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