My Winnipeg (2007) – Glossary

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gynecocracy (ˌdʒaɪnɪˈkɒkrəsɪ , ˌɡaɪ-) noun Word forms: plural -cies. government by women or by a single woman. Also called: gynarchy. 母權或母權制(英語:matriarchy 或 gynecocracy)指的是一種以女性為中心的社會型態,其領導權由女性,尤其是由社群中的母親所掌握。
Barbicide is a disinfectant solution used by barbers and cosmetologists for disinfecting grooming tools such as combs and hair-cutting shears. 殺菌劑
to lobby
transitive verb. 1 : to promote (something, such as a project) or secure the passage of (legislation) by influencing public officials lobby a bill through Congress. 2 : to attempt to influence or sway (someone, such as a public official) toward a desired action lobbying senators for tax reform.
遊說,試圖說服
Shingles, also known as zoster or herpes zoster, is a viral disease characterized by a painful skin rash with blisters in a localized area. 帶狀疱疹
Vivisection (from Latin vivus 'alive', and sectio 'cutting') is surgery conducted for experimental purposes on a living organism, typically animals with a central nervous system, to view living internal structure. 活體解剖
truncheon (n.)
c. 1300, “shaft of a spear,” also “short stick, cudgel,” from Old North French tronchon, Old French tronchon (11c., Modern French tronçon) “a piece cut off, thick stick, stump,” from Vulgar Latin *truncionem (nominative *truncio), from Latin truncus “trunk of a tree” (see trunk (n.1)). Meaning “staff as a symbol of office” is recorded from 1570s; sense of “policeman's club” is recorded from 1816.
警棍
A séance or seance is an attempt to communicate with spirits. The word séance comes from the French word for “session”, from the Old French seoir, “to sit”. In French, the word's meaning is quite general: one may, for example, speak of “une séance de cinéma”. 降神會(法語:Séance,英語:seance)是一種和死者溝通的嘗試
A denizen is simply one who resides in a location. A subject is one who has been declared a member of a nation by a Ruler or State. A citizen is one who has declared himself a member of a nation. Citizenship arises from the individual alone. (特定地區的)居民,常住者,動物,植物
Ectoplasm (from the Greek ektos, meaning “outside”, and plasma, meaning “something formed or molded”) is a term used in spiritualism to denote a substance or spiritual energy “exteriorized” by physical mediums. It was coined in 1894 by psychical researcher Charles Richet. (細胞外層的)外質, (某些人認為圍繞鬼魂等的)靈的外質
Hermaphrodite

The term derives from the Latin: hermaphroditus, from Ancient Greek: ἑρμαφρόδιτος, romanized: hermaphroditos,[9] which derives from Hermaphroditus (Ἑρμαφρόδιτος), the son of Hermes and Aphrodite in Greek mythology. According to Ovid, he fused with the nymph Salmacis resulting in one individual possessing physical traits of male and female sexes;[10] according to the earlier Diodorus Siculus, he was born with a physical body combining male and female sexes.[11] The word hermaphrodite entered the English lexicon as early as the late fourteenth century.[12] Alexander ab Alexandro stated, using the term hermaphrodite, that the people who bore the sexes of both man and woman were regarded by the Athenians and the Romans as monsters, and thrown into the sea at Athens and into the Tiber at Rome.[13]
雌雄同體
A crinoline is a stiff or structured petticoat designed to hold out a woman's skirt, popular at various times since the mid-19th century. Originally, crinoline was described as a stiff fabric made of horsehair and cotton or linen which was used to make underskirts and as a dress lining. 克里諾林裙襯(Crinoline),裙襯即裙撐,是一種用馬尾、棉布或亞麻布漿硬後做的硬質裙撐,類似於此前的鯨骨裙襯(farthingale)。「克里諾林」一詞源於拉丁語「crinis」(意思是「毛髮」))和「lin」(即「麻」)的組合詞。另一說是源於法語單詞「crin」(馬尾毛)和「lin」(麻)的組合詞。首次出現在1830年,到了1850年,英國人發明了不用馬尾硬襯的新型克里諾林,是用鯨鬚、鳥羽的莖骨、細鐵絲或藤條做輪骨,用帶子連接成鳥籠狀的裙撐。這種裙撐1860年傳入法國,以歐仁妮皇后為中心的宮廷和社交界上流女子們所喜愛,迅速成為流行服裝,以致影響到西歐各國的所有階層,甚至農婦們也仿效其形式,故服裝史上也把這一時期稱為克里諾林時代。
A make-work job is a job that has less immediate financial or few benefit at all to the economy than the job costs to support. It may also have no benefit. Make-work jobs are similar to workfare, but are publicly offered on the job market and have otherwise normal employment requirements. (只是讓人有事可做的)不重要的工作
cavort (v.) 1793, cauvaut, “to prance, bustle nimbly or eagerly,” American English, of uncertain origin, sometimes said to be an alteration of curvet “a leap by a horse,” a word from French that is related to curve (v.). Or perhaps from ca-, ka-, colloquial intensive prefix + vault (v.) 雀躍;嬉戲玩鬧;(常指)調情玩樂
The Ojibwe, Ojibwa, Chippewa, or Saulteaux are an Anishinaabe people in what is currently southern Canada and the northern Midwestern United States. In the United States, they have the fifth-largest population among Native American peoples, surpassed in number only by the Navajo, Cherokee, Choctaw and Sioux. 歐及布威族(奧傑布瓦語:Ojibwe或Ojibway),又稱奧吉布瓦族(英文:Ojibwa或齊佩瓦族(英文:Chippewa(y)),是北美的原住民族之一。當年法國商人來到北美大陸時,首先接觸到的民族即為歐及布威族。歐及布威族因對歐洲人盡了地主之誼,優先得到了歐洲人帶來的馬匹、槍支、彈藥。把與其為敵的東部的達科他人從蘇必略湖和密西西比河上游地區驅趕到了明尼蘇達河地區。甚至達科他(本意為聯盟、朋友)這個民族的本名並不流行,因為當時歐洲人是以歐及布威族對其稱呼Naduwessioux(蛇、敵人)的省略語Sioux的名字記錄下來,即蘇族。

acumen 敏銳的 advent 來臨 aficionados 狂熱愛好者 arthritis 關節炎 arteries 動脈 assortment 品種 acrid 辛辣 bison 野牛 Cadillac 凱迪拉克(豪車) capering 雀躍、戲弄 clout 影響力 coddled 擁抱 colossal 龐大 confabulation 虛構 confluence 合流 crinoline 扁豆鹼 damper 減震器 delinquent 違法的 downy 柔軟的 enervate 激發 engorged 充實 ensuing 隨後 falcon 鶻 fender 擋泥板 galvanize 通電 gobbling 吞噬 heinous 令人髮指的 hoof 蹄 impaled 刺穿的 lather 泡沫 mantling 整理 masonic 共濟會 pageant 盛會 paranormal 超自然 penthouse 頂層公寓 pull up = To approach or confront the opposition raked 傾斜 rubble 瓦礫 shanty 棚戶區 slake 熄滅 solicitous 殷勤 stampede 踐踏 tobogganing 雪橇運動 ultravixen 潑婦 viscount 子爵 wrath 憤怒

Frederick Roy Dunsmore was a Canadian ice hockey centerman who was runner-up for Manitoba's “Athlete of the Century”. He played baseball for the Winnipeg Goldeyes briefly in 1954.Wikipedia