2026年7月30日 星期四

英文學習kinky, kink, iron out kinks, largely retained the poem’s kinked narrative arc.. twinned inward and outer journey home.regress, sausage (Wurst), sausaged. Oekotest, preview,cook up



英文學習kinky, kink,  iron out kinks, largely retained the poem’s kinked narrative arc.. twinned inward and outer journey home.regress, sausage (Wurst),  sausaged. Oekotest, preview,cook up



It goes without saying that this is very much a man’s story, and essentially about his twinned inward and outer journey home. Nolan wrote the screenplay and has largely retained the poem’s kinked narrative arc. He has compressed sections, jettisoned others and omitted many characters, a necessity given the event-packed original, which in its English-language translations, runs well over 500 pages. Even with these liberties, his version is recognizable in its sweep, fragmentation and multiple story lines, starting with Odysseus’s palace on the island of Ithaca. There, Penelope is weaving and reweaving the same cloth to fend off suitors like Antinous (Robert Pattinson) and Polybus (Corey Hawkins) who, eager to take her husband’s place, have camped out at the palace eating and drinking through its provisions.

毋庸置疑,這講述的是一個男人的故事,本質上是他內心與外在雙重交織的歸途。諾蘭親自操刀劇本,並基本上保留了原詩曲折的敘事結構。他壓縮了部分章節,刪減了另一些,並省略了許多人物,鑑於原著情節豐富,這些改動實屬必要。原著英文譯本長達500多頁。即便如此,他的版本依然保留了原著的宏大敘事、碎片化敘事結構和多線敘事,故事從奧德修斯在伊薩卡的宮殿開始。在那裡,佩涅洛佩一遍又一遍地織著同一塊布,以抵擋安提諾烏斯(羅伯派汀森飾)和波呂布斯(科里霍金斯飾)等求婚者的糾纏。這些求婚者覬覦她的丈夫,在宮殿裡安營紮寨,大吃大喝。









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Putting on a Mask Raised Naomi Osaka’s Voice

The tennis player used to let words kink up inside her. In 2020, she has found the space to unravel her thoughts and convey an urgent demand for change. A kink in the railway line from Moscow to St Petersburg, for example, is where—or so it is said—Tsar Nicholas I’s finger got in the way of his ruler when he drew a line between the cities
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A train journey north shows how Russia has evolved—and regressed
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Would this help you go to the loo?
Humans are designed to squat and the modern invention of sitting on a toilet keeps a kink in the colon.
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To all the young men who've sausaged their legs into skinny jeans today, here's a cause for celebration: the era of the tight trouser is coming to an end.



Jeff Koons

Edited by Hans Werner Holzwarth

Hardcover, 25 x 33.4 cm

592 pages, £ 39.99

ISBN 978-3-8365-0328-0

Multilingual Edition: English, French, German

Recession Puts a Kink in Operation
That Uses Locks to Soak Up Oil Spills



The recession is crimping the business of a San Francisco nonprofit that recycles human hair into mats that are used to clean up oil spills.


Koons' entire oeuvre to date, at a decidely unKoonsian price
From kinky to kitsch via conceptual, Jeff Koons’ art is anything but conformist. Since he stunned the art world in the 1980s with basketball sculptures and stainless steel blow-ups, Koons has been contemporary art's bad boy—a reputation he (ahem) nailed in the early 90s via works depicting him in flagrante delicto with then-wife Cicciolina, the Italian porn star-cum-politician. He followed these with Puppy, a 40-foot tall floral terrier installed at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. Koons’ exploitation of the banal, and aggrandizement of kitsch and pop imagery, has become his trademark. Despite his many critics, the work commands millions at auction and Koons' position at the forefront of contemporary art is indisputable.


The hotel's reception area.
Check In

Hotel Review: Butterfly on Victoria in Hong Kong

By CHERYL LU-LIEN TAN
This year-old, centrally located hotel has some kinks, but its prices could make a stay worth it.



Helping Glass Slippers and Kinky Boots Shine

By PATRICK HEALY

"Kinky Boots," which had a run in Chicago before coming to Broadway, and "Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella," with no out-of-town run, both got major surgery because of surveys of preview audiences.


 A lot of time and discussion have been spent deciphering the extraordinary success of “Downton Abbey,” but it’s actually pretty simple. This series about British aristocrats and their servants is “Fifty Shades of Grey”: soft-core pornography, but fixated on breeding and heritage rather than kinky sex. 我們已經花費太多時間、太多口舌,研究《唐頓莊園》(Downton Abbey)為何如此成功,但是實際上原因很簡單。這部關於英國貴族和僕人的系列電視劇,像《格雷的五十道陰影》(Fifty Shades of Grey)一樣,是一部軟色情之作,但是它關注的重點是子嗣和遺產,而不是有點變態的性愛。



德國最新調查:玩具含有害物質現象很普遍

法新社 / 德國之聲:雖然美泰向中國道了歉。但責任問題是一個問題,玩具等是否含有有害物質是另一個問題。據德國專業刊物Oekotest(生態試驗)做的一個檢驗 調查,21種室外玩具腫,有10種被打了不及格或者不良的分,其中有9種含有環芳烴,對這種化學物質,並沒有法定的極限值規定。
這個刊物的10月號共公佈過去兩年裏對130種特殊產品的檢驗結果。在檢查小孩墊毯方面,發現3種產品含有香胺,但只有一種不可出售,因為它超過了每公斤30毫克的極限值。12種木偶玩具中有4種含有這種顏料,由於這種顏料有致癌可能,該專業刊物建議不要銷售這些產品。
該刊物建議消費者多買簡單的傳統玩具,複雜的玩具容易含各種有害物質。刊物專家還提出了注意商品標誌的一系列建議,比如塑膠玩具上最好標出“不含PVC”等。但該刊物並沒有特別指出哪些產品是哪個國家產的,只說具體受檢查物件。
Sausage (Wurst)
German sausages, or wurst, cover a wide range of cooked, uncooked and unfilled styles (no casing), such as frankfurters, bratwurst, rindswurst, blargenwurst, knackwurst, and bockwurst.


From the Fringe | 19.09.2007

Sausage Proves to Be Wurst Place for Sex Toy

A butcher's shop employee in the city of Mannheim got some bad vibrations when handling a sausage given to her by a customer for safe-keeping. When cut open, the wurst was revealed to contain a sex toy.

The customer had asked the employee to store his sausage, which he intended to take back with him to Dubai, in her refrigerator so it wouldn't go off before he flew out. But the unusual weight of the, um, package aroused her suspicion.

She summoned the local police, who discovered that the sausage contained an unspecified device intended to give pleasure in ways foreign to the nature of a normal food product.

"The attending officers determined that the customer was attempting, in this delicate way, to conceal a sex toy," the police wrote in their report of the incident.

Hiding the sausage is one thing -- hiding a sex gizmo in a sausage is another.

Authorities suspect that the customer was intending to smuggle the device into Dubai, where sex toys are illegal.

The customer never turned up to reclaim the wurst, or its
kinky contents, and police have no grounds for pressing charges.

"That sort of thing isn't illegal in our country," said a police spokesperson to the dpa news agency.
DW staff (jc)



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cook ... up/cook up ...[cook ... up/cook up ...]

(1) …を即席に料理する.
(2) ⇒(他)2


kink
noun [C]
1 an unwanted twist or bend in a wire, rope, pipe, etc. that is usually straight:
There must be a kink in the pipe.
See also kink at kinky.

2 US a sore muscle, especially in the neck or back

3 something that is wrong:
Pete still needs to iron out a few kinks in his game.


[名]
1 (糸・綱・毛髪などの)もつれ, ねじれ, 縮れ((in ...))
brush out the kinks
ブラシ[くし]で髪の縮れをとく.
2 ひねくれ, へそ曲がり, 風変わりなところ, 異常な点;奇抜なスタイル, おかしな格好.
3 ((主に米))(筋肉の)痛み, こり
get a kink in one's neck
首の筋をちがえる.
4 ((主に米))(機械・計画などの)欠陥, 不備;(達成する上での)障害(となるもの).
5 うまい考え[方策], 妙案
cost-cutting kinks
経費節減の妙案.
iron[work] out the kinks
((米俗))問題を解決する.
━━[動](他)(自)〈綱などを〉よじる, もつれさせる, 〈綱などが〉よじれる, もつれる.
[デンマーク語. 原義は「綱のもつれ」]


kink
noun [C]
1 an unwanted twist or bend in a wire, rope, pipe, etc. that is usually straight:
There must be a kink in the pipe.
See also kink at kinky.

2 US a sore muscle, especially in the neck or back

3 something that is wrong:
Pete still needs to iron out a few kinks in his game.



Definition of kinky
adjective (kinkier, kinkiest)
  • 1 informal involving or given to unusual sexual behaviour.
  • (of clothing) sexually provocative in an unusual way:kinky underwear
  • 2having kinks or twists:long and kinky hair
Derivatives

kinkily

adverb

kinkiness

noun

Origin:

mid 19th century (in kinky (sense 2)): from kink + -y1

kinky

発音
kíŋki
[形](-i・er, -i・est)
1 ((略式))(性的に)異常な, 変態の;((俗))風変わりな, 心のゆがんだ.
2 よじれの多い;〈髪の毛が〉ひどく縮れた.
kink・i・ly
[副]
kink・i・ness
[名]
kinky
adj
Definition: bizarre, perverted
Antonyms: clean, decent, ethical, normal, unperverted, usual

adj

Definition: twisted
Antonyms: straight, unkinked, untwisted





sausage 

Pronunciation: /ˈsɒsɪdʒ/ 

NOUN

1An item of food in the form of a cylindrical length of minced pork or other meat encased in a skin, typically sold raw to be grilled or fried before eating.
1.1[MASS NOUN] Minced and seasoned meat encased in a skin and cooked or preserved, sold mainly to be eaten cold in slices:smoked German sausage
1.2[USUALLY AS MODIFIER] An object shaped like a sausage:her hair hung in glossy black sausage curls
2British Used as an affectionate form of address, especially to a child:‘Silly sausage,’ he teased

Phrases


not a sausage

British informal Nothing at all:we heard nothing: not a sausage, not a mutter, not a murmur from the minister

Origin
Late Middle English: from Old Northern French saussiche, from medieval Latin salsicia, from Latin salsus 'salted' (see sauce).


bereft, His absence has wreaked havoc on his family, leaving his wife, Penelope (Anne Hathaway), and their adult son, Telemachus (Tom Holland), bereft. be bereft of all hope すべての希望を失っている.appliqué, adorn, exposition. overshoe, tog, overalls, shortalls

 bereft, His absence has wreaked havoc on his family, leaving his wife, Penelope (Anne Hathaway), and their adult son, Telemachus (Tom Holland), bereft. be bereft of all hope すべての希望を失っている

These boots from Kazakhstan in the early 1900s feature in our free display of footwear from North Africa, Turkey, the Middle East, Iran, Central Asia and South Asia. Made for men and women these soft, light, indoor boots (ichigi or masi) have thin, flat soles. They are decorated with brightly coloured leather appliqué patterns that evoke the natural world such as beetles, rams’ horns and cat faces. Leather overshoes are worn over these boots to protect them from the dirt and moisture outside http://ow.ly/VTESd

這本《俱舍論疏》的精神,三昧天在卷首以一首詩偈表達:
An exposition of the Treasury [of the Abhidharma] that is
unadorned, bereft of the āgamas, such as the sūtras and
other [scriptures],

even though it may be stainless, it does not capture the
heart, like a moonless night.
And so by virtue of any goodness that there may arise by
decorating with the Āgamas, jewels by nature, such an
exposition,
may the world be adorned with an unblemished intellect.

 more:http://yifertw.blogspot.tw/2012/06/blog-post_18.html

 

 

 

In outline, the story tracks Odysseus, who has been missing in action for two decades, having gone astray in the wake of the Trojan War. (For more on that, see: “The Iliad.”) He’s now a lost amnesiac. His absence has wreaked havoc on his family, leaving his wife, Penelope (Anne Hathaway), and their adult son, Telemachus (Tom Holland), bereft. Nolan dedicates far more of his version to Odysseus’s magical wanderings than the poem does. But true to the poem, Nolan insistently circles back to the family that Odysseus left behind, reminding you of the agonies of the domestic front that are often devalued or ignored in male-driven fantasies.

故事概要是:奧德修斯在特洛伊戰爭後迷失方向,失蹤了二十年。 (更多詳情請參見《伊利亞德》。)如今,他失憶了,四處漂泊。他的失蹤給家人帶來了巨大的痛苦,妻子佩涅洛佩(安妮·海瑟薇飾)和成年的兒子忒勒馬科斯(湯姆·霍蘭德飾)悲痛欲絕。諾蘭的電影版本比原著史詩更展現了奧德修斯的奇幻旅程。但忠於原著,諾蘭始終不忘奧德修斯留下的家庭,提醒觀眾家庭生活的艱辛,而這些在以男性視角為主的奇幻故事中往往被貶低或忽略。

bereft[be・reft]

  • 発音記号[biréft]
[動]bereaveの過去・過去分詞形.
━━[形]
1 ((形式))(…を)奪われて, 失って((of ...))
bereft of life
命を奪われて[奪われた], 死んで[死んだ]
be bereft of all hope
すべての希望を失っている.
2 とても悲しく孤独で.

 

BabyLegs Recalls Baby Socks and Leg Warmers with Heart Appliqué Due to Choking Hazard

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.

Name of Product: Baby leg warmers and socks
Units: About 4,500
Distributor: BabyUnited LLC dba BabyLegs of Seattle, Wash.
Hazard: The leg warmers and socks have a heart appliqué that can detach, posing a choking hazard to small children.
Incidents/Injuries: The firm has received one report of an infant choking on the heart-shaped appliqué. Her mother was able to dislodge the appliqué from her throat. No medical attention was required.
Description: This recall involves only those BabyLegs brand leg warmers, ankle-high socks and knee-high socks adorned with a heart-shape appliqué. The recalled products are pink, white or purple cable knit socks and leg warmers.
Sold at: www.babylegs.com and independent retailers from August 2010 to November 2010 for about $11 per pair.
Manufactured in: China
Remedy: Consumers should immediately take the recalled socks and leg warmers away from children. Consumers can remove and discard the heart appliqué to eliminate the hazard or contact BabyLegs to receive a full refund or a coupon to be redeemed on the BabyLegs website.
Consumer Contact: For additional information, contact BabyLegs toll-free at (888) 791-6098 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. PT Monday through Friday or visit the firm's website at www.babylegs.com 



Children's Overalls Recalled by Sara Lynn Togs Due to Choking Hazard

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.
Name of Product: Infant and Toddler Shortalls
Units: About 1,800
Manufacturer: Sara Lynn Togs, of Atlanta, Ga.
Hazard: The buttons on the shoulder straps can detach, posing a choking hazard to young children.
Incidents/Injuries: None reported.
Description: This recall involves Infant and Toddler Gingham and Flannel Shortalls, which are overalls with short pant legs. They have a collegiate appliqué or embroidery on the front. Sizes included in the recall are 6/9 month, 12 month, 18 month, 2T, 3T, & 4T.
Sold at: College bookstores, fan stores, children’s boutiques, and gift shops nationwide from March 2007 through February 2008. The Gingham Shortall sold for about $35 and the Flannel Shortall sold for about $24.
Manufactured in: Peru and China
Remedy: Consumers should immediately return the recalled shortalls to Sara Lynn Togs for a full refund.
Consumer Contact: For additional information, contact Sara Lynn Togs at (800) 426-9377 between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, or visit the firm’s Web site at www.saralynntogs.com

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tog (DRESS) Show phonetics
verb INFORMAL
be/get yourself togged up/out to dress yourself in clothes that are specially for a particular occasion or activity:
We got (ourselves) togged up in walking gear for the hike.
They were all togged out in dinner jackets and ball gowns.

overalls Show phonetics
plural noun
1 UK (US coverallsa piece of clothing that covers both the upper and lower parts of the body and is worn especially over other clothes to protect them:
She put on some overalls and got out a tin of paint.

2 US FOR dungarees

dungarees Show phonetics
plural noun
1 UK (US overallsa pair of trousers with an extra piece of cloth that covers the chest and is held in place by a strap over each shoulder


2 US OLD-FASHIONED trousers made of denim

appliqué
(ăp'lĭ-kā') pronunciation
n.
A decoration or ornament, as in needlework, made by cutting pieces of one material and applying them to the surface of another.

tr.v., -quéd, -qué·ing, -qués.
To decorate by cutting pieces of one material and applying them to the surface of another.

[French, past participle of appliquer, to apply, from Latin applicāre, to affix. See apply.]



adorn[a・dorn]

  • 発音記号[ədɔ'ːrn]
[動](他)((形式))
1 〈人・物を〉(…で)飾る, 装飾する((with ...)). ⇒DECORATE[類語]
adorn a room with flowers
部屋を花で飾る
adorn oneself with jewels
宝石で身を飾る.
2 …を魅力的[印象的]にする;…の美しさを引き立てる
the sincerity which adorns his personality
彼の人柄をいっそう引き立てる誠実さ.
3 〈人が〉〈場所・行事などに〉(臨席して)彩[花]を添える.
[ラテン語adōrnāre(ad-へ+ōrnāre装飾する). ōrnāreの原義は「整頓する」. △ORNAMENT, ORDINANCE
a・dorn・er
[名]



音樂與美學-曲式篇(三)

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呈示部( Exposition ),是一首樂曲發展的基礎。接著而來的發展部都受呈示部中呈現的對立、衝突所推動,在曲式的最後部份解決此一對立狀態,完成樂曲全部發展的  ...

exposition[ex・po・si・tion]


  • 発音記号[èkspəzíʃən]
[名]
1 [U][C](詳細な)解説, 説明;解説的論文. ▼描写(description)に対していう;動詞形はexpound.
2 [C]展示会, 博覧会;[U]展示, 陳列(display). ⇒EXPO
3 (才能などの)発揮.
4 [C]《音楽》(フーガなどの主題の)提示部.
5 ((古))露出(状態).
ex・po・si・tion・al
[形]

nationalist. "The white nationalists"白人民族主義者. WHITE PEDESTAL.白色底座是一種垂直的展示架或柱子,用於抬高和展示藝術品、雕塑、植物或活動裝飾。 by and large, suffice (it) to say, liberal, 以全新的視角評論諾蘭的《奧德賽》與過去的束縛 -


nationalist.  "The white nationalists"白人民族主義者.   by and large, suffice (it) to say, liberal, 以全新的視角評論諾蘭的《奧德賽》與過去的束縛 -


“我研究的白人民族主義者喜愛荷馬的《奧德賽》,因為他們認為這部作品表達了外國人的本質以及獨立於男性之外的女性的本質。”
"The white nationalists I study love Homer’s Odyssey for what they believe it expresses about the nature of foreigners and about women who live independently of men."
WHITE PEDESTAL author Curtis Dozier critiques Nolan's 'The Odyssey' from a new lens:
《白人基座》作者柯蒂斯多齊爾以全新的視角評論了諾蘭的《奧德賽》

諾蘭的《奧德賽》與過去的束縛 - 《匹茲堡書評》

White nationalism is a political and ideological movement that advocates for the preservation of a white national majority, often promoting the creation of a white ethnostate and opposing immigration and multiculturalism. [1, 2]
Core Ideology
  • Definition: The belief that white people constitute a distinct race that should maintain dominance and demographic majority in historically white countries. [1, 2]
  • Goals: Stricter immigration limits, racial separatism, or the mass deportation of non-white populations (remigration) to establish a "white-only" state. [1, 2]
  • Connection to Supremacism: Analysts and civil rights organizations, such as the Southern Poverty Law Center, note that white nationalism heavily overlaps with or acts as a sanitized euphemism for white supremacy. [1, 2]
Recent Activity and Groups
  • Patriot Front: A prominent neo-fascist and white nationalist organization founded in 2017. The group is known for flash-mob style demonstrations, distributing propaganda, and wearing standardized uniforms of khaki pants and dark shirts with face coverings. [1, 2, 3, 4]
  • Washington, D.C. Marches: Masked members of the Patriot Front drew widespread national attention and sparked intense public debate when they marched through Washington, D.C., carrying American and Confederate flags during the country's 250th independence anniversary celebrations. A viral photograph of a Black woman composedly riding the metro surrounded by masked members became a defining image of the event, highlighting ongoing racial tensions and the public visibility of extremist groups. [1, 2, 3]






Why the big gap between trust in leaders and the institutions they lead? Edelman suggests that leaders have been slow to adapt to the requirements of a world in which top down is no longer the best way to lead, or in many cases even a viable one. Suffice it to say, there is nothing more top down than trying to lead the world from high up a mountain.


The New York Times and Washington Post lead with another good day in Wall Street as investors seemed desperate to turn anything that could be interpreted as good news into an excuse to buy. "The news, by and large, was bad--just not quite as bad as feared," notes the NYT

One occasionally meets material that is distributed so close to a normal curve that normal theory will suffice.


The criterion for decision in respect to a frame is whether a complete coverage thereof would suffice.


Such a poem was "Reluctance" with its nostalgic ending:
Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than treason
To go with the drift of things, to yield with a grace to reason,
And bow and accept the end of a love or a season?
Or:
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if I had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

The student anger, stoked through e-mail messages sent to large campus mailing lists, stems not so much from satisfaction with the Chinese government but from shock at the portrayal of its actions, as well as frustration over the West’s long-standing love affair with Tibet — a love these students see as willfully blind.
By and large, they do not acknowledge the cultural and religious crackdown in Tibet, insisting that ordinary Tibetans have prospered under China’s economic development, and that only a small minority are unhappy.
“Before I came here, I’m very liberal,” said Minna Jia, a graduate student in political science at U.S.C. who encouraged fellow students to attend the monk’s lecture. “But after I come here, my professor told me that I’m nationalist.”
“I believe in democracy,” Ms. Jia added, “but I can’t stand for someone to criticize my country using biased ways. You are wearing Chinese clothes and you are using Chinese goods.”

by and large
when everything about a situation is considered together:
There are a few small things that I don't like about my job, but by and large it's very enjoyable.


LIBERAL was found in the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary at the entries listed below.






By and large
Meaning
On the whole; generally speaking; all things considered.
Origin
Many phrases are wrongly ascribed a nautical origin just because they sound like mariner's lingo. This one really is and, like many such nautical phrases, it originated in the days of sail.
To get a sense of the original meaning of the phrase we need to understand the nautical terms 'by' and 'large'. 'Large' is easier, so we'll start there. When the wind is blowing from some compass point behind a ship's direction of travel then it is said to be 'large'. Sailors have used this term for centuries. For example, this piece from Richard Hakluyt's The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, 1591:
"When the wind came larger we waied anchor and set saile."
When the wind is in that favourable large direction the largest square sails may be set and the ship is able to travel in whatever downwind direction the captain sees fit.
'By' is a rather more difficult concept for landlubbers like me. In simplified terms it means 'in the general direction of'. Sailors would say to be 'by the wind' is to face into the wind or within six compass points of it.
The earliest known reference to 'by and large' in print is from Samuel Sturmy, in The Mariners Magazine, 1669:
"Thus you see the ship handled in fair weather and foul, by and learge."
by and largeTo sail 'by and large' required the ability to sail not only as earlier square-rigged ships could do, i.e. downwind, but also against the wind. At first sight, and for many non-sailors I'm sure second and third sight too, it seems impossible that a sailing ship could progress against the wind. They can though. The physics behind this is better left to others. Suffice it to say that it involves the use of triangular sails which act like aeroplane wings and provide a force which drags the ship sideways against the wind. By the use of this and by careful angling of the rudder the ship can be steered slightly into the wind.
The 19th century windjammers likeCutty Sark were able to maintain progress 'by and large' even in bad wind conditions by the use of many such aerodynamic triangular sails and large crews of able seamen.

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sufficient 
adjective
1 enough for a particular purpose:
This recipe should be sufficient for five people.
It was thought that he'd committed the crime but there wasn't sufficient evidence to convict him.
NOTE: The opposite is insufficient.

2 FORMAL have had sufficient to have eaten enough:
"Would you like some more stew?" "No thanks, I've had sufficient."

sufficiently
adverb
McGeechan has not recovered sufficiently to play in the semi-final tomorrow.
The case was sufficiently serious to warrant investigation by the police.

sufficiency
noun [S] FORMAL
an amount of something that is enough for a particular purpose:
"More ham, Mr Fletcher?" "No thank you - it was delicious, but I've had a sufficiency (= I have eaten enough)."

suffice
verb [I] FORMAL
to be enough:
I'm taking four hundred pounds' worth of travellers' cheques - I think that should suffice.

suffice (it) to say

it is enough to say:
Suffice (it) to say, Mike won't be going to Tina's birthday party after what he said about her to her boss.

by and large
when everything about a situation is considered together: by and large 全般的に, どの点から見ても; 概して.
There are a few small things that I don't like about my job, but by and large it's very enjoyable.