2005-12-22

bullhorn

軍艦の拡声器

redemption

買い戻し, (約束の)履行
救助, 救出
償い, あがない

2005-12-21

dowry

持参金, 嫁入り道具

2005-12-18

omniscient

全知の, 博識の

2005-12-11

beeline

(巣に戻るミツバチの進路のような)直線コース, 最短経路

cuticle

1. The outermost layer of the skin of vertebrates; epidermis.
2. The strip of hardened skin at the base and sides of a fingernail or toenail.
If you are chic to the cuticles, then make a beeline for Harvey Nichols, just a block away.

2005-12-08

puberty

思春期, 成熟期
reach the age of puberty 婚姻年齢に達する

見返した日: 2006-05-20, 2007-01-16

1. The stage of adolescence in which an individual becomes physiologically capable of sexual reproduction.
2. The approach to maturity: "Mankind will not reach puberty for another hundred thousand years"(Rene Dubos).

adolescence
1. The period of physical and psychological development from the onset of puberty to maturity.
2. A transitional period of development between youth and maturity: the adolescence of a nation.

heed

気をつける, 留意する
Heed what I say. 私の言うことをよく聞け.

galore

(名詞のあとに置いて)(数・量が)たっぷり
Glitches Galore in VoIP

PVC

polyvinyl chloride
塩化ビニール
Is there anything PVC *can't* do? I know at first it sounds like a bum gift, but there are sooo many cool projects you can make with with PVC pipe.

From MAKE's Mostly Under $100 Gift Guide 2005

No venture, no gain

虎穴に入らずんば虎児を得ず
Nothing ventured, nothing gainedとも言うようだ。

cricket

コオロギ

larva

幼虫
(複)larvae

2005-12-07

deplore

(痛烈に)非難する, 批判する, とがめる
contrary to frequent media reports deploring the excesses

2005-12-01

disipation

消失, 浪費
Digital Dossiers and the Dissipation of Fourth Amendment Privacy

unbeknownst

[adjective]
Unbeknown.
[adverb]
Without the knowledge of a specified party. Used with to: Our cousin had been ill for years, unbeknownst to the family.

strangulate

(腸・血管などを)縛る, 絞殺する
At a North Carolina strangulation-murder trial this month, prosecutors announced an unusual piece of evidence: Google searches allegedly done by the defendant that included the words "neck" and "snap."

2005-11-30

entice

誘惑する
wheedle: to entice by flattery.

nasal

鼻の
nasal congestion: 鼻づまり

2005-11-29

sclerosis

硬化症

envizage

…を心に描く, …をもくろむ
Solution 2 is envisaged as a heavy weight solution providing all the necessary ‘bells and whistles’.

2005-11-28

crease

(紙・布などの)折り目

浙江省杭州市

Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province

2005-11-27

luscious

おいしい, 甘美な
diners line up to ingest "luscious crispy pork" accompanied by rice, miso soup and cabbage side dishes.
from Zagat Survey 2005 New York City Restaurants

N.B.

nota bene
Used to direct attention to something particularly important.
"note well" in Latin.

mesmerize

To spellbind; enthrall: He could mesmerize an audience by the sheer force of his presence. (Justin Kaplan).

2005-11-25

換骨奪胎

[冷斎夜話1](骨を取り換え、胎を取って使う意) 詩文を作る際に、古人の作品の趣意は変えず語句だけを換え、または古人の作品の趣意に沿いながら新しいものを加えて表現すること。俗に、「焼き直し」の意に誤用。
(広辞苑第五版より)
(骨を取りかえ、胎(子の宿る所)を自分のものとする意)先人の詩文などの、発想や表現法などを取り入れて、しかも、独自の作品を作りあげる技法。誤用されて、他の作品の焼き直しの意にいうことがある。換骨。
(小学館国語大辞典(新装版)より)

pluck

羽毛を引き抜く, (羽毛などを)むしり取る

pellagra

発疹(rash)を伴う皮膚病で、レシチンの欠乏により起こる。20世紀初頭にアメリカ合衆国南部の孤児院や刑務所で多く見られ、当初は伝染病と考えられていた。

indifferent

無関心な

2005-11-24

emblazon

(盾・旗を)(紋章で飾る
It's too bad Postel's free-spirited image isn't emblazoned as a reminder on the front of the conference programs.

stifle

窒息させる

indecision

優柔不断, 不決断
There's a push for a new international organization, perhaps the United Nations, to take over — a sure recipe for stifling bureaucracy and indecision.

imam

(イスラム教)導師
The Internet should be the creative, fast-evolving sum of millions of computer users. From Silicon Valley geeks to French wine salesmen to Middle Eastern imams.
from U.N. control of Internet? An idea for the 'delete' file

2005-11-23

numerate

計算能力がある
Don't you envy a country where even the novelists are numerate?
from Tolstoy's measure of a man

streptococcus

(強勢はcocの音節) 連鎖球菌

2005-11-22

indemnity

免責
I wonder when we'll find the TCP/IP of patent indemnity offerings, something that everyone can use, join, and benefit from.

huzza

(間投詞)万歳
Huzzahs to Google if it be them.

charnel

死体安置所, 納骨堂
Carriers haven't been hot-houses of innovation, they've been charnel houses.

orifice

開口部, 穴
you form an interesting picture of Google creating a nationwide developer-friendly mobile wireless platform, bypassing the "orifices" (to use Steve Jobs's phrase) of the carriers.
from I For One Welcome Our New Google Overlords

auspice

庇護

2005-11-18

glut

十分[過度]に食べさせる, 供給過剰

2005-11-14

spout

噴出する, とうとうとしゃべる
spout official doctrine

2005-11-13

recuperate

回復する, 立ち直る
I feel recuperated now and the balance I need has returned.

2005-11-12

band together

集まる, 団結する
an amazing example of an industry that has banded together to protect its business

reprehensive

非難するような, 譴責的な
putting aside any moral judgments about reprehensible content

coersive

強制的な

reticence

口の重い, 話したがらない

bemuse

困惑させる, 心を奪う
how much of the innovation in online business models is really happening in that industry first and bemused by people's reticence to give them the credit or even talk about the subject.

dab

軽くたたく, とんとん打つ, 軽くペタペタ塗る
There are also many adult sites that dabbled in the affiliate marketing concept before Amazon.com picked it up.

impetus

勢い, はずみ, 刺激
This was the impetus for creating the "first on the Web" Amazon.com Associates Program.

ponder

じっくり考える, 熟考する
After that exchange, Bezos pondered the idea and thought about having the woman link her site to Amazon.com and receive a commission on the book sales.
from History of Affiliate Marketing

panacea

万能薬

2005-11-08

parochial

小教区(教会区,聖堂区)の
The reports satisfactorily answer their questions, however, they are parochial in nature.

2005-11-07

prop

n/v: 支え(る)
n: 支柱, 支持者

2005-11-06

purr

(猫が)(満足そうに)のどを鳴らす

prank

いたずら(をする)
Yahoo! Maps Pranks Google

fathom

(海などの)深さを測る

transcend

超越する

Philistine

ペリシテ人, 《時にp-》教養のない

gill

(魚の)えら

feat

偉業
At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.
- Arthur C. Clarke

2005-11-05

pinnacle

高峰, そそり立っている部分

2005-11-04

hypochondriac

心気症; 健康に対する自信の欠如・喪失に始まり、健康であるのに病気があると信じて悩む。

2005-11-03

mitigate

和らげる, 軽減する

deter

思いとどまらせる, 防止する

surety

保証, 担保

factoid

公にされたため根拠なしに事実として受け入れられている擬似事実
One of the presentations was on the state of the overall book market, and had this factoid: 93% of all ISBN's sold fewer than 1,000 units and accounted for 13% of all sales.

attrition

損耗, 摩擦, 自然減

2005-11-02

basalt

玄武岩
スミソニアン自然史博物館の展示で陸の部分の地殻はgranite(花崗岩)が主で、海の地殻はbasaltが主だと書いてあった。

underdog

敗者

segue

(次の楽章・楽曲などへ)切れ目なく続く
We segue to a demo of Xbox 360 Live by "executive producer" Jeff Henshaw, with attention paid to integration of messaging to recruit other users for head-to-head play, as well as now familiar community features such as user ratings, feedback, and user-contributed content.
Live Softwareより

cootie

シラミ
They took the cooties off citizen media.

dossier

ある問題に関する書類一式
It says it has not connected the vast dossier of interests and behavior to specific users by name. But that could change as Google offers more personal services - like e-mail messages and social networking - and works more tightly with partners who already have such personal information.

prowess

勇気, 力量
Google was willing to make that bid only because of its confidence in its advertising sales prowess.

amiable

感じのよい, 親切な, 社交的な
Larry Page and Sergey Brin were exceedingly ambitious from the day they started Google, but the job of finding some source of revenue fell to Omid Kordestani, an amiable former Netscape sales executive who was brought to the company in 1999 by K. Ram Shriram, another Netscape alumnus and an early Google investor.

utilitarian

実用的な, 功利主義の
few outside of the engineering Ph.D.'s at Google think that television ads should simply be utilitarian, rather than entertaining, provocative or annoyingly repetitive - the models that have worked so far.

huckster

行商人, 宣伝屋
Eric E. Schmidt, Google's chief executive, explains the company's astounding success in advertising - and reconciles it with the founders' distrust of hucksterism - by suggesting that advertising should be interesting, relevant and useful to users.
Google Wants to Dominate Madison Avenue, Tooより

chap

《主に英略式》男,やつ
Say, old chap!《古風》

2005-11-01

wobble

傾く, ぐらぐらする
The mathematics of wobbly coffee tables

gregarious

社交的な
Taking these factors into account simultaneously results in a searching algorithm that gets messages to the target by passing it to gregarious individuals who are most like the target.
"Six Degrees of Separation" Theory Explained in New Algorithm by UMass Amherst Researchersより

2005-10-27

Beltway

米国Washington, D.C.とMaryland, Virginia両州を囲む首都環状高速道路
inside the B~  ワシントン政界で.
The conventional wisdom inside the Beltway and beyond is that, this week, at least one and possibly two senior White House officials will be indicted for crimes related to the Valerie Plame affair.
"SELF ANALYSIS" より

2005-10-26

rudimentary

根本の, 基本の
Scatter enough nodes on rooftops citywide, and then if the phone system collapses, there will probably be a surviving mesh strong enough to serve as a rudimentary backup.

pandemonium

大混乱
Everyone else staggered around in blind ignorance -- which helped produce horrifying pandemonium.

ensue

続いて起こる
Katrina had disrupted the city's communications grid, and residents and emergency responders were grappling with the chaos that ensued.
Talking in the Dark
より

anthropomorphize

擬人化する
we humans are good at anthropomorphizing very crudely-drawn figures
Get your game face onより

molder

(徐々に)朽ちる
they've fallen down on the job, with the vast majority of works that they claim to be seeking to protect their rights in actually left to molder in the trash heaps of memory.

prerogative

特権, 大権的権能
I believe they're just jealous of their prerogatives as gatekeepers of content.
It seems to be working for Jesusより

frothy

あわの(ような), 実質のない
In this early frothy period, some of these projects are going to get funded

deluge

殺到する
I've been deluged with pitches for what will at best be features of next generation products.
VC Pitches in the Web 2.0 eraより

2005-10-25

別のバックリンクのテスト

表題ではなく、本文でリンクしてみる。

バックリンクのテスト

ちょっとテスト。

2005-10-21

lupus

狼瘡(ろうそう):皮膚結核の一種
2006-08-26追記:
Any of several diseases, especially systemic lupus erythematosus, that principally affect the skin and joints but often also involve other systems of the body.

2005-10-18

grapple

(レスリングなどで)つかみ合う《 with... 》
ABC Affiliates Grapple With TV-Show Downloads

2005-10-17

invigilate

《英》試験監督をする(《米》proctor)
I need to invigilate a mid-term exam in school next Monday morning.

Debussy

ドビュッシーなんだけど、聞いたときは全然分からなかった。最後の音節にアクセントがあったから。フランス人の名前だから当然なのだけれど。
Debussy's 'La Mer' Marks 100th Birthday

2005-10-15

putative

推定上の, 架空の
This incident seems to combine elements of two putative crises in the Linux world: the SCO lawsuits and the BitKeeper incident.

platitude

陳腐な言葉,ありきたりの発言.
MySQL declares "business as usual" and various other platitudes.
from Your Money or Your MySQL

2005-10-10

irk

いらつかせる。
Taiwan Irked at Google's Version of Earth

2005-10-09

2005-10-07

zing

元気, 活気
The Zing in Zimbra

adverse, finicky

adverse: (効果などが)マイナスの
finicky: (食べ物・服装などに)やかましい,凝り性の
The Ad-Averse: Finicky and Opinionated

2005-10-02

eponym

A person whose name is or is thought to be the source of the name of something, such as a city, country, or era. For example, Romulus is the eponym of Rome.
O'Reilly himself has operated for years under the radar. Most nontechies, if they know him at all, know him by the eponymous name of his publishing company.
from Slashdot.

2005-09-30

身柄送検

逮捕された状態で検察へ送られること。検察は起訴するかどうかを原則10日以内に決めなければならないらしい。これに対して書類送検では起訴の期限は時効まで。

2005-09-29

bolster

強化する, 補強する
Many business leaders have commented on the lack of engineers and several companies have even started initiatives to help bolster our diminishing ranks.

feral

野生の

エコノミー症候群関連の単語

Economy Class syndrome causes blood clots that develop in the legs (deep venous thrombosis, DVT) as a result of prolonged air travel. "Prolonged" can mean a 2-hour flight – and after 2 hours, the risk increases hourly, even if you change flights. If the clot breaks off and goes to the lungs (pulmonary embolus, PE) it can cause death.
venous: 静脈の
thrombosis: 血栓症
pulmonary: 肺の
embolus: 塞栓

bozo

まぬけなやつ
My most-recent book had nearly all 5-star reviews until two weeks when some Bozo rated it 1-star.

2005-09-28

wade

やっと骨折って通る
It rang true for me, as I'm spending my evenings wading through a pile of OSCON speaker evaluations.

riff

Rapid, clever, often rhythmic speech, as by a disc jockey
I've had the ETech riff on attenuation going through my head lately. Google's Information Market is an example of attenuation: taking hundreds of different opinions and boiling them down to a forecast that's probably right.

cobbler's children

The cobbler's chidren go barefoot. (ことわざ)

tenet

見解,主義,信条
The talk focuses on the four main tenets of reducing mass, embracing constraints, getting real in the process of development and managing debt.

gorge

飲み込む,(食べ物を)詰め込む
Blog Binging Gorges the Net

2005-09-27

2005-09-26

prankster

いたずら者
By using a practice called googlebombing, however, determined pranksters can occasionally produce odd results. (about Google's search result)

discerning

眼力のある
There's been no shortage of candidates. Hundreds of chefs from all over the world sent resumes, and we invited a number of them to come and audition for a discerning group of employee-tasters.

tread

(過trod) 踏む, 歩く
We need to continue down the path that Google first trod when they introduced PageRank, giving better search results by using the preferences expressed by millions of net users in the form of their links to each other, rather than just studying the characteristics of the documents themselves.

fend

verb, intransitive
To make an effort to resist: fend against the cold.

Mr. Semel describes a strategy built on four pillars: First, is search, of course, to fend off Google, which has become the fastest-growing Internet company.

penchant

強い好み, 傾向
As chairman of ABC's entertainment group, Mr. Braun had a penchant for big offbeat concepts like "Lost," which won the Emmy for best drama.

メルクマール

(ドイツMerkmal)目印, 記号, 標識

2005-09-25

complicit

共謀した, 共犯の

2005-09-24

landfall

(台風の)上陸
The day before Katrina made landfall, cell towers went down and with them went the area's cellular phone service.

serendipity

ものをうまく発見する能力
The first groups of journalists we shared it with were interested, but unmoved: Most were confident their news products would always offer a credibility and serendipity that The Miami Project couldn't match.

facet, salient

facet: (宝石などの)小平面, (人・事の)一面
salient: 顕著な, 目立つ
After a few minutes, we hit upon a facet of the game we agreed was salient to Nisenholtz's point -- it is the most advanced example of a medium people create by merely participating in it.
EPIC 2014: The Future is Nowより。

foil

失敗させる, 打ち負かす
Wireless Devices Could Foil Hijack Attempts

nefarious, apace

nefarious: 邪悪な
apace: 速く, 迅速に
It appears that Paul Graham's nefarious plan to promote delinquency among college students is proceeding apace.

2005-09-23

cogent

説得力のある, 的を射た
Stephen J Marshall, writing in the BCS online magazine, provides a cogent argument detailing the ills of Open Source Software for the software industry - namely, the lack of conceptual integrity, professionalism, and innovation together with the issue of ownership of OSS developed under the current Intellectual Property laws.
From Trouble With Open Source? on Slashdot.

panspermia

The theory that microorganisms or biochemical compounds from outer space are responsible for originating life on Earth and possibly in other parts of the universe where suitable atmospheric conditions exist.
from American Heritageョ Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition.
A new study by US and Japanese scientists has put a serious dent into one version of the popular panspermia theory that credits comets for bringing the seeds of life to Earth.

2005-09-22

rectitude

公正, 厳正, 正直, 正しさ
When Google set itself as an example of rectitude, as a new kind of company that would live by the motto ``Don't be evil,'' we took it at face value and cheered.
Blacklisting media outlet could send chilling messageより。

2005-09-17

陥穽

【かんせい】おとしあな。人をだましたり、失敗させたりするための計略。