2016年5月31日 星期二

crash, crash-test dummy

crash 在"20世紀英文新意"出現3次,待補。

CREDITILLUSTRATION BY LINCOLN AGNEW; SOURCE PHOTOGRAPHS FROM GETTY IMAGES

To Protect Soldiers From Bombs, Military Scientists Build a Better Dummy

The Army is developing a crash-test dummy that simulates the injuries suffered by soldiers in vehicles targeted by insurgents.

film-maker, film-making

Poland Revives Effort to Extradite Roman Polanski



film-making 

Pronunciation: /ˈfɪlmˌmeɪkɪŋ/ 

NOUN

[MASS NOUN]
The direction or production of films for the cinema or television:the best emerging talent in independent film-makingbrilliant piece of film-making[AS MODIFIER]: the film-making process


film-maker 

Pronunciation:

NOUN

A person who directs or produces films for the cinema or television.
Example sentences
  • Exit strategies can be as complicated for documentary filmmakers as they are for politicians and generals.
  • I've found most filmmakers love a good conversation.

utopia. dystopia dystopian


CREDITBRIGITTE LACOMBE

Middle Eastern Writers Find Refuge in the Dystopian Novel

A new wave of apocalyptic fiction is emerging from writers grappling with the chaotic aftermath and stinging disappointments of the Arab Spring.

dystopia 

Pronunciation: /dɪsˈtəʊpɪə/ 

NOUN

An imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically atotalitarian or environmentally degraded one. The opposite of utopia.

Origin

Late 18th century: from dys- 'bad' utopia.

dystopian 

Pronunciation: /dɪsˈtəʊpɪən/ 

ADJECTIVE

Relating to or denoting an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one:the dystopian future of a society bereft of reasonthe utopian dream that became a dystopian nightmare

NOUN

A person who advocates or describes an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad:lot of things those dystopians feared did not come true

electron, proton, neutrino


electron 

Pronunciation: /ɪˈlɛktrɒn/ 

NOUN

Physics
stable subatomic particle with a charge of negative electricity, found in all atoms and acting as the primary carrier of electricity in solids.
The electron’s mass is about 9 × 10−28g, 1,836 times less than that of the proton. Electrons orbit thepositively charged nuclei of atoms and are responsible for binding atoms together in molecules, as wellas for the electrical, thermaloptical, and magnetic properties of solids. Electric currents in metals and insemiconductors consist of a flow of electrons, and light, radio wavesX-rays, and much heat radiation are all produced by accelerating and decelerating electrons.

Origin

Late 19th century: from electric -on.

proton 

Pronunciation: /ˈprəʊtɒn/ 

NOUN

Physics
stable subatomic particle occurring in all atomic nuclei, with a positive electric charge equal in magnitude to that of an electron.
The mass of the proton is 1,836 times greater than that of the electron. The atoms of each chemical element have a characteristic number of protons in the nucleus; this is known as the atomic number. The common isotope of hydrogen has a nucleus consisting of a single proton.

Derivatives

protonic

Pronunciation: /prə(ʊ)ˈtɒnɪk/ 
ADJECTIVE

Origin

1920s: from Greek, neuter of prōtos 'first'.




neutrino 

Pronunciation: /njuːˈtriːnəʊ/ 


NOUN (plural neutrinos) 微中子

neutral subatomic particle with a mass close to zero and half-integral spin, which rarely reacts with normal matter. Three kinds of neutrinos are known, associated with the electronmuon, and tau particle.

Origin

1930s: from Italian, diminutive of neutro 'neutral'.

Words that rhyme with neutrino


ニュートリノ 3 [neutrino]


素粒子の一。記号νニュー。中性、スピン 1/2 で質量はほとんどゼロ。レプトンに属し、弱い相互作用において、それぞれ電子、ミュー(μ)粒子、タウ(τ)粒子と対になって作用する。中性微子

2016年5月30日 星期一

Panasonic, Kevlar

Police departments issue their officers Kevlar vests 防彈衣to stop bullets, and thick helmets and even shields to protect them from bottles and bricks. But there is nothing in the equipment room to give an officer thicker skin.


Kevlar 杜邦公司的強力纖維。





[PAHN] Spanish for "bread". Pan integral is whole wheat bread, pan tostado is toasted bread. A panadería is a bakery.
***
The brand Panasonic was created by Matsushita in 1955 for the US, Canada and Mexico because the National brand was already registered by others.[2][3] The Panasonic brand was created from the elements "pan" meaning "all" combined with "sonic" meaning "sound", because it was first used for audio equipment.

Wikipedia article "Panasonic"

商標是企業的風格與信用的象徵,也是企業活動的根本。
  是松下集團的全球商標。在1961年揚聲器外銷美國時所創用的,此複合字源自有「全、總、汎」之意的「Pan」與有「音的、音速的」之意的「sonic」之組合。
  「 」則是廣告語標,在於傳達「全世界的員工,透過開發、生產、販賣、服務業務,持續對豐厚人人生活、帶動社會發展,提供有價值的創意」。
  換言之,透過商品與服務,提供「站在顧客觀點的ideas」、「具實用性的ideas」、「帶來驚奇與新發現的ideas」、「使人人幸福的 ideas」、「嶄新的ideas」、「有趣的ideas」等利益。而且這個「ideas」是具有「為了顧客生活及帶來貢獻的意義。」

ROTC

Yale University
The first class of ROTC Navy and Air Force students to receive all four years of their training at Yale were sworn in by U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter ’76 at the commissioning ceremony. ‪#‎Yale2016‬



ROTC 

Pronunciation: /ˈrɒtsi/ 


ABBREVIATION

(In the US) Reserve Officers' Training Corps.

mouton


紀德 {如果麥子不死}孟祥森譯,台北:志文,1979,頁19
我們平常都叫他羊仔(Mouton ),也許是因為他那件小白羊毛外套而得名的吧。



mouton 

Pronunciation: /ˈmuːtɒn/ 

NOUN

[MASS NOUN]
Sheepskin cut and dyed to resemble beaver fur or sealskin.
羊皮切染成類似海狸毛皮或海豹皮。

  • There are also some brilliant-looking mouton and coyote-leather/fur boots.
  • My mom had a mouton fur coat that was put away in the attic.
  • I can make a parka, mouton mittens, and sew a fur ruff to finish it all off.

Origin

1950s: from French, literally 'sheep'.
  1. 名詞] ムートン:アザラシ,ビーバーなどの毛皮に似せて加工した羊の毛皮.
  2. [語源]
    1944.<フランス語「羊,羊の皮」;→MUTTON
  1. 中期英語 moton 羊<古期フランス語<ケルト語
  2. Mutton
  3. [名詞]
  4. 1 (食用の)羊の肉,マトン,(特に lamb と区別して)成長した羊の肉
    • roast mutton
    • ローストマトン
    • leg of mutton
    • 羊の足肉.
  5. 2 ((おどけて)) 羊.