A fun Friday night once meant going to the velodrome to watch cyclists collide.
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velodrome NOUN
1A cycle-racing track, typically with steeply banked curves.
Example sentences
1.1A stadium containing a banked cycle-racing track.
Origin
Late 19th century: from French vélodrome, from vélo bicycle + -drome (see -drome).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velodrome
Indoor velodromes were also common particularly in the late 19th and early 20th century. For example, the Vélodrome d'hiver was built in Paris in 1909 and featured a 250 m (820.2 ft) indoor track with a wooden surface.
Improvised weapons have a long and bloody history, from the Irish shillelagh to the Molotov cocktail. Their modern equivalents, such as the hell cannons of Aleppo, are far deadlier
THE “hell cannons” of Aleppo pack a deadly punch. Cobbled together in Syria by militant ...
The hell cannon (Arabic: مدفع جهنم) is a general name used to describe a class of mortar-like improvised firearms in-use by insurgent forces during the Syrian Civil War, mainly in the Aleppo area. It was first noted in 2013 and a number of home-made cannon variants have appeared in Syria since.
This picture of nine-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc - a young girl, running naked and terrified down the road after a napalm attack - became one of the most iconic images of the Vietnam War. (Credit: AP)
to napalm people who were resisting US....
First came the removal of the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph by Nick Ut of a girl fleeing napalm in Vietnam, posted on the page of a Norwegian journalist.
napalm
n. a highly flammable sticky jelly used in incendiary bombs and flamethrowers, consisting of gasoline thickened with special soaps. v.
attack with bombs containing napalm. Etymology: 1940s: from na (phthenic) and palm(itic acid).
See the Introduction, Abbreviations and Pronunciation for further details.
[néipɑːm]
[名][U]《軍事》ナパーム
a napalm bomb
ナパーム弾.
━━[動](他)…をナパーム弾［火炎放射器］で攻撃する.
［naphthaleneとpalmitic acid］
凝固汽油彈（英語：napalm）是幾種武器用途的可燃液體之總稱，大多以膠狀汽油為主成份。準確地說，「napalm」一詞字面上指的是凝固汽油彈中用來與汽油混合以產生膠質燃劑的黏稠劑成份。此詞是由它的研發者─路易·菲塞（Louis Frederick Fieser）所領導的哈佛大學化學家團隊所命名，是naphthene（環烷烴）的鋁鹽與palmitic acid（棕櫚酸）的混成詞，製造凝固汽油彈時會將這兩種成份加入可燃物質使其膠質化[1]。1940s: from na(phthenic) and palm(itic acid).
Napalm is a flammable liquid used in warfare. It is a mixture of a gelling agent, and either petroleum or a similar fuel. It was initially used as an incendiary device against buildings and later primarily as an anti-personnel weapon, as it sticks to skin and causes severe burns when on fire.
A Molotov cocktail is a breakable glass bottle containing a flammable substance such as petrol or a napalm-like mixture, with some motor oil added, and usually a source of ignition such as a burning cloth wick held in place by the bottle's stopper. The wick is usually soaked in alcohol or kerosene, rather than petrol.
Undecided women in Philadelphia’s suburbs, a crucial voting bloc, said Mr. Trump had not only failed to win them over but in many cases had repelled them.
The latest round of the battle started with Microsoft’s boss, Steve Ballmer, sending a stern warning to Yahoo!’s board to begin discussing a deal or face a hostile takeover. Yahoo! responded with a letter whose subtext was, “keep it friendly, please, we’re only holding out for more money”. At the same time, Mr Yang was planning another tactic: to stall, by making everything really, really complicated.
‘I shall doubtless feel no more alien than anybody else in the prevailing subtopia because nobody will be working out of doors’
Origin
1950s: blend of suburb and utopia.
subtext 1950 noun[C] a hidden or less obvious meaning: The political subtext of her novel is a criticism of government interference in individual lives.
The term "jukebox musical" dates at least to 1962,[2] following jukebox (1939), though the general genre – motion pictures consisting largely of hit recordings – dates to the 1940s and 1950s.[citation needed] Examples are Jam Session, An American in Paris (1951), Rock Around the Clock (1956), Juke Box Rhythm (1959), and A Hard Day's Night (1964). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jukebox
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump had a case of the sniffles during the first presidential debate on Sept. 26 – so we put them all in one supercut, with a few of his interruptions for good measure.
supercut
NOUN
A compilation of a large number of short video clips, typically showing examples of a repeated or clichéd action or phrase in films or broadcasts.
‘a supercut of all of Woody Allen's stammers, clocking in at a whopping 45 minutes’
"The noise is always there, with the stereo subwoofer vibrating. It's so hot where we live, but we can't open our windows," said Zhang Fuzhen, who lives in the building.
A Small Subwoofer With Case-Busting Bass
By ROY FURCHGOTT
Sunfire has turned the normal formula of high fidelity, which says more bass requires bigger speakers, on its head with the Atmos.
woofer
NOUN
A loudspeaker designed to reproduce low frequencies.
Origin
1930s: from the verb woof + -er.
Definition of woofer
noun
a loudspeaker designed to reproduce low frequencies
音節
woof • er
発音
wúfər
wooferの変化形
woofers (複数形)
[名]ウーファー：低音用拡声器［スピーカー］.
Definition of subwoofer
noun
a loudspeaker component designed to reproduce very low bass frequencies.
好萊塢最耀眼的明星夫妻安潔莉娜.裘麗和布萊德.皮特（Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt）宣布要離婚。根據他們申請離婚的法庭文件，二人在9月15號分居。安潔莉娜.裘麗和布萊德.皮特一起生活12年但結婚只有兩年零一個月。兩人共有六個孩子，三個是領養的，三個是他們兩人親生的。安潔莉娜.裘麗和布萊德.皮特過去常常在公眾場合秀恩愛，灑狗糧；人們甚至為他們創造了一個英文詞Brangelina。不知道他們離婚的消息是不是讓單身狗們不再相信愛情呢。楊晨編譯。
Eating your own dog food, also called dogfooding, is a slang term used to reference a scenario in which a company uses its own product to test and promote the product.[1]
而在IT業界這句俚語可能最早是於1988年開始使用的。當時微軟公司的高階主管保羅·馬瑞茲曾寫過一封題為「Eating our own Dogfood」（吃我們自家的狗糧）的郵件，在郵件中他向微軟區域網路管理工具專案的測試主管布萊恩·瓦倫蒂尼提出「提高內部使用自家產品比重」的挑戰。而從此以後，這一俚語在公司內就傳播開來了[3][4]。
