2012年7月14日 星期六

2012_07_13 My Resignation

Joseph Chow (周國忠)
President, Overseas Alumni Association of
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Northern California)
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Dear Joseph,

The current controversy of revising the OAA-CUHK Bylaws, the issue of anonymous voting and the ongoing insulting comments and provoking wrongful accusations from certain directors are making it uneasy to work with those directors. My wife, Amy Kwock (鄧瑋), and I feel that it is no longer enjoyable and challenging to serve as OAA Directors. Please accept our resignations, effective immediately.

There is a member of The Internet Committee ready to take over the OAA-CUHK website. This is a great relief as I feel comfortable to release the long-overdue duty. Please accept my resignation as the webmaster also, effective immediately. The next webmaster will take full responsibility for deploying a new website and for managing related functions; the lease for the current website ends in July. I will not be involved in any function or question from now on.

Not too long ago, Edward Lee (李海滋) resigned his OAA presidency. I begged him to "任勞任怨" to stay on as OAA President. In deep agony, Edward responded "Pardon me to weight my health/life above a detrimental job". Ironically, his only option then has now become mine. What an enlightening and inspiring precedent!

Sincerely yours,

Tony Kwock (郭堂)
Founding President, Overseas Alumni Association of
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Northern California)

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                                   July 13, 2012

Subject:  Recap of My Service to OAA and Motivation for My Resignation

Dear All,

I enjoyed as the president of Chung Chi College Student Union during my school day and being the founding president of the OAA since 1981.  During the past thirty years, devoting my time and financial resources, together with the support of the local CUHK alumni, we have bridged alumni in a foreign land to a happy home, enjoying fellowship.  Over the many years, in various roles as either a leader or a member, I have been always open for suggestions to improve the OAA and myself.  Our work was finally noticed.  In 2007, the chairman of the CUHK Honorary Fellowship Committee wanted to nominate me for the honorary fellowship.  I declined his offer as it would put myself apart from our members and distract my dedication to OAA in the Bay.  In a word, I refused to glorify myself.

As a webmaster, I have dutifully kept it lively with fair coverage on significant news from members.  Above all, there is an “Opinion web page” on the OAA web, by which alumni can reflect their feeling about the way that we conducted the OAA affairs.  If they do not like their pictures appeared on the OAA web, they can request to remove them.

The following background information derived from the recent emails of the OAA directors is for your information.

One of the directors proposed and passed a revision of OAA bylaw to get rid of some directors using anonymous voting in order to create room for new recruits.  This is not necessary since the OAA bylaw has provision to enlarge the board of directors, we can expand the board of directors to recruit more fresh energy to the board.  At the same time, we can retain the devoted and experience directors.  With a large base of active alumni on board, the functions of OAA can easily have large participants.  Using “decision by the majority vote” approach in the “OAA by-law revision committee” sounds democratic.  Sometimes, it is just “pseudo-democratic”.  A “win-win” strategy to resolve conflicts is to “seek common ground while reserving differences”.  A manipulative individual can use the name of “The Board” as a majority vote to fulfill a wish/justify an issue.

Another director, an old timer of OAA, rich in imagination and pessimism, slanders me with untrue stories (his email dated June 10, 2012), using “founding president” to glorify myself, self-claiming as first class members of OAA, etc.  I am the founding president of OAA.  That is the fact.  I have never claimed that I am the “first class members of OAA” as Frank asserted in his email.

A new director joined the Internet Committee recently and immediately demanded the password to manage OAA web without proper knowledge of the system.  While I, as the webmaster, need to safe-guard the web, I suggest keeping the OAA web-site intact while we are searching for ways to improve it.  His accusation “difficult to work with me” and blackmail with his resignation are really disturbing me.

Have a good day!

Tony Kwock (郭堂)
Founding President, Overseas Alumni Association of
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Northern California)

2012_07_14 Baccate 漿果狀

Word of the Day for Saturday, July 14, 2012
baccate \BAK-eyt\, adjective:
1. Berrylike.
2. Bearing berries.
Such fruits are collectively called baccate or berried.
 -- John Hutton Balfour, Class Book of Botany
 Its appearance suggests that it is a capsule becoming baccate.
 -- H. N. Ridley, Natural Science
Entering English in the 1820s, baccate is derived from the Latin word bacca meaning "berry."
1。漿果狀
2。軸承漿果

水果被統稱為漿果漿果
- 約翰·赫頓貝爾福類,植物

它的出現表明,它是一種膠囊成為漿果
- H N.雷德利,自然科學

進入19世紀20年代英語漿果來自拉丁詞漿果意思漿果

2012年7月13日 星期五

2012_07_13 Tawpie n. 一個愚蠢或粗心的年輕人。

Word of the Day for Friday, July 13, 2012
tawpie \TAW-pee\, noun:
A foolish or thoughtless young person.
Do ye no hear me, tawpie? Do ye no hear what I'm tellin' ye?
 -- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Weir of Hermiston
You are just idle tawpies.
 -- Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, Profit and Loss
Tawpie comes from the Swedish word tåbe meaning "a simpleton."

一個愚蠢或粗心年輕

難道你們沒有聽到tawpie難道你們沒有聽到告訴'你們什麼
- 斯蒂文森傑基爾博士海德先生Hermiston奇怪的案例

你是只是閒置tawpies
- 阿米莉亞伊迪絲赫德爾斯頓巴爾,利潤虧損

tawpie傻瓜來自瑞典詞義田部

2012年7月12日 星期四

2012_07_12 Paronymous adj. 含有相同的根或莖 ining the same root

Word of the Day for Thursday, July 12, 2012
paronymous \puh-RON-uh-muhs\, adjective:
Containing the same root or stem, as the words wise and wisdom.
The sentence seems to reverberate with echoes of assonance—another distinctive trait of Haweke's writing often enriched with alliterative patterns or even rhymes—on both sides of the two central words: "pale petal," whose juxtaposition involves an anagramatical and paronymous variation.
 -- Heide Ziegler, Facing Texts
This in itself is a significant achievement in a language so flowery and paronymous to the extent that exaggeration, especially at that time of its literary history, is widely considered to be one of its inherent characteristics.
 -- Sabry Hafez, The Quest for Identities
Paronymous stems from the Greek roots para- meaning "beside" and onoma meaning "a name."
含有相同的根或莖,聰明和智慧的話。這句話似乎迴盪經常用頭韻的模式,甚至押韻,對雙方的兩個中心詞豐富的諧音,另一Haweke的寫作的鮮明特徵相呼應:“蒼白的花瓣”,其的並列,涉及anagramatical和paronymous變化。  - 海德齊格勒,面對文本這本身是一種語言的顯著成就,使如花和paronymous,誇張,尤其是在那個時候的文學史,被廣泛認為是其固有的特性之一的程度。  -  Sabry哈菲茲,身份的任務從希臘​​根paronymous莖段,意思是“旁”和onoma意思是“一個名字。”

2012年7月11日 星期三

2010_07_11 Hyprthral adj. 全部或部分開放的天空。

Word of the Day for Wednesday, July 11, 2012
hypethral \hi-PEE-thruhl\, adjective:
(Of a classical building) wholly or partly open to the sky.
Follow the gallery around for about a thousand paces until you come to the hypethral. With it dark out you might miss it, so keep an eye open for the plants.
 -- Gene Wolfe, Shadow and Claw
The choice of top light for the main galleries is said to have been dictated by the belief that Greek temples were hypethral, that is, open to the sky; from which it was inferred that Greek taste demanded to see works of art under light from above.
 -- Benjamin Ives Gilman, Museum Ideals of Purpose and Method
Hypethral stems from the Greek roots hyp- which means "under" and aîthros meaning "clear sky."
古典建築全部或部分開放天空

按照約一千周圍直到hypethral你可能會錯過,所以保持眼睛植物
- 基因沃爾夫

頂光的主要畫廊選擇表示相信希臘廟宇hypethral,即開放天空已被支配從它被推斷希臘口味要求見的藝術作品受到來自上面的
- 本傑明·艾夫斯吉爾曼博物館的理想宗旨和方法

希臘根HYP-hypethral的意思是“aîthros意思是“晴朗的天空

2012年7月10日 星期二

Ectopic adj. 流離失所。displaced.

Word of the Day for Tuesday, July 10, 2012
ectopic \ek-TOP-ik\, adjective:
Occurring in an abnormal position or place; displaced.
It does not appear that any modern author, or any of our large numbers of "systems" of surgery, has taken up this important aspect of "ectopic tumors."
 -- Dr. Thomas H. Manley, The Medical Times and Register, Vol. 33 - 34
Diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy was made and immediate operation decided upon.
 -- Dr. J. Henry Barbat, Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 32
Ectopic is from the invented Greek word ectopia meaning "out of place." It was coined in 1873.
異位\ EK-TOP-IK\,形容詞

發生異常位置或地方;流離失所

它不會出現任何現代作家任何我們的大量“系統”的手術已採取了這一重要的方面異位
- 博士托馬斯H·曼利,醫療時報“和”註冊,卷 33 - 34

宮外孕的診斷決定立即施行手術
- J.亨利Barbat博士在美國醫學協會雜誌 32

宮外孕出位發明希臘字異位意義在1873年創造

2012年7月9日 星期一

2012_07_09 Scherzando adj. 俏皮;嬉戲。Playful; sportive.

Word of the Day for Monday, July  9, 2012
scherzando \skert-SAHN-doh\, adjective:
Playful; sportive.
A short coda recalls the scherzando music, and the piece concludes with the jazzy harmony.
 -- Howard Pollack, John Alden Carpenter
A recapitulation satisfies the sonata principle by partially transposing both of the episodes to the tonic, and to cap off the movement with a tour de force Weber combines the last statement of the refrain with the scherzando theme.
 -- R. Larry Todd, Nineteenth-Century Piano Music
Scherzando comes from the Italian word scherzare meaning "to joke." It entered English in the early 1800s.

俏皮;嬉戲

尾聲回顧scherzando音樂一塊爵士和諧結論
- 霍華德·波拉克,約翰·奧爾登木匠

一個重演滿足部分移調情節進補運動旅遊德力韋伯結合scherzando主題不要最後聲明封頂奏鳴曲原則
- R.拉里·托德,19世紀鋼琴音樂

scherzando開玩笑來自意大利的scherzare意義在19世紀初進入英語

2012年7月8日 星期日

2012_07_08 Vamp v/n. 修補;維修。To patch up

Word of the Day for Sunday, July  8, 2012
vamp \vamp\, verb:
1. To patch up; repair.
2. To give (something) a new appearance by adding a patch or piece.
3. To concoct or invent (often followed by up): He vamped up a few ugly rumors to discredit his enemies.
4. To furnish with a vamp, especially to repair (a shoe or boot) with a new vamp.
noun:
1. The portion of a shoe or boot upper that covers the instep and toes.
2. Something patched up or pieced together.
...plod and plow, vamp your old coats and hats, weave a shoestring; great affairs and the best wine by and by.
 -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Illusions," Essays and Poems
To lay false claim to an invention or discovery which has an immediate market value; to vamp up a professedly new book of reference by stealing from the pages of one already produced at the cost of much labour and material…
 -- George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such
Vamp is a shortening of the Middle French word avant-pie literally meaning "fore-foot." This sense of the word is embedded in the more common word revamp.
鞋面\鞋面\,動詞:1。修補;維修。2。給(某物)通過添加補丁或一塊新的面貌。3。捏造或發明(通常達):,他vamped了一些醜陋的謠言,詆毀他的敵人。4。提供1鞋面,尤其是修復了一個新的鞋面(鞋或靴子)。名詞:1。部分,涵蓋了腳背和腳趾的鞋或靴子上。2。一些修補或拼湊起來的。......邁著和犁,鞋面舊的大衣和帽子,編織鞋帶;偉大的事務,和最好的葡萄酒。  - 愛默生,“幻影”,散文和詩歌奠定虛報發明或發現其中有一個直接的市場價值;鞋面自稱新書的參考,從大量的勞動力和原材料成本已經產生了一個網頁竊取...  - 喬治·艾略特,對的泰奧弗拉斯這樣的印象鞋面是縮短了中東的法語單詞字面意思前衛餡餅“脫穎而出的腳。”這種意義上的字是嵌入在較常見的字改革。

2012年7月7日 星期六

Aliquant adj.包含一個數字或數量but not dividing it evenly

Word of the Day for Saturday, July  7, 2012
aliquant \AL-i-kwuhnt\, adjective:
Contained in a number or quantity, but not dividing it evenly: An aliquant part of 16 is 5.
Cunning is the aliquant of talent; as hypocrisy is of religion; all the threes in the universe cannot make ten.
 -- Thomas Hall, The Fortunes and Adventures of Raby Rattler and His Man Floss
...even though that number was an odd number and by a quarter the number of his confiteors, even though four was an aliquant part of two thousand to hundred and nineteen, nothing being changed with regard to the masses...
 -- Raymond Queneau, The Blue Flowers
Aliquant stems from the Latin roots ali- meaning "differently" and quantus meaning "great."
20127月7日星期六,

不能整除\的AL-I-kwuhnt\,形容詞

包含一個數字或數量,而不是均勻地劃分165整除的一部分

狡猾的整除的人才;虛偽的宗教宇宙中所有三分球可以10
- 托馬斯·霍爾芮捷銳磨耗和他的弗洛斯河的命運冒險

......儘管這個數字是一個奇數confiteors一季度數量,即使十萬到一百19整除一部分沒有改變方面群眾...
- 雷蒙德Queneau藍色的花

阿里整除來自拉丁詞根,意思是“不同”,quantus意思“偉大的

2012年7月6日 星期五

Tractate n. 一篇論文;散文。 A treatise; essay.

Word of the Day for Friday, July  6, 2012
tractate \TRAK-teyt\, noun:
A treatise; essay.
Divide up all the tractates and commit yourselves to learn them during the coming year.
 -- Yair Weinstock, Holiday Tales for the Soul
Jean-Pierre Mahé has rightly insisted that we should explore possible explanations other than mere haphazard collection, not only for the presence of the Hermetic tractates within Codex VI…
 -- Michael Allen Williams, Rethinking "Gnosticism"
Tractate comes from the Medieval Latin word tractātus meaning "a handling, treatment."
短文\ TRAK-teyt\,名詞

一篇論文;散文。

瓜分了所有tractates和承諾自己學習他們在來年
- 亞伊爾魏因斯托克靈魂的假日故事

讓 - 皮埃爾·馬埃正確地堅持,我們應該探索其他可能的解釋僅僅偶然的集合不僅食品法典委員會第六密封tractates存在...
- 邁克爾·艾倫·威廉姆斯反思“諾斯替主義

短文處理處理中世紀拉丁字意思維特根斯坦

2012年7月4日 星期三

2012_07_04 Gallant a. 勇敢,活潑,高尚的,或俠義 Brave

Word of the Day for Wednesday, July  4, 2012
gallant \GAL-uhnt\, adjective:
1. Brave, spirited, noble-minded, or chivalrous: a gallant knight; a gallant rescue attempt.
2. Exceptionally polite and attentive to women; courtly.
3. Stately; grand: a gallant pageant.
noun:
1. A brave, noble-minded, or chivalrous man.
2. A man exceptionally attentive to women.
3. A stylish and dashing man.
He praised the owl's wisdom and his courage, his gallantry and his generosity; though every one knew that however wise old Master Owl might be, he was neither brave nor gallant.
 -- Frances Jenkins Olcott, Good Stories For Holidays
Oh, those were days of power, gallant days, bustling days, worth the bravest days of chivalry at least.
 -- George Borrow, Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest
Related to the word gala, gallant stems from the Old French word galer meaning "to amuse oneself, to make merry."
1。勇敢,活潑,高尚的,或俠義:一個勇敢的騎士,一個英勇的救援嘗試。2。格外禮貌和周到的婦女;宮廷。3。莊嚴宏偉:雄渾壯麗的場面。名詞:1。一位勇敢的,高尚的,或俠義的人。2。一個人格外重視婦女。3。一個時髦和瀟灑的男子。他讚揚了貓頭鷹的智慧和他的勇氣,他的英勇和他的慷慨,雖然每個人都知道,但聰明的老法師貓頭鷹可能是,他既不勇敢,也不英勇。  - 弗朗西斯·詹金斯Olcott,假日的好故事哦,這些天的權力,英勇天,熱鬧的日子,值得俠義勇敢天內至少。  - 喬治借用,Lavengro:學者,吉普賽人,牧師英勇的相關字晚會,源於“。玩耍,使快樂”來自古法語單詞galer意義

2012年7月3日 星期二

2012_07_03 Surfeit n./v. 過剩;過量:Excess or overindulgence in eating or drinking.

Word of the Day for Tuesday, July  3, 2012
surfeit \SUR-fit\, noun:
1. Excess; an excessive amount: a surfeit of speechmaking.
2. Excess or overindulgence in eating or drinking.
3. An uncomfortably full or crapulous feeling due to excessive eating or drinking.
4. General disgust caused by excess or satiety.
verb:
1. To bring to a state of surfeit by excess of food or drink.
2. To supply with anything to excess or satiety; satiate.

In both adults a surfeit of prudence and a surfeit of energy, and with the couple two boys still pretty much all soft surfaces, young children of youthful parents, keenly attractive and in good health and incorrigible only in their optimism.
 -- Philip Roth, The Plot Against America

She peered at the parents, imagining their hearts like machines, manufacturing surfeit upon surfeit of love for their children, and then wondered how something could be so awesome and so utterly powerless.
 -- Chris Adrian, The Great Night

Surfeit is a very old English word. It is recorded as early as 1393. It comes from the Latin roots sur- meaning "over" and facere meaning "to do."
過量\適合sur-\,名詞:1。過剩;過量:過量的演講。2。食用或飲用過量或放縱。3。一個令人不安的完整或crapulous的感覺,由於飲食過量或飲酒。4。一般的厭惡造成過多或過飽。動詞:1。帶來的過量的食物或飲料的過剩狀態。2。提供任何多餘的或過飽;吃飽喝足。

在成人過多的謹慎和過多的能量,並與對夫婦生育兩個男孩仍然非常柔軟的表面,年幼的孩子,年輕的父母深切的吸引力和良好的健康和屢教不改的,只有在他們的樂觀。  - 菲利普·羅斯,反對美國陰謀

她凝視著父母,想像他們的心,像機器一樣,生產後,對孩子的愛過多過量,然後不知道如何能如此真棒等完全無能為力的東西。 克里斯 - 阿德里安,偉大的夜晚過量是一個非常古老的英文單詞。據記載,早在1393。談到“做”拉丁根河畔,意思是“超過”和facere意義

2012年7月2日 星期一

2012_07_02 Sumpsimus n.堅持使用完全正確的術語

Word of the Day for Monday, July  2, 2012
sumpsimus \SUHMP-suh-muhs\, noun:
1. Adherence to or persistence in using a strictly correct term, holding to a precise practice, etc., as a rejection of an erroneous but more common form (opposed to mumpsimus).
2. A person who is obstinate or zealous about such strict correctness (opposed to mumpsimus).
And now let all defenders of present institutions, however bad they may be — let all violent supporters of their old mumpsimus against any new sumpsimus whatever, listen to a conversation among some undergraduates.
 -- Frederic William Farrar , Julian Home
She is a master of sumpsimus, more anal in language usage than Doc in his rigid professionalism. She insists on saying It is I, or He gave the book to John and me.
 -- Ann Burrus, Astride the Pineapple Couch
Like its counterpart mumpsimus, sumpsimus comes from to a story about an illiterate priest. In this case, sumpsimus refers to the opposite practice as mumpsimus.

sumpsimus\ SUHMP SUH-MUHS的\,名詞:1。堅持使用一個完全正確的術語,拿著一個精確的做法,等了一個錯誤,但更常見的形式(反對以mumpsimus的)拒絕,持久性。2。誰是頑固性或對這種嚴格的正確性(反對mumpsimus的)熱心的人。現在就讓本機構所有的維護者,然而壞,他們可能是 - 讓所有的暴力他們老mumpsimus的支持者,反對任何新sumpsimus任何聽一些大學生之間的對話。  - 弗雷德里克·威廉·法勒,朱利安首頁她是一個主sumpsimus,在語言使用的肛門比在他的嚴格的專業DOC。她堅持說這是我的,他將書遞給我和約翰。  - 安比呂斯,橫跨菠蘿沙發像其對應mumpsimus,sumpsimus來從一個故事關於一個不識字的牧師。在這種情況下,sumpsimus是指到作為mumpsimus的相反的做法。

2012年7月1日 星期日

2012_07_01 Mumpsimus n. 固執 obstinacy

Word of the Day for Sunday, July  1, 2012
mumpsimus \MUHMP-suh-muhs\, noun:
1. Adherence to or persistence in an erroneous use of language, memorization, practice, belief, etc., out of habit or obstinacy.
2. A person who persists in a mistaken expression or practice.
"I profess, my good lady," replied I, "that had any one but you made such a declaration, I should have thought it as capricious as that of the clergyman, who, without vindicating his false reading, preferred, from habit's sake, his old Mumpsimus...
 -- Sir Walter Scott, The Talisman
Mr. Burgess, who sticks (I fancy) to his old mumpsimus, thought that the other gentleman might have given the canoe a shove to get it clear of the lock…
 -- Ronald A. Knox, The Footsteps at the Lock
Mumpsimus comes from a story (perhaps first told by Erasmus) about an illiterate priest who mispronounced a word while reciting the liturgy. The priest refused to change the word, even when he was corrected.

1。堅持堅持錯誤使用的語言記憶,實踐,信仰出於習慣或固執
2。一個人堅持在一個錯誤的表達實踐

信奉我的夫人回答任何一個,但這樣的聲明應該想到牧師反复無常表白他的虛假讀數首選習慣緣故 他老人家Mumpsimus...
- 沃爾特·斯科特爵士護符

伯吉斯先生堅持我看中mumpsimus認為其他紳士可能獨木舟1得到明確...
- 答:羅納德·諾克斯鎖定的腳步

mumpsimus來自一個不識字的牧師念錯一個字背誦禮儀有關故事(也許是一次伊拉斯謨告訴牧師拒絕改變甚至當他已得到糾正

2012年6月30日 星期六

2012_06_30 Pilikia n Trouble; 麻煩

Word of the Day for Saturday, June 30, 2012
pilikia \pee-lee-KEE-ah\, noun:
Trouble.
After a while this older man spoke: “Remember, we never asked you to cause pilikia. We only asked that you help set things right.”
 -- Rodney Morales, When the Shark Bites
Otherwise, pilikia, particularly in the form of illness, will result for the mover.
 -- Karen Lee Ito, Lady Friends
Pilikia stems from a Hawaiian word meaning "trouble".

麻煩。
過了一會兒,這個老男人說話了:“記住,我們從來不問你要引起pilikia。我們只要求你幫助撥亂反正“。  - 羅德尼·莫拉萊斯,當鯊魚咬否則,pilikia,特別是在疾病的形式,將導致的先行者。  - 伊藤李家欣,女性朋友pilikia源於從夏威夷字,意思是“麻煩”。result for the mover.
 -- Karen Lee Ito, Lady Friends
Pilikia stems from a Hawaiian word meaning "trouble".

2012年6月29日 星期五

2012_06_29 Agemate n. 另一個相同年齡的人。A person of about the same age as another.

Word of the Day for Friday, June 29, 2012
agemate \EYJ-meyt\, noun:
A person of about the same age as another.
She tolerates the family, especially an agemate named Isabelle, although they kid her about getting letters from a mysterious swain every day.
 -- Faye Moskowitz, Her face in the Mirror
She had no agemate in that house, no one she could think of as an ally.
 -- Julie Orringer, The Invisible Bridge
Agemate entered English in the late 1500s when the word mate meant "guest" in Old English.
另一個相同年齡

容忍家庭,尤其是名為伊莎貝爾agemate雖然他們每天從一個神秘的情郎字母
- 莫斯科維茨王菲

她在那家沒有agemate沒有一個認為作為盟友
- 朱莉Orringer,無形的橋樑

agemate進入16世紀後期英語隊友意味著在古英語中“客人”

2012年6月28日 星期四

2012_06_28 syndic n. 理事 A person chosen to represent and transact business for a corporation.

Word of the Day for Thursday, June 28, 2012
syndic \SIN-dik\, noun:
1. A person chosen to represent and transact business for a corporation.
2. A civil magistrate having different powers in different countries.
Procuring the keys, which had been left at the office of the Syndic of the town, Mr. Bellingham and Isabel sallied forth to inspect their new abode, leaving Dulcie in charge of the English nurse who had accompanied them.
 -- Robert Reginald and Douglas Menville, Ancient Hauntings
For instance, Sillem, the most junior, the "fourth," syndic, the one normally responsible for criminal investigations, had supposedly been "promoted" to the position of third, the one most directly responsible for foreign affairs.
 -- Mary Lindemann, Liaisons Dangereuses
Known more commonly through its related word syndicate, syndic stems from the Greek word sýndikos which referred to a defense lawyer, from the prefix syn- (meaning "co") and the root dikos (meaning "justice").

理事\DIK\,名詞

1。選擇一個公司業務代表和辦理
2。民事裁判不同國家不同權力

採購,已被鎮的理事辦公室的鑰匙貝林翰先生和伊莎貝爾出擊規定檢查他們新居曾陪同他們的英語護士負責Dulcie
- 羅伯特雷金納德道格拉斯Menville古代鬧鬼

例如Sillem資歷最淺的“第四理事通常負責刑事調查據稱“提升”到了第三位置一個最直接的負責外交事務
- 瑪麗·林德曼聯絡員Dangereuses

較為普遍通過相關字集團稱為理事源於提到辯護律師希臘字sýndikos由前綴同步意思是“合作)和dikos(意為”正義“

2012年6月27日 星期三

2012_06_27 Abstergent a. Cleansing.清洗

Word of the Day for Wednesday, June 27, 2012
abstergent \ab-STUR-juhnt\, adjective:
1. Cleansing.
2. Purgative.
noun:
1. A cleansing agent, as a detergent or soap.
We prize them for their rough-plastic, abstergent force; to get people out of the quadruped state; to get them washed, clothed, and set up on end; to slough their animal husks and habits; compel them to be clean; overawe their spite and meanness, teach them to stifle the base, and choose the generous expression, and make them know how much happier the generous behaviors are.
 -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life
Those of them which are of an abstergent nature, and purge the whole surface of the tongue, if they do it in excess, and so encroach as to consume some part of the flesh itself, like potash and soda, are all termed bitter.
 -- Plato, Timaeus
Abstergent comes from the Latin word abstergēre which meant "to wipe off".
1。清洗。2。瀉藥。名詞:1。清潔劑,洗滌劑或肥皂。其粗糙的塑料,淨洗劑力獎;讓人們出的四足動物的狀態,讓他們洗淨,有衣穿,對最終成立;蛻動物外皮和習慣,迫使他們是清潔;威嚇儘管和卑劣,教他們扼殺基地,並選擇了慷慨的表達,並讓他們知道,慷慨的行為是多麼幸福的。  - 愛默生生命的行為淨洗劑性質,並清除舌頭的整個表面,如果他們這樣做過剩,因此侵犯消耗一些肉本身像鉀肥和燒鹼,這些都被稱為苦。  - 柏拉圖,蒂邁歐篇淨洗劑來自拉丁詞abstergēre這意味著“擦掉”。

2012年6月26日 星期二

Glutch v. 下嚥 to swallow. n. a mouthful.

Word of the Day for Tuesday, June 26, 2012
glutch \gluhch\, verb:
1. to swallow.
noun:
1. a mouthful.
And now Robert Creedle will be nailed up in parish boards 'a b'lieve; and nobody will glutch down a sigh for he!"
 -- Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders
I was, at the time, standing near Uncle Ral and I distinctly heard him gasp, swallow what must have been an overdue expectoration, glutch, and at last emit a long, slow exhalation.
 -- David George Pitt, Tales from the Outer Fringe
Glutch is of unknown origin. It was first used in southwestern England in the early 1800s.
1。下嚥。名詞:1。一口。現在羅伯特Creedle將被釘在教區議會1 b'lieve;沒有人會為他嘆了口氣glutch“!  - 哈代,林地居民當時,我是站在叔叔RAL附近,我清楚地聽到他喘氣,吞下必須已逾期咳痰,glutch,最後排出一個長期,緩慢呼氣。  - 喬治·大衛·皮特,從外緣的故事glutch是來歷不明。這是第一次在英格蘭西南部,在19世紀初。

2012年6月25日 星期一

2012_06_25 Makebate n. 誰引起爭議 A person who causes contention or discord

Word of the Day for Monday, June 25, 2012
makebate \MEYK-beyt\, noun:
A person who causes contention or discord.
The man was a hater of the great Governor and his life-work, the Erie; a makebate, a dawplucker, a malcontent politicaster.
 -- Samuel Hopkins Adams, Grandfather Stories
But after all he pays well that pays with gold; and Mike Lambourne was never a makebate, or a spoil-sport, or the like.
 -- Sir Walter Scott, Kenilworth
Makebate stems from the Middle English word bate which meant "contention".
一個引起爭議或分歧

該名男子是一個偉大的總督和生活工作,伊利仇敵;一個makebate一個dawplucker不滿者politicaster
- 塞繆爾·霍普金斯·亞當斯,爺爺故事

畢竟支付支付;麥克Lambourne從來沒有一個makebate掠物運動喜歡
- 沃爾特·斯科特爵士凱尼爾沃思

makebate源自中古英語的意思是“軟化

2012年6月24日 星期日

2012_06_24 Instauration n. 重建 Renewal; restoration; renovation; repair.





Word of the Day for Sunday, June 24, 2012
instauration \in-staw-REY-shuhn\, noun:
1. Renewal; restoration; renovation; repair.
2. Obsolete. An act of instituting something; establishment.
Warm friendship, indeed, he felt for her; but whatever that might have done towards the instauration of a former dream was now hopelessly barred by the rivalry of the thing itself in the guise of a lineal successor.
 -- Thomas Hardy, The Well-Beloved
For the first time since the instauration of the Republic of Cuba, the military caste was going to have to manage on its own.
 -- Norberto Fuentes and Anna Kushner, The Autobiography of Fidel Castro
Instauration is derived from the Latin word instaurātiōn- which meant "a renewing" or "repeating".

復舊\秸稈 - 雷伊shuhn\,名詞

1。重建;恢復;改造;維修
2。過時。提起東西行為;建立

溫馨的友誼事實上,他覺得;無論復舊夢想可能現在無可救藥事物本身競爭禁止直系接班人幌子
- 哈代寵兒

古巴共和國復舊以來第一次軍事種姓自己的管理
- 諾伯特·富恩特斯安娜·庫什納菲德爾·卡斯特羅自傳

來自拉丁詞復舊意味著更新”或“重複復舊

2012年6月23日 星期六

2012_06_23 Chockablock adj. 擁擠 crowded

Word of the Day for Saturday, June 23, 2012
chockablock \CHOK-uh-BLOK\, adjective:
1. Extremely full; crowded; jammed.
2. Nautical. Having the blocks drawn close together, as when the tackle is hauled to the utmost.
adverb:
1. In a crowded manner: books piled chockablock on the narrow shelf.
This town is chockablock with restaurants that are just clones of the same old themes.
 -- Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
lf opossum and skunk and raccoon can hide there, survive there, year after year, decade after decade, almost in the middle of a teeming metropolitan chockablock, think how an enterprising monkey might fare.
 -- Tom Robbins, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
Chockablock is of uncertain origin. It is likely related to the word chock-full which means "crammed". The word chock refers to a wooden block that holds something in place.
1。非常充分;擁擠;卡住。2。海裡。有塊繪製併攏,鏟球時被運至最大限度。副詞:1。在一個擁擠的方式:書堆chockablock在狹窄的貨架。這個鎮是chockablock餐廳,只是老主題的克隆。  - 譚恩美“喜福會”LF負鼠,臭鼬和浣熊可以隱藏的,有生存,年復一年,十年後十年,幾乎是在一個擁擠的大都市chockablock中,認為一個積極進取的猴子會票價如何。  - 湯姆·羅賓斯,一半青蛙睡衣入睡chockablock是不確定的起源。這可能與這意味著“擠”字塞滿。塞滿字,是指一個木塊,擁有到位的東西。

2012年6月22日 星期五

2012_06_29 Subitize v. 一目了然。To perceive at a glance the number of items presented.

Word of the Day for Friday, June 22, 2012
subitize \SOO-bi-tahyz\, verb:
To perceive at a glance the number of items presented.
Below seven the subjects were said to subitize; above seven they were said to estimate.
 -- H. Gutfreund and G. Toulouse, Biology and Computation: A Physicist's Choice
I wanted to see if Pedro could subitize, so I asked, “Pedro, how many stars are in the first circle?”
 -- Melissa Conklin, It Makes Sense!
Subitize comes from the Latin word subitāre which meant "to appear suddenly".
感知提出項目數量一目了然

以下七個科目subitize上述七個他們估計
- H古德菲瑞德G.生物學和計算圖盧茲一個物理學家選擇

希望看到如果佩德羅subitize所以我問:“佩德羅,第一多少星星?”
- 梅麗莎康克林這是有道理的

subitize來自拉丁詞subitāre這意味著突然出現

2012年6月21日 星期四

2012_06_21 Enchiridion n. 手冊。A handbook

Word of the Day for Thursday, June 21, 2012
enchiridion \en-kahy-RID-ee-uhn\, noun:
A handbook; manual.
For you offer us the postulation that we can, in the shadow, or rather the radiance, of your own enchiridion, go and do likewise.
 -- Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
Sarah and Isaac were romping noisily about and under the beds; Rachel was at the table, knitting a scarf for Solomon; grandmother pored over a bulky enchiridion for pious women, written in jargon.
 -- Israel Zangwill, Children of the Ghetto
Enchiridion stems from the Greek root cheir meaning "hand". The prefix en- means "within", so the noun means "in the hand". The suffix -idion denotes a diminutive form of another word.
一本手冊;手冊。為您提供我們的公設,我們可以在陰影,或相當的輻射,自己便覽,去也這樣做。  - 普魯斯特,斯旺的方式莎拉和以撒嬉戲喧嘩和床鋪下;雷切爾在表,針織為所羅門圍巾的祖母在一個虔誠的婦女,在行話書面笨重便覽看了又看。  - 以色列贊格威爾,貧民窟兒童便覽源於希臘詞根,意思是“手”cheir。前綴的方式“內”,所以這個名詞是指“在手”。後綴idion表示一個字一個身材矮小的形式。

2012年6月20日 星期三

2012_06_20 Noctilucent adj. 夜光 Visible during the short night of the summer.

Word of the Day for Wednesday, June 20, 2012
noctilucent \nok-tuh-LOO-suhnt\, adjective:
Visible during the short night of the summer.
So Sax would sit on the Western sea cliff, rapt through the setting of the sun, then stay through the hour of twilight, watching the sky colors change as the sun's shadow rose up, until all the sky was black; and then sometimes there would appear noctilucent clouds, thirty kilometers above the planet, broad streaks gleaming like abalone shells.
 -- Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Mars
The shells of 155-mm howitzers whistled away through the dark air, orange flashes popped like noctilucent flowers on the western ridge of Hon Heo Mountain and disappeared shortly after, and then the sound of explosions rumbled through the ground.
 -- Junghyo Ahn, White Badge
Noctilucent entered English in the late 1800s. It is a combination of the prefix nocti- (which means "night") and lucent (which means "shining").

夜光\ NOK-tuh-LOO-suhnt\,形容詞

可見長夜短夏天

所以薩克斯西方全神貫注的坐在通過太陽設置然後通過的黃昏時刻天空顏色的變化太陽的影子上漲直到整個天空黑色的;然後有時出現夜光雲30公里以上行星鮑魚殼一樣閃閃發光廣泛條紋
- 金Stanley魯賓遜火星

155毫米榴彈砲的砲彈呼嘯著穿過黑暗空氣橙色閃爍夜光一樣殺出西部山脊消失後不久,然後通過地面隆隆爆炸聲
- Junghyo安貞煥白色徽章

在19世紀末期夜光進入英語這是一個前綴nocti這意味著“飛人”和朗訊(即“閃亮”組合

2012年6月19日 星期二

2012_06_19 Pensee n. 反射或思想。A reflection or thought

Word of the Day for Tuesday, June 19, 2012
pensée \pahn-SEY\, noun:
A reflection or thought.
He rose from his deep chair and at his desk entered on the first page of a new notebook a pensee: The penalty of sloth is longevity.
 -- Evelyn Waugh, Unconditional Surrender
In a pensee that could have been cribbed from Mae West's daybook, she also said, “If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married!”
 -- Karen Karbo, How to Hepburn
Pensée comes directly from the French word of the same spelling which means "a thought".

反射思想

他站起身從他深厚椅子在他的辦公桌上輸入一個新的筆記本pensee第一頁懶惰刑罰長壽
- 伊夫林·沃無條件投降

在一個本來可以西daybook cribbed pensee如果你想犧牲為一體的批評,許多男人欽佩,勇往直前,結婚
- 卡倫Karbo如何赫本

pensée直接來自法語單詞拼寫相同這意味著思想
New

2012年6月18日 星期一

2012_06_18 Volant adj. nimble.

Word of the Day for Monday, June 18, 2012
volant \VOH-luhnt\, adjective:
1. Moving lightly; nimble.
2. Engaged in or having the power of flight.
noun:
1. Also called volant piece. Armor. A reinforcing piece for the brow of a helmet.
But here in the present case, to carry on the volant metaphor, (for I must either be merry or mad) is a pretty little Miss, just, come out of her hanging-sleeve coat, brought to buy a pretty little fairing; for the world, Jack, is but a great fair thou knowest; and, to give thee serious reflection for serious, all its toys but tinselled hobby horses, gilt gingerbread, squeaking trumpets, painted drums, and so forth.
 -- Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady
With Rube winging it that spring, the band blared, and the volant baseball team was unbeatable.
 -- Alan Howard Levy, Rube Waddell
Volant stems from the Latin word volāre which meant "to fly". In English, it acquired the sense of moving nimbly in the early 1600s.
展翅\的VOH-luhnt\,形容詞:1。移動掉以輕心;靈活。2。從事或擁有飛行的力量。名詞:1。也稱為展翅片。鎧甲。一個頭盔的容顏,加強一塊。但在目前情況下,進行的展翅比喻,(我必須是快樂或瘋狂)是一個漂亮的小小姐,只是,她吊袖大衣,拿來買了漂亮的小整流罩;世界,傑克,但一個偉大的公平你知道,給你嚴重的認真反思,其所有的玩具,但tinselled愛好馬,鎏金薑餅,吱吱小號,畫鼓,等等。  - 塞繆爾·理查森,克拉麗莎,或者,一位年輕女士的歷史魯貝藏匿的那年春天,樂隊的迴響,展翅的棒球隊是無與倫比的。  - 阿蘭·霍華德·利維,魯貝沃德爾展翅源於拉丁詞volāre這意味著“飛”。在英語中,它獲得了靈活移動,在17世紀初感。

2012年6月17日 星期日

2012_06_17 Agnate n. 父方 Any male relation on the father's side

Word of the Day for Sunday, June 17, 2012
agnate \ag-neyt\, noun:
1. A relative whose connection is traceable exclusively through males.
2. Any male relation on the father's side.
adjective:
1. Related or akin through males or on the father's side.
2. Allied or akin.
It was considered abomination; no agnate gives up its infant kin in Igboland, no matter the crime.
 -- M. O. Ené, Blighted Blues
His uncle in the third segment was the only other agnate who shared patriotic sentiments with Yat-Kuan.
 -- Saikaku Ihara, Tales of Japanese Justice
Agnate is derived from the Latin word agnātus which referred to paternal kinsmen.
父方\ AG-neyt\,名詞

1。相對連接通過男性完全是有跡可尋
2。父親身邊任何男性關係

形容詞
1。相關通過父親身邊男性或類似
2。專職類似

它被認為是可憎的沒有父方放棄Igboland嬰兒的親屬無論犯罪
- M. O.烯,荒蕪藍調

他的叔叔第三部分唯一父方共享愛國情懷
- 井原西鶴日本司法故事

父方其中提到父系親屬拉丁詞agnātus推導

2012年6月16日 星期六

2012_06_16 Sardanapalian adj. 過分豪華 Excessively luxurious

Word of the Day for Saturday, June 16, 2012
Sardanapalian \sahr-dn-uh-PEYL-yuhn\, adjective:
Excessively luxurious.
Rich papers with gold borders, bronze chandeliers, mahogany engravings in the dining-room, and blue cashmere furniture in the salon, … all details of a chilling and perfectly unmeaning character, but which to the eyes of Ville-aux- Fayes seemed the last efforts of Sardanapalian luxury.
 -- Honoré de Balzac, Sons of Soil
Here, in this half-destroyed Tartar town, surrounded by steppes, he indulged himself in a Sardanapalian effulgence that beggared even his jassy Court.
 -- Simon Sebag Montefiore, Potemkin
First used in English in the 1860s, Sardanapalian is an eponym that comes from the legendary Assyrian king Sardanapal who was famous for his decadence.
過分豪華。豐富的論文與金邊框,青銅吊燈,紅木雕刻在飯廳裡,在沙龍的藍色羊絨家具,...寒蟬完全無意義的字符的所有細節,但威樂輔助Fayes眼睛似乎在最後努力Sardanapalian奢侈品。  - 巴爾扎克,土壤的兒子在這裡,在這半年,已銷毀韃靼鎮,草原包圍,他縱容自己,陷於貧困的境地,甚至他的jassy法院在Sardanapalian光輝。  - 西蒙Sebag蒙蒂菲奧里,波將金在19世紀60年代,在英語中首次使用Sardanapalian是從傳說中的亞述國王Sardanapal誰是他頹廢的著名的名字命名。

2012年6月15日 星期五

2012_06_13 Mewl v. 哭,了像嗚咽 whimper.

Word of the Day for Wednesday, June 13, 2012
mewl \myool\, verb:
To cry, as a baby, young child, or the like; whimper.
When Celia was growing up, her father had taken in a stray kitten, an avid hunter who – by the time Celia had left for college – still had not gotten over a formative, stray-life trauma that compelled it to mewl between mouthfuls of food.
 -- Myla Goldberg, The False Friend
They have mouths that twitch, and eyes that stare, and they babble and they mewl and they whimper.
 -- Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors
Mewl is an imitative word that mimics the sound of a whimper.
哭了,作為一個嬰兒,幼兒嗚咽

西莉亞長大,她的父親流浪小貓一個狂熱的獵人誰 - 時間西莉亞離開大專 - 仍未得到形成流浪生活創傷,迫使它的食物之間幾口mewl
- 米拉戈德堡虛假的朋友

他們有口抽搐,眼睛凝視,他們喋喋不休他們mewl,他們嗚咽
- 內爾吉曼,霧裡看花

mewl模仿的,模仿嗚咽

2012_06_15 Cunctation n. Delay; tardiness; 延遲;遲到。

Word of the Day for Friday, June 15, 2012
cunctation \kuhngk-TEY-shuhn\, noun:
Delay; tardiness.
Lord Eldon however was personally answerable for unnecessary and culpable cunctation, as he called it in protracting the arguments of counsel, and in deferring judgment from day to day, from term to term, and from year to year after the arguments had closed and he had irrevocably decided in his own mind what the judgment should be.
 -- Baron John Campbell, Lives of Lord Lyndhurst and Lord Brougham
"What it's about," Goldman said, with tantalizing cunctation, "is a whole lot of things, as a matter of fact."
 -- Philip Kerr, The Shot
Cunctation stems from the Latin word cunctātiōn- meaning "delay" or "hesitation".
延遲;遲到。主埃爾登個人不過是不必要的和應受懲處cunctation交代,他稱之為地延長律師的論點,並推遲從每天的判斷,從短期到長期,從一年到一年後的參數已關閉,他不得不無可挽回地決定自己的心態應該是什麼的判斷。 巴朗 - 約翰·坎貝爾,主林德赫斯特和主蒙生活“它是關於什麼的,”高盛說,與誘人cunctation,“一大堆的事情,事實上,。”  - 菲利普·科爾,鉛球從拉美cunctātiōn的意思是“延遲”或“猶豫”一詞源於cunctation。

2012年6月14日 星期四

2012_06_14 Imponderable , 無法估量的cannot precisely determined or measured.







Word of the Day for Thursday, June 14, 2012
imponderable \im-PON-der-uh-buhl\, noun:m
1. A thing that cannot be precisely determined or measured.
adjective:
1. Not ponderable; that cannot be precisely determined, measured, or evaluated.
Of course he had always been a huge imponderable, if not to say the biggest challenge of her admittedly young life.
 -- Lindsay Armstrong, The Constantin Marriage
Of course there's always the imponderable, the unpredictable which can't be foreseen...
 -- Leonardo Sciascia, Peter Robb and Sacha Rabinovitch, The Moro Affair
Imponderable comes directly from the Medieval Latin word imponderābilis which had the same meaning.
無法估量的\ IM-PON的DER-UH-布爾\,名詞

1。的事情不能準確地確定或衡量

形容詞
1。ponderable;不能準確地確定,測量或評估

當然始終是一個巨大的無法估量的,如果不說,承認年輕的生命面臨的最大挑戰
- 林賽·阿姆斯特朗康斯坦丁婚姻

當然總是有無法估量的不可預見不可預知的...
- 萊昂納多夏夏彼得·羅布薩沙·拉賓諾維奇摩洛事理

無法估量的直接來自於中世紀拉丁字imponderābilis相同的含義

2012年6月11日 星期一

2012_06_11 Ravelment n. Entanglement; 糾纏;混亂。

Word of the Day for Monday, June 11, 2012
ravelment \RAV-uhl-muhnt\, noun:
Entanglement; confusion.
Hampered as I was by my well-known connection with the Gillespie poisoning case, I could not personally make a move towards the ravelment of its mystery without subjecting myself to the curiosity of the people among whom my attention of the District Attorney's office and the suspicion of the men whose business I was in a measure attempting to usurp.
 -- Anna Katharine Green, One of My Sons
What I could see clearly, though, was the lower course of the burn: this bisected the small valley and appeared to loop around the far side of the dwelling, partly enfolding it before it broadened out and spread thence through arable to a ravelment of stone and incoming sea.
 -- Clifford Geddes, Edge of the Glen
Ravelment derives from the word ravel which means "to become tangled". It entered English in the early 1800s.

糾纏\ RAV UHL-muhnt\,名詞

糾纏;混亂

阻礙作為知名吉萊斯皮中毒的情況下連接不能親自作出服從自己的人好奇心1實現它的神秘糾纏移動其中關注地區檢察官辦公室懷疑人,他們的生意試圖篡奪措施
- 安娜·凱瑟琳·格林我的一個兒子

可以清楚地看到雖然燒傷當然平分山谷和周圍居住循環出現部分捂著之前,擴大,並通過耕地那裡蔓延糾纏和傳入
- 克利福德格迪斯幽谷邊緣

糾纏源於這意味著“成為糾纏不清的拉威爾在19世紀初進入英語

2012年6月10日 星期日

2012_06_10 mignon adj.精緻漂亮 Delicately pretty

Word of the Day for Sunday, June 10, 2012
mignon \min-YON\, adjective:
Small and pretty; delicately pretty.
And here Jasmin caressed his own arm, and made as if it were a baby's, smiling and speaking in a mignon voice, wagging his head roguishly.
 -- William Chambers and Robert Chambers, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal
As the village princeling and household cosset, the toast of the family, the mignon of the minions, the darling of the staff, my feelings about the proposed adoption would not be hard to divine.
 -- Martin Amis, Success
Mignon stems from the French word of the same spelling which means "delicate" or "charming". It is also related to the word "minion" through the sense of "small".
牛排\分鐘,延亨默\,形容詞:

小而漂亮,精緻漂亮。

和茉莉在這裡愛撫自己的手臂,並就好像它是嬰兒的,面帶微笑,在牛排的聲音說,流裡流氣地搖他的頭。
- 威廉·錢伯斯和羅伯特·錢伯斯,錢伯斯的愛丁堡 -

村太子黨和家庭的寵兒,家庭的敬酒,牛排的爪牙,工作人員的寵兒,有關建議採納我的感情不會很難神聖。
- 馬丁·艾米斯,成功

米尼翁源於法語單詞拼寫相同,這意味著“精緻”或“迷人”。它也涉及到的“馬仔,通過“小”的感覺。

2012年6月9日 星期六

2012_06_09 Pochismo n. 借用一個英文單詞或表達成西班牙文。

Word of the Day for Saturday, June  9, 2012
pochismo \poh-CHEEZ-moh\, noun:
1. An English word or expression borrowed into Spanish.
2. A form of speech employing many such words.
3. An adopted U.S. custom, attitude, etc.
Along the Texas border, in the towns on both sides of the Rio Grande, they call a similar blending of languages pochismo.
 -- Robert Wilder, Plough the Sea
The assimilation of English with Spanish speech and of Hispanic with Anglo traits in the mixed culture termed pochismo has brought contrasting values and characteristics into play within families and even within individuals.
 -- Milo Kearney and Manuel Medrano, Medieval Culture and the Mexican American Borderlands
Pochismo entered English in the 1940s. It is a variation of the word pocho which refers to a person of Mexican heritage who has adopted American customs. The suffix -ismo is usually the Spanish equivalent of the English suffix -ism.


1。借用一個英文單詞表達成西班牙文
2。一種形式講話僱用許多這樣的話
3。一個通過美國的習慣,態度等。

得克薩斯州邊境沿線格蘭德河兩側城鎮,他們稱之為同類語言pochismo混合
- 羅伯特·懷爾德先靈葆雅

英語西班牙語演講英美混合文化特徵西班牙裔美國人同化被稱為pochismo帶來了對比價值特點發揮,甚至在家庭和個人
- 米洛科爾尼曼努埃爾·梅德拉諾中世紀文化墨西哥裔美國人邊疆

pochismo20世紀40年代進入英語。這是一個變化pocho墨西哥遺產已通過美國海關後綴-ismo通常是西班牙相當於英語後綴主義

2012年6月8日 星期五

2012_06_08 Divulse 撕裂或分開。

Word of the Day for Friday, June  8, 2012
divulse \dahy-VUHLS\, verb:
To tear away or apart.
A perforation having been so made, it is safer to divulse the opening rather than to enlarge it by cutting in order to avoid the possibility of opening a blood vessel in an inaccessible region.
 -- Eugene Fuller, M.D., The Journal of the American Medical Association
Even if you are the kooper of the winkel over measure never lost a license. Nor a duckindonche divulse from bath and breakfast.
 -- James Joyce, Finnegans Wake
Divulse comes from the Latin root vellere meaning "plucked". The prefix di- is a variation of dis- before the letter v meaning "apart" or "away", as in disown.

divulse\ dahy VUHLS\,動詞:撕裂或分開。穿孔已如此作出的,​​它是安全,到divulse開放,而不是擴大它切割,以避免在人跡罕至的地區開放血管的可能性。  - 尤金·富勒,醫學博士,美國醫學協會雜誌“即使你是以上措施的溫克爾kooper永遠失去了牌照。 ,也不是從浴缸和早餐duckindonche divulse。  - 詹姆斯·喬伊斯,芬尼根守靈divulse來自拉丁詞根,意思是“撥弦”vellere。 DI-前綴是一種變異,顯示之前至五意思是“分開”或“離開”在斷絕關係的信。

2012年6月7日 星期四

2012_06_07 Natch adv.當然,自然。Of course; naturally.

Word of the Day for Thursday, June  7, 2012
natch \nach\, adverb:
Of course; naturally.
She was even more delighted to hear that you were planning to invest in her health club, and hopes to see you there as a patron as well as an investor. At reduced rates, natch?
 -- Evelyn E. Smith, Miss Melville Returns
Yes, well, your father, who has no humanitarian instincts, is already designing a computer program to put the Lever process on automatic. For a small fee, natch.
 -- Dana Stabenow, Second Star
Natch is a shortening and respelling of the common English word naturally.
natch\膽鹼\,副詞

當然自然

高興聽到你計劃投資健康俱樂部,並希望看到靠山以及投資者降低利率natch
- 伊夫林·E·史密斯,吳梅爾維爾返回

是啊,你的父親,沒有人道主義本能已經設計的計算機程序自動槓桿過程對於一個費用natch
- 達納施塔貝諾星級

natch1起酥油respelling常見的英語單詞自然

2012年6月6日 星期三

2012_06_05 Larrup v. 毆打或鞭打 to beat or thrash

Word of the Day for Wednesday, June  6, 2012
larrup \LAR-uhp\, verb:
To beat or thrash.
When a seagoing canoe beached on the stones, or when a neighbor came larruping from around back of the house, Martha Obenchain, peeling potatoes at a table in the sun, rose and put the kettle on, tickled pink.
 -- Annie Dillard, The Living
A fast white boat comes larruping around the point from the direction of Mercer Island and banks towards him.
 -- Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
Larrup may derive from the Dutch word larpen meaning "to beat with flails".
\超高壓\,動詞:

毆打鞭打

海輪獨木舟擱淺在石頭上鄰居各地回來的房子瑪莎Obenchain與眾不同,脫皮土豆在陽光下,玫瑰水壺捧腹
- 安妮迪拉德生活

一個快速白色默瑟島方向銀行對他周圍的與眾不同
- 尼爾·斯蒂芬森Cryptonomicon

可能來自荷蘭larpen意思是“連枷

2012年6月5日 星期二

2012_06_05 apoplectic adj. 不夠激烈,威脅或導致中風。


















Word of the Day for Tuesday, June  5, 2012
apoplectic \ap-uh-plek-tik\, adjective:
1. Intense enough to threaten or cause a stroke.
2. Of or pertaining to apoplexy.
3. Having or inclined to apoplexy.
noun:
1. A person having or predisposed to apoplexy.
When Abie used to shout, Rebecca always used to make a joke that he was having one of his apoplectic fits.
 -- Alan Grayson, Mile End
...four years, one recession and a host of battles — over financial regulation and the nomination of Elizabeth Warren, over Dodd-Frank and the Buffett Rule — have taken their toll. Some on Wall Street are apoplectic. One former supporter, Dan Loeb, compared Obama to Nero; the president’s enemies insinuated worse.
 -- Nicholas Confessore, "Obama’s Not-So-Hot Date With Wall Street", The New York Times Magazine, May 2, 2012
Apoplectic stems from the Greek word apoplēktikós which meant "pertaining to stroke". It literally meant "struck down".
中風\ AP-UH-plek\,形容詞

1。不夠激烈威脅導致中風
2。有關中風
3。擁有或傾向於中風

名詞:
1。一個易患中風

Abie,麗貝卡總是用一個玩笑他有一個中風配合
- 艾倫·格雷森

......四年來,經濟衰退和一系列的戰鬥 - 金融監管多德 - 弗蘭克巴菲特規則伊麗莎白·沃倫提名 - 已採取他們的通行費華爾街一些中風前者的支持者之一·勒布到Nero相比,奧巴馬總統的敵人含沙射影更糟
- 尼古拉斯Confessore奧巴馬與華爾街不那麼日期”,紐約時報雜誌”5月2日2012年

這意味著有關中風希臘字apoplēktikós中風莖。它的字面意思打倒