portrait is believed to be painted somewhere around 1490 - 1500 in the Northern Italian city of Milan. The unidentified sitter is dressed exactly as it was common in that region in that exact period of time:
In Renaissance epoch women did usually grow their hair naturally long. They used to tide it up close to the head and cover with various snoods or veils.




This Art Nouveau building (jugendstil) was designed in 1904 by the architect Mikhail Eisenstein (1867—1921).
The building is decorated with figures and scenes from ancient mythology. It is dominated by a large mascaron representing Apollo, god of the sun, which is a symbolism dating from medieval times.
Alberta Street in Riga, Latvia.




tinder
/ˈtɪndə/発音を調べる
noun


dry, flammable material, such as wood or paper, used for lighting a fire.

"they slashed down the undergrowth for tinder"
snood の定義
名詞
1
an ornamental hairnet or fabric bag worn over the hair at the back of a woman's head.
Some people use a snood to keep it in place at night, while others shampoo theirs every day.
2
a wide ring of knitted material worn as a hood or scarf.
The one on the right seems annoyed that he didn't have the same bright idea as the one on the left to wear a snood under his police jacket.
3
a short line attaching a hook to a main line in sea fishing.
An eighteen inch snood dropped off from the swivel so that the two baits would fish almost in line with one another.
SNOODS の例




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Mascaron above a door from Paris

Mascaron from Rybnik (Poland)
In architecture, a mascaron ornament is a face, usually human, sometimes frightening or chimeric whose function was originally to frighten away evil spirits so that they would not enter the building.[1] The concept was subsequently adapted to become a purely decorative element. The most recent architectural style to extensively employ mascarons was Beaux Arts.[2][3]

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【#逐字學英文國際日報】72：tut, coma, craggy, airstrike, 'Beijing Coma', "Edinburgh (from Salisbury Crags)".

draw tuts, and cheers.
China’s vibrant city has become eerily quiet, with empty roads and shuttered business.
SHANGHAI: For more than a week, the rare resident of Shanghai who dared venture outside has encountered something unfamiliar: a surreal peace and ...



【#逐字學英文國際日報】72：tut, coma, craggy,  airstrike,  'Beijing Coma', "Edinburgh (from Salisbury Crags)".

ABC News SPECIAL REPORT: Pres. Donald J. Trump speaks following U.S. airstrike that killed Iranian commander.
Iran has vowed "vigorous vengeance" in response, and the Pentagon has deployed more roughly 3,500 troops to the Middle East. https://abcn.ws/2QPlMHo

"Edinburgh (from Salisbury Crags)". William Crozier. c.1927.

By MA JIAN
Reviewed by JESS ROW
A Chinese novel about dissidents whose lives changed forever at Tiananmen.

Coma mother is home for Christmas



Discover life along the craggy peninsula’s rugged coast.


[Alky breaks down]
[Tea-drinker tuts sweetly]

Definition

tut 
exclamation (ALSO tut tut)
a written representation of the sound made to show you disapprove of something, or a word said twice in a humorous way to suggest disapproval:
Tut, it's raining - I'm going to get soaked.
You're late again - tut tut!

tut
verb [I] -tt-
He walked off, tutting to himself.

[+ speech] "Still not out of bed?" she tutted (= said in disapproving way).



crag
noun [C]
a high rough mass of rock which sticks out from the land around it

craggy
adjective
1 having many crags:
a craggy coastline

2 describe a man's face that is quite roughly formed and has loose skin but is also attractive:
a craggy face
craggy features

crag



  
━━ n. 突き出た岩.
 crag・ged, crag・gy　━━ a. 岩だらけの; （顔が）いかつい.
crag・gi・ness　n.
 crags・man　岩登りを得意とする人, ロッククライマー.


co・ma1



 
--> 
━━ n. 昏(こん)睡.

coma 
noun [C]
a state of unconsciousness from which a person cannot be woken, which is caused by damage to the brain after an accident or illness:
He's been in a coma for the past six weeks.
She went into a deep coma after taking an overdose of sleeping pills.

comatose
adjective
1 SPECIALIZED in a coma

2 INFORMAL very tired or in a deep sleep because of extreme tiredness, hard work or too much alcohol:
By midnight I was virtually comatose.
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2022年8月25日 星期四

linkup, receptive, dissident, the laureate behind bars, Nobel-decorated dissident

California E.V. Mandate Finds a Receptive Auto Industry

The move to phase out gasoline-powered cars, with other states expected to follow, matches automakers’ plans. The challenge will be making it happen.

 英國「泰晤士報」報導4年前在中國壓力下被迫關門的銅鑼灣書店於上周末在台北重新開幕，創辦人林榮基表示：「我開一個書店，也是一個反抗。」

A Hong Kong bookshop that was closed down by the Chinese authorities more than four years ago and became a symbol of the city’s disappearing freedoms has reopened in #Taiwan. In The Times and The Sunday Times' article titled “Dissident Hong Kong bookseller moves banned shop to Taiwan”, Lam Wing-kee, founder of the bookshop, said “Here I can also fight back. This bookshop is a form of fighting back.”
THETIMES.CO.UK


Dissident Hong Kong bookseller moves banned shop to Taiwan

Daimler, BMW Discuss Linkup on Components
By EDWARD TAYLOR
BMW AG and Daimler AG's Mercedes-Benz Cars division are in talks to explore teaming up in developing, producing and purchasing car components, according to people familiar with the matter...

receptive, dissident

Many Yahoo shareholders, frustrated at the company for how it handled Microsoft's now-withdrawn takeover bid, would appear receptive to a dissident slate of directors. Breakingviews said Mr. Icahn would probably have "significant backing" if he tries to shake up Yahoo's board.

China Sentences Brother-in-Law of Laureate
By EDWARD WONG
The 11-year prison sentence is being widely seen as political persecution of the Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo.

The laureate behind bars
Oct 8th 2010, 12:58 by J.M. | BEIJING

Officials might one day choose an opportune moment to use the release of their Nobel-decorated dissident to win plaudits from Western governments. As Mr Liu has observed, China “has learned that by forcing famous dissidents into exile it kills two birds with one stone: it gives the dissidents a way out and wins favour with the international community; it also gets rid of direct political opponents, and belittles the moral image of dissidents within the country.” Mr Liu will now have to worry about such a fate for himself.


Why are the individuals and organisations awarded a Nobel Prize‬ called Nobel Prize laureates?
The word "laureate" refers to being signified by the laurel wreath. In Greek mythology, the god Apollo is represented wearing a laurel wreath on his head. A laurel wreath is a circular crown made of branches and leaves of the bay laurel (in Latin: Laurus nobilis). In Ancient Greece, laurel wreaths were awarded to victors as a sign of honour - both in athletic competitions and in poetic meets.
The 2021 Nobel Prize laureates will be revealed from tomorrow, starting with the medicine prize!


laureate

adj.
  1. Worthy of the greatest honor or distinction: "The nation's pediatrician laureate is preparing to lay down his black bag" (James Traub).
  2. Crowned or decked with laurel as a mark of honor.
  3. Archaic. Made of laurel sprigs, as a wreath or crown.
n.
  1. One honored or awarded a prize for great achievements especially in the arts or sciences: a Nobel laureate.
  2. A poet laureate.
[Middle English, from Latin laureātus, adorned with laurel, from laurea, crown of laurel, from feminine of laureus, of laurel, from laurus, laurel.]
laureateship lau're·ate·ship' n.

laureate


音節
lau • re • ate
発音
lɔ'ːriət
laureateの変化形
laureates (複数形)
[形]
1 ((文))（名誉の印として）月桂冠を頂いた.
2 （ある分野で）優秀な, 認められた；〈詩人が〉桂冠の栄誉に値する
a poet laureate
桂冠詩人.
3 〈花輪・冠などが〉月桂樹でできた.
━━[名]
1 名誉を受けた人, 受賞者
a Nobel laureate
ノーベル賞受賞者.
2 桂冠詩人.
3 賞賛者.
［ラテン語laureātus（laurus月桂樹＋-eus -eous＋-ATE1＝月桂樹の冠で飾られた）］
lau・re・ate・shìp
[名]

behind bars
In prison, as in All murderers should be put behind bars for life. The bars here refer to the iron rods used to confine prisoners. [c. 1900]



receptive 
adjective
willing to listen to and accept new ideas and suggestions:
The government is not receptive to the idea of a Freedom of Information Act.

receptiveness
noun [U] (ALSO receptivity)

dissident
noun [C]
a person who publicly disagrees with and criticizes their government:
political dissidents


彭淮棟先生 (著名譯者) ：＜譯歷自述＞：
＊自鑄新詞
字典有大用，而尺有所短。譯者於原文不見於中文辭書之字詞，允宜細考其義，自運鑪錘，創發新詞，不惟豐富中文，亦且嘉惠讀者。
．余未入聯經，已為聯經翻譯博藍尼《意義》、《博藍尼講演集》、《科學，哲學與社會》諸作。博藍尼談知識、思想，而時涉政治，數次提及東歐dissident。其時中文尚無dissident觀念，無論翻譯，余考索英文字根，幾經敲磨，譯為「異議分子」。

大數據控制不是極權主義的象徵嗎？是的。我們當然不會忘記人臉識別、手機監控、無處不在的攝像頭，還有海量信息收集編碼系統，它們在中國是政府控制異議人士的工具，也是鎮壓新疆穆斯林的工具，所以大數據控制乃《 1984》的當代版、人權迫害的代名詞，早已聲名狼藉。然而，當大數據控制用於抗疫呢？
dissident
adjective
a dissident group/writer

dissidence
noun [U]

slate (CHOOSE)



link (sth) up phrasal verb [M]to form a connection, especially in order to work or operate together:
The organization's aim is to link up people from all over the country who are suffering from the disease.
We offer advice to Polish companies who want to link up with Western businesses.

link-up  noun [C]
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2022年8月21日 星期日

is rank, to flag, flagrant. conflagration. Flagged Him as a Criminal


A Dad Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal.



In America and at the WHO, the departments in charge of epidemic readiness are often first in line when budget cuts are in order. Jonathan Quick likens that to closing the fire department because there has not been a conflagration for a while



The conflagration that illuminated the night sky over Los Angeles a few weeks ago—reducing a huge, half-built apartment block to ashes—has prompted calls for tougher safety requirements for large timber-frame buildings. The fireball shattered windows of surrounding high-rise office blocks, rendering them uninhabitable. Firemen and building inspectors were shocked by the intensity of the blaze http://econ.st/1rvCmMH





Putin's Silence on Syria Signals Resignation on Attack

New York Times - ‎2 hours ago‎
MOSCOW - Russia has made its opposition to military intervention in Syria vehemently clear. The foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, warns daily about the risk of an escalating conflagration.

 

 

'Flagrant Conduct'

By DALE CARPENTER
Reviewed by DAVID OSHINSKY
Dale Carpenter's book is a detailed account of Lawrence v. Texas, the Supreme Court case that overturned laws against homosexual conduct.

As Reforms Flag in Greece, Europe Aims to Limit Damage

By RACHEL DONADIO and NIKI KITSANTONIS 28 minutes ago
European officials say the task of negotiations with lenders is less to help Greece through its troubles than to avoid an uncontrolled default that could threaten the global financial system.


flag3 (flăg) pronunciation
intr.v., flagged, flag·ging, flags.
  1. To hang limply; droop.
  2. To decline in vigor or strength: The conversation flagged.
[Possibly of Scandinavian origin, akin to Old Norse flögra, to flap about.]



rank2 (răngk) pronunciation
adj., rank·er, rank·est.
  1. Growing profusely or with excessive vigor: rank vegetation in the jungle.
  2. Yielding a profuse, often excessive crop; highly fertile: rank earth.
  3. Strong and offensive in odor or flavor.
  4. Conspicuously offensive: rank treachery. See synonyms at flagrant.
  5. Absolute; complete: a rank amateur; a rank stranger.
[Middle English ranc, from Old English, strong, overbearing.]


Flag Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
https://www.merriam-webster.com › flag

1 : to signal with or as if with a flag especially : to signal to stop flagged the train —often used with down · 2 : to mark or identify with or as if with a ...
‎Red-flag · ‎False flag · ‎Red flag law · ‎Blue flag

flagrant[fla・grant]


  • 発音記号[fléigrənt]
[形]((限定))〈うそなどが〉あからさまな；悪名高い, 破廉恥な.
［ラテン語flagrāns（flagrāre燃える＋-ANT＝燃えている→きわめて明らかな）. △FLAME, CONFLAGRATION］
fla・grant・ly
[副]紛れもなく；非道に.



conflagration

Pronunciation: /ˌkɒnfləˈgreɪʃ(ə)n/
Translate conflagration | into Italian

noun

  • an extensive fire which destroys a great deal of land or property: tinder-dry conditions sparked fears of a conflagration in many drought-devastated communities

Origin:

late 15th century (denoting consumption by fire): from Latin conflagratio(n-), from the verb conflagrare, from con- (expressing intensive force) + flagrare 'to blaze'


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