"There’s a great scene after Orlando has become a woman, as she sits impatiently onboard a ship, amazed by the stymying conventions imposed on her sex—the restrictive clothing, the enforced passivity. At one point, she twitches her skirts, and this brief vision of her leg almost causes a sailor to plunge from a mast, and she realizes the situation is actually worse than she thought, that her society is so repressed that the merest glimpse of a woman’s flesh can nearly murder a man…" —Joanna Kavenna, the author of ZED on ORLANDO by Virginia Woolf
Some 10,500 people in France are suspected of being radicalised. Only a fraction can be monitored closely
Xinjiang: Restrictions on religion leading to Uighur radicalization
A city in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang has banned people with veils, head scarves and long beards from boarding buses. Experts say attempts at repressing their culture are fuelling violence and extremism.
Got a Light? Olympic Torch Relay Seems Cursed to the Ends of the Earth
By SARAH LYALL
The torch relay leading to the Sochi Games, featuring the longest route in Olympic history, has had its share of ineptitude and misfortune.
To begin with the ambitious young politician went along with this consensus (see article). But the widespread notion that politics should be "the management of decline" made her blood boil. The ideas of Friedman and Hayek persuaded her that things could be different.
Most of this radicalism was hidden from the British electorate that voted her into office in 1979, largely in frustration with Labour's ineptitude.
An investment fund backed by the Japanese government is considering joining domestic companies to buy a majority stake in Renesas Electronics to stymie a bid from U.S. investment firm KKR.
Some 10,500 people in France are suspected of being radicalised. Only a fraction can be monitored closely
Xinjiang: Restrictions on religion leading to Uighur radicalization
A city in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang has banned people with veils, head scarves and long beards from boarding buses. Experts say attempts at repressing their culture are fuelling violence and extremism.
Got a Light? Olympic Torch Relay Seems Cursed to the Ends of the Earth
By SARAH LYALL
The torch relay leading to the Sochi Games, featuring the longest route in Olympic history, has had its share of ineptitude and misfortune.
How Therapy Can Help in the Golden Years
By ABBY ELLIN
As Americans live longer and the stigma of psychological help
diminishes, more elderly people are trying therapy to alleviate problems
they face late in life.
To begin with the ambitious young politician went along with this consensus (see article). But the widespread notion that politics should be "the management of decline" made her blood boil. The ideas of Friedman and Hayek persuaded her that things could be different.
Most of this radicalism was hidden from the British electorate that voted her into office in 1979, largely in frustration with Labour's ineptitude.
An investment fund backed by the Japanese government is considering joining domestic companies to buy a majority stake in Renesas Electronics to stymie a bid from U.S. investment firm KKR.
Aid stymied by damaged infrastructure
Despite a flood of aid from countries around the world, many Haitians remain desperate for food, clean water, shelter and medical care.
IBM undercuts Google with discount e-mail service
The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — IBM Corp. is trying to stymie Google Inc.'s expansion into the business software market. IBM is now selling a bare-bones e-mail service to ...
Ahmadinejad's Conservative Foes Rally to Support Him
Despite street protests against his contested election victory, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is getting a boost from an unexpected corner: rebellious lawmakers who had stymied some of his economic initiatives.
Postponing Dial-Up's Demise
The demise of dial-up Internet access has been stymied as the recession has increased demand for a slower but cheaper way to surf the Web.
The Royalty Mess
A new report attributed failure at the Minerals Management Service agency not so much to ineptitude as to lazy management and ethical lapses.
By DAVID CARR
For decades, journalists seeking Freedom of Information requests have been mstyied by agencies that flout the law through recalcitrance or ineptitude.
For decades, journalists seeking Freedom of Information requests have been mstyied by agencies that flout the law through recalcitrance or ineptitude.
Descending to New Depths By BOB HERBERT
New Orleans was brought to its knees by Hurricane Katrina, and is being kept there by a toxic combination of federal neglect and colossal, mind-numbing ineptitude at the local level.
Hurdles Stymie Counterterrorism Center
By ERIC SCHMITT and THOM SHANKER
The National Counterterrorism Center is struggling with staffing flaws and internal cultural clashes, a study says. Those who are trumpeting the alleged fact that the recession is over should consider that the unemployment rate in California in January (the last month for which complete statistics are available) was a mind-numbing 12.5 percent. That was the fifth worst in the nation. In eight California counties, the jobless rate — not the underemployment rate, mind you, but the official jobless rate — was higher than 20 percent. Those counties are suffering through a depression.
My discomfort at having to make an offer put me to thinking that we often bungle our housing decisions. I am ever the champion of economic rationality, but even I would admit that there are exceptions. Buying a house is a rare event and the stakes are mind-bendingly high. Calamity is, therefore, always possible.
不得不開價買房讓我不自在，讓我想到我們經常搞砸購房決策。本人向來擁護經濟理性，但自己也得承認：事情會有例外。買房是件大事，利害得失頗高讓人絞盡腦汗。因此，總可能慘賠。
"Bungler, Stumper.""Nonentity," hodman
mind-bending
(mīnd'bĕn'dĭng)adj. Informal.
Intensely affecting the mind, especially to the extent of producing hallucinations.
mindbender mind'-bend'er n.
mindbendingly mind'-bend'ing·ly adv.
calamity
noun [C]
a serious accident or bad event causing damage or suffering:
A series of calamities ruined them - floods, a failed harvest and the death of a son.
calamitous
adjective
mind-numbing
/ˈmaɪndˌnʌm.ɪŋ/ adj
extremely boring
a mind-numbing task
a mind-numbing task
mind-numbingly adverb
/ˈmaɪndˌnʌm.ɪŋ.li/ adv
mind-numbingly boring
stymie verb [T often passive] stymieing INFORMAL
to prevent something from happening or someone from achieving a purpose:
Inalso
tr.v., -mied (-mēd), -mie·ing, also -my·ing (-mē-ĭng), -mies (-mēz).
To thwart; stump: a problem in thermodynamics that stymied half the class.
n.
- An obstacle or obstruction.
- Sports. A situation in golf in which an opponent's ball obstructs the line of play of one's own ball on the putting green.
[Origin unknown.]
he noun has 2 meanings:
Meaning #1: a situation in golf where an opponent's ball blocks the line between your ball and the hole
stymie, -my[sty・mie, -my]
- 発音記号[stáimi]
The verb stymie has one meaning:
Meaning #1: hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
Synonyms: obstruct, blockade, block, hinder, stymy, embarrass
inept
adjective
not skilled or effective:
an inept comment/remark
He was always rather inept at sport.
He was criticized for his inept handling of the situation.
Dick was socially inept and uncomfortable in the presence of women.
adjective
ineptitudenoun [U]
political/social/economic ineptitude
stigma
n., pl., stig·ma·ta (stĭg-mä'tə, -măt'ə, stĭg'mə-), or stig·mas.
- A mark or token of infamy, disgrace, or reproach: "Party affiliation has never been more casual . . . The stigmata of decay are everywhere" (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.). See synonyms at stain.
- A small mark; a scar or birthmark.
- Medicine. A mark or characteristic indicative of a history of a disease or abnormality.
- Psychology. A mark or spot on the skin that bleeds as a symptom of hysteria.
- stigmata Bodily marks, sores, or sensations of pain corresponding in location to the crucifixion wounds of Jesus, usually occurring during states of religious ecstasy or hysteria.
- Biology. A small mark, spot, or pore, such as the respiratory spiracle of an insect or an eyespot in certain algae.
- Botany. The receptive apex of the pistil of a flower, on which pollen is deposited at pollination.
- Archaic. A mark burned into the skin of a criminal or slave; a brand.
[Middle English stigme, brand, from Latin stigma, stigmat-, tattoo indicating slave or criminal status, from Greek, tattoo mark, from stizein, stig-, to prick.]
stigmal stig'mal adj.Erving Goffman
“污名”之成为社会科学中的一个核心概念要归功于戈夫曼。在本书中，戈夫曼将污名定义个体在人际关系中具有的某种令人“丢脸”的特征，这种特征使其拥有者 具有一种“受损身份”。作者分析了蒙受污名者的自我感受以及他们与“常人”问的微妙互动，重点阐述了蒙受污名者在人际互动中进行“信息控制”的各种技巧。
stigma
noun (plural stigmas or especially in sense 2 stigmata /-mətə, -ˈmɑːtə/)
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