每日一词：buttress（转自 韦氏词典）

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Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for September 30, 2019 is:

buttress • \BUTT-russ\  • noun

1 architecture : a projecting structure of masonry or wood for supporting or giving stability to a wall or building

2 : something that resembles a buttress: such as

a : a projecting part of a mountain or hill

b biology : a horny protuberance on a horse’s hoof at the heel

c botany : the broadened base of a tree trunk or a thickened vertical part of it

3 : something that supports or strengthens

Examples:

“The root system of one of the cedars has been hollowed out into a den, in which Neasloss finds black bear hair. One of the tree’s buttresses has been chopped long ago by what he recognizes was a nephrite ax, the green jade axes that the coastal people used until 1846, when they adopted steel axes.” — Alex Shoumatoff, Smithsonian, September 2015

“The modifications to Isabella [Dam] include raising the profile of the main and auxiliary dams 16 feet, adding buttresses and other safety features, and excavating 100 feet deep to build the huge spillway.” — Steven Mayer, The Bakersfield Californian, 28 July 2019

Did you know?

In architecture, a buttress is an exterior support that projects from a wall to resist the sideways force, called thrust, created by the load on an arch or roof. The word buttress was first adopted into English as butres in the 14th century. It came to us from the Anglo-French (arche) boteraz, meaning “thrusting (arch),” and ultimately derives from the verb buter, “to thrust.” Buter is also the source of our verb butt, meaning “to thrust, push, or strike with the head or horns.” Buttress developed figurative use relatively soon after its adoption, being applied to anything that supports or strengthens something else.

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September 30, 2019 at 01:00PM

又一个周一。

一周又开始了。加油工作！（由 IFTTT 发送）

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September 30, 2019 at 07:00AM

每日一词：Elysian（转自 韦氏词典）

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Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for September 29, 2019 is:

Elysian • \ih-LIZH-un\  • adjective

1 : of or relating to Elysium

2 : blissful, delightful

Examples:

“On such a balmy summer day, on this Elysian isle, anything seemed possible.” — Dorothy West, The Wedding, 1995

“No matter what one’s childhood is, a seeming Elysian remembrance or a parental vendetta, the understanding of the afflatus of a poet lies elsewhere.” — Edward Dahlberg, “Hart Crane” (1966), reprinted in The Company They Kept (2006)

Did you know?

In classical mythology, Elysium, also known as the Elysian Fields, was the paradise reserved for the heroes immortalized by the gods. Ancient Greek poets imagined it as the abode of the blessed after death, but in English the concept has more often been applied figuratively. In his history play Henry V, William Shakespeare used the place-name as a word for a peaceful state of sleep enjoyed by a mere mortal, and 18th-century English lexicographer and author Samuel Johnson wrote in The Rambler that in reading pastoral poetry we allow ourselves “to be transported to elysian regions, where we are met with nothing but joy, and plenty, and contentment…” In Walden a century later Henry David Thoreau wrote that “The summer, in some climates, makes possible to man a sort of Elysian life.”

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September 29, 2019 at 01:00PM

每日一词：hegemony（转自 韦氏词典）

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Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for September 28, 2019 is:

hegemony • \hih-JEM-uh-nee\  • noun

1 : preponderant influence or authority over others : domination

2 : the social, cultural, ideological, or economic influence exerted by a dominant group

Examples:

“According to Chinese analysts’ telling of World War II, the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931 and the invasion of China proper in 1937 were part of the U.S. strategy to pit the two Asian nations against each other in an endless war that would prevent either from rising to threaten American hegemony in the western Pacific.” — Michael Pillsbury, The Hundred-Year Marathon, 2015

“The sweeping restrictions come as New York and other cities fundamentally rethink the role of cars in the face of unrelenting traffic that is choking their streets, poisoning the environment and crippling public transit systems by trapping buses and light rail systems in gridlock. It is becoming a moment of reckoning—and, cars, which once had absolute hegemony over the streets, are losing.” – Winnie Hu, The New York Times, 8 Aug. 2019

Did you know?

Hegemony comes to English from the Greek hēgemonia, a noun formed from the verb hēgeisthai (“to lead”), which also gave us the word exegesis (meaning “exposition” or “explanation”). Hegemony was first used in English in the mid-16th century in reference to the control once wielded by the ancient Greek states, and it was reapplied in later centuries as other nations subsequently rose to power. By the 19th century, it had acquired a second sense referring to the social or cultural influence wielded by a dominant member over others of its kind, such as the domination within an industry by a business conglomerate over smaller businesses.

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September 28, 2019 at 01:00PM

每日一词：cleave（转自 韦氏词典）

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Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for September 27, 2019 is:

cleave • \KLEEV\  • verb

1 : to divide (something) by or as if by a cutting blow : split

2 : to separate (something) into distinct parts and especially into groups having divergent views

3 : to subject to chemical cleavage

4 : to split especially along the grain

5 : to penetrate or pass through something by or as if by cutting

Examples:

“The surface you’re cutting against will have a greater impact on your knife’s edge than the food you’re chopping up, assuming you aren’t regularly cleaving through massive bones.” — Paul Stephen, The San Antonio Express News, 10 July 2019

“Of course, single-item restaurants are nothing new…. But they don’t usually serve something so divisive as polenta. You see, the slow-cooked dish of maize cleaves opinion like a Justin Bieber concert. You either love it or loathe it—and ever has it been so.” — Samuel Muston, The Independent (London), 30 Jan. 2014

Did you know?

Cleave has two homographs, each with a distinct origin. There is cleave meaning “to adhere firmly and closely or loyally and unwaveringly,” as in “a family that cleaves to tradition”; that one is from Old English clifian, meaning “to adhere.” And there is the cleave with meanings relating to splitting and dividing, which derives from Old English clēofan, meaning “to split.” The two have slightly different inflections. The “split” cleave usually has cleaved as its past tense form, but cleft and clove are both in use as well; as its past participle form (the form that often occurs with have), cleaved is most common, but cleft and cloven are also used. The “adhere” cleave commonly has cleaved or clove (and occasionally clave) as its past tense and cleaved as its past participle.

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Lake桑

September 27, 2019 at 01:00PM

又一个周五！

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September 27, 2019 at 12:00PM

每日一词：frowsy（转自 韦氏词典）

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Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for September 26, 2019 is:

frowsy • \FROW-zee\  • adjective

1 : musty, stale

2 : having a slovenly or uncared-for appearance

Examples:

The lamp, discovered in a frowsy Midwestern antique store, turned out to be quite valuable.

“On good days, I could also manage super boring reality TV shows, like ‘Escape to the Country,’ in which retired British couples go on slow searches for frowsy new homes in sleepy towns, and nobody gets excited about anything.” — Yvonne Abraham, The Boston Globe, 24 Nov. 2018

Did you know?

The exact origins of frowsy are perhaps lost in an old, frowsy book somewhere, but some etymologists have speculated that frowsy (also spelled frowzy) shares a common ancestor with the younger, chiefly British, word frowsty, a synonym of frowsy in both its senses. That ancestor could be the Old French word frouste, meaning “ruinous” or “decayed,” or the now-obsolete English word frough or frow, meaning “brittle” or “fragile.” An early print example of frowsy can be found in Thomas Otway’s 1681 comedy The Souldier’s Fortune, wherein the character Beau refers to another character as “a frouzy Fellmonger.”

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September 26, 2019 at 01:00PM

每日一词：lèse-majesté（转自 韦氏词典）

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Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for September 25, 2019 is:

lèse-majesté • \layz-MAJ-uh-stee\  • noun

1 a : a crime (such as treason) committed against a sovereign power

b : an offense violating the dignity of a ruler as the representative of a sovereign power

2 : a detraction from or affront to dignity or importance

Examples:

“David’s grandfather, President Eisenhower, had left David all his clothes in his will, and David felt obliged to wear them…. Naturally, it would be something along the lines of lèse-majesté for him to remove the presidential jacket and vest and sit in his shirtsleeves, so he gamely continued to sweat in the sweltering heat, out of respect for Ike.” — Michael Korda, Another Life, 2000

“Thai law makes it illegal to defame, insult or threaten ‘the King, the Queen, the Heir-apparent or the Regent.’ … Though other countries still have similar laws—both Spain and the Netherlands have lèse-majesté laws on the books—Thailand’s enforcement of its laws may make them the strictest in the world.” — Adam Taylor, The Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2019

Did you know?

Lèse-majesté (or lese majesty, as it is also styled in English publications) comes into English by way of Middle French, from the Latin laesa majestas, which literally means “injured majesty.” The English term can conceivably cover any offense against a sovereign power or its ruler, from treason to a simple breach of etiquette. Lèse-majesté has also acquired a more lighthearted or ironic meaning, referring to an insult or impudence to a particularly pompous or self-important person or organization. As such, it may be applied to a relatively inoffensive act that has been exaggeratedly treated as if it were a great affront.

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September 25, 2019 at 01:00PM

每日一词：axiomatic（转自 韦氏词典）

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Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for September 24, 2019 is:

axiomatic • \ak-see-uh-MAT-ik\  • adjective

1 : taken for granted : self-evident

2 : based on or involving an axiom or system of axioms

Examples:

“It’s axiomatic that intellectuals like to deal with ideas. Ideas are to the intellectual what paint is to the painter and stone is to the mason.” — Jonah Goldberg, The Baltimore Sun, 10 June 2019

“Value of life? How could I answer the question on the spur of the moment? The sacredness of life I had accepted as axiomatic. That it was intrinsically valuable was a truism I had never questioned.” — Jack London, The Sea-Wolf, 1904

Did you know?

An axiom is a principle widely accepted on the basis of its intrinsic merit, or one regarded as self-evidently true. A statement that is axiomatic, therefore, is one against which few people would argue. Axiomatic entered English from Middle Greek axiōmatikos, and axiom derived, via Latin, from Greek axiōma (“something worthy”) and axios (“worthy”). The word axiom can also refer to a statement accepted as true as the basis for argument or inference. Such axioms are often employed in discussions of philosophy, as well as in mathematics and geometry, where they are sometimes called postulates.

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September 24, 2019 at 01:00PM

每日一词：suffuse（转自 韦氏词典）

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Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for September 23, 2019 is:

suffuse • \suh-FYOOZ\  • verb

: to spread over or through in the manner of fluid or light : flush, fill

Examples:

“Also beguiling … are such installation works as ‘Spatial Environment in Red Light’…. It’s a walk-through enclosure containing six parallel corridors and suffused with a neon redness that, having saturated your optic nerves, turns the world green when you exit.” — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2019

“The dessert I still dream about from the summer of 2018 is … a creamy, multi-textured bonbon suffused … with the flavor of black licorice from Denmark. — Jeff Gordinier, Esquire, 28 Nov. 2018

Did you know?

The Latin word suffendere, ancestor to suffuse by way of Latin suffūsus, has various meanings that shed light on our modern word, among them “to pour on or in (as an addition)” and “to fill with a liquid, color, or light that wells up from below.” Suffundere is a blend of the prefix sub- (“under” or “beneath”) and the verb fundere (“to pour” or “to send forth”). Other English verbs related to fundere continue the theme of pouring or spreading: diffuse (“to pour out and spread freely”), effuse (“to pour or flow out”), transfuse (“to cause to pass from one to another”), and the verb fuse itself when it’s used to mean “to meld or join.”

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Lake桑

September 23, 2019 at 01:00PM

又一个周一。

一周又开始了。加油工作！（由 IFTTT 发送）

Lake桑

September 23, 2019 at 07:00AM

每日一词：detritus（转自 韦氏词典）

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Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for September 22, 2019 is:

detritus • \dih-TRYE-tus\  • noun

1 geology : loose material (such as rock fragments or organic particles) that results directly from disintegration

2 a : a product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away : debris

b : miscellaneous remnants : odds and ends

Examples:

“Much to our shock, when my roommates and I opened the cabinets above and underneath our sink, we stood witness to an unbelievable mess. All of the detritus left as a result of the incomplete, shoddy work of ‘renovating’ the apartment appeared to have just been shoved behind the doors. Bags of random trash, dust bunnies, and paper towels filled the space.” — Daniel Varghese, GQ.com, 6 Aug. 2019

“As telescopes grow more advanced, astronomers have become more adept at finding not just white dwarf systems, but also the detritus that sometimes surrounds them. Often these objects–which might be planets, asteroids, comets, or other space junk—are noticed only after they fall into the white dwarf, contaminating the star’s otherwise pure outer layers.” — Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2019

Did you know?

If you use detritus in speech, remember to stress the second syllable, as you do in the words arthritis and bronchitis. Once you’ve mastered its meaning and pronunciation, you’ll find that detritus is a term—originally a geology term—that can be applied in many situations. After the first hard freeze of fall, gardens are littered with the detritus of the summer’s plants and produce: stalks, leaves, vines, and maybe even an abandoned hand trowel. As a flood-swollen river retreats to its banks, it leaves detritus—debris gathered by the raging waters—in its wake. The detritus of civilization may include junkyards and abandoned buildings; mental detritus may include all kinds of useless trivia.

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Lake桑

September 22, 2019 at 01:00PM

每日一词：redoubtable（转自 韦氏词典）

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Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for September 21, 2019 is:

redoubtable • \rih-DOUT-uh-bul\  • adjective

1 : causing fear or alarm : formidable

2 : illustrious, eminent; broadly : worthy of respect

Examples:

The theater has hired a redoubtable director to direct its upcoming production.

“There, amid the planers and sawdust, 46 craftsmen create custom-built pieces for private clients and for such redoubtable institutions as 10 Downing Street, Westminster Abbey, and even Hogwarts.” — Mark Rozzo, Vanity Fair, May 2019

Did you know?

The word redoubtable is worthy of respect itself, if only for its longevity. It has been used in English for things that cause fear, dread, and apprehension since at least the 15th century and comes to us through Middle English from the Anglo-French verb reduter, meaning “to dread.” That word comes ultimately from Latin dubitare, “to be in doubt” (by way of Anglo-French duter, douter, meaning “to doubt,” also the source of English doubt). Things or people that are formidable and alarming can also inspire awe and even admiration, and it wasn’t long before the meaning of redoubtable was extended from “formidable” to “illustrious” and “worthy of respect.”

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Lake桑

September 21, 2019 at 01:00PM

1000篇达成。

IFTTT：你发了几篇啊

嗯，WordPress.com发来了通知说1000篇了。

然后就这样吧。

最近在中文Minecraft Wiki所以应该会在用户页上更新很多信息。

Lake桑

2019.9.21

每日一词：misprision（转自 韦氏词典）

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Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for September 20, 2019 is:

misprision • \mis-PRIZH-un\  • noun

1 a : neglect or wrong performance of official duty

b : concealment of treason or felony by one who is not a participant in the treason or felony

c : seditious conduct against the government or the courts

2 : misunderstanding, misinterpretation

Examples:

The article asserts that the health guru’s recommendations are based on a misprision of what it means to be healthy.

“The charge, misprision of a felony, is one prosecutors often deploy against defendants who have agreed to help the government make its case.” — Grace Toohey, The Advocate (Baton Rouge, Louisiana), 8 Mar. 2019

Did you know?

All but one of the following words traces back to Latin prehendere, meaning “to seize.” Which word doesn’t belong?

apprehend – comprehend – misprision – misprize – prison – surprise

It’s easy to see the prehendere connection in apprehend and comprehend, whereas you may be surprised that surprise is from prehendere (via Anglo-French susprendre, meaning “to capture” or “to take by surprise”). Prison, too, is from prehendere by way of Anglo-French. And misprision comes to us by way of Anglo-French mesprisun (“error, wrongdoing”), from mesprendre (“to take by mistake”), itself from prehendere. The only word that’s out of place is misprize, meaning “to despise” or “to undervalue.” It’s ultimately from Latin pretium, meaning “value,” but—in a trick move that perhaps only English could pull off—misprize has also given us a related noun meaning “contempt, scorn,” in the form of an etymologically distinct misprision.

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Lake桑

September 20, 2019 at 01:00PM

又一个周五！

周五中午啦～ 吃完午饭，下午继续工作！ （由 IFTTT 发送）

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September 20, 2019 at 12:00PM

每日一词：issuable（转自 韦氏词典）

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Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for September 19, 2019 is:

issuable • \ISH-oo-uh-bul\  • adjective

1 : open to contest, debate, or litigation

2 : authorized for issue

3 : possible as a result or consequence

Examples:

“The common shares issuable upon exercise of the options are subject to a four-month hold period from the original date of grant.” — Yahoo! Finance, 25 July 2019

“Questions calling for inadmissible proof which is damaging and prejudicial should be objected to on any and every possible ground. Even if an attorney appears to be making an excessive number of objections, this is preferable to admitting without contest issuable evidence devastating in its effect.” — Mason Ladd, Case and Comment, Vol. 44, No. 6, 1922

Did you know?

Although issuable now tends to appear in financial contexts (such as in reference to shares that are eligible to be issued, or made available, according to a company’s articles of incorporation), it was originally used in the late 16th century as a legal term: an issuable matter was one that was open to contest, debate, or litigation. Within a century, though, the word had taken on the “authorized for issue” meaning that it most commonly has today. In making its home in the world of finance, issuable is carrying on a family tradition. In the early 14th century, its predecessor issue began being used in plural to refer to proceeds from a source of revenue, such as an estate. Issue itself traces back to Latin exire, meaning “to go out.”

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September 19, 2019 at 01:00PM

每日一词：bivouac（转自 韦氏词典）

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Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for September 18, 2019 is:

bivouac • \BIV-uh-wak\  • verb

1 : to make a usually temporary encampment under little or no shelter : camp

2 : to take shelter often temporarily

3 : to provide temporary quarters for

Examples:

The search party bivouacked under a nearby ledge until the storm passed.

“Isakson said Native American artifacts were found on the site, along with plenty of evidence to suggest Union soldiers had bivouacked there after the Civil War.” — Lawrence Specker, The Huntsville (Alabama) Times, 17 Mar. 2019

Did you know?

In the 1841 edition of An American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster observed bivouac to be a French borrowing having military origins. He defined the noun bivouac as “the guard or watch of a whole army, as in cases of great danger of surprise or attack” and the verb as “to watch or be on guard, as a whole army.” The French word is derived from the Low German word biwacht, a combination of bi (“by”) and wacht (“guard”). In some German dialects, the word was used specifically for a patrol of citizens who assisted the town watch at night. Today, bivouac has less to do with guarding and patrolling and more about having shelter.

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Lake桑

September 18, 2019 at 01:00PM

每日一词：labile（转自 韦氏词典）

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Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for September 17, 2019 is:

labile • \LAY-byle\  • adjective

1 : readily or continually undergoing chemical, physical, or biological change or breakdown : unstable

2 : readily open to change

Examples:

“From the outset, we see Queen Anne—portrayed brilliantly by Olivia Colman—as frail, obese and emotionally-labile. One minute, she’s calmly speaking to her confidante…. The next, she’s accosting a boy servant in a hysterically bizarre scene…. — Lipi Roy, Forbes.com, 24 Feb. 2019

“‘A desirable long-term outcome would be to create [contact] lenses from polymers that are fine-tuned to be inert during use but labile and degradable when escaping into the environment.’ As for members of the public concerned they are polluting the environment, [Dr. Rolf] Halden said: ‘Used plastic lenses ideally should be returned to the manufacturer for recycling….'” — Kashmira Gander, Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2018

Did you know?

We are confident that you won’t slip up or err in learning today’s word, despite its etymology. Labile was borrowed into English from French and can be traced back (by way of Middle French labile, meaning “prone to err”) to the Latin verb labi, meaning “to slip or fall.” Indeed, the first sense of labile in English was “prone to slip, err, or lapse,” but that usage is now obsolete. Other labi descendants in English include collapse, elapse, and prolapse, as well as lapse itself.

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Lake桑

September 17, 2019 at 01:00PM

每日一词：Yooper（转自 韦氏词典）

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Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for September 16, 2019 is:

Yooper • \YOO-per\  • noun

: a native or resident of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan — used as a nickname

Examples:

“The district has always elected Yoopers to represent them in Congress, rather than someone from the lower peninsula like Morgan.” — Melissa Nann Burke, The Detroit News, 6 Nov. 2018

“Mezydlo and Turnquist live in the Upper Peninsula community of Mohawk, which is about 25 miles south of Copper Harbor, the northernmost tip of the U.P.’s remote Keweenaw Peninsula. The region is known for having notoriously long, snowy winters—but snow lingering through July? Shocking, even for a lifelong Yooper like Turnquist.” — Emily Bingham, MLive.com, 26 July 2019

Did you know?

The word Yooper comes from the common nickname of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula—the “U.P.”—and the etymology requires the same follow-up question that a challenging joke does: “Get it?” If you’re not there yet, try saying them both out loud: Yooper, U.P. Yoopers have been saying both out loud now for about 40 years, but it’s only in recent years that those beyond the U.P. and its geographical neighbors have begun to encounter Yooper in use. Yoopers refer to people who live in the Lower Peninsula as trolls (they live “under” the Mackinac Bridge, after all), but that nickname is still at this point too much of a regionalism to qualify for entry in our dictionaries.

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Lake桑

September 16, 2019 at 01:00PM

又一个周一。

一周又开始了。加油工作！（由 IFTTT 发送）

Lake桑

September 16, 2019 at 07:00AM

每日一词：continual（转自 韦氏词典）

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Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for September 15, 2019 is:

continual • \kun-TIN-yoo-ul\  • adjective

1 : continuing indefinitely in time without interruption

2 : recurring in steady usually rapid succession

Examples:

The continual blaring of the car’s alarm outside made it very difficult for Jane to focus on her work that morning.

“Cows can drink upwards of 50 gallons of water a day, so making sure the animals have continual access to clean water is a must.” — Stephanie Blaszczyk, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 July 2019

Did you know?

Since the mid-19th century, many grammarians have drawn a distinction between continual and continuous. Continual should only mean “occurring at regular intervals,” they insist, whereas continuous should be used to mean “continuing without interruption.” This distinction overlooks the fact that continual is the older word and was used with both meanings for centuries before continuous appeared on the scene. Today, continual is the more likely of the two to mean “recurring,” but it also continues to be used, as it has been since the 14th century, with the meaning “continuing without interruption.”

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Lake桑

September 15, 2019 at 01:00PM

每日一词：travail（转自 韦氏词典）

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Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for September 14, 2019 is:

travail • \truh-VAIL\  • noun

1 a : work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil

b : a physical or mental exertion or piece of work : task, effort

c : agony, torment

2 : labor, childbirth

Examples:

“Time and again, the company made shrewd business decisions that, through the many travails of two centuries, has left it standing.” — Robert Klara, Adweek.com, 20 May 2019

“The [Rolling] Stones have survived it all by this point: near-breakups, the death of one member, the voluntary departure of a few others, medical maladies, as well as all the typical travails that have doomed countless other bands coming up in their wake.” — Corbin Reiff, Billboard.com, 22 June 2019 

Did you know?

Etymologists are pretty certain that travail comes from trepalium, the Late Latin name of an instrument of torture. We don’t know exactly what a trepalium looked like, but the word’s history gives us an idea. Trepalium is derived from the Latin tripalis, which means “having three stakes” (from tri-, meaning “three,” and palus, meaning “stake”). From trepalium sprang the Anglo-French verb travailler, which originally meant “to torment” but eventually acquired the milder senses “to trouble” and “to journey.” The Anglo-French noun travail was borrowed into English in the 13th century, along with another descendant of travailler, travel.

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September 14, 2019 at 01:00PM

每日一词：abscond（转自 韦氏词典）

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Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for September 13, 2019 is:

abscond • \ab-SKAHND\  • verb

: to depart secretly and hide oneself

Examples:

“The camera tracked [the black bear] as he moved in a sturdy lurch, … holding his dangling, unnecessary arms close to his chest like a mime absconding with a snatched purse.” — Jon Mooallem, The New York Times Magazine, 21 Dec. 2016

“The historian Plutarch wrote that about a million Gauls were killed in the campaign and another million enslaved. Some Gallic fighters may have absconded to Britannia—not yet governed by the Roman Empire—rather than face the legions.” — Isaac Schultz, Atlas Obscura, 30 July 2019

Did you know?

Abscond derives from Latin abscondere, meaning “to hide away,” a product of the prefix ab- and condere, a verb meaning “to conceal.” (Condere is also the root for recondite, a word meaning “concealed” as well as “hard to understand” or “obscure.”) Abscond retained the meaning of its Latin parent when it was first used in English in the 17th century. In general usage, abscond refers to any act of running away and hiding (usually from the law and often with funds), but in legal circles, the word is used specifically when someone who has already become the focus of a legal proceeding hides or takes off in order to evade the legal process, as in “absconded from parole.”

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Lake桑

September 13, 2019 at 01:00PM

又一个周五！

周五中午啦～ 吃完午饭，下午继续工作！ （由 IFTTT 发送）

Lake桑

September 13, 2019 at 12:00PM

最近没有在发文章，与一些杂谈。

首先先祝各位（自己）中秋快乐。

由于上了高中没办法每天上博客，所以周一到周五都没办法自己发东西，只有机器人在发。

虽然我也想整理高中的笔记，但是一定是没时间了。

再加上我最近其实沉迷中文Minecraft Wiki所以就没怎么管博客（

Gamepedia上我叫Lakejason0，可以看看我在中文Minecraft Wiki上的用户页。资料会比博客还丰富一些。

大部分访客应该都在东八区吧。

晚安。

或者早上好？

由于IFTTT没有什么节假日期间不发自动博文的设定，所以明天周五应该还是会有周五中午定时提醒吧。

最近事情很多，都不知道从哪里开始说起。

不过我Wiki语法开始熟了之后快把HTML的<ruby>用法忘光了（

如果你有注意博客的Logo的话，你应该知道我是个Minecraft玩家。今年暑假我在Wiki肝了一个版本补全计划，然后一发不可收拾，在翻译群里参与讨论了简中翻译的各个问题（金合欢还是相思木，粘土还是黏土，蜂蜜瓶还是蜂蜜罐这些）。

如果你还不知道的话，简中的翻译工作其实不是在Crowdin上全部完成的，反而是翻译群和Wiki管理一起协调完了，才由Powup333、Cuervo和Ff98sha等传到Crowdin（虽然在讨论完毕之前，快照版本会先上传暂定翻译，而且也有人不在群里只在Crowdin上传翻译）。

由此引发的一系列问题我先折叠起来。

点我看折叠。

具体看你维论证冰山一角。

就到这边吧。

Lake桑

2020.6.27

每日一词：deleterious（转自 韦氏词典）

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Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for September 12, 2019 is:

deleterious • \del-uh-TEER-ee-us\  • adjective

: harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way

Examples:

“With an injury, the body automatically responds with an inflammatory process to neutralize the toxic microorganisms, repair the affected tissues and eliminate debris from the wound. That is beneficial, but chronic inflammation is deleterious, causing a continuous supply of free-radicals, overwhelming our antioxidant immunities.” — Phyllis Van Buren, The St. Cloud (Minnesota) Times, 24 Apr. 2019

“But Superior Court Judge Peter Bariso ruled in 2016 that the landfill could stay open because its closure ‘would have drastic and deleterious effects on the surrounding communities and their taxpayers.'” — Scott Fallon, The Record (Bergen County, New Jersey), 24 May 2019

Did you know?

Pernicious, baneful, noxious, and detrimental are the wicked synonyms of deleterious. All five words refer to something exceedingly harmful. Of the group, deleterious is most often used for something that is unexpectedly harmful. Pernicious implies irreparable harm done by something that degrades or undermines in an evil or insidious way (“the pernicious effects of corruption”), while baneful suggests injury through poisoning or destruction (“the baneful consequences of war”). Noxious can apply to anything that is both offensive and injurious to the health of body or mind (“noxious chemical fumes”), and detrimental implies an obvious harmfulness to something specified (“the detrimental effects of excessive drinking”).

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Lake桑

September 12, 2019 at 01:00PM

每日一词：repertoire（转自 韦氏词典）

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Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for September 11, 2019 is:

repertoire • \REP-er-twahr\  • noun

1 a : a list or supply of dramas, operas, pieces, or parts that a company or person is prepared to perform

b : a supply of skills, devices, or expedients; broadly : amount, supply

c : a list or supply of capabilities

2 a : the complete list or supply of dramas, operas, or musical works available for performance

b : the complete list or supply of skills, devices, or ingredients used in a particular field, occupation, or practice

Examples:

“But the make-or-break element of any interior Mexican restaurant is its mole repertoire, and I was curious to see how these sauces would turn out. My favorite was a light, sweet, chile-based mole served with chunky butternut squash topped with sweet-potato crisps.” — Patricia Sharpe, The Texas Monthly, June 2019

“For decades, immunologists had reasoned that the T-cell surveillance system might be able to detect and kill cancer cells. But, unlike infected cells, cancerous ones tend to be so genetically similar to normal cells, with such a similar repertoire of proteins, that they’re hard for even T cells to pick out of a crowd.” — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 22 July 2019

Did you know?

The Late Latin noun repertorium, meaning “list,” has given us two words that can be used to speak of the broad range of things that someone or something can do. One is repertory, perhaps most commonly known as a word for a company that presents several different plays, operas, or other works at one theater, or the theater where such works are performed. Repertoire, which comes from repertorium via French, once meant the same thing as repertory but later came to refer to the range of skills that a person has, such as the different pitches a baseball pitcher can throw or the particular dishes that are a chef’s specialty.

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Lake桑

September 11, 2019 at 01:00PM

每日一词：pell-mell（转自 韦氏词典）

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Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for September 10, 2019 is:

pell-mell • \pel-MEL\  • adverb

1 : in mingled confusion or disorder

2 : in confused haste

Examples:

When the final bell of the day rang, the children bolted from their desks and streamed pell-mell out the door into the schoolyard.

“The grammar school dropout was forever on the move. There were times he bolted into the darkroom of his employer’s photographic studio to hide from an approaching truant officer. More often, the errand boy ran pell-mell to the offices of New York City newspapers and magazines, lugging a pouch stuffed with the newsy photographs of the day….” — Bill Case, The Pilot (Southern Pines, North Carolina), 14 July 2019

Did you know?

The word pell-mell was probably formed through a process called reduplication. The process—which involves the repetition of a word or part of a word, often including a slight change in its pronunciation—also generated such terms as bowwow, helter-skelter, flip-flop, and chitchat. Yet another product of reduplication is shilly-shally, which started out as a single-word compression of the question “Shall I?” For pell-mell, the process is believed to have occurred long ago: our word traces to a Middle French word of the same meaning, pelemele, which was likely a product of reduplication from Old French mesle, a form of mesler, meaning “to mix.”

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Lake桑

September 10, 2019 at 01:00PM

每日一词：olfactory（转自 韦氏词典）

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Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for September 9, 2019 is:

olfactory • \ahl-FAK-tuh-ree\  • adjective

: of or relating to the sense of smell

Examples:

“The glands located between the cat’s toes secrete a scent whenever he scratches on objects such as a tree or a scratching post. This activity provides an olfactory territory mark in addition to the visual.” — Pam Johnson-Bennett, Think Like a Cat, 2011

“Young male anglerfish face the challenge of finding a mate in the ocean’s vastness. They have large olfactory organs, which suggests that suitors follow a trail of pheromones.” — William J. Broad, The New York Times, 29 July 2019

Did you know?

Olfactory derives from the past participle of the Latin olfacere (“to smell”), which was formed from the verb olēre (“to give off a smell”) and facere (“to do”). Olfactory is a word that often appears in scientific contexts (as in “olfactory nerves,” the nerves that pass from the nose to the brain and contain the receptors that make smelling possible), but it has occasionally branched out into less specialized contexts. The pleasant smell of spring flowers, for example, might be considered an “olfactory delight.” A related word, olfaction, is a noun referring to the sense of smell or the act or process of smelling.

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Lake桑

September 09, 2019 at 01:00PM