2011年12月7日星期三

錯誤二例 cubed

錯誤二例

On this reading, Greece and Ireland were just the hors d’oeuvre. The main course is yet to come. Japan is still the world’s third-largest economy, and the aftershock from a bond market crash would be like the fall of Lehman cubed.
就此而言,希腊与爱尔兰仅仅是开胃小菜。主菜尚未呈上。日本仍然是全球第三大经济体,其债券市场崩塌的余震,冲击力将会与雷曼(Lehman)倒闭一样。


攝影/游崴) 今年10月斐列茲藝術博覽會(Frieze Art Fair)期間,倫敦藝廊界龍頭之一的白立方藝廊(White Cube Gallery),在倫敦南邊的伯蒙西(Bermondsey)開設了一個新的分部,成為白立方繼哈克斯坦(Hoxton)與梅森廣場(Mason's Yard)之後,在倫敦的第三個展覽據點 ...





cube

(kyūb) pronunciation
n.
  1. Mathematics. A regular solid having six congruent square faces.
    1. Something having the general shape of a cube: a cube of sugar.
    2. A cubicle, used for work or study.
  2. Mathematics. The third power of a number or quantity.
  3. cubes Slang. Cubic inches. Used especially of an internal combustion engine.
tr.v., cubed, cub·ing, cubes.
  1. Mathematics. To raise (a quantity or number) to the third power.
  2. To determine the cubic contents of.
  3. To form or cut into cubes; dice.
  4. To tenderize (meat) by breaking the fibers with superficial cuts in a pattern of squares.

[Latin cubus, from Greek kubos. N., sense 2b, short for CUBICLE.]

cuber cub'er n.


n. - 立方體, 立方
v. tr. - 使成立方形, 量...的體積, 將...切成小方塊, 使自乘二次

idioms:

  • cube root 立方根

cubicle[cu・bi・cle]

  • レベル:社会人必須
  • 発音記号[kjúːbikl]

[名]
1 (特に英国のパブリックスクールなどの寮の)寝室;仕切った狭い場所, 小個室;(プールなどの)脱衣場.
2carrel.

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