2026年6月15日 星期一

integral. preclude, timeworn, face-saving.Color, so integral to David Hockney’s paintings, was part of his outfits as well.

Microsoft, Yahoo drama heats up again
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Among them: The proposal would preclude a potential sale of all of Yahoo; a search advertising partnership with Google is a better deal than selling to ...


Color, so integral to David Hockney’s paintings, was part of his outfits as well.Credit...
色彩不僅是大衛霍克尼繪畫中不可或缺的一部分,也是他服裝搭配的靈感來源。

指責中國批評者將體育賽事「政治化」是無稽之談。接力賽與運動有何關係?它並非奧運會固有的傳統項目。事實上,從希臘到奧運場館的接力賽模式是由納粹在1936年柏林奧運會上重新啟用的,這絕非中國想要宣揚的先例。


To accuse China's critics of “politicising” a sporting event is nonsense. What has the relay to do with sport? It is not some timeworn practice integral to the games. Rather, the idea of a relay from Greece to the Olympic venue was revived by the Nazis for the 1936 Berlin Olympics, which is hardly a precedent China wants to advertise.

The first “global” relay only took place for the most recent Olympics, in Athens in 2004. But that was not such a circus. China's pride may preclude any concession, however face-saving, on Tibet, or on human-rights abuses in general. But it is also facing criticism for its foreign policy—its links with the governments of Sudan and Myanmar in particular.

Here, in theory, it can do something to show that it is indeed a responsible international “stakeholder”, with diplomatic maturity as well as economic clout.


timeworn adjective
(no longer of interest or value because of) having been used a lot over a long period of time:
a timeworn expression/excuse
a timeworn path

preclude Show phonetics
verb [T] FORMAL
to prevent something or make it impossible, or prevent someone from doing something:
His contract precludes him from discussing his work with anyone outside the company.
The fact that your application was not successful this time does not preclude the possibility of you applying again next time.

preclusion Show phonetics
noun [U] FORMAL
Your age should not act as a preclusion to you being accepted on the university course.


face-saving Show phonetics
adjective [before noun]
done so that other people will continue to respect you:
a face-saving exercise/gesture


integral
The word integral has two primary meanings. Generally, it refers to something that is an essential part of a whole. In mathematics, it refers to a core concept in calculus used to find areas, volumes, and accumulations. [1, 2, 3]
1. Everyday Meaning (Adjective)
When used in everyday language, "integral" means necessary to make something complete, or built-in and fundamental. [1, 2]
  • Essential/Indispensable: "Good communication is an integral part of any successful team."
  • Built-in/Included: "The smartphone comes with an integral camera." [1, 2]
2. Mathematical Meaning (Noun)
In calculus, an integral is the continuous counterpart to a sum. Conceptually, it is used to calculate the area under a curve on a graph, the total volume of a 3D shape, or accumulated totals (like finding total distance traveled given a speed). [1, 2]
Finding an integral is known as integration, which is the reverse process of finding a derivative. [1]

2026年6月14日 星期日

fennel, hay, Haymarket, siloed, SILOED NATURE OF SOFTWARE INDUSTRY.feed, make hay (while the sun shines). Some practitioners think dentistry should no longer be siloed. Ailments of the mouth can put the body at risk for a slew of other ills.









Ailments of the mouth can put the body at risk for a slew of other ills. Some practitioners think dentistry should no longer be siloed


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Why Isn't Dental Health Considered Primary Medical Care?
Ailments of the mouth can put the body at risk for a slew of other ills. So

Far-right parties have been quick to denounce the “Islamization” of Europe. ‪#‎CharlieHebdo‬
Far-right and populist parties seize on the attack to underscore their...
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The Minimalist: Pork-Fennel Burgers
Mark Bittman makes pork-fennel burgers, an alternative to the standard beef burger. Article



Ken Wolf, an amateur photographer, has been photographing old silos near Lawrence, Kan., for years.
Steve Hebert for The New York Times

As People Leave, Trees Take Root in Silos

Along the dusty back roads of the Great Plains, trees growing inside the decrepit structures once used to store feed are “a symbol of something,” one observer said.

 In a lot of organizations, especially big ones, people feel like they're often siloed, and they don't really understand how their work is contributing to that goal. T

 BMW makes hay in China
Financial Times (blog)
The number of BMWs sold in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan rose a whopping 86 per cent last year to 183000. That means, over the last five years, nearly half a million BMWs have been sold in those markets – two for every three high-net worth ...


In order to make hay of that Hellenic enthusiasm which has as its ideal mere appetite and egotism, it is not necessary to know much philosophy, but merely to know a little Greek. Mr. Lowes Dickinson knows a great deal of philosophy, and also a great deal of Greek, and his error, if error he has, is not that of the crude hedonist.



Definition of hay

noun

[mass noun]
  • grass that has been mown and dried for use as fodder.

Phrases



hit the hay

informal go to bed.


make hay (while the sun shines)

proverb make good use of an opportunity while it lasts: they made political hay out of the issue
making hay while the sun shines
Take advantage of favorable circumstances, as in Car sales have finally improved so we're making hay while the sun shines. This expression alludes to optimum dry weather for cutting grass. [Early 1500s]
Whan the sunne shynth make hey.
[1546 J. Heywood Dialogue of Proverbs i. iii. A4]
Yt is well therefore to make hay while the sunne shines.
[1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus 24]
‘It is good to make hay while the sun shines,’ which means, in the present case‥to catch hold of a friend while she is in the humour.
[1835 J. Carlyle Letters & Memorials (1883) I. 21]
The countess's enthusiasm was cooling. Martin‥said warningly, ‘You must make hay, my child, while the sun shines.’
[1924 E. Bagnold Serena Blandish vi.]
‘Our local garage must have made a fortune out of me since this blackout nonsense began. ‥Mind you,’ the doctor added in a noncommittal voice, ‘I imagine they think of it more along the lines of making hay while the sun shines‥’
[1999 ‘H. Crane’ Miss Seeton's Finest Hour xii. 100]





silo

   
音節
si • lo
発音
sáilou
[名]サイロ.
1 まぐさ・セメント・穀物などの貯蔵[発酵]用の通例塔状の建造物;(穀物などの貯蔵用)地下室, 室(むろ).
2 《軍事》ミサイルとその発射装置の地下格納設備.
━━[動](他)…をサイロに貯蔵する.


To be siloed means to be isolated, separated, or cut off from other people, departments, or systems. In business and technology, it describes a state where groups or data operate independently and fail to communicate, share information, or collaborate effectively with the rest of the organization. [1, 2, 3]

hay

() pronunciation
n.
  1. Grass or other plants, such as clover or alfalfa, cut and dried for fodder.
  2. Slang. A trifling amount of money: gets $100 an hour, which isn't hay.

v., hayed, hay·ing, hays. v.intr.
To mow and cure grass and herbage for hay.

v.tr.
  1. To make (grass) into hay.
  2. To feed with hay.
[Middle English, from Old English hīeg.]
hayer hay'er n.


[名][U]
1 干し草, まぐさ, わら(▼家畜の飼料. barnまたはsiloに貯蔵し冬期に用いる);干し草用の牧草.
2 ((not 〜))((米略式))相当な金額, 多額の金.
3 (仕事・努力の)成果;報い
make [get] hay out of ...
…から成果を上げる.
4 ((俗))マリファナ.
hit the hay
((俗))床につく, 寝る.
make hay of ...
…を台なしにする;…を混乱させる;…を徹底的に打ち負かす.
make hay (while the sun shines)
((略式))好機をのがさない, やれるときにやっておく(▼((ことわざ)) 「太陽が照っているうちに干し草を作っておけ」から).
raise hay
混乱[紛争, 騒ぎ]を引き起こす.
━━[動](他)〈青草を〉干し草にする;〈家畜に〉干し草を与える.
━━(自)干し草を作る
go haying
干し草作りに行く.
[古英語hēg. 原義は「刈られた草」. △HEW, ドイツ語Heu(枯れ草)]
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 feed
━━[名]
1 [U](特に家畜の)食料, 飼料;[C]飼料の1回分;[U]飼育;(幼児の)授乳, 離乳食を与えること. ⇒FOOD[類語]
at one feed
1食に.
2 ((略式))食事, ごちそう
have a big feed
ごちそうを腹いっぱい食べる.
3 (機械などへの)原料の供給, 送り込み, 供給装置, 供給用パイプ, 供給原料, 供給量.
4 《電気》=feeder 5.
5 ((英))せりふのきっかけ(を言う役者).
6 (ゴールをねらう味方への)パス.
fen·nel (fĕn'əl) pronunciation
n.
  1. A Eurasian plant (Foeniculum vulgare) having pinnate leaves, clusters of small yellow flowers grouped in umbels, and aromatic seeds used as flavoring.
  2. The edible seeds or stalks of this plant.
[Middle English fenel, from Old English fenol, from Latin fēnuculum, variant of faeniculum, diminutive of faenum, fēnum, hay.]

n. - 茴香

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - ウイキョウ



Haymarket is a street in the St. James's district of the City of Westminster, London. It runs from Piccadilly Circus at the north to Pall Mall at the south. It houses a number of restaurants, the Theatre Royal and Her Majesty's Theatre, a cinema complex, and New Zealand House.
Contents

History

Origins

The broad street connecting Pall Mall with Piccadilly is recorded in the Elizabethan era and, as the name suggests, was chiefly used as a street market for the sale of fodder and other farm produce. At that time, it was a rural spot, with the village of Charing, the closest settlement. This practise continued to the reign of William III, by this time, carts carrying hay and straw were allowed to stand in the street and sell free of tolls. In 1692, when the street was paved, a tax was levied on the loads.[1] In 1830 the market was moved to Cumberland Market near Regent's Park.[2]
In earlier centuries, Haymarket was also one of the most prominent centres of prostitution in London, but this is no longer the case. Old and New London informs us, in 1878:
Situated in the centre of the pleasure-going Westend population, the Haymarket is a great place for hotels, supper-houses, and foreign cafés; and it need hardly be added here, that so many of its taverns became the resort of the loosest characters, after the closing of the theatres, who turned night into day, and who were so constantly appearing before the sitting magistrates in consequence of drunken riots and street rows, that the Legislature interfered, and an Act of Parliament was passed, compelling the closing of such houses of refreshment at twelve o'clock.[1]

Theatres

It is part of London's theatre district, the West End, and has been a theatrical location at least since the 17th century. The Queen's Theatre in the Haymarket, designed by John Vanbrugh, opened in 1705. It was intended for drama, but the acoustics turned out to be more suitable for opera, and from 1710 to 1745, most operas and some oratorios of George Frederick Handel were premièred at this theatre, which was renamed the King's Theatre at the death of Queen Anne in 1714. After Vanbrugh's building had been destroyed by fire in 1790, another King's Theatre on the same site followed. After another fire, His Majesty's Theatre was opened there in 1897, This building, the fourth on the same site, is still in use as Her Majesty's Theatre for major musical productions. Today's Theatre Royal at another site in the Haymarket is a building originally by John Nash (1820), replacing a previous theatre of the 1720s.

Modern day

Haymarket runs parallel to Lower Regent Street and together the two roads form a one-way system, Lower Regent Street taking northbound traffic and Haymarket taking southbound traffic. The two roads are classified as part of the A4 road which runs from central London to Avonmouth near Bristol.

2007 bomb plot

On 29 June 2007, Metropolitan Police "made safe" a car bomb that had been parked in Haymarket.[1]


2026年6月13日 星期六

Kina, irreconcilable, Donald Trump is blurring the lines between personal vendettas and his public duties. vendetta.A vendetta is a prolonged, bitter feud or a series of vengeful acts meant to harm a rival person or group. It stems from a deep-seated grudge or a desire for retaliation for past wrongs. [1, 2, 3]






Donald Trump interpreted the special counsel’s pro-reading message as a thinly veiled attack on him

American universities have long struggled to meet almost irreconcilable demands: to be practical as well as transcendent; to assist immediate national needs and to pursue knowledge for its own sake; to both add value and question values.





Financial Times

That's irreconcilable with democracy.

(Picture by Getty)

FT.COM
The FT View: Donald Trump is blurring the lines between personal vendettas and his public duties







vendetta復讐

vendetta
/vɛnˈdɛtə/
A vendetta is a prolonged, bitter feud or a series of vengeful acts meant to harm a rival person or group. It stems from a deep-seated grudge or a desire for retaliation for past wrongs. [1, 2, 3]
Core Meanings
  • Blood Feud: Historically refers to a prolonged cycle of retaliatory violence between families or clans (originally seen in Corsica and Sicily). [1, 2]
  • Bitter Rivalry: In modern use, it usually describes an ongoing, hostile campaign waged for revenge—such as a political, professional, or personal conflict. [1, 2]
Usage & Examples
People often use the word when describing situations that feel personal, unfair, or drawn-out. [1]
  • "He saw himself as the victim of a personal vendetta being waged by his political enemies."
  • "She claimed the media had a vendetta against her."



irreconcilableの意味や使い方 【形容詞】1〈人など〉和解できない,妥協できない.2〈思想・意見など〉調和[両立]しない; 〔…と〕矛盾して 〔with〕.用例irreconcilable opinions 相いれない意見.The ... - 約1080万語ある英和辞典・和英辞典。発音・イディオムも分かる ...

purgatory, vendetta( is a prolonged, bitter feud or a series of vengeful acts meant to harm a rival person or group)., war path, extravaganza. incarcerated, A meaningful second chance.maintained that the charges are a political vendetta.

台灣檢方起訴前總統候選人
檢方指控前市長柯文哲收受賄賂。他和他的支持者堅稱這些指控是政治仇殺。

Omar Shukur.
A meaningful second chance
In “To Serve Better,” Law School grad and Arkansas native Omavi Shukur recounts his efforts to help the formerly incarcerated succeed.


DW Stories
A fortress-cum-museum in Berlin has become a purgatory for some of the city’s statues. There they are neither revered nor destroyed, but visitors are invited to look at and touch them, and wrestle with what they stand for.


After losing parliament, Berlusconi waits in political purgatory

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's parliamentary coalition fell
apart this summer. Now plagued with dropping approval ratings, the
billionaire businessman-turned-politician is on the political war path.

The DW-WORLD.DE Article
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=ew61g9I44va89pI7



Taiwan prosecutors raid ex-leader's office
TAIPEI — Taiwan prosecutors on Wednesday seized boxloads of allegedly confidential presidential documents from the office of the island's convicted former leader Chen Shui-bian.
The 58 boxes of papers are believed to have been removed from the presidency's official premises when Chen, of the Democratic Progressive Party, stepped down in 2008, prosecutors said.
"We decided to search the office because of a pressing need to preserve evidence," Chen Hung-ta, spokesman for the prosecutors, told AFP.
The move in central Taipei came after Chen's aides refused to hand over the files, insisting that only the former president had the right to decide what should be done with them.
Chen's office reacted strongly to the raid, saying it was politically motivated ahead of November mayoral elections and accusing prosecutors of acting as "political executioners" for President Ma Ying-jeou.
Local media said that if found guilty of taking official documents without permission, Chen may face a jail term of up to seven years.
The former leader has already been in prison for more than 500 days, having been convicted of corruption.
In a high-profile case Chen and his wife were convicted last year of embezzling state funds, laundering money, accepting bribes and forgery. They were sentenced to life imprisonment.
Taiwan's High Court in June reduced the couple's sentences to 20 years after concluding that less money was embezzled than previously assumed.

Chen has blasted his trial as a vendetta carried out by Taiwan's current Beijing-friendly government in retaliation for his pro-independence stance during his 2000-2008 term.


 Taiwan's Jailed Ex-Leader Faces Fresh Charges
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Taiwan's incarcerated ex-president Chen Shui-bian might not able to go home as early as he expected. In a move Mr. Chen's allies described as the continuation of a political vendetta, prosecutors on Tuesday slapped the former Democratic Progressive ...




Inside Europe | 05.01.2008 | 07:05

Dante's Divine Comedy Comes to Life on Stage

In Rome, a Vatican priest, who’s also a musician, has attempted what no other composer has before: to put into music one of the greatest works of literature in the Western world: Dante’s ”La Divina Comedia” or The Divine Comedy.

The 14th-century poem chronicles one man’s search for love – passing through hell, purgatory and finally heaven, to find it. The Divina Comedia opera extravaganza is currently playing in Rome and is due to tour across Europe this year. Our correspondent in Rome, Megan Williams went back stage and has this report.



extravaganza 
noun [C]
a large, exciting and expensive event or entertainment:
a musical/dance extravaganza
a 3-hour extravaganza of country music

(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)

ex・trav・a・gan・za
━━ n. 突飛[風変り]な作品, 奇作, 異色編; 絢爛(けんらん)豪華な催し; 狂気じみた言葉[態度].

Purgatory 
noun [U]
the place to which Roman Catholics believe that the spirits of dead people go and suffer for the evil acts that they did while they were alive, before they are able to go to heaven
purgatory:煉獄;煉所:是那些死在天主恩寵中卻仍有些瑕疵的人,補贖罪罰、煉淨罪污的暫時受罰之過程(所),是一種進入天堂過程中被煉淨的體驗。為亡者獻贖罪祭,是為叫他們免除或減輕煉獄的罪罰(加下十二45)。或譯為" 薄靈獄"。

all her sins were forgiven and she would not need to go to Purgatorythe punishment of souls in purgatory
[MASS NOUN] Mental anguish or suffering:this was purgatory, worse than anything she’d faced in her life

Origin

Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French purgatorie or medieval Latin purgatorium, neuter (used as a noun) of late Latin purgatorius 'purifying', from the verb purgare (see purge).
purgatory 
noun [U] HUMOROUS
an extremely unpleasant experience which causes suffering:
I've been on a diet for two weeks now, and it's purgatory!

incarcerate[in・car・cer・ate]

  • 発音記号[inkɑ'ːrsərèit][動](他)
1 ((通例受身))((形式))…を投獄する;…を幽閉[監禁]する, 閉じ込める.
2 …を取り囲む;…を締めつける.
in・cár・cer・à・tor
[名]

vendetta[ven・det・ta]

  • 発音記号[vendétə][名]
1 血の復讐(ふくしゅう), かたき討ち. ▼特にかつてCorsica島やイタリアの諸地方で行われたもの.
2 長年にわたる激しい確執[張合い, 争い].
[イタリア語←ラテン語vindicta. △VINDICATE

vendetta
/vɛnˈdɛtə/
A vendetta is a prolonged, bitter feud or a series of vengeful acts meant to harm a rival person or group. It stems from a deep-seated grudge or a desire for retaliation for past wrongs. [1, 2, 3]
Core Meanings
  • Blood Feud: Historically refers to a prolonged cycle of retaliatory violence between families or clans (originally seen in Corsica and Sicily). [1, 2]
  • Bitter Rivalry: In modern use, it usually describes an ongoing, hostile campaign waged for revenge—such as a political, professional, or personal conflict. [1, 2]
Usage & Examples
People often use the word when describing situations that feel personal, unfair, or drawn-out. [1]
  • "He saw himself as the victim of a personal vendetta being waged by his political enemies."
  • "She claimed the media had a vendetta against her." [1, 2]