2012_05_31 Haimish adj.溫馨的家庭;舒適Homey; cozy and unpretentious.

Word of the Day for Thursday, May 31, 2012
haimish \HEY-mish\, adjective:
Homey; cozy and unpretentious.
Now separated from Gisela Liner's home cooking and haimish evenings playing living-room soccer with Kisch, Billie consoled himself by going to the finest spots in Berlin.
 -- Ed Sikov, On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder
By late afternoon the house looked at least haimish, with the season's last roses cut and opening in jelly jars.
 -- Sally Koslow, With Friends Like These
There were other homey touches: a mizrakh plaque on the eastern wall, a silver menorah and a sewing kit containing a color wheel of spools on the sideboard—all made the more haimish by the savory aromas wafting in through the kitchen door.
 -- Steve Stern, The Frozen Rabbi
Haimish stems from the Yiddish word of the same spelling, which comes from the German word heimisc that literally means "pertaining to the home."
溫馨的家庭;舒適，樸實無華。
吉塞拉班輪的家常菜，現在分開客廳與基施打足球haimish晚上，比利安慰自己要在柏林最好的景點。  - 埃德Sikov，在日落大道：比利·懷爾德的生活和時代到下午晚些時候的房子看著在至少haimish，本賽季的最後的玫瑰切開放和果凍罐子。  - 莎莉Koslow，有這樣的朋友有其他家一樣的觸動：上東牆，銀燭台和一個針線包，包含一個線軸色輪上的mizrakh牌匾側板香香通過廚房門裡飄出的香味更haimish。  - 史蒂夫·斯特恩，冷凍拉比haimish源於“。有關家庭”意第緒語單詞的拼寫相同，它的字面意思是從德國詞heimisc

Word of the Day for Wednesday, May 30, 2012
skirr \skur\, verb:
1. To go rapidly; fly; scurry.
2. To go rapidly over.
noun:
1. A grating or whirring sound.
Looking up, he perceived, to his horror, the figure of a man which seemed to skirr along the surface of the water...
 -- Ambrose Marten, The Stanley Tales
If they'll do neither, we will come to them, and make them skirr away as swift as stones enforced from the old Assyrian slings.
 -- William Shakespeare, Henry V
Skirr is related to the word scour, which comes from the Old Norse word skur meaning "shower."

1。迅速去飛;亂竄。
2。去迅速結束。

名詞：
1。光柵或呼呼的聲音。

抬頭一看，他認為，他的恐怖，一個人的身影似乎轟轟沿水面......
- 貂，劉漢銓，赤柱的故事

如果他們既會做，我們會來給他們，使他們遠離轟轟石頭從舊亞述吊索執行迅速。
- 威廉·莎士比亞，亨利五世

轟轟有關字的沖刷，從古諾爾斯字skur意義來“淋浴”。

2012_05_29 Varlet noun話務員或僕人 An attendant or servant

Word of the Day for Tuesday, May 29, 2012
varlet \VAHR-lit\, noun:
1. A knavish person; rascal.
2. A. An attendant or servant. B. A page who serves a knight.
Is he not a lying, stinking, contemptible varlet?
 -- Jude Morgan, Indiscretion
 A varlet scrambled forward at once and attempted to wrestle our luggage away from me.
 -- Eric Kraft, On the Wing
Varlet is a variation on the French word valet.
1。一個knavish人;流氓。
2。話務員或僕人。 B.一個人，騎士。

他是不是一個說謊的，臭的，可鄙的varlet？
- 裘德摩根，越軌

一個varlet炒一次嘗試我們的行李離開我搏鬥。
- 埃里克卡夫，機翼上

varlet是一個法語單詞代客變化。

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2012_05_27 Ventose adj. 給空談;大風。Given to empty talk; windy.

Word of the Day for Sunday, May 27, 2012
ventose \VEN-tohs\, adjective:
Given to empty talk; windy.
Anyhow, it is better to wind up that way than to go growling out one's existence as a ventose hypochondriac.
 -- Thomas Henry Huxley, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
The ventose orator was confounded, and put himself and his glass down together.
 -- L. J. Bigelow, Bench and Bar
First used in English in the 1700s, ventose is derived from the Latin word for wind, "vent."
給空談;大風。

總之，它是更好的風，比去咆哮了一個人的存在作為ventose脅痛。
- 托馬斯·亨利·赫胥黎，生活和托馬斯·亨利·赫胥黎的書

被混淆的ventose的演說家，並把自己和他的玻璃一起。
- L. J.比奇洛，長凳和酒吧

在1700年，在英語中首次使用ventose來自風，拉丁詞“發洩。”

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2012_05_26 Betide v 發生;應驗。;To happen; come to pass.

Word of the Day for Saturday, May 26, 2012
betide \bih-TAHYD\, verb:
1. To happen to; come to; befall.
2. To happen; come to pass.
"Ill luck betide thee, poor damsel," said Sancho, "ill luck betide thee!"
 -- Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
"The girls' skirts are measured each week with a dressmaker's rule," she would say, "to see that they conform to the length prescribed. Woe betide any girl whose skirt does not."
 -- Hilary Mantel, An Experiment in Love
Betide stems from the Old English word tide meaning "something that happened." As in besot and belabor, the prefix be- turns the noun into a verb.
發生於\波黑TAHYD\，動詞：

1。發生;來;降臨。
2。發生;應驗。

“厄運發生於你，可憐的姑娘，”桑丘說，“厄運發生於你！”
- 塞萬提斯，“堂吉訶德”

“女孩的裙子是衡量一個裁縫的規則，每星期，”她說，“看到他們符合長度規定。禍發生於任何女孩的裙子沒有。”
- 希拉里·曼特爾，在愛的實驗

發生於莖“發生的一件事”，從舊的英文單詞潮意義。使人醉和痛打，前綴變成一個動詞的名詞。

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2012_05_12 Ingeminate v. 重複; 重申 To repeat; reiterate.

Word of the Day for Friday, May 25, 2012
ingeminate \in-JEM-uh-neyt\, verb:
To repeat; reiterate.
Sitting among his friends, often, after a deep silence and frequent sighs, he would with a shrill and sad accent ingeminate the word Peace, Peace...
 -- Christopher Ricks, Essays in Appreciation
Mr. Dott's spirits were a little dashed, especially as Niven with a fateful countenance continued to ingeminate the word “Hungrygrain.”
 -- Arthur Train, Tutt and Mr. Tutt
Ingeminate comes from the Latin word ingemināre which meant "to repeat or redouble."
重複;重申。

時候，坐在他的朋友之間，深深的沉默和頻繁的嘆息後，他將與尖銳和悲傷的口音ingeminate字的和平，和平...
- 克里斯托弗·里克斯，在欣賞散文

多特先生的精神是一點點破滅，尤其是作為一個致命的面容繼續ingeminate的字尼文，“Hungrygrain。”
- 阿瑟列車，TUTT和先生的TUTT

ingeminate“。重複或加倍”，這意味著從拉丁詞ingemināre

2012_05_24 Demiurge n.造物主 magistrate

Word of the Day for Thursday, May 24, 2012
demiurge \DEM-ee-urj\, noun:
1. Philosophy. A. Platonism. The artificer of the world. B. (In the Gnostic and certain other systems) a supernatural being imagined as creating or fashioning the world in subordination to the Supreme Being, and sometimes regarded as the originator of evil.
2. (In many states of ancient Greece) a public official or magistrate.
Larger than a character, the river is a manifest presence, a demiurge to support the man and the boy, a deity to betray them, feed them, all but drown them, fling them apart, float them back together.
 -- Norman Mailer, The Spooky Art
The gnostics think this world was created by a bad god—a demiurge—who wandered too far from the True God and somehow got perverted.
 -- Derek Swannson, Crash Gordon and the Mysteries of Kingsburg
Demiurge meant "a worker for the people" in Ancient Greek, from the roots dḗmio- meaning "of the people" and -ergos, "a worker."

造物主\ DEM的EE-urj的\，名詞：

1。哲學。 A.柏拉圖。世界的設計者。 B.（諾斯底和某些其他系統）一種超自然的想像創造或塑造隸屬的世界最高的存在，有時邪惡的鼻祖。
2。在古希臘的許多國家公職人員或裁判官。

超過一個字符較大，河流是一個清單存在，造物主，以支持該名男子和男孩，背叛他們的神，餵它們，但淹沒他們，他們除了一扔，漂浮他們重新走到一起。
- 諾曼·梅勒，鬼的藝術

該Gnostics認為這個世界是由一個壞神的造物主誰徘徊太遠，從真神，不知怎麼變態。
- 德里克Swannson，崩潰戈登和金斯堡的奧秘

造物主的意思是“人民的工人”在古希臘從根部意義dḗmio“人民”和-ergos，，“一名工人。”

2012_05_23 Chrestomathy n. 讀本 A collection of selected literary passages.

Word of the Day for Wednesday, May 23, 2012
chrestomathy \kres-TOM-uh-thee\, noun:
A collection of selected literary passages.
I had learned to read Sanscrit and to translate easy passages in the chrestomathy, and devoted myself with special zeal to the study of the Latin grammar and prosody.
 -- Georg Ebers, The Story of My Life from Childhood to Manhood
This little chrestomathy preserves almost the only words of Atticus to have survived from antiquity.
 -- Peter White, Cicero in Letters
Chrestomathy literally means "useful to learn" in Greek, from the roots chres- meaning "to use" and math- meaning "to learn."
讀本\ kres-TOM-UH-你\，名詞：

選定的文學段落的集合。

我所學到的，讀Sanscrit到翻譯讀本容易的通道，並致力於自己特別熱情的拉丁語法和韻律的研究。
- 格奧爾格·埃伯斯，我的生活故事，從童年到成年

這個小讀本保留幾乎已經從古代倖存下來的唯一的話Atticus市。
- 彼得·懷特，西塞羅在信件

讀本字面意思是“有用的學習”在希臘，從根部chres的意思是“使用”和數學的意義，“學習。”

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2012_05_22 Cumulus n. 堆;樁。A heap; pile.

Word of the Day for Tuesday, May 22, 2012
cumulus \KYOO-myuh-luhs\, noun:
1. A heap; pile.
2. A cloud of a class characterized by dense individual elements in the form of puffs, mounds, or towers, with flat bases and tops that often resemble cauliflower.
He was organizing the year's remnants. He was logging and archiving and filing it all. The whole swollen yearlong cumulus.
 -- Dana Spiotta, Stone Arabia
"So where is it at, Minogue," asks the palatal man, aloft in a cumulus of webs and dust and creak.
 -- David Foster Wallace, Girl with Curious Hair
Cumulus stems from the Neo-Latin word meaning "heap, pile." It was first used to describe clouds in the early 1800s.
積雲\圭myuh-LUHS\，名詞：

1。堆;樁。
2。雲類的特點，在平坦的基地和上衣，往往像菜花，泡芙，土堆，或塔的形式密集的個別元素。

他今年的殘餘組織。他記錄和存檔，並提交所有。整個腫為期一年的積雲。
- 達納Spiotta，阿拉伯石

“問：”那麼，它在哪裡，米洛，腭男子，高舉在網和防塵和吱吱的積雲。
- 大衛·福斯特·華萊士，與好奇的頭髮女孩

積雲源於“。堆，一堆”新拉丁一詞的含義它首先被用來描述在19世紀初雲。

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2012_05_21 Belabor v. 要堅持攻擊, 勞動。work more than is necessary

Word of the Day for Monday, May 21, 2012
belabor \bih-LEY-ber\, verb:
1. To explain, worry about, or work more than is necessary.
2. To assail persistently, as with scorn or ridicule.
3. To beat vigorously; ply with heavy blows.
4. Obsolete. To labor at.
Yours and everybody else's, thought Swiffers, but he didn't wish to belabor the obvious.
 -- Tom Robbins, Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
It is distasteful to the present writer to belabor any of his fellow writers, living or dead, and, except Boccaccio, who also stood for a detestable human trait, he has here avoided doing so.
 -- Ford Madox Ford, The March of Literature
Neither of them possessed energy or wit to belabor me soundly; but they insulted me as coarsely as they could in their little way.
 -- Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
痛打\波黑脈BER\，動詞：

1。解釋，擔心，或更比是必要的。
2。要堅持攻擊，輕蔑或嘲笑。
3。大力擊敗重拳層。
4。過時。勞動。

你和其他人的，以為的Swiffers，但他不想痛打明顯。
- 湯姆·羅賓斯，從炎熱的氣候梟榮軍首頁

痛打他的同胞的作家，活的或死到現在的作家，這是令人反感，除非薄伽丘，誰也站在一個可恨的人類特質，他已經在這裡避免這樣做。
- 福特馬多克斯福特，文學三月

他們既不擁有能源，或機智，痛打我的健康，但他們侮辱我粗，因為他們可以在他們的小方式。
- 夏洛蒂·勃朗特“簡愛”

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2012_05_20 Gambit n. 備註打開或重定向對話 Any maneuver by which one seeks to gain an advantage.

Word of the Day for Sunday, May 20, 2012
gambit \GAM-bit\, noun:
1. A remark made to open or redirect a conversation.
2. Chess. An opening in which a player seeks to obtain some advantage by sacrificing a pawn or piece.
3. Any maneuver by which one seeks to gain an advantage.
The leader was eyeing him up and down, shrewdly calculating. "Thirsty as all that, are you, my friend?" he asked. Gratefully Bomilcar seized upon the gambit. “Thirsty enough to buy everyone here a drink,” he said.
 -- Colleen McCullough, The First Man in Rome
But in other cases the gambit may be a dependent clause introducing or rounding off some larger unit whose illocutionary force it helps to establish.
 -- Thierry Fontenelle, Practical Lexicography: A Reader
Gambit is primarily a term used in chess. It came from the Italian idiom gambetto meaning "to trip up."

GAMBIT\的GAM位\，名詞：

1。備註打開或重定向對話。
2。國際象棋。一開場球員在尋求獲得一些優勢，通過犧牲一個棋子或一塊。
3。任何迴旋由哪一個旨在獲得優勢。

領導盯上了他，下來，精明計算。 “渴了這一切，是你，我的朋友嗎？”他問。感激Bomilcar的開局抓住。 “渴了，夠買這裡的每個人喝一杯，”他說。
- 科琳麥卡洛，在羅馬的第一人

但在其他情況下，開局可能是從屬子句，引進或關閉一些較大的單位，其言外力量，它有助於建立四捨五入。
- 亨利，實用辭書豐特奈爾：一位讀者

開局主要是在國際象棋中使用的一個術語。它是從哪裡來的的意大利的成語gambetto意義，“絆倒了。”

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2012_05_19 Phatic adj. 應酬 Denoting speech used to create an atmosphere of goodwill.

Word of the Day for Saturday, May 19, 2012
phatic \FAT-ik\, adjective:
Denoting speech used to create an atmosphere of goodwill.
We conduct phatic discourse indispensable to maintaining a constant connection among speakers; but phatic speech is indispensable precisely because it keeps the possibility of communication in working order, for the purpose of other and more substantial communications.
 -- Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality
They're just filling the air with noise. This is what's called phatic speech. "How are you?" they might ask.
 -- Adriana Lopez, Fifteen Candles
Coined by the anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski, phatic was first used in 1923. It probably comes from the Greek word phatos meaning "spoken."
應酬\ FAT-IK\，形容詞：

記講話，用於創建一個善意的氣氛。

我們進行保持揚聲器之間的持續連接必不可少的應酬話語，但正是因為它使溝通的可能性，在工作秩序，為其他較大幅度的通信的目的，是必不可少的應酬講話。
- 艾柯，遊記中的超現實

他們只是填充空氣與噪音。這是所謂的應酬講話。 “你怎麼樣？”他們可能會問。
- 阿德里安娜·洛佩茲，十五蠟燭

杜撰的人類學家馬林諾夫斯基，應酬於1923年首次使用。它可能來自“發言”從希臘字，意思是phatos

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2012_05_18 Pip v. 窺視或者啁啾 To peep or chirp.

Word of the Day for Friday, May 18, 2012
pip \pip\, verb:
1. To peep or chirp.
2. (Of a young bird) to break out from the shell.
3. To crack or chip a hole through (the shell), as a young bird.
Stone's watch pipped eight o'clock. He had curly hair the color of motor oil, and pale green eyes.
 -- Jonathan Franzen, The Twenty-Seventh City
As Fiona's horn pipped, just beyond the cab's black fender.
 -- William Gibson, Zero History
Pip is a variation on the word peep which arose in the 1600s. It comes from the Lithuanian word pỹpti which was originally imitative of a baby bird.
PIP\ PIP\，動詞：

1。窺視或者啁啾。
2。 （一個年輕的鳥），打破了殼。
3。裂紋或芯片的通孔（殼），作為一個年輕的鳥。

石頭的手錶pipped八點鐘。他捲曲的頭髮顏色，機油和淺綠色的眼睛。
- 喬納森·弗蘭岑，第二十七屆市

pipped由於Fiona的號角，只是超出駕駛室的黑色擋泥板。
- 威廉·吉布森，零的歷史

PIP是一個字窺視在17世紀出現的變化。它來自立陶宛的字pỹpti這是最初的模仿鳥寶寶。

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2012_05_17 Omphalos n. 中央點 The central point.

Word of the Day for Thursday, May 17, 2012
omphalos \OM-fuh-luhs\, noun:
1. The central point.
2. The navel; umbilicus.
3. Greek Antiquity. A stone in the temple of Apollo at Delphi, thought to mark the center of the earth.
To that incurable romantic the Trenton hovel was omphalos, the hub of existence, the center of mass.
 -- Ellen Queen, Halfway House
Yes; but if not of the earth, for earth's tenant Jerusalem was the omphalos of mortality.
 -- Thomas De Quincey, Suspiria de Profundies
From Greek, omphalos did not enter English until the 1850s when Thomas De Quincey used it in his work Suspiria de Profundis. It literally meant "navel."
浮飾\ OM复LUHS\，名詞：

1。中央點。
2。肚臍，肚臍。
3。古希臘。在德爾菲的阿波羅神廟在一個石頭，以為紀念地球的中心。

，不治之症浪漫的特倫頓小屋浮飾，存在的中心，重心。
- 愛倫皇后，中途之家

是的，但如果不是地球，是地球的租戶耶路撒冷死亡率浮飾。
- 托馬斯德昆西，Suspiria德Profundies

來自希臘，浮飾沒有輸入英文，直到19世紀50年代，當托馬斯德昆西在他的工作Suspiria深淵書簡。它的字面意思是“肚臍。”

2012_05_16 Spruik v. spiel. 高談闊論

Word of the Day for Wednesday, May 16, 2012
spruik \sprook\, verb:
To make or give a speech, especially extensively; spiel.
He started to spruik again, but I managed to get in first.
 -- C.E. Murphy, Raven Calls
Cain and Leek spruik their foul and immoral stories by the fire at night and the rest of the men grow excited and the mood of the camp becomes restless.
 -- Tim Winton, Shallows
Don't go into your spruik for me. I don't care what words you call it.
 -- A. E. Martin, The Outsiders
Spruik is Australian slang that arose in the early 1900s. It is of unknown origin.

作出或發表演講，尤其是廣泛;高談闊論。

他開始再次spruik，，但我設法得到第一。
- C.E.墨菲，烏鴉的叫聲

該隱和韭菜spruik他們的犯規和不道德的火災和晚上，其餘的人的故事，成長興奮和陣營的心情變得煩躁不安。
蒂姆 - 通泰，淺灘

我走不進你的spruik。我不在乎什麼話你怎麼稱呼它。
- A·馬丁，局外人

spruik是在20世紀初出現的澳洲俚語。它是來歷不明。

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2012_05_14 Intromit v. 引進;送;To introduce; to send, put, or let in.

Word of the Day for Monday, May 14, 2012
intromit \in-truh-MIT\, verb:
To introduce; to send, put, or let in.
Mrs. Tappitt had frequently offered to intromit the ceremony when calling upon his generosity for other purposes, but the September gift had always been forthcoming.
 -- Anthony Trollope,  Rachel Ray
But in this I found a great difficulty, arising from the policy and conduct of Mr. Andrew McLucre, who had a sort of investment, as may be said, of the office of dean of guild, having for many years been allowed to intromit and manage the same.
 -- John Galt, Annals of the Parish
Intromit comes from the Latin roots intro- meaning "inwardly" and mittere meaning "to send."


引進;送，付諸表決，或讓！

夫人Tappitt經常向intromit儀式時呼籲，要求他作其他用途的慷慨，但九月的禮物一直是即將舉行的。
- 特羅洛普，瑞秋雷

但是在此，我發現一個很大的困難，從黃宏McLucre，有一種投資，因為可以說，的公會院長辦公室的政策和行為所產生的，具有多年被允許到intromit管理相同。
- 約翰·高爾特，教區紀事

intromit“發送”從拉丁根介紹，意思是“內心”和mittere意義

2012_05_13 Matrilineal adj. 母系 Inheriting or determining descent through the female line.

Word of the Day for Sunday, May 13, 2012
matrilineal \ma-truh-LIN-ee-uhl\, adjective:
Inheriting or determining descent through the female line.
In a matrilineal society, in a matriarchy, and especially in this particular matriarchy, the women, as I've already said, control the houses, the lineage of the children, and a lot of decisions about marriage and so forth.
 -- Patrice E. M. Hollrah, The Old Lady Trill, the Victory Yell
Several of the women I talked to had decided to challenge the influence of the matrilineal clan and to bequeath part of their land to their sons. The ways they had chosen in this regard were however quite different.
 -- Birgit Englert and Elizabeth Daley, Women's Land Rights & Privatization in Eastern Africa
Matrilineal was first used in the early 1900s by anthropologists. It derives from the Late Latin roots matri- meaning "mother" and lineal meaning "line."
母系\馬truh-林-EE-UHL\，形容詞：

繼承或確定通過女系的後裔。

在母系社會，在母系社會，尤其是在這個特殊的母系社會，婦女，正如我已經說過，控制住房，子女的血統，很多婚姻的決定等等。
- 帕特里斯EM Hollrah，老太太顫音，勝利的叫喊

幾個婦女，我談過決定挑戰的母系氏族的影響，並留給他們的土地的一部分，他們的兒子。但他們在這方面選擇的方式是完全不同。
- 比吉特恩格勒特和伊麗莎白·戴利，婦女的土地權和非洲東部的民營化

母系首次使用在20世紀初的人類學家。它源於“線”，從晚馬特里拉丁詞根，意思是“母親”和直系意義。

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2012_05_12 Proroque v. To defer; postpone.推遲,停止的會話。

Word of the Day for Saturday, May 12, 2012
prorogue \proh-ROHG\, verb:
1. To defer; postpone.
2. To discontinue a session of (the British Parliament or a similar body).
It was enough to make him rise from his Governor's throne and tell them, in English instead of Latin just so the fools and dunderheads understood, that he was planning to prorogue Parliament within a week.
 -- Julian Barnes, England, England
What I do hear is that Catulus—he's much better, so they say, he'll be back making a nuisance of himself in Senate and Comitia shortly—is organizing a campaign to prorogue all the current governors next year, leaving this year's praetors with no provinces at all.
 -- Colleen McCullough, Caesar's Women
Prorogue is derived from the Latin word prōrogāre from the roots pro- meaning "advancing towards" and rogāre meaning "to ask."
1。推遲;推遲。
2。停止（英國議會或類似機構）的會話。

這是足以使他將從他的總督的寶座，並告訴他們，在英語，而不是拉丁只是這樣的傻瓜和dunderheads理解，他計劃在一個星期內prorogue議會。
- 朱利安·巴恩斯，英格蘭，英格蘭

我沒有聽到的是，Catulus，他是好多了，所以他們說，他將被回做1對自己在參議院和Comitia不久，正在組織一場以prorogue所有的電流州長明年，離開今年的praetors與的運動滋擾沒有在所有的省份。
- 科琳麥卡洛，凱撒的婦女

prorogue來自根親的含義和rogāre，意思是“向前進”，“問。”從拉丁詞prōrogāre

2012_05_09 Cicatrix n. 新的組織, New tissue that forms over a wound.

Word of the Day for Wednesday, May  9, 2012
cicatrix \SIK-uh-triks\, noun:
1. New tissue that forms over a wound.
2. Botany. A scar left by a fallen leaf, seed, etc.
A new relationship can develop. But the cicatrix of the old one remains. And nothing grows on a cicatrix. Nothing grows through it.
 -- Elizabeth George, Playing for the Ashes
He discriminates also very properly between the cicatrix, which is produced by the healing of wounds which have penetrated the cutis, and those in which the surface only is affected.
 -- James Moore, "Differtation on Healing of Wounds," The Analytical Review, Volume 5
Cicatrix is derived from the Latin word cicatrix meaning "scar." The Latin word has no clear origin.

1。新的組織，形成了一個傷口。
2。植物。一片落葉，種子等，留下了疤痕

可以開發一個新的關係。但仍然是舊的瘢痕。並沒有什麼上的瘢痕生長。通過它從無到有。
- 伊麗莎白·喬治，演奏為灰燼

他歧視也非常正確，它已經滲透表皮的傷口癒合的瘢痕，而那些表面只影響之間。
- 詹姆斯·穆爾，“傷口癒合Differtation，”評析，第5卷

瘢痕是來自拉丁詞瘢痕意思是“傷痕”。拉丁詞沒有明確的起源。

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2012_05_10 Obtest v. To protest, beseech 以示抗議, 懇求。

Word of the Day for Thursday, May 10, 2012
obtest \ob-TEST\, verb:
1. To supplicate earnestly; beseech.
2. To invoke as witness.
3. To protest.
4. To make supplication; beseech.
I constrain, adjure, obtest and strongly command you.
 -- Sir Walter Scott, Guy Mannering
And whosoever she be, even with the form of words which to miserable wretches is granted most exaudible, I pray, and do with those prayers most heartily obtest, which are in the ears of the hearers of them most effectual, that she may never taste of such bitter miseries.
 -- Giovanni Boccaccio, Amorous Fiametta
Obtest comes from the Latin roots ob-, a prefix meaning "toward", and the root test, meaning "witness."
1。認真哀告;懇求。
2。要調用作為證人。
3。以示抗議。
4。為了使懇求，懇求。

我約束，指著obtest和強烈吩咐你的。
- 沃爾特·斯科特爵士，蓋伊Mannering

和凡她甚至可憐的壞蛋被授予最exaudible單詞的形式，是，我祈禱，並與最衷心的祈禱obtest，這是他們最有效的聽眾的耳朵，她可能永遠不會嚐到做這種慘痛的苦難。
- 喬萬尼薄伽丘，Fiametta風情

obtest來自拉丁根OB，前綴的意義“走向”，並根檢驗，意思是“證人”。

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2010_05_11 Sibilant adj. Hissing; 嘶嘶聲。

Word of the Day for Friday, May 11, 2012
sibilant \SIB-uh-luhnt\, adjective:
1. Hissing.
2. Phonetics. Characterized by a hissing sound; noting sounds like those spelled with s in this.
noun:
1. Phonetics. A sibilant consonant.
This is the way the presence of a ghost was detected: Some sound would be heard, such as a sibilant noise, a soft whistle, or something like murmurs, or some sensation in a part of the body might be felt.
 -- George H. Ellis, Legends of Gods and Ghosts: Hawaiian Mythology
He just drank his coffee, making a little sibilant sound, and watched the earth mover lumber back and forth, back and forth, its shovel going up and down and over and up and down and over again.
 -- Anna Quindlen, Object Lessons
The wind in the patch of pine woods off there—how sibilant.
 -- Walt Whitman, Prose Works 1892: Specimen Days
Sibilant stems from the Latin word sībilant- which meant "whistling or hissing." It is assumed to imitative of the sound itself.

1。嘶嘶聲。
2。語音。特點是發出嘶嘶的聲音;注意到這樣的拼寫在這聲音。

名詞：
1。語音。噝噝輔音。

這是鬼的存在檢測方式：如噝噝噪聲，軟哨子，或像雜音東西，或一些可能會感到身體的一部分的感覺，會聽到一些聲音。
- 喬治·H.埃利斯，鬼神的傳說：夏威夷神話

他只是喝他的咖啡，一點點的噝噝聲，並觀看地球先行者木材來回，來回，鏟去，並和和反复。
- 安娜昆德倫，對象的經驗教訓

風中的松樹關閉有噝噝的補丁。
- 沃爾特·惠特曼，散文創作1892年：標本天

從“吹口哨或噝噝噝噝噝噝聲，這意味著拉丁詞莖。”假定它模仿的聲音本身。

2012_05_08 Pother n. debate辩论 bother打扰

Word of the Day for Tuesday, May  8, 2012
pother \POTH-er\, noun:
1. A heated discussion, debate, or argument; fuss; to-do.
2. Commotion; uproar.
3. A choking or suffocating cloud, as of smoke or dust.
verb:
1. To worry; bother.
"An' why all the pother?" Mrs. Rickards emitted a series of sniffs and returned his scowl with a frosty glare.
 -- Colin Arthur Roderick, The Lady and the Lawyer
I don't know what's so extraordinary about it, or why there should be such a pother.
 -- William Dean Howells, Novels 1886-1888, Volume 2
Pother is of unknown origin. It is not related to the word bother which did not enter English until the 1700s and is related to the word both.
1。了热烈的讨论，辩论，或参数;做文章;做。
2。骚动;哗然。
3。窒息或窒息云，烟尘。

动词：
1。担心打扰。

“”为什么所有的pother吗？“夫人Rickards发出了一系列的嗅着，回到了他的一个冷若冰霜的眩光怒容。
- 科林·阿瑟·罗德里克，夫人和律师

我不知道它是如此非凡，或为什么应该是这样的pother。
- 威廉·迪安·豪厄尔斯，小说1886年至1888年，第2卷

pother是来历不明。它是不相关的字，烦不输入英文，直到1700年，有关的字都。

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2012_05_07 Sudorific adj. Causing sweat. 发汗

Word of the Day for Monday, May  7, 2012
sudorific \soo-duh-RIF-ik\, adjective:
1. Causing sweat.
2. Sudoriparous.
noun:
1. A sudorific agent.
Having thrown him into a cold sweat by his spiritual sudorific, he attacks him with his material remedies, which are often quite as unpalatable.
 -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Medical Essays, 1842-1882
Wracked by such sudorific thoughts, he tossed noisily about, maddened, aching.
 -- Angela Huth, South of the Lights
Every sudorific hitherto employed had failed to produce this result upon a skin which horrible diseases had left impervious.
 -- Honoré de Balzac, Cousin Pons
Sudorific comes from the Latin word sūdor meaning "sweat." The word "sweat" is unrelated and comes from the Old English, swote.
发汗\洙咄-RIF-IK\，形容词：

1。造成汗水。
2。 sudoriparous。

名词：
1。一个发汗代理。

被投掷出一身冷汗，他通过他的精神发汗，他攻击他与他的材料补救，这往往是那么难吃。
- 奥利弗·温德尔·霍姆斯，医疗散文，1842年至1882年

毁坏这些发汗思想，他大肆抛出的，发疯，疼痛。
- 安吉拉·胡特，南一盏灯

就业每发汗迄今未能产生这一结果后，一个可怕的疾病​​离开了不透水的皮肤。
- 巴尔扎克，表哥庞斯

发汗“的汗水。”从拉丁词sūdor意义“汗”字无关，从旧的英语，swote。

2012_05_06 Mensch n. responsible person.负责任的人。

Word of the Day for Sunday, May  6, 2012
mensch \mench\, noun:
A decent, upright, mature, and responsible person.
It's easy to be a mensch, his dad says. You honor your father and mother. You stay married, you set your kids a good example, you don't lie or cheat or steal. And every once in a while, Cookie, you gotta pick up the check, his father says, then winks.
 -- Jane VanDenburgh, Physics of Sunset
A mensch is not usually interested in fame. You are liable to meet a mensch in almost any situation.
 -- Ira Wood, The Kitchen Man
Mensch entered English from Yiddish in the 1950s. In Yiddish, it meant "man, human being" and had the positive associations that carried into English. It is related to the German word mensch.
一个正派，正直，成熟的，负责任的人。

它很容易成为一个门施，他的父亲说。你孝敬你的父亲和母亲。你留结婚了，你设置你的孩子一个很好的例子，你不说谎或欺骗或窃取。每隔一会儿，饼干，你必须拿起支票，他的父亲说，然后眨眨眼睛。
- 简VanDenburgh，日落物理

一门施通常不感兴趣的名声。你有责任，以满足几乎在任何情况下，1门施。
- 伊拉木，厨房的人

门施在20世纪50年代从意第绪语的英语。意第绪语，这意味着“人，人类的”和成英文进行的正相关。它与德国字门施。

2012_05_05 Besot n. 到着迷;缠住。

Word of the Day for Saturday, May  5, 2012
besot \bih-SOT\, verb:
1. To infatuate; obsess.
2. To intoxicate or stupefy with drink.
3. To make stupid or foolish: a mind besotted with fear and superstition.
We mustn't besot ourselves with big words like independence and sovereignty. We must begin with small concrete tasks.
 -- Piotr Rawicz and Peter Wiles, Blood from the Sky
He tried to appear as besot with her as he was with her father's power and money.
 -- Judith Pella and Tracie Peterson, A Hope Beyond
The prefix be was used in Middle English to denote verbs, as in the contemporary words become and befriend. The word sot referred to an alcoholic.
1。到着迷;缠住。
2。来麻醉或酒后神志不清。
3。为了使愚蠢的或愚蠢的：恐惧和迷信迷住头脑。

我们不能用大词，如独立和主权，使人醉自己。我们必须开始与小的具体任务。
- 彼得·Rawicz和彼得·怀尔斯，从天空的血

他试图与她的出现，为使人醉，因为他与她的父亲的权力和金钱。
- 朱迪思·佩拉和Tracie彼得森的，超越希望

前缀被用于英语中表示动词，在当代成为和交好。字SOT称为酒精。

20_05_04 Fulcrum n. a hinge or support 支持，或休息点

Word of the Day for Friday, May  4, 2012
fulcrum \FOOL-kruhm\, noun:
1. The support, or point of rest, on which a lever turns.
2. Any prop or support.
3. Zoology. Any of various structures in an animal serving as a hinge or support.
verb:
1. To fit with a fulcrum; put a fulcrum on.
An equal partnership is like a see-saw that sits on a fulcrum. There is a balance of power when one partner gives in and then the other does likewise.
 -- Shirley Gunstream Poland, Hearing the Silent Cries
A storm of plans, each one trying to make me into a fulcrum.
 -- Steven Erikson, Memories of Ice
Fulcrum originally referred to a bed post from the Latin word fulcire meaning "to prop up."
支点\傻瓜kruhm\，名词：

1。支持，或休息点，杠杆打开。
2。任何道具或支持。
3。动物。任何动物作为一个铰链或支持的各种结构。

动词：
1。为了适应与一个支点，把一个支点。

一个平等的伙伴关系，就像是一见，看到坐在一个支点。有一种力量的平衡，当一个合作伙伴中，然后其他也照样给。
- 雪莉Gunstream波兰，听无声的呼喊

风暴的计划，每一个试图使之成为一个支点我。
- 史蒂文·埃里克森，雪的记忆

最初支点转介拉丁词fulcire的意义床后“撑起。”

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2012_05_03 Numen n. Divine power 神圣的权力

Word of the Day for Thursday, May  3, 2012
numen \NOO-min\, noun:
Divine power, especially one who inhabits a particular object.
This “liquid” flowing up his arm and out of the other was numen, the divine substance, the sacred spirit that lives in a certain place in the body and sustains us all.
 -- Jonathan Carroll, White Apples
He was now fairly confident that a shrine, unlike a temple, would contain no resident numen.
 -- Dave Duncan, Present Tense (Round Two of the Great Game)
Numen is derived from the Latin word nūmen meaning "a nod, command, or divine will or power."
神圣的权力，特别是一个人栖息在一个特定的对象。

这种“液体”流入了他的手臂和其他守护神，神圣的物质，住在人体中的某些地方，并维持我们所有的神圣精神。
- 乔纳森·卡罗尔，白苹果

现在，他是相当有信心，不像寺庙，神社，将不包含居民的守护神。
- 戴夫·邓肯，现在时（大博弈两回合）

纽曼是来自拉丁词，意思是守护神“一点头，命令，或神的意志或权力。”

2012_05_03 Sub-domain 子域

I donated my time and effort to create and maintain the OAA website because I love our OAA.  OAA website belongs to OAA.  No one should try to possess it!

I worked in the information technology field for more than 30 years and I know that it is important to guard the integrity of the website.   Only authorized persons can implement changes to the website.  Since you are the webmaster of other organizations, I assume you adhere to this compelling rule.  For this reason, let us keep the OAA website intact while we are searching for ways to improve it.  I have created a sub-domain, named beta, for the committee members to upload the proposed changes for the review of the OAA committee. 

The sign-on ID and password for the Internet Committee to develop web-pages are:

·       The “Host” is oaa-cuhk.org. 

·       The user “ID” is beta@oaa-cuhk.org. 

·       The password is “oaa.roland.4/20”.

我捐了我的时间和精力来创造和维持高龄津贴的网站，因为我爱我们的高龄津贴。高龄津贴的网站属于高龄津贴。任何人都不应试图拥有它！
我曾在信息技术领域超过30年，我知道这是重要的，以防止该网站的完整性。只有经过授权的人可以实现网站的变化。既然你是其他组织的站长，我假设你坚持这个引人注目的规则。出于这个原因，让我们的高龄津贴的网站保持完好的，而我们正在寻找改进办法。我已经创建了一个子域，上传检讨高龄津贴委员会建议修改为委员会成员名为测试。
登录互联网委员会，以开发Web页面的ID和密码是：
“主机”是OAA-cuhk.org。
•用户的“身份证”是beta@oaa-cuhk.org。
•密码是“oaa.roland.4/20”。

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2012_05_02 Kowtow v. 磕头

Word of the Day for Wednesday, May  2, 2012
kowtow \KOU-TOU\, verb:
1. To act in an obsequious manner; show servile deference.
2. To touch the forehead to the ground while kneeling, as an act of worship, reverence, apology, etc., especially in former Chinese custom.
noun:
1. The act of kowtowing.
Mei-hua was sitting nearby, and though she could not understand the English words she understood what was happening. She murmured that her daughter should kowtow.
 -- Beverly Swerling, City of God
It's a new one for Morrison to meet a girl who doesn't kowtow. He's a very great personage in his line, and he can't help knowing it.
 -- Dorothy Canfield, The Bent Twig
Kowtow comes from the Chinese practice of touching the ground with your forehead to show respect, called k'o t'ou. It literally means "to knock the head."
磕头\寇头\，动词：

1。在低三下四的方式行事;显示奴性尊重。
2。触摸前额而跪，作为崇拜的行为，崇敬，赔礼道歉等，尤其是在原中国习俗，在地上。

名词：
1。叩头的行为。

美华坐在附近，虽然她无法理解的英文单词，她明白发生了什么事。她喃喃地说，她的女儿应该磕头。
- 富康史厄林，神城

这是一个新莫里森，以满足一个女孩谁不磕头。他在他的线是一个非常伟大的人物，他不能不知道它。
- 多萝西·坎菲尔德，嫩枝弯曲

刘克乌头磕头从你的额头接触地面，以示尊重中国的实践，被称为。它的字面意思是“敲头。”

2012_05_01 Ort n. 一口食物废料 A scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

Word of the Day for Tuesday, May  1, 2012
ort \awrt\, noun:
A scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
She continued and enjoyed every tender morsel. There wasn't even an ort left on the plate.
 -- Jack Collins, The Polyandrist Murders: Book 1 Of 2
They fed her on the orts and ends, a little better than the dog, and a little worse than the cat.
 -- Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“Charles's programs didn't turn up anything?” “Not an ort.” “ Wow. You think they might be dead?
 -- Walter Mosley, All I Did Was Shoot My Man
Ort is related to the Old English word eten meaning "to eat."
一口食物废料或留在一顿饭。

她继续享受每一个投标一口。甚至没有盘上留下了ORT。
- 杰克柯林斯，Polyandrist的谋杀案：书12

他们给她的残羹剩饭和结束，比狗好一点，稍微比猫差。
- 雨果“悲惨世界”

“查尔斯的计划没有打开吗？”不是一个ORT。“”哇。你认为他们可能会死吗？
- 沃尔特·莫斯利，我所做的就是拍我的男人

ORT与旧的英文单词埃滕意义“吃”。