2024年10月31日 星期四

'beat someone to a pulp. 'bioplastic Model T was made of hemp, flax, wheat, and spruce pulp, which made the car lighter than fiberglass and ten times tougher than steel,

 Henry Ford built a car out of hemp plastic that ran on hemp fuel almost a century ago.


Definition of 'beat someone to a pulp'If someone is beaten to a pulp or beaten to pulp, they are hit repeatedly until they are very badly injured.

Oct 16, 2024 — to hit someone repeatedly until they are badly injured. 痛打(某人) (Translation of beat someone to a pulp from the Cambridge English-Chinese ...

大約一個世紀前,亨利·福特用大麻塑膠製造了一輛使用大麻燃料的汽車。

《紐約時報》於1941 年2 月2 日報道,福特1941 年的生物塑膠T 型車由大麻、亞麻、小麥和雲杉漿製成,這使得該車比玻璃纖維更輕,但比鋼堅韌十倍。

Ford's 1941 bioplastic Model T was made of hemp, flax, wheat, and spruce pulp, which made the car lighter than fiberglass and ten times tougher than steel, wrote the New York Times on February 2, 1941. The car ran on ethanol made from hemp or other agricultural waste.

Via Old Cars Lover

Obama, namesake, keepsake, memento. old medieval adage 'Memento mori' or 'remember you must die'.


Abraham Lincoln’s gold pocket watch, which contains a message secretly engraved by a watchmaker, Jonathan Dillon, who repaired it in 1861.
Left, Smithsonian Institution, via AP; Smithsonian National Museum of American History

Timeless Lincoln Memento Is Revealed

Researchers opened a pocket watch that belonged to Abraham Lincoln and discovered a message secretly engraved there by a watchmaker in 1861.


The award's namesake is Dr. W. Edwards Deming, a 20-year instructor at the School who is known as the father of Total Quality Management. His work has been described as the third stage of the Industrial Revolution and incorporated the idea that employees at all levels of private industry and government have a responsibility to cooperate to produce excellent products and services.


memento
noun [C] plural mementos or mementoes
an object that you keep to remember a person, place or event:
I keep a stone as a memento of our holiday.

It's Halloween, so what better time to recall that old medieval adage 'Memento mori' or 'remember you must die'. This story dates back to the early 1200s, known to some as 'The three living and the three dead'...


keepsake

(kēp'sāk')
n.
Something given or kept; a memento.


namesake
Phonetic
noun [C]
a person or thing having the same name as another person or thing

━━ n. 名前, 名称; あだ名; 評判, 名声; 家名, 一門; 虚名, 名目; 有名人; 【コンピュータ】(FORTRANで)名前.
bad [ill] name 悪名, 悪評.
by name 名前は; 名前で; 名を言って.
by [of] the name of … …という名の[で].
call … names 人の悪口をならべる, 人をののしる.
drop name =namedrop.
full name 氏名.
Give it a name. 〔話〕 望みのものを言いなさい ((人に飲み物などをおごる時)).
in all [everything] but name (名義はそうなっていないが)実質的に(は).
in name (only) 名ばかりの; 名義上.
in one's own name (他の名義, 権威を借りずに)自力で, 独立して.
in the name of …の名にかけて; …に代って; …の名義で.
in the name of God / in God's name 神かけて; 一体全体; 後生[お願い]だから.
Keep my name out of it. (著名人などが)名前は出さないでくれ.
make [win] a name (for oneself) [one's name] 名を揚げる.
put a name to …の(正確な)名前を思い出す.
put one's name down for / enter one's name for …の応募者[申込者]として名前を載せる.
take …'s name in vain 人の名をみだりに用いる ((特に神の名を)).
the name of the game 不可欠[肝心,当然]なこと.
to one's name 自分所有の.
under the name (of) …という名[名義]で.
━━ vt. 名をつける; 名を呼ぶ; 指名[指定]する; 述べる; (名指しで)非難する.
name after [〈米〉for] …の名を取って命名する.
name names (特に犯罪関係者などの)名を挙げる.
name the day (行事の)日取りを決める; (特に女性が)結婚式の日を決める.
to name but a few ((副詞的)) (例として)ごく少数の名を挙げると.
you name it 〔話〕 何でもどうぞ; あなたが決めて.
━━ a. 〔話〕 周知の, よく知られた.
name・a・ble ━━ a. 指名しうる; 名状しうる; 記念すべき.
name-calling 口汚いことば; ののしること; 悪口を言うこと.
name clashing 【コンピュータ】名前衝突.
name day 命名日; 聖名祝日.
name・drop ━━ vi. (有名人の名を)親友のようにふれまわる.
name・dropper n.
name・dropping n.
name・less ━━ a. 名のない; 匿名の; 世に知られない; 庶出の (bastard); 言い表せない; 言語道断な.
name・ly ━━ ad. すなわち.
name part =title role.
name・plate 標札, 名札, ネームプレート.
name・sake 同名者 ((特に,他人の名を取って名づけられた人)).
name server 【コンピュータ】ネーム・サーバー.
name table 【コンピュータ】名前テーブル.

おばま をばま 【小浜】


(1)福井県西部、小浜湾に面する市。旧城下町。若狭地方の中心地で、商業・漁業が盛ん。湾岸は景勝地、また文化財を有する社寺が多い。特産物に若狭塗がある。
(2)長崎県島原半島中西部、雲仙岳の西麓にある、温泉・観光の町。


Obama, Japan, roots for accidental namesake

OBAMA, Japan (AFP) — Barack Obama, who has been credited with tapping support in unlikely places, is enjoying a groundswell of enthusiasm in a small city in western Japan, which is delighted to share his name.
Obama, Japan, is rooting for candidate Obama, hoping that if he becomes the US president he will put this ancient fishing town of 32,000 people firmly on the tourist map and, just maybe, choose it for an international summit.
Supporters in Obama -- which means "small shore" in Japanese -- have held parties to watch election results, put up posters wishing the senator luck and plan a special batch of the town's "manju" sweets bearing his likeness.
"At first we were more low-key as Hillary Clinton looked to be ahead, but now we see he is getting more popular," Obama Mayor Toshio Murakami said.
"I give him an 80 percent chance of becoming president," the 75-year-old said with a proud grin.
Murakami sent a letter last year to Obama, enclosing a set of lacquer chopsticks, a famous product of this town on the Sea of Japan (East Sea) in Fukui prefecture's Wakasa region.
"I will present you the chopsticks of Wakasa paint and I am glad if you use it habitually," Murakami said in the English-language letter. "I wish you the best of health and success."
Murakami noted that Barack Obama's birthday, August 4, happens to be "Chopsticks Day" in the city.
Obama, who is also a hero in his father's native Kenya, has been gaining in a neck-and-neck race with Clinton, in part by winning over voters in states that rarely back members of their Democratic party.
Murakami is now preparing another package for the candidate that will include a good-luck charm from the local Obama Shrine.
"For the first letter I found his address on the Internet, so I don't know if he got it," Murakami said. "But this time I asked the (US) embassy for his exact address, so I'm sure he'll get it."
Lest cynics find the city's efforts naive, it was Obama himself who first drew attention to the connection.
Obama, speaking to Japan's TBS network in December 2006, said that when he flew once to Tokyo, an officer stamping his passport told him of the town.
"He looked up and said, 'I'm from Obama,'" the senator said.
A professor saw the footage and contacted the mayor, who insists that his support for Obama goes beyond just his name.
"It seems to me that President Bush isn't aggressively addressing global warming, but Obama would. And I like how he opposed the Iraq war," he said.
Murakami also hoped a President Obama would sign a peace treaty with North Korea. It is no small issue in Obama, one of the seaside towns where agents from the communist state kidnapped Japanese in the 1970s and 1980s, setting off a long row between the countries.
The election is being closely followed by many in 1,500-year-old Obama, a port nestled by snowy hills that in ancient times supplied food to the emperor when he lived in Kyoto some 75 kilometres (40 miles) to the south.
"When you look in Obama's eyes and hear his voice, he's very impressive," said resident Rieko Tanaka.
"Hillary is a bit old-fashioned and she's the wife of Bill Clinton, so I think a new person should lead the USA," she said.
Tomoyuki Ueda, 40, a company worker dining at a restaurant serving the town's celebrated mackerel, said it would be healthy for the United States to elect its first African-American president.
"I think both Obama and Hillary are qualified, but if Obama becomes president he could correct problems of racial discrimination," he said.
Seiji Fujihara, a head of the local tourism board, said he has only met a black person once, but believed Obama's election would make the United States "more equal" on racial issues.
Fujihara started a club for self-styled Obama supporters in the city and plans "I love Obama" T-shirts.
"We know we can't vote. But if we send out a message, we can help push him to victory," he said.

scrapbook/pinboard, chronicler, bowling, coverstock, rolled in at number one, medieval adage 'Memento mori' or 'remember you must die'. Card stock, salty and insulting remarks.



Richard Anobile, Chronicler of the Marx Brothers, Dies at 76

He produced many books about film. But Groucho Marx tried to stop distribution of one collaborative effort because he didn’t like seeing his salty and insulting remarks in print.

Richard Anobile, a prolific creator of film books whose friendly collaboration with the anarchic comedian Groucho Marx on a project called “The Marx Bros. Scrapbook” turned sour when Mr. Marx sued to stop its distribution after reading his unedited quoted remarks in print, died on Feb. 10 in Toronto. He was 76.


You may not have heard of it, but the online scrapbook site Pinterest has surged in popularity as women flock to it. But the start-up still isn't sure how it will make money.

A Scrapbook on the Web Catches Fire

By DAVID POGUE

Time to make time for another social network. Pinterest is a free Web pinboard for any photos that you want to share.

scrapbook

(skrăp'bʊk') pronunciation n. A book with blank pages used for the mounting and preserving of pictures, clippings, or other mementos.

number one

n.

  1. One that is first in rank, order, or importance.
  2. Slang. One's own interests; oneself: watching out for number one.
  3. Informal.
    1. The act of urinating.
    2. Urine.
adj.
  1. First in rank, order, or importance: the number one team in the nation; our number one problem.
  2. Foremost in quality; first-rate: bought some number one farmland.

Card stock, also called cover stock or pasteboard, is a paper stock that is thicker and more durable than normal writing or printing paper, but thinner and more flexible than other forms of paperboard. Card stock is often used for postcards, playing cards, catalog covers, scrapbooking, and other uses which require higher durability than regular paper. The texture is usually smooth, but can be textured, metallic, or glossy.
Card stock for craft use comes in a wide variety of textures and colors.

Spotlight:

What are bowling balls made of? The earliest bowling balls were made of stone. Later, the balls were made of hard wood, such as oak. In the early 1900s, hard rubber bowling balls were introduced, solving some of the chipping, cracking and warping problems that were prevalent in the wooden spheres. Today's balls are made up of a solid, nonmetallic core and a coverstock, or shell. The coverstock is usually composed of a plastic material — either polyester, polyurethane or resin urethane. The weight and balance of the ball and the positioning of the finger holes can greatly affect the bowler's performance; the first year that reactive resin was used in the bowling balls, the number of perfect games played increased by nearly twenty percent. In 2003, when the Professional Bowlers Association named its top fifty players, Earl Anthony, born on this date in 1938, rolled in at number one. The left-handed bowler was a six-time PBA player of the year.

Quote:

"Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules."John Goodman as Walter Sobchak, The Big Lebowski

It's Halloween, so what better time to recall that old medieval adage 'Memento mori' or 'remember you must die'. This story dates back to the early 1200s, known to some as 'The three living and the three dead'...

shackle, memento, Memento mori. 'remember you must die'.

Scottish independence: A yes vote will produce a leaner, meaner Scotland

The no campaign offers merely stasis. Even with devo max, Scots would remain in political shackles. It’s time to break free
  He gives her a watch from the late Tomi as a memento, and advises her to remarry.


Chen holds that there's little reason to doubt Beijing has calculated everything thoroughly and calmly. One the one hand the Chinese leadership recognizes that Ma's hallmark mistakes could ruin his campaign on any given day and on the other that Soong is a reliable friend of Beijing and regarded as very competent by the Taiwanese, according to Chen.

"To Beijing, Ma Ying-jeou's re-election is of course the favored outcome; but Tsai Ing-wen with James Soong attached as a shackle is the best possible backup plan," Chen concluded.




There are many reasons for still reading Marx in our turbulent times, but this is not the least of them. He is, Hobsbawm suggests, an essential memento mori – the shackled slave who reminds capitalist generals that even they are mortal.



Memento mori is a Latin phrase translated as "Remember your mortality", "Remember you must die" or "Remember you will die" - literally " [in the future] remember to die", since "memento" is a future imperative of the 2nd person, and mori is a deponent infinitive. It names a genre of artistic creations that vary widely from one another, but which all share the same purpose: to remind people of their own mortality. The phrase has a tradition in art that dates back to antiquity.


It's Halloween, so what better time to recall that old medieval adage 'Memento mori' or 'remember you must die'. This story dates back to the early 1200s, known to some as 'The three living and the three dead'...
memento mori
1 ((ラテン語))なんじは死を覚悟せよ;死の警告.2 [名](複〜)[U][C](頭がい骨など)死の象徴.

shackle

Line breaks: shackle
Pronunciation: /ˈʃak(ə)l 
  
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NOUN

1(shackles) A pair of fetters connected together by a chain, used to fasten a prisoner’s wrists or ankles together.
1.1A situation or factor that restrains or restricts someone or something:society is going to throw off the shackles ofracism and colonialism
2A metal link, typically U-shaped, closed by a bolt, used to secure a chain or rope to something.
2.1A pivoted link connecting a spring in a vehicle’s suspension to the body of the vehicle.

VERB

[WITH OBJECT]Back to top  
1Chain with shackles:the prisoner was shackled to the heavy steel chair in the centre of the room
1.1Restrain; limit:they seek to shackle the oil and gas companies by imposing new controls

Origin

Old English sc(e)acul 'fetter', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schakel 'link, coupling'.

shackle[shack・le]

  • レベル:社会人必須
  • 発音記号[ʃǽkl]

[名]
1 ((通例〜s))手錠, 手かせ, 足鎖, 足かせ.
2 (なんきん錠の)掛け金.
3 ((しばしば〜s))((文))束縛, 拘束
the shackles of convention
因習の束縛.
━━[動](他)((通例受身))…にかせを掛ける;…を拘束する.




memento


 
音節
me • men • to
発音
məméntou
レベル
社会人必須
[名](複〜s, 〜es)
1 思い出の種, 記念品, かたみ.
2 ((M-))《カトリック》記念唱.

backing,"full backing" , endorse (SUPPORT), misguided



Why we are endorsing Kamala Harris for president; Democrats and Republicans file election lawsuits in Pennsylvania; and everything you need to know about the battles in Michigan. Follow the latest in American politics 👉 https://econ.st/4huKFmS

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Doug Melamed, Intel's senior vice president and general counsel, calls FTC's lawsuit against Intel "misguided and unwarranted."

French president Nicolas Sarkozy also assured Hamid Karzai of France's "full backing" as he congratulated the Afghan leader on his re-election.

Blogged and Sold

By CHOIRE SICHA
Why the Federal Trade Commission’s effort to regulate online endorsements is misguided.



G-8 Backs Greenhouse-Gas Cuts
The Group of Eight officially endorsed a goal of halving greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050 and promised "ambitious" cuts over the next decade or two. But they also urged fast-growing emerging economies to pledge their own meaningful reductions. (Statement)

misguide

━━ vt. 誤った指導をする, 思い誤らせる.
mis・guidance ━━ n.
mis・guided ━━ a. 誤った.
mis・guidedly ad.


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verb [T]
1 to make a public statement of your approval or support for something or someone:
The National Executive is expected to endorse these recommendations.
FORMAL I fully endorse (= agree with) everything the Chairperson has said.

2 to appear in an advertisement, saying that you use and like a particular product:
They paid $2 million to the world champion to endorse their new aftershave.

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noun [C or U]


It's a period of translation and of the key backing to the idea of translation, the first composition of a good Chinese English dictionary in which the languages were shared and pulled together by, actually, missionary scholars at the same time as they compiled their dictionary to translate the whole of the Bible into Chinese. And this feat was finished with the first draft version around about 1830.

在這時期,翻譯和其想法的關鍵支持、參考品等勃興。在傳教士-學者們翻譯整部聖經成中文時,首部優良漢英字典也編成,由所有的相關人員來參考。這翻譯壯舉約在1830年完成初稿。

backing (băk'ĭng) pronunciation
  1. Something forming a back: the backing of a carpet.
    1. Support or aid: financial backing.
    2. Approval or endorsement: The President has backing from the farm belt.

back・ing

━━ n. 裏打ち; 支援(グループ); 裏書; 裏板; (製本の)背付け; 【楽】伴奏; 後退; 逆行.
back・ing memory 【コンピュータ】補助記憶装置.
back・ing storage 【コンピュータ】補助記憶装置 (back・ing store).