2006-01-30

ruminate

思いめぐらす, 黙想する
just something to ruminate over

decadent

(絶頂期のあとで)衰退していく, 退廃的な
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
- Gore Vidal

2006-01-29

富與貴、是人之所欲也、不以其道得之、不處也

論語、里仁第四。富と貴(たっと)きとは、是れ人の欲する所なり。其の道を以てこれを得ざれば、処(お)らざるなり
富と貴い身分とはこれはだれでも欲しがるものだ。しかし、それ相当の方法(正しい勤勉や高潔な人格)で得たのでなければ、そこに安住しない。

籠脱詐欺

かごぬけさぎ
関係のない建物を利用し、そこに関係のある人間であるように見せかけて金品をだまし取り、裏口などから逃げてしまう詐欺。

2006-01-22

Asperger Syndrome

アスペルガー症候群
Asperger Syndrome or (Asperger's Disorder) is a neurobiological disorder named for a Viennese physician, Hans Asperger, who in 1944 published a paper which described a pattern of behaviors in several young boys who had normal intelligence and language development, but who also exhibited autistic-like behaviors and marked deficiencies in social and communication skills. In spite of the publication of his paper in the 1940's, it wasn't until 1994 that Asperger Syndrome was added to the DSM IV and only in the past few years has AS been recognized by professionals and parents.
-- from What Is Asperger Syndrome

アスペルガー症候群の子どもの理解:教師のための指針」も参考になる。

2006-01-21

aptitude

才能, 素質, 物覚えの早さ, 理解力

whip up

1. To arouse; excite: whipped up the mob; whip up enthusiasm.
2. Informal. To prepare quickly: whip up a light lunch.

dabbler

物事を道楽半分でやる人
Innumerable programmers, hackers, system administrators, hobbyists, and dabblers write Perl 5 quite successfully.

jackass

雄のロバ, ばか
How to Squelch Your Inner Jackass

vulgar

育ちのよくない, 趣味の悪い

crass

洗練されていない, 粗野な

2006-01-20

tether

つなぎ綱でつなぐ, 束縛する

huff

怒る
She huffed off, still tethered to her phone, to our general delight.

wave off

To dismiss or refuse by waving the hand or arm
e.g. waved off his invitation to join the group.

barrista

a preparer, server in a coffee bar

singsong

単調な詩
talk in a ~:
お経を読むような調子でしゃべる

leisurely

悠長な
an establishment as renowned for its leisurely service as for its place in San Francisco history

platitude

陳腐な言葉
I personally found his answers uninsightful and lacking in specificity, i.e. sounded more like a politician with a bunch of platitudes.

gratification

満足, 大喜び
I'm an instant gratification kind of person. I like to see who and from where my machine is being accessed, as it occurs.

lipophilic

親油性の

flame-retardant

Resistant to catching fire.

2006-01-19

tangent

fly [go] off at [on] a tangent:
突然わき道へそれる, 脱線する.

britches

=breeches
ひざ丈のズボン, ズボン
too big for one's breeches:
身のほどを知らない,うぬぼれた;ごう慢な

Bloglines running and preparing for our move to a new access center (with bigger britches and a very elastic waistline).

tenterhook

A hooked nail for securing cloth on a tenter.

on tenterhooks:
In a state of uneasiness, suspense, or anxiety.

tenter:
A framework on which milled cloth is stretched for drying without shrinkage.

plaster

《米略式》大損害を与える, やっつける

oration

正式の演説, 格調高いスタイルによる演説

heave

あえぐ, 吐く

endure

耐え抜く

gamely

勇敢に, 果敢に

twinge

発作的な鋭い痛み, (精神的な)苦痛

mimeograph

謄写版, 謄写印刷物

congregate

集まる

garb

服装, 着る

2006-01-17

instrumentation

器具の使用, 計器による運転
The administrative mantra is to automate. Scripting can also go a long way. From an engineering point of view, the requirement has to be to build automation and instrumentation into the service from the get-go.

agglomerate

かたまりにする(なる)
It executes billions of transactions over hundreds of applications agglomerated over nine years.

stint

[名詞]割り当てられた仕事, 割り当てられた期間
Fried’s background in IT includes stints as a dBASE II programmer

kazoo

A toy instrument with a membrane that produces a sound when a player hums or sings into the mouthpiece.

2006-01-16

keep abreast of

水準に達している, 遅れずにいる
I would like to keep abreast of your plans to ensure the two projects mesh together.

ツルハシ

《米》a pickax,《英》a pickaxe, a pick

zealot

熱中する人, 狂信者
Whereas in slashdot, the blind anti-MS zealot is the norm, I'd say a hacker is vendor agnostic, preferring the right tool for the right job.

chaff

もみ殻
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
- Elbert Hubbard

natter

不平を言う, 苦情を言う
It's a constant natter, constant back and forth.

2006-01-15

veracity

正直さ, 正確さ
As the veracity of Wikipedia is questioned and lawsuits threatened

2006-01-13

candor

率直さ, 正直
everyone appreciated the candor that framed the conversation.

2006-01-12

circumstantial

状況の, 付随的, 重要でない, 詳細な, 儀式ばった
lots of "false-positive" and "circumstantial" alerts are usually accompanied along the "problem source" alert.

unpalatable

口に合わない, 不快な
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
- John Kenneth Galbraith

folly

愚かなこと, 愚行
The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
- Helen Rowland

2006-01-10

officious

おせっかいな, 私的な, 横柄な
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
- Edward Abbey

renegade

変節者, 裏切り者, 背教者

2006-01-09

容貌の貌だが、訓読みが「かお」とは知らなかった。

ひだ。ほとんどの場合漢字ではなく仮名で書き表されるとは言え、知らなかったのは恥ずかしい。

2006-01-08

matrimonial

結婚(式)の, 婚姻の

2006-01-06

乾電池の種類

単一: size D
単二: size C
単三: size AA (double A)
単四: size AAA (triple A)

2006-01-05

double coated tape

両面テープ
double coated adhesive tapeでもよさそうだが、"double coated tape"のGoogleスコアは2万0800に対して"double coated adhesive tape"だと 542なので、double coated tapeがよさそうだ。

2006-01-02

metastasis

転移

palate

口蓋
hard palate: 硬口蓋
soft palate: 軟口蓋

antrostomy

surgical formation of an opening into any antrum. In the sinonasal region, the term is often used to describe the formation of an opening between the maxillary sinus (or 'antrum') and the inferior nasal meatus, as treatment for chronic maxillary sinusitis.
-- from Medcycropedia

antrum: [解]洞

sinus

副鼻腔
sinusitis: 副鼻腔炎
maxillary sinus: 上顎洞
maxillary sinus carcinoma: 上顎洞癌