2015年10月7日 星期三

trek, dread, tutored, no less, individualism, head sth off, go hand in hand


Elizabeth Vining, born ‪#‎onthisday‬ in 1902, tutored Emperor Akihito in a real life parallel to "The King and I". She encouraged the unJapanese notion of individualism and of daring to make mistakes

AFTER Japan was defeated, one of the problems facing the victors was what to do with its royal family. General Douglas MacArthur, who became virtual ruler of Japan,...
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Yahoo's Yang Visits Capitol
Yahoo's CEO visited congressional leaders to discuss the new search-ad pact with Google, hoping to head off any regulatory concerns.


Tech Titans to Head Off Patent Suits
Several technology titans, including Google and Verizon, are allying to defend themselves against patent suits. Their plan: to buy up key intellectual property before it falls into the hands of parties that could use it against them.



Microsoft said on Sunday that it had approached Yahoo, this time with an ostensibly narrower aim: a collaboration on Internet advertising. But it hinted that it could still seek a takeover down the road.

The renewed talks reflect both Microsoft's fears and Yahoo's potential ills, The New York Times wrote. Microsoft wants to head off any collaboration on advertising between Yahoo and the market leader, Google. At the same time, Microsoft is seeking to capitalize on the perceived weakness of Yahoo, which is facing a proxy battle with the activist investor Carl C. Icahn over the failed takeover talks.


tutor noun [C]
a teacher who works with one student or a small group, either at a British college or university or in the home of a child:
His tutor encouraged him to read widely in philosophy.
During my illness I was taught by a series of home tutors.
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"I crossed my legs and clasped my hands over my knees and generally tried to assume the expression my tutor at university used to adoptwhen I had put in a particulary bad piece of work which he was about to tear to shreds."


tutor 
verb [T]
Children are routinely tutored for hours after school.The Headmaster of Fashion 
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Tim Gunn is the real breakout star of “Runway.” Can he tutor Liz Claiborne?

tutorial 
noun [C]
a period of study with a tutor involving one student or a small group

“The chairman wanted the lessons to start the following day!” she recalled in an essay published in Time magazine in 1999. “I was dumbfounded. I was to teach the great leader whom over a billion people worshiped as their god.”
The tutoring, which involved informal talks about the outside world as well as English instruction, ended after a few months; in the early years of the Cultural Revolution, there was little contact with Mao, she said, except a few letters. 章含之


━━ n. 家庭教師; 〔英〕 (大学・高校の)個人指導教師 ((通例fellowが当る)); 【米大学】助講師 ((instructorの下)); 【法】後見人; 〔英〕 (音楽などの)教則本.
━━ v. 家庭教師として教える ((in)); 個人教授をする[受ける]; ならす, しつける; (抑)制する.
 tu・to・ri・al
 ━━ a., n. tutorの; (tutorの)指導授業[時間]; 【コンピュータ】チュートリア((ハードウェアやソフトウェアの使い方を教える教材プログラム)).
 tu・tor・ship ━━ n.



SUE LAWLEY: I'd love to hear if there are any Chinese voices out there anywhere. If you'd like to put up your hand just to make a quick comment. But in the meantime, I'd like to go to the Archbishop of Canterbury no less who's sitting on the front row, Dr Rowan Williams, who went on an official visit to China a couple of years ago, didn't you?
SUE LAWLEY :我喜歡聽到觀眾席的任何中國人能說說看。希望你們能舉手發言,簡短地評論。但在此同時,我想要請坐在議場前排的貴賓坎特伯雷大主教,羅文威廉姆斯,他幾年前對中國進行正式訪問,沒錯吧?



"I have not a fault to find with her person," he replied.
"I think her all you describe. I love to look at her; and I
will add this praise, that I do not think her personally vain.
Considering how very handsome she is, she appears to be little
occupied with it; her vanity lies another way. Mrs. Weston, I am
not to be talked out of my dislike of Harriet Smith, or my dread
of its doing them both harm."
(Emma by Jane Austen)


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New study suggests autism and creative thinking may go hand in hand. @WashingtonPost
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British researchers said their study is the first to find the link.
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━━ v. (ひどく)恐れる, 心配する.
━━ n. 恐れ, 恐怖, 不安; 恐怖の種; 〔俗〕 =Rastafarian; 〔俗〕 髪をdreadlocksにしている人.
━━ a. 恐ろしい; おそれ多い.

dread Show phonetics
verb [T]
to feel extremely anxious or frightened about something that is going to happen or that might happen:
He's dreading his driving test - he's sure he's going to fail.
[+ ing form of verb] I'm dreading having to meet his parents.

dread
noun [U]
a strong feeling of fear or worry:
The prospect of working full-time fills me with dread.
live in dread of bumping into her in the street.
又, my dread 都翻譯為"擔心"。



dreaded
adjective [before noun] HUMOROUS
I've got my dreaded cousin coming to stay!

dread
adjective [before noun] FORMAL
The dread spectre of civil war looms over the country.


If people dread thinking about insurance in the real world, will they go for it in a fun, virtual world? Assicurazioni Generali hopes to find out when it opens Generali Virtual, an island in the online world Second Life.

比較

dread to think
used to say that you do not want to think about something because it is too worrying:
I dread to think what would happen if he was left to cope on his own.

no less HUMOROUS
used to show the importance of someone or something:
Who should arrive at the party but the Prime Minister, no less!

head sth off (PREVENT) phrasal verb [M]
to prevent a difficult or unpleasant situation from happening:
The company is putting up wages in an attempt to head off a strike.

head sb/sth off (DIRECTION) phrasal verb [M]
to force someone or something to change direction:
I tried to head the dog off by running towards it.
head off (JOURNEY) phrasal verb
to start a journey or leave a place:
What time are you heading off?


Mr. Ojanpera met Mr. Stewart more than a year ago at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and since then they have had monthly conversations, tutorials mostly, Mr. Stewart said, on how the music business works.
“We disagree on the speed of things. I’m trying to force it faster and he, quite wisely, understands he’s in a world where things exist in a certain way,” Mr. Stewart said. “Tero’s thinking is that he’s going to change the way things work and it’s going to be better. But it takes time.”
Executives are more receptive now when Mr. Ojanpera comes calling. “There is more interest,” he said. But he too is realistic. It’s not yet like the early days of the DVD explosion, when the heads of movie studios flew on their private planes to Bentonville, Ark., to woo Wal-Mart executives. But one day, maybe it will be.
“Once we start to see them make the trek to our headquarters in White Plains,” he said, “then I know things really have changed.”




tutor Show phonetics
noun [C]
a teacher who works with one student or a small group, either at a British college or university or in the home of a child:
His tutor encouraged him to read widely in philosophy.
During my illness I was taught by a series of home tutors.

tutor Show phonetics
verb [T]
Children are routinely tutored for hours after school.

tutorial Show phonetics
noun [C]
a period of study with a tutor involving one student or a small group

trek Show phonetics
verb [I usually + adverb or preposition] -kk-
to walk a long distance, usually over land such as hills, mountains or forests:
We spent the day trekking through forests and over mountains.
INFORMAL I trekked (= walked a long and tiring distance) all the way into town to meet him and he didn't even turn up.

trek Show phonetics
noun [C]
We did an eight hour trek yesterday.

INFORMAL You can walk to town from here, but it's a bit of a trek (= it's a long distance to walk).


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