2012年4月3日 星期二

embedded, embed, imbed, shale

 KKR: You've Got Shale
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 Shale is a potential party companion who can be recruited from the town of Honnleath

embedded, enclosed within a frame narrative as a tale‐within‐the‐tale, like the pilgrims' stories in the Canterbury Tales, which are embedded within Chaucer's account of the journey to Canterbury.


embed
also im·bed (ĭm-)

v., -bed·ded, also -bed·ded, -bed·ding, -bed·ding, -beds, -beds.v.tr.

  1. To fix firmly in a surrounding mass: embed a post in concrete; fossils embedded in shale.
  2. To enclose snugly or firmly.
  3. To cause to be an integral part of a surrounding whole: "a minor accuracy embedded in a larger untruth" (Ian Jack).
  4. To assign (a journalist) to travel with a military unit during an armed conflict.
  5. Biology. To enclose (a specimen) in a supporting material before sectioning for microscopic examination.
v.intr.
To become embedded: The harpoon struck but did not embed.

n. (ĕm'bĕd')
One that is embedded, especially a journalist who is assigned to an active military unit.

embedment em·bed'ment n.
 
 

shale[shale]

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[名][U]頁岩(けつがん), 泥板岩.