porcelain, casserole, translucent

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Tomas Tranströmer

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2011 was awarded to Tomas Tranströmer "because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality".

 2009.11
in front of the porcelain

The new site, named in a pun on Google and on a Jewish casserole pudding, is meant to let devout Jews search for things they need without encountering ...

A British store is launching a range of underpants for left-handed men, an innovation it says will save them both time and embarrassment in front of the porcelain.
英國一家商店將推出一系列專為男性左撇子設計的內褲，商店稱這一創新可以有效解除他們小便時的費力和尷尬。


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porcelain：名詞，瓷器，在本文中是指「小便斗」。in front of the porcelain（在小便斗之前）即為男性小便的含蓄說法。



porcelain
por·ce·lain (pôr'sə-lĭn, pōr'-, pôrs'lĭn, pōrs'-)

n.

1. A hard, white, translucent ceramic made by firing a pure clay and then glazing it with variously colored fusible materials; china.
2. An object made of this substance.

[French porcelaine, cowry shell, porcelain, from Old French, from Old Italian porcellana, from feminine of porcellano, of a young sow (from the shell's resemblance to a pig's back), from porcella, young sow, diminutive of porca, sow, from Latin, feminine of porcus, pig.]

porcelaneous por'ce·la'ne·ous (-lā'nē-əs) adj.

casserole
n.

1. 1. A dish, usually of earthenware, glass, or cast iron, in which food is both baked and served.
   2. Food prepared and served in such a dish.
2. Chemistry. A small-handled, deep porcelain crucible used for heating and evaporating.

[French, saucepan, diminutive of Old French casse, ladle, pan, from Old Provençal cassa, from Medieval Latin cattia, dipper, from Greek kuathion, diminutive of kuathos, ladle.]

translucent[trans・lu・cent]

• レベル：社会人必須
• 発音記号[trænslúːsnt | trænz-]

[形]

1 〈物が〉半透明の. ⇒TRANSPARENT 1

2 〈説明・考えなどが〉わかりやすい, 明快な.

3 ((まれ))((詩))清澄［透明］な.

［ラテン語trānslūcens（trāns-通って＋lūcēre輝く＋-ens現在分詞語尾）. △LUCID］

trans・lu・cence, -cen・cy

[名]

trans・lu・cent・ly

[副]