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原文链接 如题。 Lake桑 2018.12.31
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每日一词：hark back（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for December 31, 2018 is: hark back • \HAHRK-BAK\ • verb 1 : to turn back to an earlier topic or circumstance 2 : to go back to something as an origin or source Examples: “In Tea With The Dames , [Maggie Smith is] joined by fellow dames Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, and Eileen Atkins; the women hark back on their early roles on stage and screen, talk about their ex-husbands and marriages….” — Hunter Harris, The New York Magazine , 26 Sept. 2018 “To stay connected with senior executives, she made heavy use of WhatsApp’s group-chat function and called her group Table Talk, an effort to hark back to those early days at her kitchen table.” — Sarah Ellison, Vanity Fair , March 2018 Did you know? Hark , a very old word meaning “to listen,” was used as a cry in hunting. The master of the hunt might cry “Hark! Forward!” or “Hark! Back!” The cries became set phrases, both as nouns and verbs. Thus, a “hark back” was a retracing...
每日一词：obdurate（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for December 30, 2018 is: obdurate • \AHB-duh-rut\ • adjective 1 a : stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing b : hardened in feelings 2 : resistant to persuasion or softening influences Examples: Obdurate lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have made it difficult for the state legislature to get anything done this term. “The emigrants were strong-willed and obdurate . Their dreams were based as much on imagination as on the writings and maps of land speculators and entrepreneurs.” — Edward Cuddihy, The Buffalo (New York) News , 1 Oct. 2017 Did you know? When you are confronted with someone obdurate, you may end up feeling dour . During the encounter, you may find that you need to be durable to keep your sanity intact. Maybe you will find such situations less stressful in the future if you can face them knowing that the words obdurate , dour , and durable are etymological kissing cousins. All of those words trace back to t...
每日一词：fulcrum（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for December 29, 2018 is: fulcrum • \FULL-krum\ • noun 1 a : prop ; specifically : the support about which a lever turns b : one that supplies capability for action 2 : a part of an animal that serves as a hinge or support Examples: “Normally, bending involves using the hip as a fulcrum , and erector spinae muscles to support our trunk. When Jackson leaned over, he transferred the fulcrum to the ankle, with the calf and Achilles tendon under strain.” — Jake Rossen, Mental Floss , 22 May 2018 “In 2014, then-Attorney General Greg Abbott issued a nonbinding opinion advising that bag bans are legal if they are not aimed at ‘solid waste management.’ That murky phrase, which appears in the Texas Health and Safety Code, has become the fulcrum for debate on the issue.” — Emma Platoff, The Texas Tribune , 22 June 2018 Did you know? Fulcrum , a word that means “bedpost” in Latin, derives from the verb fulcire , which means “to ...
每日一词：canorous（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for December 28, 2018 is: canorous • \kuh-NOR-us\ • adjective : pleasant sounding : melodious Examples: “His artistry, technical proficiency, and canorous melodies have an introspective yet uplifting feeling by virtue of the beauty and honesty that so naturally accompany the acoustic guitar.” — Kevin Gillies, Noozhawk (Santa Barbara, California), 26 Nov. 2018 “There is an element of truth to that, but Zephyr—such a canorous hippie-child name—sang a populist tune not found in any Beltway progressive songbook.” — Bill Kauffman, American Conservative , 1 Nov. 2014 Did you know? In Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821), the author Thomas de Quincey describes a manservant who, after accidentally letting a loaded trunk fall down a flight of stairs, “sang out a long, loud, and canorous peal of laughter.” Canorous typically describes things, such as church choirs or birds in the spring, that are a pleasure to li...
每日一词：enervate（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for December 27, 2018 is: enervate • \EN-er-vayt\ • verb 1 : to reduce the mental or moral vigor of 2 : to lessen the vitality or strength of Examples: Dehydration and prolonged exposure to the sun had enervated the shipwrecked crew, leaving them almost too weak to hail the passing vessel. “In contrast, there was dignity in the Joad family (of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath ). When the Dust Bowl smothered Oklahoma, the Joads were not enervated , they moved west in search of work.” — George Will, The Washington Post , 7 Dec. 2016 Did you know? Enervate is a word that some people use without really knowing what it means. They seem to believe that because enervate looks a little bit like energize and invigorate it must share their meaning—but it is actually their antonym. Enervate comes from the Latin enervatus ,the past participle of the verb enervare , which literally means “to remove the sinews of,” but is als...
语文相关：耄耋
原文链接 耄 mào 耋 dié 解释：八九十岁。耄，形声字，音“冒”。耋，音“迭”。 使用：耄思(思绪纷乱)；耄耄(纷乱貌)；耄乱(谓年老昏乱的人)；耄夫(年老昏庸之人)；耄昏(年老昏愦)；耄聩(年老糊涂)；耄朽(老朽；衰老)；耄衰(衰老)。 出处： 语出《汉·曹操·对酒歌》：“人耄耋，皆得以寿终。恩泽广及草木昆虫。” Lake桑 2018.12.26
每日一词：utmost（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for December 26, 2018 is: utmost • \UT-mohst\ • adjective 1 : situated at the farthest or most distant point : extreme 2 : of the greatest or highest degree, quantity, number, or amount Examples: “The refuge, which is bordered by the Centennial Mountains and Continental Divide to the south and the Gravelly Mountains to the north, is also home to the utmost point of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers.” — Kelley Christensen, The Montana Standard , 25 Nov. 2013 “The Richmond football team is one of eight 4AA squads with a bye this week, but head coach Bryan Till is still preaching … that keeping a sense of urgency is of the utmost importance.” — Leon Hargrove Jr., The Richmond County (North Carolina) Daily Journal , 15 Nov. 2018 Did you know? Utmost traces back to the Old English ūtmest, a superlative adjective formed from the adverb ūt, meaning “out.” Ūtmest eventually evolved into utmost, perhaps influenced by the s...
每日一词：benison（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for December 25, 2018 is: benison • \BEN-uh-sun\ • noun : blessing , benediction Examples: “I offer thanks for the little things and the big things, everyday benisons and once-in-a-blue-moon moments of grace.” — Kati Schardl, The Tallahassee (Florida) Democrat , 17 Nov. 2017 “In the second half of the second act, the show shrinks and darkens as Hamilton’s life does. The last song, describing the 50-year widowhood of Eliza, gives an unexpected benison .” — Richard Brookhiser, The National Review , 6 Apr. 2015 Did you know? Benison and its synonym benediction share more than a common meaning; the two words come from the same root, the Latin benedicere , meaning “to bless.” ( Benedicere comes from the Latin bene dicere —”to speak well of”—a combination of the Latin bene , meaning “well,” and dicere , “to say.”) Of the two words, benediction is more common today, but benison has a longer history in English. Records show tha...
语文相关：亡佚
原文链接 亡 wáng 佚 yì 解释：散失，失传。亡、佚，都是散失、丢失的意思。 例句：这几本书久已亡佚。（ 这几种书很久以前就已经失传了。 ） 出处： 章炳麟 《文学总略》： “ 《汉高祖手诏》、 匡衡 、 王凤 、 镏隗 、 孔羣 诸家奏事，书既亡佚，复传其録。 ” 田北湖 《论文章源流》： “ 今民史亡佚，国史亦残缺不完。 ” Lake桑 2018.12.24
每日一词：grinch（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for December 24, 2018 is: grinch • \GRINCH\ • noun : one who spoils the pleasure of others : killjoy , spoilsport Examples: “Chalk it up to a weary world eager for uplifting entertainment, the surprise of a diamond-in-the-rough performer or simply the sheer delight of watching Britain’s Got Talent judge and notorious grinch Simon Cowell grow a heart right before the audience’s eyes.” — Michelle Tauber et al., People , 4 May 2009 “Not content with banning Christmas in 2016, the country’s supreme grinch , Kim Jong Un, went further by prohibiting gatherings that involve alcohol and singing, according to South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS).” — John Onyanga-Omara, The Argus Leader (Sioux Falls, South Dakota), 20 Dec. 2017 Did you know? When Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, wrote the children’s book How the Grinch Stole Christmas in 1957, he probably had no idea that grinch would soon enter the general...
每日一词：assuage（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for December 23, 2018 is: assuage • \uh-SWAYJ\ • verb 1 : to lessen the intensity of (something that pains or distresses) : ease 2 : to make quiet : pacify 3 : to put an end to by satisfying : appease , quench Examples: “Prince wrote often and eagerly about the idea of sanctuary—places where his spiritual anxieties were assuaged .” — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker , 25 June 2018 “The interview offers a rare glimpse of what Charles might be like as king, and is perhaps an effort to assuage critics who have worried that he would diverge from British monarchs, who are bound by tradition to reign , not rule, over their subjects.” — Palko Karasz, The New York Times , 8 Nov. 2018 Did you know? Scholars assume that the word assuage derives from assuaviare , a Vulgar Latin term that combines the prefix ad- (“to” or “toward”) and the Latin suavis , meaning “sweet,” “pleasant,” or “agreeable.” ( Suavis is also the source...
A scheduled post.
原文链接 You are supposed to see this post at 0:00 on December 23 rd . L. December 22 nd , 2018
每日一词：compendious（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for December 22, 2018 is: compendious • \kum-PEN-dee-us\ • adjective : marked by brief expression of a comprehensive matter : concise and comprehensive Examples: Noah Webster’s style of defining for the first American dictionary was compendious . “For the past few years his writing has been an elegant and compendious ongoing exploration of Britain’s social history through its council estates.” — Lynsey Hanley, The Guardian , 19 Apr. 2018 Did you know? Compendious is applied to things that are brief in statement or expression, but oftentimes the brevity is chock-full of meaning. Its synonyms run the gamut, giving us concise , terse , succinct , pithy , laconic , and summary . Concise simply suggests the removal of all that is superfluous or elaborative (“a concise description”). Terse implies pointed conciseness (“a terse reply”). Succinct implies the greatest possible compression (“a succinct letter of resignation”). Pi...
每日一词：solstice（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for December 21, 2018 is: solstice • \SAHL-stiss\ • noun 1 : either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest 2 : the time of the sun’s passing one such point on the ecliptic which occurs about June 21 to begin summer in the northern hemisphere and about December 21 to begin winter in the northern hemisphere Examples: People all over the world have observed celebrations linked to the summer and winter solstices since ancient times. “The Earth wobbles on its axis once every 27,000 years…. This alters the relationship between the solstices and the distance from the Earth to the Sun.” — Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, The Chippewa Herald , 8 Oct. 2018 Did you know? In the Northern Hemisphere, the summer solstice usually occurs on June 20 or 21 and the winter solstice on December 21 or 22. In the Southern Hemisphere, where the seasons are reversed, the solstices a...
每日一词：frenetic（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for December 20, 2018 is: frenetic • \frih-NET-ik\ • adjective : marked by excitement, disorder, or anxiety-driven activity : frenzied , frantic Examples: “For Youse and the roughly 90 employees who work at the store, the 5-mile move capped more than a half-year of planning, followed by a frenetic two days in which everything from the one store was transferred to the other.” — Chad Umble, LancasterOnline.com , 22 Oct. 2018 “During his years as a sports broadcaster in Chicago, Adam Harris realized his volunteer work as a youth baseball coach often would provide a welcome break from the frenetic world of media.” — Karen Ann Cullotta, The Chicago Tribune , 18 Oct. 2018 Did you know? When life gets frenetic, things can seem absolutely insane—at least that seems to be what folks in the Middle Ages thought. Frenetik , in Middle English, meant “insane.” When the word no longer denoted stark raving madness, it conjured up fanatica...
每日一词：tchotchke（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for December 19, 2018 is: tchotchke • \CHAHCH-kuh\ • noun : knickknack , trinket Examples: “How someone organizes their desk can tell you a lot about how they get work done. That’s why we’re stepping into the offices of enviably creative (and productive) people to look at what’s on their desks—pens and notebooks and gadgets, but also décor and tchotchkes .” — Deva Pardue and Maxine Builder, The New York Magazine , 10 Sept. 2018 “… a review from WireCutter … called it the best 3D pen of the lot. While we’re debating whether any home needs the flood of tchotchkes that will inevitably pour forth as a result of this gadget, the idea of drawing something into existence is pretty appealing.” — Talia Milgrom-Elcott, Forbes , 1 Nov. 2018 Did you know? Just as trinkets can dress up your shelves or coffee table, many words for “miscellaneous objects” or “nondescript junk” decorate our language. Knickknack , doodad , gewgaw , and whatn...
每日一词：millefleur（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for December 18, 2018 is: millefleur • \meel-FLER\ • adjective : having an allover pattern of small flowers and plants Examples: The museum’s collection includes several medieval tapestries with millefleur designs. “An early 16th century millefleurs tapestry is a charmer, with children playing amidst the birds and animals and the thousand flowers of the style’s name.” — Sherry Lucas, The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Mississippi), 29 Sept. 2002 Did you know? Millefleur (which can also be spelled millefleurs ) came directly from French into English in the 17th century as a word for a perfume distilled from several different kinds of flowers. The literal meaning of mille fleurs in French is “a thousand flowers,” so it is easy to see how millefleur came to be applied to patterns or backgrounds of many tiny flowers or plants. A similarly colorful extension of “a thousand flowers” can be seen in the word millefiori . That term, w...
每日一词：Bonus: Word of the Year 2018（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Justice is the 2018 Merriam-Webster Word of the Year. In this special episode, editors Peter Sokolowski and Emily Brewster discuss the the decision-making process, the year’s other top words, and the meaning of justice in 2018. With special host Ilan Stavans, from In Contrast (New England Public Radio). Lake桑 December 17, 2018 at 11:00PM
每日一词：epitome（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for December 17, 2018 is: epitome • \ih-PIT-uh-mee\ • noun 1 : a typical or ideal example : embodiment 2 a : a summary of a written work b : a brief presentation or statement of something 3 : brief or miniature form — usually used with in Examples: The cabin we rented was the epitome of country charm: wide pine floors, simple sturdy furniture, and clean linen curtains billowing in the breeze of the open windows. “I really want to make movies about tangible, complicated love, and I think the epitome of love is family love.” — Jeremiah Zagar, quoted in The New York Magazine , 23 Aug. 2018 Did you know? Epitome first appeared in print in 1520, when it was used to mean “summary.” If someone asks you to summarize a long paper, you effectively cut it up, mentioning only the most important ideas in your synopsis, and the etymology of epitome reflects this process. The word descends from Greek epitemnein , meaning “to cut...
每日一词：vitiate（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for December 16, 2018 is: vitiate • \VISH-ee-ayt\ • verb 1 : to make faulty or defective : impair 2 : to debase in moral or aesthetic status 3 : to make ineffective Examples: Some feared that the superintendent’s decision to reinstate the students would vitiate the authority of the principal who suspended them in the first place. “Convected heating essentially is the heating of the air itself and it warms the walls and furnishings only slightly, as turning on and off a convector heater will show. However it may also be argued that this essentially vitiates the recycled air, causes dryness and often physical discomfort.” — James Le Fanu, The Telegraph (UK), 18 Mar. 2016 Did you know? Here’s one for word puzzle lovers—and anyone allured by alliteration. The sentence “Vivian vituperated the vicious villain for valuing vice over virtue” contains three words that derive from the same Latin source as vitiate . Can you iden...
每日一词：nidus（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for December 15, 2018 is: nidus • \NYE-dus\ • noun 1 : a nest or breeding place; especially : a place or substance in an animal or plant where bacteria or other organisms lodge and multiply 2 : a place where something originates, develops, or is located Examples: The neighborhood had long been a nidus of crime and vice, but community policing and other interventions have done much to reduce the crime rate in recent years. “Ancient cities grew up along navigable rivers—think Cairo, Rome, Paris and London. In the 19th century, railroad stations were the nidus for Chicago, Denver, and Sacramento.” — Alison Stuebe, The News & Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina), 20 Mar. 2017 Did you know? Nidus literally means “nest” in Latin, and some of its relatives in English suggest this connection in a straightforward way. For example, we have nidification for the process of building a nest, and nidicolous , meaning “reared in a...
每日一词：zibeline（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for December 14, 2018 is: zibeline • \ZIB-uh-leen\ • noun : a soft lustrous wool fabric with mohair , alpaca, or camel’s hair Examples: “It’s a simple, elegant design: high-collar, buttons, long sleeves, with lace and a sheer bodice. Its fabric catches the light very delicately—Bridges found the thick zibeline in London.” — Hunter Harris, Vulture , 5 Jan. 2018 “The second gown is a more structured design of either silk zibeline or silk taffeta , with hand-embroidered silk thread and Swarovski crystals in three different sizes.” — Joyce Chen, The Knot , 7 May 2018 Did you know? Though zibeline is woven from the hair of alpacas, camels, or Angora goats, its name actually traces back to a Slavic word for the sable , a small mammal related to the weasel. The Slavic term was adopted into Old Italian, and from there it passed to Middle French, then on to English in the late 1500s. English zibeline originally referred to the sabl...
每日一词：perennial（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for December 13, 2018 is: perennial • \puh-REN-ee-ul\ • adjective 1 : present at all seasons of the year 2 : persisting for several years usually with new herbaceous growth from a perennating part 3 a : persistent , enduring b : continuing without interruption : constant , perpetual c : regularly repeated or renewed : recurrent Examples: “Kieran [Culkin] called Saines in 2016 after a two-year hiatus to say, ‘You know, I think I want to act again. I want to do This Is Our Youth .’ Written by Kenneth Lonergan, … the play has become a perennial showcase for young actors.” — Sam Kashner, Vanity Fair , December 2018 “Making the kids think of school as important to their complicated, often tragic lives—while meeting the demands of the curriculum—was a perennial struggle.” — Sarah Stodder, The Washingtonian , November 2018 Did you know? Nowadays when we talk about “perennial plants,” or simply “perennials” ( ...
每日一词：lunette（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for December 12, 2018 is: lunette • \loo-NET\ • noun 1 a : something that has the shape of a crescent or half-moon b : an opening in a vault especially for a window c : the surface at the upper part of a wall that is partly surrounded by a vault which the wall intersects and that is often filled by windows or by mural painting d : a low crescentic mound (as of sand) formed by the wind 2 : the figure or shape of a crescent moon Examples: “All the windows and doors were topped with lunettes of small-paned glass.” — Theodore Dreiser, The Financier , 1912 “But what people found most striking about the school was the elaborate lunette built on the exterior of the building over the front entrance. With the lunette’s intricate sunburst design, Iddles School caught the attention of many passersby.” — Becky Kark, The Herald-Palladium (St. Joseph, Michigan), 15 July 2018 Did you know? Lunette , a word borrowed from French, ...
每日一词：immure（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for December 11, 2018 is: immure • \ih-MYOOR\ • verb 1 a : to enclose within or as if within walls b : imprison 2 : to build into a wall; especially : to entomb in a wall Examples: “Agnes … is a suburban lifer, a mousy, resigned little woman whose life is immured by her home, her family, and her church.” — Jonathan Richards, The Santa Fe New Mexican , 7 Sept. 2018 “In the croissants and their variations, the layers are as distinct as ribs, from slabs of cold butter immured in fold after fold of dough; the interior resembles a honeycomb of air, due to steam released during baking as the butter slowly melts.” — Ligaya Mishan, The New York Times , 13 Mar. 2018 Did you know? Like mural , immure comes from murus , a Latin noun that means “wall.” Immurare , a Medieval Latin verb, was formed from murus and the prefix in – (meaning “in” or “within”). Immure , which first appeared in English in the late 16th century, literal...
每日一词：repartee（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for December 10, 2018 is: repartee • \rep-er-TEE\ • noun 1 a : a quick and witty reply b : a succession or interchange of clever retorts : amusing and usually light sparring with words 2 : adroitness and cleverness in reply : skill in repartee Examples: “One of my favorite parts of that scene was Kim’s repartee with him, trying to show how smart she is, him pretending to forget the case and her knowing it—all just so he could test her.” — Patrick Fabian, quoted in Variety , 11 Sept. 2018 “The joy of the romantic comedy lies less in its mise en scène , and more in its witty repartee and character chemistry…. The will-they-won’t-they tension is enough for the movie to power through the silliest moments. — David Sims, The Atlantic , 21 June 2018 Did you know? One person often noted for her repartee was Dorothy Parker, writer and legendary member of the Algonquin Round Table. Upon hearing that Calvin Coolid...
我的微博：给南方盆友安利暖气。…（来自 Lake桑的微博）
原文链接 原文链接 合肥这边。。。。。。 住老房子冷死了 转发 @麦可洛克 : 给南方盆友安利暖气。 “暖气是大锅炉烧的全天不中断。到了冬天就可以在家穿短袖吃冰棍，还热。” “不仅可以取暖还可以烘干衣物，洗的衣服放暖气上烘一晚上第二天干到发硬。” “放盆水上去还能加湿，放盆醋上去还能灭菌。” “早晨把秋裤放暖气上烤烤再穿上，哇，你就是冬日之星。” “还可以加热牛奶，烘水果干吃，了不得。” “每个寒冷的小可怜家里都应该有个暖气。” Lake桑
每日一词：galumph（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for December 9, 2018 is: galumph • \guh-LUMF\ • verb : to move with a clumsy heavy tread Examples: Mary’s teenage son galumphed into the house and flung himself onto the couch, sighing heavily. “Incredibly, a massive rhinoceros comes galumphing toward us as rapidly as something that weighs more than two tons and resembles a tank on four legs can move.” — Barbara Marshall, The Palm Beach (Florida) Post , 27 Aug. 2017 Did you know? Bump, thump, thud. There’s no doubt about it—when someone or something galumphs onto the scene, ears take notice. Galumph first lumbered onto the English scene in 1872 when Lewis Carroll used the word to describe the actions of the vanquisher of the Jabberwock in Through the Looking Glass : “He left it dead, and with its head / He went galumphing back.” Etymologists suspect Carroll created galumph by altering the word gallop , perhaps throwing in a pinch of triumphant for good measure (in its ea...
每日一词：approbation（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for December 8, 2018 is: approbation • \ap-ruh-BAY-shun\ • noun 1 : commendation , praise 2 : an act of approving formally or officially Examples: “In 2001, I moved to Lima to study literature at a local university. I fell in with a group of art students—painters, illustrators, sculptors—and even after I’d quit attending classes I’d still visit them, spending long afternoons on the cement floor of a cramped studio that two of them shared. This group became my first real friends in Peru who were not family, and their approbation meant a lot to me.” — Daniel Alarcón, The New Yorker , 22 Nov. 2017 “The role of a theater, she argued, was not to adjudicate political issues or get the approbation of minority groups, but, rather, to create a space between art and the public.” — Dan Bilefsky, The New York Times , 12 July 2018 Did you know? Approbation is similar in meaning to approval , and it is also very close to approval et...
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每日一词：sandbag（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for December 7, 2018 is: sandbag • \SAND-bag\ • verb 1 : to bank, stop up, or weight with sandbags 2 a : to hit or stun with or as if with a sandbag b : to treat unfairly or harshly c : to coerce by crude means d : to conceal or misrepresent one’s true position, potential, or intent especially in order to take advantage over : to hide the truth about oneself so as to gain an advantage over another Examples: Management must have realized that reading employee survey responses aloud at the company-wide meeting would make employees feel sandbagged , but they chose to do it anyway. “Lock’s season began with Heisman Trophy dreams. It has detoured toward a familiar and unfortunate destination, the place where the quarterback’s career numbers are sandbagged by his struggles when the spotlight shines.” — Ben Frederickson, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch , 3 Nov. 2018 Did you know? In the 19th century, the verb sandbag began to...
每日一词：dossier（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for December 6, 2018 is: dossier • \DOSS-yay\ • noun : a file containing detailed records on a particular person or subject Examples: The agency maintains extensive dossiers on all of its employees and contractors. “The council overwhelmingly supported a resolution to set up an ‘independent mechanism’ that will collect and analyze evidence of the ‘most serious international crimes’ and prepare dossiers that will make it easier for prosecutors to bring cases to trial in national, regional or international courts.” — Nick Cumming-Bruce, The New York Times , 28 Sept. 2018 Did you know? Gather together various documents relating to the affairs of a certain individual, sort them into separate folders, label the spine of each folder, and arrange the folders in a box. Dossier , the French word for such a compendium of spine-labeled folders, was picked up by English speakers in the 19th century. It comes from dos , the French word...
我的微博：系统自动转发（来自 Lake桑的微博）
原文链接 原文链接 系统自动转发 转发 @非礼酱 : #新浪20年# #我和新浪的故事# @曹国伟 嘻嘻我来参加微博的征文活动啦[爱你]简单吐槽了一下我在微博这三年看着微博如何从一个社交平台变成了广告平台，会不会选我呢！我吐槽的可都是微博现在的事实，绝无任何恶意诋毁造谣！ 希望大大可以看到我[兔子] Lake桑
物理相关：电表改装。
原文链接 （图片的微安表视为灵敏电流计，内阻为500Ω。量程为0～250μA。图例为灵敏电流计改装电压表。） 1. 电表 电路中，我们要想知道电灯中的电流与电灯两端的电压，都需要使用电表去测量。我们知道，在实际电路中，我们把电流表看作导线，电压表看作开路。这是为什么呢？ 介绍一下电表们的“母亲”。 （a）就是右边（b）的原型，灵敏电流计。厂商首先生产灵敏电流计，然后通过连接电阻的方式，来改装成电流表或是电压表。它的内阻很小，而量程也不大，有的十分小，0～3μA，有些大一些，0～2mA。（本例中的电流计量程为0～250μA） 直接连接到电路上？不行，量程太小了。通过前面学习的串并联电路的电压与电流规律，你会想，电流计需要测量大的电流，而它自己又不能通过很大电流，那么，并联分流就可以解决问题了。同理，串联分压，再根据欧姆定律，电阻不变时，电流与电压成正比，就可以测量电压了。只需要把表盘上的数字，单位，等等更换就是我们所用的电流表与电压表了。 那么具体是怎么做的呢？ 2. 电表改装 （1）电流表改装 既然要分流，那么就得并联电阻。 （图片的微安表视为灵敏电流计，内阻为500Ω。量程为0～250μA。图例为灵敏电流计改装电流表。） 只截取图中灵敏电流计与电阻并联的部分，就是我们一般所用的电流表的真实面目了。 假设电流计满偏，可计算出这个电流表的量程约为0～1A。 （2）电压表 （解释略）如图改装以后，电流计所在支路就可以视作一个电压表了。只需要将表盘上的示数修改即可。 （3）改进 我们所用的电流表与电压表有两个量程。这又是怎么做到的？这个留作作业（不是）。 3. 总结 首先，电流计所能通过的电流不大，我们便进行改装，通过串联，或是并联电阻，我们达到了加大其量程的目的。 串联分压的比例关系，我们知道，如果一个电路中串联有两个用电器，其两端电压之比与其电阻之比的关系如下。 所以，电压表的电阻比较大，因为大阻分大压，电流计两端的电压就相对较小。同理，电流表的电阻比它并联的电阻还要小，所以电流表相当于导线，电压表相当于开路。 就讲到这里吧。 Lake桑 2018.12.5 Advertisements
每日一词：abandon（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for December 5, 2018 is: abandon • \uh-BAN-dun\ • noun : a thorough yielding to natural impulses; especially : enthusiasm , exuberance Examples: The winning photograph was of a dog bounding with abandon through a field of snow. “The drum solo has long been a concert punchline. Foo Fighters, in recognition of that, made Hawkins’ solo as ridiculous and over the top as possible. His drum kit, perched upon a hydraulic lift, soared twenty feet in the air as he pounded the skins with reckless abandon .” — Jim Ryan, Forbes , 19 Oct. 2018 Did you know? The sense of abandon defined above is a relative newcomer to the English language, dating from the early 1800s, but an earlier noun sense, defined as “the act of abandoning,” was in use in the 1600s. The earlier sense was influenced by the verb abandon , which was borrowed by Middle English in the 1300s from Anglo-French abanduner . The Anglo-French term in turn came from the phras...
使用蓝牙键盘来打字。
原文链接 最近买了一个蓝牙键盘。 如图所示，是罗技的蓝牙键盘，K480。 手感并不好。但是支持三个设备同时连接。但是我不会盲打（ 大概就是这样。 Lake桑 2018.12.4，使用罗技 K480 键盘。
每日一词：perspicacious（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for December 4, 2018 is: perspicacious • \per-spuh-KAY-shus\ • adjective : of acute mental vision or discernment : keen Examples: “Captivated by the breadth of its elegant façade—echoed in the grandeur of the interior spaces—the perspicacious owners enlisted their trusted decorator Jacques Grange … to collaborate on a sensitive renovation. — Angus Wilkie, Architectural Digest , December 2017 “Elsewhere in his speech, Daniels was perspicacious about the challenges that Purdue graduates are likely to face during the course of their careers and civic lives.” — Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic , 6 June 2018 Did you know? Perspicacious is similar in meaning to shrewd and astute , but a sharp mind will also discern subtle differences among them. All three denote being acute in perception and sound in judgment, but shrewd stresses practical, hardheaded cleverness, whereas perspicacious implies unusual power to see t...