Staphylococcus aureus

黄色ブドウ球菌。Graig Venterが講演の中でStaphylo. aureusと略していた。

Thucydides

Greek historian. Considered the greatest historian of antiquity, he wrote a critical history of the Peloponnesian War that contains the funeral oration of Pericles.
日本語ではツキディデス

Raynaud's phenomenon

A circulatory disorder that affects the hands and feet, caused by insufficient blood supply to these parts and resulting in cyanosis, numbness, pain, and, in extreme cases, gangrene.

toot one's horn

I know he's going to be too bashful to toot his own horn, so I'll take on the job.

agathocacological

Composed of both good and evil
agathakakologicalとも綴る。
ギリシア語のagatho(良い)+caco(悪い)+形容詞の接尾辞logicalより

enology

ワイン醸造学
oenologyとも綴る

viticulture

ぶどう栽培

philtrum, tragus

philtrum:
the vertical groove on the surface of the upper lip, below the septum of the nose.

tragus:
1. The projection of skin-covered cartilage in front of the meatus of the external ear.
2. Any of the hairs growing at the entrance to the meatus of the external ear.

stupefy

1.To dull the senses or faculties of. See synonyms at daze.
2.To amaze; astonish.

No meetings, ever. “I find them stupefying and useless.”

perspicacious

洞察力のある, 明敏な, 透徹した
He made a perspicacious comment on a mailing list.

androgynous

1　両性具有の;両性の特徴をもつ.
2　男女の区別のない;男女共通［共用］の
ということで、男女共通に使える名前はandrogynous nameと言われる。

ENSO

El Niño/Southern Oscillation

dipterocarp

tree of the family Dipterocarpaceae
フタバガキ科(Dipterocarpaceae)
二つの羽根が生えた実(di=2, ptero=羽根, carp=実)をつけるdipterocarpus属に由来する。
東南アジアの熱帯雨林で最も優占している種類。特にボルネオ島に多いが、ニューギニア島では少ない。優良な材を作り、ラワン材として日本にも沢山輸入されている。

魚の名前

flounder: カレイ
snapper: フエダイ
鯛を和英辞典で引くと「a sea bream」と出ている。

metathesis

1　音位［字位］転換:語の中の文字・音節・音が入れ替わること；ax→ask, clapse→claspなど.

仮定法の例

Do you really think American foreign policy after 9/11 would have been different, had there been a higher standard of religious literacy?

hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

The fear of long words.
Wikitionaryにはhippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobiaは誤りであるとされているが、そちらのグーグル力は38000に対し、p１つのほうは1070しかない。

exaltation

A flight of larks. See synonyms at flock.
e.g. an exaltation of larks

point source

A source, especially of pollution or radiation, occupying a very small area and having a concentrated output.

polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon

多環芳香族炭化水素

patriarchy

1. A social system in which the father is the head of the family and descent is traced through the father's side of the family.
2. A family, community, or society based on this system or governed by men. Also called patriarchate.

antonym: matriarchy

ball breaker

noun Slang: Vulgar.

1.	an arduous, often unpleasant task.

2.	a person who makes great demands on others; taskmaster.

bailiwick

noun
1. A person's specific area of interest, skill, or authority. See synonyms at field.
2. The office or district of a bailiff.

schwag

The term schwag refers to all manner of logoed stuff given away by companies to get people to remember them, feel good about them, have their phone number and website at hand and generally make them think about them before any of their competitors.

at one's disposal

be (left) at a person's ～　 人が好きなように処分［使用］してよい
I'm at your ～.　 おっしゃるとおりにいたします.

scutwork

noun
Informal.
Monotonous work or menial tasks that have to be done usually as part of a large, complex job or project.

disseminate

verb, transitive
1.To scatter widely, as in sowing seed.
2.To spread abroad; promulgate: disseminate information.

verb, intransitive
To become diffused; spread.

coterie

noun
A small, often select group of persons who associate with one another frequently. See synonyms at circle.

abridge

verb, transitive
1. To reduce the length of (a written text); condense.
2. To cut short; curtail. See synonyms at shorten.

egregious

adjective
Conspicuously bad or offensive. See synonyms at flagrant.

admonish

1.To reprove gently but earnestly.
2.To counsel (another) against something to be avoided; caution.
3.To remind of something forgotten or disregarded, as an obligation or a responsibility.

gild the lily

1. To adorn unnecessarily something already beautiful.
2. To make superfluous additions to what is already complete.

askance

adverb
1. With disapproval, suspicion, or distrust.
2. With a sideways glance; obliquely.

extol

To praise highly; exalt.

a long shot

a. A bet made at great odds. b. A venture that offers a great reward if successful but has very little chance of success.

a man about town

有閑紳士、社交界の常連

oblique

基本は「傾いた, 斜めの」という意味の形容詞。名詞として使われる際に、横腹の筋肉を指す言葉として使われることがある。減量のための製品の広告で、そういう使い方をしていた。

deflect

To turn aside or cause to turn aside; bend or deviate.

with one's name on it

(弾丸などが)oneを殺す運命になっている
have one's name on itとも言う。

compulsory altruism

Technometriaというポッドキャストのこの回でGNU GPLを「compulsory altruism」と表現していた。

insinuate

verb, transitive
1.To introduce or otherwise convey (a thought, for example) gradually and insidiously. See synonyms at suggest.
2.To introduce or insert (oneself) by subtle and artful means.

verb, intransitive
To make insinuations.

-- from The American Heritageｮ Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition

resurrect

verb, transitive
1.To bring back to life; raise from the dead.
2.To bring back into practice, notice, or use.

verb, intransitive
Theology. To rise from the dead; return to life.

perfunctory

1.Done routinely and with little interest or care: The operator answered the phone with a perfunctory greeting.
2.Acting with indifference; showing little interest or care.

chifferobe

–noun
A piece of furniture having both drawers and space for hanging clothes.
It came from chiffonier (a French word meaning a small piece of furniture with drawers for needlework) and wardrobe.

miss-goodie-two-shoes

かわいらしいが疎ましい女の子。18世紀に、1つしか靴を持っていなかった貧しい女の子が、お金持ちからもう1つ靴をもらい、大喜びして「two shoes! two shoes!」と言って町中を走り回ったという話から。

chrysalis

A pupa, especially of a moth or butterfly, enclosed in a firm case or cocoon.

衝動買い

impulse buying
impulsive buyingとネーティブ氏が言っていたのような気がしたので、"impulse buying"と"impulsive buying"のGoogle力を測ってみたら、272k対22kで、impulse buyingが圧倒的に多かった。

whiz-bang

noun
One that is conspicuously effective, successful, or skillful: a whiz-bang of a speech.

villain

1.A wicked or evil person; a scoundrel.
2.A dramatic or fictional character who is typically at odds with the hero.
3.Variant of villein.
4.Something said to be the cause of particular trouble or an evil: poverty, the villain in the increase of crime.
5.Obsolete. A peasant regarded as vile and brutish.

at odds:
In disagreement; in conflict: "The artist and the self-critic . . . are, with a few felicitous exceptions, forever at odds" (Joyce Carol Oates).

accentuate

1.To stress or emphasize; intensify: "enacted sweeping land-reform plans that accentuated the already chaotic pattern of landholding" (James Fallows).
2.To pronounce with a stress or an accent.
3.To mark with an accent.

Harry Houdini

少なくとも北米では超が付くほど有名なマジシャン。

胎児関連

羊膜： amnion
羊水： amniotic fluid
羊水穿刺： amniocentesis
臍帯： umbilical cord
胎盤： placenta

favicon

発音を調べてみたら・・・2通りの発音が見つかった。
fah vIh kahn (About: Web Design / HTML)
fav - eye - con (About: Web Logs)
About.com上に別々の発音が載っているというのは少し興味深い。

歯関連の単語

エナメル質： tooth enamel
象牙質： dentin(e)
歯根： the root of a tooth
歯槽膿漏： pyorrhea
歯槽骨： alveolar bone
歯茎： the gums

weewee

《話》《幼児語》名詞非可算《またa ～》おしっこ(peepee).
"Hold Your Wee for a Wii" contest

culminate

verb, intransitive
1.a. To reach the highest point or degree; climax: habitual antagonism that culminated in open hostility. b. To come to completion; end: Years of waiting culminated in a tearful reunion.
2.Astronomy. To reach the highest point above an observer's horizon. Used of stars and other celestial bodies.

verb, transitive
To bring to the point of greatest intensity or to completion; climax: The ceremony culminated a long week of preparation.

illustrious

1. Well known and very distinguished; eminent. See synonyms at noted.
2. Obsolete. Shining brightly.

spite

1. Malicious ill will prompting an urge to hurt or humiliate.
2. An instance of malicious feeling.

perpendicular

adjective
1. Mathematics. Intersecting at or forming right angles.
2. Being at right angles to the horizontal; vertical. See synonyms at vertical.
3. Often Perpendicular . Of or relating to a style of English Gothic architecture of the 14th and 15th centuries, characterized by emphasis of the vertical element.

noun
1. Mathematics. A line or plane perpendicular to a given line or plane.
2. A perpendicular position.
3. A device, such as a plumb line, used in marking the vertical from a given point.
4. A vertical or nearly vertical line or plane.

膿

pus
A generally viscous, yellowish-white fluid formed in infected tissue, consisting of white blood cells, cellular debris, and necrotic tissue.

necrosis
Death of cells or tissues through injury or disease, especially in a localized area of the body.
adj. necrotic

耳関連の英単語

耳たぶ： an earlobe
外耳： the external ear
外耳道： ear canal, auditory canal
外耳炎： swimmer's ear, otitis externa
鼓膜： eardrum, tympanic membrane
中耳： the middle ear, the tympanum
中耳炎： inflamation of the middle ear, tympanitis, otis media
内耳： the inner ear
内耳炎： inflamation of the inner ear, otitis interna
耳管： auditory tube, the eustachian tube （EustachianとEを大文字にすることもあるが、それほど多くない）
耳小骨： the ear bones, the auditory ossicles
つち骨・きぬた骨・あぶみ骨： hammer, anvil, stirrupというのが普通の言い方で、それらをラテン語にしてmalleus, incus, stapesが正式な医学用語
三半規管： the semicircular canals
蝸牛殻： cochlea

adorn

1. To lend beauty to; decorate: "The pale mimosas that adorned the favorite promenade" (Ronald Firbank).
2. To fit out with or as if with ornaments: "The sugar plantations were adorned with windmills" (Alec Waugh).
3. To enhance the distinction, beauty, splendor, or glory of; add luster to: "Virtue adorned his mind" (John Ford).

slay

1. To kill violently.
2. Slang. To overwhelm, as with laughter or love: Those old jokes still slay me.
e.g. "The great tragedy of Science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact." Thomas Huxley

martyr

1. One who chooses to suffer death rather than renounce religious principles.
2. One who makes great sacrifices or suffers much in order to further a belief, cause, or principle.
3. a. One who endures great suffering: a martyr to arthritis. b. One who makes a great show of suffering in order to arouse sympathy.

renounce
1. To give up (a title, for example), especially by formal announcement. See synonyms at relinquish.
2. To reject; disown.

No taxation without representation

was a catchphrase in the period 1763-1775 that summarized a primary grievance of the American colonists in the Thirteen colonies.
-- from Wikipedia

juggernaut

1. Something, such as a belief or an institution, that elicits blind and destructive devotion or to which people are ruthlessly sacrificed.
2. An overwhelming, advancing force that crushes or seems to crush everything in its path: "It doesn't assume that people need necessarily remain passive when confronted by what appears to be the juggernaut of history"(Christopher Lehmann-Haupt).

revere

To regard with awe, deference, and devotion.

deference
1. Submission or courteous yielding to the opinion, wishes, or judgment of another.
2. Courteous respect. See synonyms at honor.

revile

To assail with abusive language; vituperate. See synonyms at scold.

assail
1.To attack with or as if with violent blows; assault.
2.To attack verbally, as with ridicule or censure. See synonyms at attack.
3.To trouble; beset: was assailed by doubts.

brisket

1. The chest of an animal.
2. The ribs and meat taken from the chest of an animal.

the Acts

《単数扱い》〔聖〕使徒行伝(the Acts of the Apostles).

dog-and-pony show

a simple presentation which often insults the intelligence of its audience
e.g.
I can't believe the boss liked Jack's dog-and-pony show! He didn't give any details and completely ignored all the important issues.

burn the candle at both ends

to work on too many tasks at once
e.g.
Carol's been burning the candle at both ends in order to get promoted. She looks exhausted!

backstab someone

to sabotage someone else's career intentionally, usually for personal gain.
e.g.
Julie deserved that promotion, but Carlos backstabbed her so he'd be promoted instead. He told the boss she has a drinking problem.

bleat

1. a. The characteristic cry of a goat or sheep. b. A sound similar to this cry.
2. A whining, feeble complaint.

feeble
1. a. Lacking strength; weak. b. Indicating weakness.
2. Lacking vigor, force, or effectiveness; inadequate. See synonyms at weak.

orator

1. One who delivers an oration.
2. An eloquent and skilled public speaker.

oration
1. A formal speech, especially one given on a ceremonial occasion.
2. A speech delivered in a high-flown or pompous manner.

verbiage

1. An excess of words for the purpose; wordiness.
2. The manner in which something is expressed in words: software verbiage.

schnoz/schnozzle

The human nose.

strenuous

1.Requiring great effort, energy, or exertion: a strenuous task.
2.Vigorously active; energetic or zealous.

concoct

1.To prepare by mixing ingredients, as in cooking.
2.To devise, using skill and intelligence; contrive: concoct a mystery story.

scourge

1. A source of widespread, dreadful affliction and devastation such as that caused by pestilence or war.
2. A means of inflicting severe suffering, vengeance, or punishment.
3. A whip used to inflict punishment.

qualm

1. A sudden feeling of sickness, faintness, or nausea.
2. A sudden disturbing feeling: qualms of homesickness.
3. An uneasy feeling about the propriety or rightness of a course of action.
e.g.
Larry had no qualms about stealing from the cafeteria cash register. He didn't even feel guilty when someone else was blamed.
After hiding Lori's bike as an April Fool's joke, I began to have qualms. What if she thought it was stolen and called the police?

immaculate

1. Impeccably clean; spotless. See synonyms at clean.
2. Free from stain or blemish; pure.
3. Free from fault or error: an immaculate record.
4. Having no markings.
e.g.
It's amazing that while Carolyn always appears immaculate, her apartment often seems very dirty.
Don't expect a child to come home from a birthday party with immaculate clothing. Children usually manage to get as much birthday cake on their clothing as in their mouths.

gloat

To feel or express great, often malicious, pleasure or self-satisfaction: Don't gloat over your rival's misfortune.
e.g.
The coach told his team, "There's only one thing worse than a score lose, and that's a mean winner. Don't gloat."
Neil's sister always tattles on him and then gloats when he's punished, saying "I told you so."
tattle: To reveal the plans or activities of another; gossip.

impropriety

不適当, 不適切, 間違い, （語の）誤用, 無作法（な行為）, 下品.

fiduciary

(名詞)〔法〕受託者.
━　(形容詞)
1　〔法〕信託された;受託者の
～ property　 信託財産.
2　〈不換紙幣が〉信用発行の.

gaunt

1.Thin and bony; angular.
2.Emaciated and haggard; drawn.
3.Bleak and desolate; barren.
e.g.
Abraham Licoln's beard made his gaunt face look fuller.
Sharo's eating disorder, called anorexia nervosa, has made her so gaunt that she looks like a walking skeleton.

garble

1. To mix up or distort to such an extent as to make misleading or incomprehensible: She garbled all the historical facts.
2. To scramble (a signal or message), as by erroneous encoding or faulty transmission.
3. Archaic. To sort out; cull.
e.g.
The typesetter accidentally garbled the newspaper story, giving the reader only a mixed-up articles.
The company had garbled the bike's assembly instructions so badly that we were constantly confused about which step to do next.

contrive

1. To plan with cleverness or ingenuity; devise: contrive ways to amuse the children.
2. To invent or fabricate, especially by improvisation: contrived a swing from hanging vines.
3. To plan with evil intent; scheme: contrived a plot to seize power.
4. To bring about, as by scheming; manage: somehow contrived to get past the guards unnoticed.
e.g.
My eight-year-old son could write a book titled 101 Ways I Have Contrived to Stay Up Past My Bedtime.
Jill has to contrive a way to get a day off from work for her firend's wedding. She's already used up her vacation time.

blight

1. a. Any of numerous plant diseases resulting in sudden conspicuous wilting and dying of affected parts, especially young, growing tissues. b. The condition or causative agent, such as a bacterium, fungus, or virus, that results in blight.
2. An extremely adverse environmental condition, such as air pollution.
3. Something that impairs growth, withers hopes and ambitions, or impedes progress and prosperity.
e.g.
Nothing has hurt our country more than the blight of drugs.
There are two ways of looking at TV: as a blight that dulls the mind or as a valuable source of information.

doctor

〈車などを〉修理［修復］する; 〈写真・原稿などを〉修正［改作］する; 〈文書などに〉不正な変更を加える, …をごまかす《 up 》
～ a leak in the roof　 屋根の穴を修理する
～ (up) a balance sheet　 貸借対照表に手を加えてごまかす.

Some photos and videos that have appeared on the Internet show the strap flying out of the gamer's hand during play, or the final result -- a Wii controller apparently jammed into a smashed television screen. A number of the photos appear to be doctored, Abel said.
-- Nintendo recalls 3.2M straps for Wii controllers

acetaldehyde dehydrogenase

アセトアルデヒド脱水素酵素

servitude

1　奴隷状態, 隷属, 隷従.
2　懲役, （刑罰としての）強制労働.
3　〔法〕地役権: 他人の土地を利用できる権利.

coltan

コルタン（Coltan）とは、コロンバイト-タンタライト（Columbite-Tantalite　（Fe,Mn)(Ta,Nb)₂O₆）の略で、鉱石の1種。
-- Wikipediaより

gully

雨裂;（水の流れる）小峡谷,渓谷(特に狭くて深いもの);溝.

incite

1　〈人を〉励ます, 激励［鼓舞］する, 〈人を〉刺激［鼓舞］して（…）させる《 to... 》
The speaker ～d the workers to strike.　 弁士は労働者を扇動してストライキをやらせた.
2　〈怒り・好奇心などを〉起こさせる.

thrombosis

血栓症, 血栓形成.

molasses

糖蜜（とうみつ）(《英》treacle);（砂糖キビから採れる）糖液
(as) slow as ～　 ひどくのろい.

altruism

愛他主義, 愛他心, 利他主義; 利他的行為(⇔egoism).

hoard

（金銭・財宝の）貯蔵, 秘蔵［退蔵］物, たくわえ;（知識などの）蓄積.

estuary

1　（潮のさす大河の）河口
the Thames ～　 テムズ河口.
2　（河口にできた）入り江.