51吃瓜 of the Day
belvedere
noun
a building, or architectural feature of a building, designed and situated to look out upon a pleasing scene.
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Belvedere, 鈥渁 building, or architectural feature of a building, designed and situated to look out upon a pleasing scene,鈥� comes straight from Italian belvedere 鈥渂eautiful view,鈥� a compound of bel, bello 鈥渂eautiful鈥� (from Latin bellus 鈥減retty, charming鈥�) and the infinitive vedere 鈥渢o see鈥� (from Latin 惫颈诲脓谤别), here used as a noun meaning “view or sight.” In Italian architecture a belvedere is an upper story, or part of one, or even a small tower or kiosk that is open to the air on at least one side, affording a pleasing view and an opportunity to enjoy the cool air of the evening. Belvedere entered English in the first half of the 16th century.
how is belvedere used?
In the early evening time Doctor Kemp was sitting in his study in the belvedere on the hill overlooking Burdock. … For a minute perhaps he sat, pen in mouth, admiring the rich golden colour above the crest ….
For them, it’s enough to sit in the belvedere and watch the tide turning and the geese migrating with the seasons.
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Shivoo 鈥渁 loud party鈥� is an Australian colloquialism of uncertain origin. An earlier spelling, shiveau, appears at the end of the 18th century in the U.K. The nearly 20 spelling variants, including chevaux and cheveaux, lead some scholars to suggest that the origin of shivoo may be from the French phrase chez vous 鈥渁t your house.鈥� The Australian spelling shivoo dates from 1881.
how is shivoo used?
The place was packed, there being more people present than at any previous moment of this festival … “What a show, Brian! What a shivoo! You can’t go to sleep yet. Here, I’ve brought you a drink to toast Old Ireland with.”
In that traditional lull between reporting season and the start of annual meetings, the balance of Australia’s most senior chief executives are clocking up air miles and enjoying the hospitality of investment bank JP Morgan at its annual Edinburgh shivoo.
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paucity
noun
smallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness.
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Paucity 鈥渟mallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness,鈥� comes via Old or Middle French 辫补耻肠颈迟茅 from Latin 辫补耻肠颈迟腻迟-, the inflectional stem of 辫补耻肠颈迟腻蝉 鈥渟mallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness,鈥� a derivative of the adjective paucus 鈥渇ew鈥� (because of its intrinsic meaning, paucus is usually used in the plural). Paucus is also the source of Italian poco 鈥渁 little,鈥� i.e., the musical direction meaning 鈥渟omewhat, a little,鈥� and of poco a poco 鈥渓ittle by little, gradually.鈥� The Proto-Indo-European root underlying the Latin words is pau-, 辫艒耻-, 辫蓹耻-, pu– (with still more variants) 鈥渇ew, a few, little, low,鈥� which also usually is extended by consonant suffixes. Latin pau– with a suffixed –l forms the adjective paulus, paullus 鈥渓ittle, small,鈥� the Roman surname Paullus, and the English forename Paul. The variant root pu– with a suffixed –er forms the Latin noun puer 鈥渂oy, child鈥�; the diminutive of puer is puellus 鈥渁 young boy,鈥� and puella, the feminine of puellus, therefore means 鈥済irl.鈥� The root pau– becomes the Proto-Germanic root faw-; its derived adjective fawaz 鈥渇ew, a little,鈥� becomes 蹿脓补飞补, 蹿脓补 in Old English, and few in modern English. Paucity entered English in the first half of the 15th century.
how is paucity used?
Watching American films from the 1970s today, you may be struck by the paucity of music: filmmakers then did not want to depend on the emotional groundbase a continuous music track provides鈥攖hey wanted to focus your attention on their images.
Ambiguous references to what may have been hats of vegetable materials are to be found in the works of almost all ancient writers, but very little that is specific can be discovered. Perhaps one reason for the paucity of information on this subject may be that the homemade hats of plaited straws or rushes were probably worn only by the common people.
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