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8日 星期日
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."
2012年7月7日，星期六，日字
不能整除\的AL-I-kwuhnt\，形容詞：
包含一個數字或數量，而不是它均勻地劃分：165整除的一部分。
狡猾的是整除的人才;虛偽的宗教，宇宙中所有的三分球可以不10。
- 托馬斯·霍爾，芮捷銳磨耗和他的人弗洛斯河的命運和冒險
......儘管這個數字是一個奇數和他confiteors由一季度的數量，即使是二十萬到一百19整除的一部分，沒有被改變方面群眾...
- 雷蒙德Queneau，藍色的花
阿里整除莖來自拉丁詞根，意思是“不同”，quantus意思是“偉大的。”
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."
2012年7月7日，星期六，日字
不能整除\的AL-I-kwuhnt\，形容詞：
包含一個數字或數量，而不是它均勻地劃分：165整除的一部分。
狡猾的是整除的人才;虛偽的宗教，宇宙中所有的三分球可以不10。
- 托馬斯·霍爾，芮捷銳磨耗和他的人弗洛斯河的命運和冒險
......儘管這個數字是一個奇數和他confiteors由一季度的數量，即使是二十萬到一百19整除的一部分，沒有被改變方面群眾...
- 雷蒙德Queneau，藍色的花
阿里整除莖來自拉丁詞根，意思是“不同”，quantus意思是“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。
瓜分了所有的tractates和承諾自己要學習他們在來年。
- 亞伊爾魏因斯托克，靈魂的假日故事
讓 - 皮埃爾·馬埃已正確地堅持，我們應該探索比其他可能的解釋僅僅是偶然的集合，不僅在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”
短文來“。處理，處理”從中世紀拉丁字，意思是維特根斯坦
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。
瓜分了所有的tractates和承諾自己要學習他們在來年。
- 亞伊爾魏因斯托克，靈魂的假日故事
讓 - 皮埃爾·馬埃已正確地堅持，我們應該探索比其他可能的解釋僅僅是偶然的集合，不僅在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”
短文來“。處理，處理”從中世紀拉丁字，意思是維特根斯坦
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
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
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。
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。堅持或堅持錯誤使用的語言，記憶，實踐，信仰等，出於習慣或固執。
2。一個人堅持在一個錯誤的表達或實踐。
“我信奉，我的好夫人，”回答我，“有任何一個，但你這樣的聲明，我應該想到牧師反复無常它，不表白他的虛假讀數，首選從習慣的緣故， ，他老人家Mumpsimus...
- 沃爾特·斯科特爵士，護符
伯吉斯先生，誰堅持我看中他的老mumpsimus，認為其他的紳士可能獨木舟1推得到明確的鎖...
- 答：羅納德·諾克斯，在鎖定的腳步
mumpsimus來自一個不識字的牧師念錯一個字，而背誦禮儀有關的故事（也許是第一次由伊拉斯謨告訴）。牧師拒絕改變的字，甚至當他已得到糾正。
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。堅持或堅持錯誤使用的語言，記憶，實踐，信仰等，出於習慣或固執。
2。一個人堅持在一個錯誤的表達或實踐。
“我信奉，我的好夫人，”回答我，“有任何一個，但你這樣的聲明，我應該想到牧師反复無常它，不表白他的虛假讀數，首選從習慣的緣故， ，他老人家Mumpsimus...
- 沃爾特·斯科特爵士，護符
伯吉斯先生，誰堅持我看中他的老mumpsimus，認為其他的紳士可能獨木舟1推得到明確的鎖...
- 答：羅納德·諾克斯，在鎖定的腳步
mumpsimus來自一個不識字的牧師念錯一個字，而背誦禮儀有關的故事（也許是第一次由伊拉斯謨告訴）。牧師拒絕改變的字，甚至當他已得到糾正。
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