2024年1月11日 星期四

bawling, yin, yang, Mandarin, boomerang. boomerang CEOs' performance. Boomerang Generation

 

What Do You Think? Do Boomerang CEOs Get a Bad Rap?

Several companies have brought back formerly successful CEOs in hopes of breathing new life into their organizations—with mixed results. But are we even measuring the boomerang CEOs' performance properly? asks James Heskett.

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"She can boomerang from Miss Manners to Archie Bunker in 30 seconds."
DAN MATHEWS, a senior vice president for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, on Christine C. Quinn, the New York City Council speaker and a candidate for mayor, who has reputation for having a temperamental personality.

 

'Cheever: A Life'

By BLAKE BAILEY
This detailed biography follows John Cheever’s path step by stumbling step, disclosing the addictive urges and bawling self-pity to which he subjected himself and those in his household. (Knopf, $35.)
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The year 1587 was the 220th of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644). The regime was declining but had not yet fallen. Earnest and learned men - generals and court eunuchs as well as Mandarin civil servants - were striving to hold things together, balancing the yang 陽of public duty against the yin 陰 of ambiguously legitimate self-interest.


mandarin


音節
man • da • rin
発音
mǽndərin
mandarinの変化形
mandarins (複数形)
[名]
1 (旧中国の)官吏:科挙によって登用された特権支配階級の一人.
2 [U]((M-))標準中国語;北方中国語, (特に)北京官話.
3 《植物》マンダリン(中国原産のミカン科の木);その実.
4 官僚, 要人;((英))高官;(時代遅れの)長老.
5 だいだい色(の染料).


龔雅華: Mandarin 這個說法與"滿大人"無關,是梵文來 मन्त्रिन् (mantrin)來的,意思是官人。

感謝雅華嫷妹, 英文 Mandarin(中國國語/官話/普通話/華語)源自葡文 Mandarim ,
而葡文Mandarim 源自馬來文 menteri(朝臣、部長),而馬來文 menteri 又源自梵文mantrin(部長)。其傳播軌跡和 CHINA一樣,都是梵文-馬來文-葡文-英文(請過目另一拙文「CHINA源自梵文CINA」)。箇中來龍去脈究竟如何?
http://uegu.blogspot.tw/2015/02/mandarin.html



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bawling
noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1: loud cries made while weeping
Synonym: wailing

The adjective bawling has one meaning:
Meaning #1: crying out loudly


Boomerang Generation(英語)
1977 - 1986
Boomerang
Sports tool

Description

boomerang is a thrown tool typically constructed with aerofoil sections and designed to spin about an axis perpendicular to the direction of its flight.

boomerang音節

boom • er • ang
発音
búːməræ`ŋ
boomerangの変化形
boomerangs (複数形) • boomeranged (過去形) • boomeranged (過去分詞) • boomeranging (現在分詞) • boomerangs (三人称単数現在)
boomerangの慣用句
boomeranger, (全1件)
[名]
1 ブーメラン.
2 本人にはね返る画策[計画, 議論など];やぶ蛇.
3 《演劇》
(1) (背景を描くための)移動台.
(2) バトン:照明器具を支えるパイプ.
━━[動](自)
1 (ブーメランのように)(…の)元へ戻る, 返ってくる((on ...)).
2 〈画策・計画などが〉(発案者に)思いがけない害を及ぼす, やぶ蛇になる((on ...)).
bóomerànger
[名]ブーメランナー, Uターンっ子:大学卒業後に親元に戻って生活する人.

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