2021年10月21日 星期四

misguided, naivety, naïveté, respite, mycology

China Evergrande Group has secured an extension on a defaulted bond, financial provider REDD reported on Thursday, offering rare respite to the developer a day after a deal to sell a $2.6 billion stake in its property services unit failed.


As of Jan. 21, COVID-19 had killed more Americans than World War II. While that fact helps some people put the pandemic death toll in perspective, others find the comparison misguided or offensive.



'The hero of this next movie is a naïve, misguided child who spreads Nazi propaganda and only has imaginary friends. His name is Mark Zuckerberg'




What Adalbert Stifter’s naïveté offered me, at the age of nineteen or twenty, was a respite from my increasingly suffocating desires.

Michael Lipkin on his literary hero, Adalbert Stifter, the author of Bunte Steine.
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misguided
/mɪsˈɡʌɪdɪd/
adjective
  1. having or showing faulty judgement or reasoning.
    "their misguided belief that they were defending the honour of their country"


Despite all this, I felt perfectly safe. The soldiers ignored me, and the Tibetans were as genuinely, enthusiastically welcoming as any people I had met anywhere on the planet. I understand how one who wasn’t there could question my judgment, could think I’m naïve. But for the hours in Ganzi immediately after the episode of excessive force, there was no real menace in the air, and no sense of a riot or rebellion simmering below the surface. The soldiers generated a temporary tension when they marched by, but townspeople mostly viewed them as an insult or a nuisance, not an imminent threat. In all, everything felt calm.



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蘑菇是一種真菌有性生殖的結構
真菌學Mycology,源自希臘文μύκης)是研究真菌的學門,探討真菌的遺傳學生物化學或是分類學,以及真菌對人類的用途等,包括火種醫藥(例如:青黴素),食物(例如:啤酒葡萄酒奶酪,可食用等),和宗教致幻劑,以及它們的危險,如中毒感染。專門從事真菌學研究的生物學家被稱為真菌學家Mycologist)。
研究植物病害的學門植物病理學是真菌學的分支領域之一,絕大多數的植物病原體皆是真菌。




misguided
/mɪsˈɡʌɪdɪd/
adjective
  1. having or showing faulty judgement or reasoning.
    "their misguided belief that they were defending the honour of their country"

respite

Pronunciation: /ˈrɛspʌɪt/  /ˈrɛspɪt/     NOUN [MASS NOUN]

1A short period of rest or relief from something difficult or unpleasant:the refugee encampments will provide some respite from the suffering[IN SINGULAR]: a brief respite from the heat
1.1A short delay permitted before an unpleasant obligation is met or a punishment is carried out:a Letter of Licence, by which creditors agreed to postpone claims, brought only temporary respite

VERB

[WITH OBJECT]
1rare Postpone (a sentence, obligation, etc.):the execution was only respited a few months
1.1archaic Grant a respite to (someone, especially a person condemned to death):some poor criminal ... from the gibbet or the wheel, respited for a day

Origin

Middle English: from Old French respit, from Latin respectus 'refuge, consideration'.

naive, naïve 
adjective MAINLY DISAPPROVING
too willing to believe that someone is telling the truth, that people's intentions in general are good or that life is simple and fair. People are often naive because they are young and/or have not had much experience of life:
She was very naive to believe that he'd stay with her.
They make the naive assumption that because it's popular it must be good.
It was a little naive of you to think that they would listen to your suggestions.

naively, naïvely 
adverb
I, perhaps naively, believed he was telling the truth.

naivety, naïveté 
noun [U]
trust based on lack of experience:
DISAPPROVING He demonstrated a worrying naivety about political issues.
APPROVING I think her naivety is charming - she's so unspoilt and fresh.

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