2006-06-30

enumciate

言葉・文章を明確に発音する

2006-06-28

screed

退屈で長たらしい話
It’s essentially a Thatcherite screed about why businesses should be able to get away with doing anything they want and treat employees like slaves

astringent

収斂性の, 辛辣な, (物の味が)渋い
Here's one particularly astringent comment

2006-06-26

bellwether

(羊の群れを先導する)鈴つき羊, (産業界の)指導[先導]者, (暴動などの)首謀者

2006-06-25

scaffold

(建築などの)足場, 処刑台, (一時的な)組立て舞台, やぐら

2006-06-22

squirt

(液体が)噴出する, ほとばしる
What's the summer toy that squirts? A water pistol.

2006-06-19

occlusion

occlude
1) To cause to become closed; obstruct: occlude an artery.
2) To prevent the passage of: occlude light: occlude the flow of blood.

trepidation

(嫌なことが起こりそうだという)戦慄, 恐怖
I hear the same trepidation in their voice when they talk about Google that they used when they would talk about Microsoft in the past.

admonition

忠告, 説諭, 訓戒, 諌言
this looks like a good time to remember the biblical admonition against looking for the mote in your neighbor's eye

2006-06-18

concession

譲歩, 承認, 容認

premise

前提
Here's the premise of the article:...

2006-06-15

klebsiella

クレブシエラ菌:グラム陰性桿菌(かんきん)の総称

2006-06-06

血小板

a blood platelet, a thrombocyte

exude

にじみ出る, 発散する, あふれる
exude hope

frail

虚弱な, ひ弱な

2006-06-05

simian

類人猿の
simian immunodeficiency virus

innoculation

Inoculation, originally Variolation, is a method of purposefully infecting a person with smallpox (Variola) in a controlled manner so as to minimise the severity of the infection and also to induce immunity against further infection. It preceded vaccination and is separate from it, though today the terms inoculation, vaccination and immunisation are used more or less interchangeably and popularly refer to the process of artificially inducing immunity against various infectious diseases.

In 1796, Edward Jenner introduced the far safer method of inoculation with the cowpox virus, a non-fatal virus that also induced immunity to smallpox. This led to smallpox inoculation falling into disuse and eventually being banned in England in 1840.
From a Wikipedia entry

2006-06-04

perverse incentive

A perverse incentive is a term for an incentive that has the opposite effect of that intended. Perverse incentives by definition produce unintended consequences.
-- from a Wikipedia entry

preposterous

不合理な, 非常識な, 実にばかげた
preposterous kind of fear mongering

2006-06-02

cringe

1. To shrink back, as in fear; cower.
2. To behave in a servile way; fawn.

commiserate

同情する, 哀れむ, 弔意を表す
His blog became a place for Softies to swap stories and commiserate.

2006-06-01

annals

年代記, 年譜, 年史, 紀要, 年報, (事件に関する)歴史的な記録, 歴史