2014年7月10日 星期四

work, worker, ho, brute, brutal, sex worker, U.S. Workers, peace work

 

Hackers in China Pursue Key Data on U.S. Workers

The hackers penetrated the system that houses the personal information of all federal employees and appeared to be targeting the files on tens of thousands of employees who have applied for top-secret security clearances.




Many economists worry that China will succumb to a "middle-income trap", failing to make the jump from an early stage of growth, based on cheap labour and brute capital accumulation, to a more sophisticated stage, based on educated workers and improvements in productivity. But no economy, let alone one the size of China's, moves in lockstep from one growth model to another http://econ.st/1gL9bMk

 

 

On the Cover of Sunday’s Book Review


Reviewed by TONI BENTLEY
An eye-opening, occasionally astonishing, brutally honest and frequently funny collection of prose and poetry by all kinds of sex workers.

ho
interj.
Used to express surprise or joy, to attract attention to something sighted, or to urge onward: Land ho! Westward ho!

ho2 () pronunciation
n., pl. hos.
Slang. A prostitute.
[African American Vernacular English, alteration of WHORE.]




brute

Pronunciation: /bruːt/
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noun

  • 1a savagely violent man or animal:he was a cold-blooded brute
  • informal a cruel or insensitive person:what an unfeeling little brute you are
  • something awkward, difficult, or unpleasant:a great brute of a machine
  • 2an animal as opposed to a human being: we, unlike dumb brutes, can reflect upon our impulses

adjective

[attributive]
  • unreasoning and animal-like:a brute struggle for social superiority
  • merely physical:we achieve little by brute force
  • fundamental, inescapable, and unpleasant:the brute necessities of basic subsistence

Origin:

late Middle English (as an adjective): from Old French brut(e), from Latin brutus 'dull, stupid'



brutal

Pronunciation: /ˈbruːt(ə)l/
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adjective

  • savagely violent:a brutal murder
  • unpleasant or harsh:the brutal morning light
  • direct and without attempting to disguise unpleasantness:the brutal honesty of his observations


Derivatives




brutally

adverb

Origin:

late 15th century (in the sense 'relating to the lower animals'): from Old French, or from medieval Latin brutalis, from brutus 'dull, stupid' (see brute)



worker

Line breaks: work¦er
Pronunciation: /ˈwəːkə
  
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NOUN

1A person who works, in particular:
1.1[WITH ADJECTIVE OR NOUN MODIFIER] A person who does a specified type of work or who works in a specified way:a farm workershe’s a good worker
1.2An employee, especially one who does manual or non-executive work.
1.3INFORMAL A person who works hard:I got a reputation for being a worker
1.4(workers) Used in Marxist or leftist contexts to refer to the working class:a red flag with the inscription ‘workers of the world, unite!’[IN NAMES]: the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
2A person who achieves a specified thing:he was a bogus worker of miracles
3A neuter or undeveloped female bee, wasp, ant, or other social insect, large numbers of which do the basic work of the colony.
[名]
1 [U]労働,働き,骨折り,労,努力;仕事,課業,勉強,研究. ▼肉体・精神のいずれの活動についても用いる;toil, laborは骨の折れる気の進まない仕事に用いる

academic work
学業
three years of junior high work
3年間の中学教育
manual [mentalwork
筋肉[知能]労働
good day's work
たっぷり1日分の仕事
the work of a moment
手間のかからない仕事
I'll take a day off from work tomorrow.
あすは仕事を休みます
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
((ことわざ)) 勉強ばかりで遊ばないと子供は愚かになる;よく学びよく遊べ.
2 [U]((無冠詞))働き口,仕事の口,職,職業,職場. ⇒OCCUPATION[類語]
be in [out of or withoutwork
働いている[失業中である]
go to work
仕事[勤め]に行く
find [getwork
仕事口を見つける
off work
離職して
His work is in engineering.
彼の仕事は技術に関するものです.
3 [U]
(1)生産活動,操業,作業

construction work
建設作業.
(2)(努力・労働・活動の)成果,成績,仕事ぶり,手並
works of imagination
想像の産物
All of you did good work.
君たちは皆立派な成績だった.
(3)((しばしば~s))神学行為,善行
works of charity
慈善行為.
4 手作業;手芸,手細工,針仕事,刺しゅう;((集合的))(仕事の)材料,素材,道具
open work
すかし細工
crochet work
クロセー編み手芸.
5 製作物,細工物,著作;((集合的))作品
art work
((集合的))芸術[美術]作品
the work [worksof Mozart
モーツァルトの(全)作品(▼この意味では複数形でも用いるが単数形を集合的に用いることが多い).
6 ((しばしば~sで単数扱い))((しばしば複合語))((古風))工場,製作所
tile works
タイル工場.
7 建造物(橋・ドックなど);((~s))土木[建築]工事,(城壁などの)防衛工事;堡塁(ほうるい)
public works
公共土木工事.
8 ((the ~s))(機械の)動く部分,仕掛け,機構
the works of a clock
時計の仕掛け.
9 ((the (whole) ~s))((話))全部,何もかも一切;全工程,(料理などの)全コース,材料・調味料ひとそろい;サービス一式;道具[付属品]一式
hamburger with the works
材料・調味料ひとそろいをのせたハンバーガー.
10 [U]物理学仕事(量).

開開玩笑
和業、戰業
戰爭名符其實是需要直接依賴「和平工作」(peace work[1]發明飛機的萊特兄弟是經營腳踏車店而非軍火工廠。當「美國研發」開始對波士頓的科技類公司融資時,這些新公司既沒有來自軍方的訂單,也沒有指望可以得到。不過,經過七、八年之後,它們研發出來的產品卻引起美國政府注目,投入大量金錢導向軍事用途。


[1] ﹝譯注﹞「和平工作」指與戰爭無關的工作,後面提到的「戰爭工作」則是指與戰爭有關的工作,如武器研發。

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