2014年7月31日 星期四

Saturn, Satan, mulla, Cedar Evolution, "broad river of people"

沙特隨筆 張靜二譯│Taipei: 志文│1980


生活·境遇:萨特言谈、随笔.
:平装18cm / 297页; 【出版项】:三联书店上海分店 / 1990.2,1996.6重印 ..
此書有抄襲張之翻譯之嫌。
不過妙的是改錯了,  將農神 Saturn 翻譯成 Satan。

"broad river of people"

The New York Times and LAT front breathtaking pictures of the "broad river of people" (NYT) that took to the streets yesterday and marched slowly from Revolution Square to Freedom Square. The Washington Post points out that there were reports of protests and clashes with police in other cities besides Tehran.


Cedar Evolution
In one of the year's most important elections, the Lebanese people voted Sunday and Iran's mullahs lost.

cedar

Line breaks: cedar
Pronunciation: /ˈsiːdə 
  
/

NOUN

Any of a number of conifers which typically yield fragrant, durable timber, in particular:
  • ● a large tree of the pine family (genus Cedrus, familyPinaceae), in particular the cedar of Lebanon (C. libani), with spreading branches, and the deodar. ● a tall slender North American or Asian tree (genusThuja, family Cupressaceae), in particular thewestern red cedar (T. plicata).

Origin

Old English, from Old French cedre or Latin cedrus, from Greek kedros.

Derivatives

cedarn

ADJECTIVE (LITERARY)


13 The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.


http://www.catholic.org.tw/bible/


依撒意亞

Isaiah 共 66 章



黎巴嫩的光榮要歸於你;柏樹、榆樹和松樹都要聚在一起,裝飾我的聖所,因為我要光榮我立足之地。




mul·lah mul·la (mŭl'ə, mʊl'ə)
also n. Islam.
  1. A male religious teacher or leader.
  2. Used as a form of address for such a man.
[Urdu mullā, from Persian, from Arabic mawlā, master, friend, from waliya, to become near, be in charge.]
mullahism mul'lah·ism n.

cedar

Line breaks: cedar
Pronunciation: /ˈsiːdə 
  
/

NOUN

Any of a number of conifers which typically yield fragrant, durable timber, in particular:
  • ● a large tree of the pine family (genus Cedrus, familyPinaceae), in particular the cedar of Lebanon (C. libani), with spreading branches, and the deodar. ● a tall slender North American or Asian tree (genusThuja, family Cupressaceae), in particular thewestern red cedar (T. plicata).

Origin

Old English, from Old French cedre or Latin cedrus, from Greek kedros.

Derivatives

cedarn

ADJECTIVE (LITERARY)

Definition of ce



Saturn
n.
  1. Roman Mythology. The god of agriculture.
  2. The sixth planet from the sun and the second largest in the solar system, having a sidereal period of revolution about the sun of 29.5 years at a mean distance of about 1,426,000,000 kilometers (886,000,000 miles), a mean diameter of approximately 120,000 kilometers (74,000 miles), and a mass 95 times that of Earth.
[Middle English Saturnus, from Old English, from Latin Sāturnus, of Etruscan origin.]
Satan (Hebrew: הַשָׂטָן ha-Satan ("the accuser"); Persian "sheytân"; Arabic: الشيطان ash-Shayṭān ("the adversary") - both from the Semitic root: Ś--N) is an embodiment of antagonism that originates from the Abrahamic religions, being traditionally considered a "fallen" angel in Judeo-Christian belief, and a Jinn in Islamic belief. Originally, the term was used as a title for various entities that challenged the religious faith of humans in the Hebrew Bible.[citation needed] Since then, the Abrahamic religions have used "Satan" as a name for the Devil.[1]

evolution

Line breaks: evo|lu¦tion
Pronunciation: /ˌiːvəˈluːʃ(ə)n 
  
, ˈɛv-/

NOUN

[MASS NOUN]
1The process by which different kinds of living organism are believed to have developed from earlier forms during the history of the earth.
The idea of organic evolution was proposed by some ancient Greek thinkers but was long rejected in Europe as contrary to the literal interpretation of the Bible. Lamarck proposed a theory that organisms became transformed by their efforts to respond to the demands of their environment. Lyell demonstrated that geological deposits were the cumulative product of slow processes over vast ages. This helped Darwin towards a theory of gradual evolution over a long period by the natural selection of those varieties of an organism slightly better adapted to the environment and hence more likely to produce descendants. Combined with the later discoveries of the cellular and molecular basis of genetics, Darwin’s theory of evolution has, with some modification, become the dominant unifying concept of modern biology
2The gradual development of something:the forms of written languages undergo constant evolution
3Chemistry The giving off of a gaseous product, or of heat:the evolution of oxygen occurs rapidly in this process
4[COUNT NOUN] A pattern of movements or manoeuvres:flocks of waders often perform aerial evolutions
5MathematicsDATED The extraction of a root from a given quantity.

Origin

early 17th century: from Latin evolutio(n-) 'unrolling', from the verb evolvere (see evolve). Early senses related to movement, first recorded in describing a ‘wheeling’ manoeuvre in the realignment of troops or ships. Current senses stem from a notion of ‘opening out’, giving rise to the sense 'development'.

Derivatives

evolutional

ADJECTIVE

evolutionally

ADVERB

evolutionarily

ADVERB
MORE EXAMPLE SENTENCES
  • This is, evolutionarily speaking, a maladaptive behavior.
  • Simple math shows how quickly an evolutionarily disadvantageous trait like this should dwindle, if it is a simple genetic phenomenon.
  • It's been proven that women with smaller waists and wider hips have a higher fertility rate, so evolutionarily speaking this trait of the male psyche makes perfect sense.

evolutionary

ADJECTIVE

evolutive

ADJECTIVE


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