The search for success can be elusive, and possibly nowhere more so than in Singapore, one of the most competitive and overworked places on the planet.
Opinion | Singapore’s Burnout Rate Shows the Price of Success
It’s time for one of the most stressed
For people suffering from burnout, being told to relax doesn’t work
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Similar afflictions have been recorded throughout human history. So what is it about the 21st century that has turned burnout into an epidemic? From The Economist’s 1843 magazine
Generation burnout: why increasing numbers of people feel the urge to shut down
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Wikipedia article "Eggcorn". 中文呢...
In linguistics, an eggcorn is an idiosyncratic substitution of a word or phrase for a word or words that sound similar or identical in the speaker's dialect (sometimes called oronyms). The new phrase introduces a meaning that is different from the original, but plausible in the same context, such as "old-timers' disease" for "Alzheimer's disease".[1] This is as opposed to a malapropism, where the substitution creates a nonsensical phrase. Classical malapropisms generally derive their comic effect from the fault of the user, while eggcorns are errors that exhibit creativity or logic.[2] Eggcorns often involve replacing an unfamiliar, archaic, or obscure word with a more common or modern word ("baited breath" for "bated breath").[3]
The term eggcorn was coined by a professor of linguistics, Geoffrey Pullum, in September 2003, in response to an article by Mark Liberman on the website Language Log, a blog for linguists.[4] Liberman discussed the case of a woman who substitutes the phrase egg corn for the word acorn, arguing that the precise phenomenon lacked a name; Pullum suggested using "eggcorn" itself. The phenomenon is very similar to the form of wordplay known as the pun, except that, by definition, the speaker (or writer) intends the pun to have some effect on the recipient, whereas one who speaks or writes an eggcorn is unaware of the mistake.
lounge
/laʊn(d)ʒ/
verb
gerund or present participle: lounging
- lie, sit, or stand in a relaxed or lazy way."several students were lounging about reading papers"
Chaise lounge
Meaning
A form of sofa with a backrest at one end only.
Origin
'Chaise lounge' appears to be a very early example of an eggcorn,
dating from long before eggcorns were given a name. [Note: eggcorns are words or phrases which have been coined mistakenly, often due to an incorrect guess as to how a word is spelled, but one which makes some kind of sense. For example, Old-Timer's Disease for Alzheimer's Disease and daring-do for derring-do.]
'Chaise lounge', also sometimes spelled 'chase lounge', began life as such a linguistic mistake and has survived because it does make intuitive sense. The piece of furniture in question is properly called a 'chaise longue'. The name is of French origin, of course, and has been known there since the 18th century, translating into English simply as 'long chair' - which is just what it is. The understandability of the misspelling of 'longue' as 'lounge' is that lounging is what one does on these sofas and the supposed translation of 'lounging chair' makes perfect sense.
The spelling and pronunciation as 'chaise lounge' is largely limited
to America. It is so well-established there that it is far too late to turn back
the clock - only the most foolhardy of visitors to the USA would attempt to flag
it as a mistake. The confusion for those outside America is added to by the fact
that those items of garden or poolside furniture which are known in most other
English-speaking countries as a 'sun-loungers', are also often called 'chaise
lounges' in the USA. Those English-speakers from the Mother Country who look down on this as a typical mangling of the language by those uncultured Yanks might be dismayed to find that the earliest known citation of the 'chaise lounge' spelling comes from no less a bastion of 'proper' English than The Times newspaper. The January 16th 1807 edition included an advert for An Assemblage of truly elegant furniture, fitted up in the most modern style, and this includes the offer of "sofas, chaise lounge, loo tables" etc. The earliest citation that I can find from America, and which appears to refer to a 'sun-lounger', is in the 4th January 1875 edition of The Newport Daily News:
"A real rattan chaise lounge, such as is made at Singapore."
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Obama Voices Optimism on the Economy corporate flame-outs is accelerating
By PETER BAKER
President Obama and his team sounded cautiously optimistic about the economy as part of an accelerating campaign to project confidence that the nation can pull out of the downturn.
Mervyn's and the parent company of Bennigan's both filed for bankruptcy protection yesterday, providing more evidence that the pace of corporate flame-outs is accelerating.
flame-out 通常 完全失敗
flame-out
IN BRIEF: n. - A complete or conspicuous failure; The failure of a jet engine caused by an interruption of the fuel supply or by faulty combustion.
也指運動之後的一種極疲勞
Fatigue experienced by athletes at the end of a hard season. Flame-out is a form of physical burnout from which an athlete usually recovers quickly with a break or reduction in exercise.
不過上文用它指"破產"
burnout
NOUN
mass noun- 1The reduction of a fuel or substance to nothing through use or combustion.
- 2The failure of an electrical device or component through overheating.with modifier ‘an anti-stall mechanism prevents motor burnout’
- 3Physical or mental collapse caused by overwork or stress.‘high levels of professionalism which may result in burnout’
- 3.1US informal count noun A dropout or drug abuser.
- 3.1US informal count noun A dropout or drug abuser.
- 4as modifier Denoting fabric whose pattern is produced by using chemicals to burn away areas of the pile or the fabric itself.‘burnout velvet’‘a long-sleeved jersey burnout top’
verb [I or T]
to happen or make something happen sooner or faster:
Inflation is likely to accelerate this year, adding further upward pressure on interest rates.
They use special chemicals to accelerate the growth of crops.
acceleration Show phonetics
noun [S or U]
The acceleration in the decline of manufacturing industry is being blamed on the high value of sterling.
eggcorn
Pronunciation: /ˈɛgkɔːn/
Definition of eggcorn
noun
Origin:
early 21st century: with reference to a misinterpretation of acornacorn
Pronunciation: /ˈeɪkɔːn/
Definition of acorn
nounOrigin:
Old English æcern, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch aker, also to acre, later associated with oak and corn1acorn
- a • corn
- 発音
- éikɔːrn
- acornの変化形
- acorns (複数形)
[名]
1 ドングリ：ナラ・カシなどの果実. ⇒OAK 1
2 （家具などの）ドングリ状の頂華［取っ手］.
［古英語æcern（野や森の果実）. 北ヨーロッパ・英国の最も普通の森の果実はドングリであった］chaise
- 音節
- chaise
- 発音
- ʃéiz
- chaiseの変化形
- chaises (複数形)
[名]
1 軽装二輪［四輪］馬車(shay).
2 ＝post chaise.
3 寝いす, 長いす.
［フランス語］
〕 は通俗語源による改変.
