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迟锚迟别-脿-迟锚迟别
noun,
a private conversation or interview, usually between two people.
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罢锚迟别-脿-迟锚迟别, 鈥渁 private conversation, usually between two people,鈥� in French literally means 鈥渉ead to head.鈥� The 迟锚迟别 in 迟锚迟别-脿-迟锚迟别 comes from Old French teste, from testa 鈥渉ead鈥� in Vulgar Latin, from Latin testa 鈥渢erracotta pot, brick.鈥� 罢锚迟别-脿-迟锚迟别 first occurs in French in a com茅die-ballet by Moli猫re entitled La comtesse d’Escarbagnas 鈥淭he Countess of Escarbagnas鈥� (1671). Testa is the Italian word for head, too, but if you use testa a testa in Italian, you will get only a lot of laughs. 罢锚迟别-脿-迟锚迟别 entered English in the early 18th century.
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While she and Osborne were having their delightful 迟锚迟别-脿-迟锚迟别聽above stairs, old Mrs. Sedley and Captain Dobbin were conversing below upon the state of the affairs ….
It鈥檚 a meeting that promises awkward handshakes, a 鈥渇amily photo鈥� against a scenic backdrop and tense 迟锚迟别-脿-迟锚迟别s on the sidelines.
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inflection point
noun
a point at which a major or decisive change takes place; critical point.
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Inflection point, also point of inflection and flex point, originally, in the first half of the 18th century, was and still is today, was a mathematical term used in geometry and calculus, meaning 鈥渁 point on a curve at which the curvature changes from convex to concave or vice versa.鈥� This mathematical term gradually spread to other disciplines, such as engineering and economics, that use mathematics extensively. The second meaning of inflection point, 鈥渁 critical point at which a major or decisive change takes place,鈥� dates from about 2006 and appears to be the coinage of Andrew Grove (1936鈥�2016), a Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer, and author, and a pioneer in the semiconductor industry (Time magazine named him Man of the Year in 1997). Inflection is the usual American spelling, inflexion the usual British one. The Latin noun is 颈苍蹿濒别虫颈艒 (inflectional stem 颈苍蹿濒别虫颈艒n-) 鈥渂ending, curving,鈥� a derivative of the verb inflectere 鈥渢o bend, curve inward.鈥�
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We can either confront it for what it is and make it an inflection point in the arc of our nation鈥檚 history, or we can become complicit in the perpetuation of our disease because we refuse to admit we are ill. This time may be different. I pray that it is different.
I think we are at huge inflection point. We need not charitable solutions to structural problems but we need the type of change鈥攁nd I believe that means that we change the rules.
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risibility
noun
the ability or disposition to laugh; humorous awareness of the ridiculous and absurd.
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Risibility comes via Middle French 谤颈蝉颈产颈濒颈迟茅 鈥渟omething or someone that provokes laughter,鈥� from Late Latin 谤墨蝉颈产颈濒颈迟腻蝉 (inflectional stem 谤墨蝉颈产颈濒颈迟腻迟-) 鈥渁 disposition to laugh,鈥� a very rare noun first occurring in the works of Boethius, the most important philosopher and statesman of the late Western Roman Empire, who Dante described in his Paradiso as 鈥渢he last of the Romans and first of the Scholastics.鈥� (The Scholastics were followers of a system of theology and philosophy predominant in the Middle Ages, based chiefly upon the church fathers, Aristotle, and Aristotle’s commentators). Boethius鈥� most important work D膿 Cons艒l膩ti艒ne Philosophiae 鈥淭he Consolation of Philosophy,鈥� which he wrote in prison while awaiting execution, was important enough to be translated (into English) by King Alfred the Great, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Queen Elizabeth I. Perhaps the most enduring contemporary image of the Consolation is the Wheel of Fortune, now the name of a TV show. Risibility entered English in the first half of the 17th century.
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He shocked the company by maintaining that the attributes of God were two,鈥攑ower and risibility; and that it was the duty of every pious man to keep up the comedy.
In this high-humored sendup of arty photography, the photographer Duane Michals shoots for risibility and against pretension.聽
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