2020年1月17日 星期五

fuddled, arbor, arboretum, arborist, dim/low view, harbor, botanical garden


The New York Botanical Garden has finally revealed details for its eagerly awaited Yayoi Kusama exhibition:

Because trees can’t speak, “we need to come in and speak on their behalf to ensure that they have all the care they require”.
There is a story about a Harvard alumnus asking a Princeton man whether, lacking a law school and a medical school, Princeton at least had an arboretum. "Our entire campus is an arboretum," was the Princetonian’s reply.


A Dim U.S. View of Russia and Putin

The United States harbors a low view of the Russian leaders and little hope that Russia will become more democratic or reliable. 


With fewer than a thousand students, only about half of them on campus at a time (the other half were off working somewhere, in Chicago, New York, Detroit, and the like), seventy-five or eighty live-in, on-call, faculty members, and wedged in between the woods and the railroad tracks in Yellow Springs, Ohio (population 2,500), it looked, all lattice arbors and brick chimneys, as though it had been set up on an MGM back lot for Judy and Mickey, or perhaps Harold Lloyd, to play out the passage from home—fumbling at sex, attempting alcohol, driving about in open cars, conning fuddled professors, trying on outrageous selves.



Tonight's Art Moment is this fuddling cup from 1639. These three cups are not only joined by their entwined handles, but are also internally interconnected. With phrases such as "Fill this cup and drink it up" inscribed on other cups of this type, the unwitting drinker was deceived into drinking the contents of all the cups, rather than only one, thus leaving the drinker in a be-"fuddled" state. Both practical and playful, British drinking vessels came in many forms and sizes. Fermented beverages such as wine and ale provided a safe alternative to the often unsafe water supplies of 17th- and 18th-century towns. Also popular, wine from France, Spain, Portugal and Italy was stored in casks and decanted into bottles for serving. Cleverly crafted fuddling cups and puzzle cups added amusement and skill to the drinking experience.



fuddle

. to confuse someone and make them unable to think clearly: . 

arbour

Pronunciation: /ˈɑːbə/
(US arbor)
Translate arbour | into German | into Italian
noun

  • a shady garden alcove with the sides and roof formed by trees or climbing plants trained over a framework.
Derivatives

arboured
adjective

Origin:

Middle English (also denoting a lawn or flower bed): from Old French erbier, from erbe 'grass, herb', from Latin herba. The phonetic change to ar- (common in words having er- before a consonant) was assisted by association with Latin arbor 'tree'

arbor 

音節
ar • bor1
発音
ɑ'ːrbər
arborの変化形
arbors (複数形)
[名]木陰の休み場所;亭(ちん), あずまや.
[アングロ=フランス語←ラテン語herbārium(herba草+-ārium場所=草に関する場所). ラテン語arbor(木)の影響でar-と変わり, 木の意味も加わった. △HERBARIUM(植物標本館)]




  arboretum

Line breaks: ar¦bor|etum
Pronunciation: /ˌɑːbəˈriːtəm/

NOUN (plural arboretums or arboreta /-tə/)

A botanical garden devoted to trees.
MORE EXAMPLE SENTENCES
  • The Center for Plant Conservation, housed at the Missouri Botanical Garden, has organized a network of arboreta that keep endangered plants from across the United States.
  • At the northeast corner of the arboretum is the wooden Tree House.
  • It is one of the first trees in the arboretum to come into leaf and flowers prolifically with large creamy/pink blossoms in spring.

arboretum

音節
ar • bo • re • tum
発音
ɑ`ːrbəríːtəm
arboretumの変化形
arboretums (複数形)
[名](複 ~s, -ta 〔-tə〕)(観賞・研究用の)樹木園,森林公園.

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