2014年7月21日 星期一

crater, craterous, bespeckled, to table, on-set,

 

“Galileo was able to show that no, in fact, it’s a big rock.”
No longer was the moon a flawless form in the night sky, instead revealed as a bespeckled, craterous character, in many ways closer to Earth than heaven.


 But buckets of water cannot extinguish craters.

 

 

 Found! Patio Tiles (Sort Of) on Mars

By Jeffrey Kluger
A new discovery in a Martian crater yields clues to the planet's watery past




The world's leading independent film director, Pedro Almodóvar is renowned for the visual opulence, experimentation, and eroticism of his films. He has collaborated closely with TASCHEN and given complete access to his archives, allowing personal on-set photos and texts to be published for the first time as well as writing new texts for the book. This is the first time Pedro Almodóvar has written a book about all his films.





set






  • The properties, backdrops, and other objects arranged for a dramatic presentation: mise en scène, scene, scenery, setting. See performing arts.



  • Parks Chief Blocked Plan for Grand Canyon Bottle Ban

    By FELICITY BARRINGER
    Jon Jarvis, the top federal parks official, tabled the project after conversations with Coca-Cola, a major donor to the National Park Foundation.


    photoGoshikinuma, a crater lake in the Azuma mountain range in Fukushima Prefecture, on Nov. 8 (Takeo Kato)

    赫弗利領導着一支由16名操作員組成的團隊,他們是美國航空航天局(NASA)屬下的噴氣推進實驗室(Jet Propulsion Laboratory)的成員,共同負責操控“好奇號”(Curiosity)漫遊車穿過火星的蓋爾隕坑(Gale Crater)。“好奇號”共有六個車輪,以鈈燃料為動力,車上裝有激光等能夠燒熔岩石的超前設備。這個重達2000磅的遙控裝置於8月6日登陸火星。8 月22日,赫弗利開始掌控方向盤——實際上是電腦鍵盤。

    crater
    (krā'tər) pronunciation
    n.
    1. A bowl-shaped depression at the mouth of a volcano or geyser.
      1. A bowl-shaped depression in a surface made by an explosion or the impact of a body, such as a meteoroid.
      2. A pit; a hollow.
    2. Variant of krater.

    v., -tered, -ter·ing, -ters. v.tr.
    To make craters in: "The missiles did not . . . crater the airfield" (Tom Clancy).

    v.intr.
    1. To form a crater or craters.
    2. Slang.
      1. To fall and crash violently from a great height.
      2. To fail utterly: "talked about how tough times were in Texas since the oil business cratered" (Stephen Coonts).
    [Latin crātēr, from Greek krātēr, mixing vessel.]
    [名]
    1 (火山の)噴火口, 火口;(月・火星の)クレーター;隕石(いんせき)孔;わん状間欠噴泉口
    a crater lake
    火口湖.
    2 弾孔:爆弾などが破裂して地面にできた穴.
    ━━[動](他)…に弾孔をつける.
    ━━(自)穴があく, へこみができる.
    [ラテン語←ギリシャ語krātr (krā-混ぜる+-tērもの=混ぜるもの→噴火口)]


    Cra´ter`ous    (kr?´t?r-?s)

    a.1.Pertaining to, or resembling, a crater.


    bespeckle

    Line breaks: be|speckle
    Pronunciation: /bəˈspɛk(ə)l /



    VERB

    [WITH OBJECT]
    Mark or cover with a large number of small spots or patches of colour:the designer whose trademark is to bespeckle his dresses with diamonds

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