标题: Bats Help Preserve Old Books in Portugal [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 6-18-2018 15:49 标题: Bats Help Preserve Old Books in Portugal 本帖最后由 choi 于 6-19-2018 10:12 编辑
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(a) "University of Coimbra's 300-year-old Joanina Library * * * The university—which was named a Unesco World Heritage site five years ago [in 2013] * * * the library, built in 1728 [construction started in 1717 and completed in 1728]"
(i) University of Coimbra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Coimbra
(1290- ; public; in Coimbra, Portugal)
Cities of Coimbra and Mafra are 125- and 20-mile air distance from Lisbon. Relative to Lisbon, the former is at its 1 o'clock direction and the latter, 11 o'clock.
(ii) Joanina Library (Portuguese: Biblioteca Joanina) was built in the time of João V (English: John V; 1689 – 1750, reign 1706 – 1750) of Portugal. See (d).
(iii) Joseph HD Allen, Jr, Portuguese Word-Formation with Suffixes. Language (journal), 17: 3-143, at page 57 http://www.jstor.org/stable/522032
("§72. -INO, -INA")
Click the the blue tab in the right column with white-lettered "Download PDF" on the tab. This is the best I can get about the this Portuguese suffix.
(b) Jorge Manuel Neves Justo Alexandre, who has been caretaker of Joanina since 2000 * * * Mr Alexandre was recently discussing the issue with Celeste Mateus, a library worker who was vacuuming the main entrance
(i) Equipa. Biblioteca, Universidade de Coimbra, undated https://www.uc.pt/bguc/Informacoes/Equipa
("Assistentes Operacionais [which is the heading, whose English translation is: Operational Assistants] Jorge Manuel Neves Justo Alexandre [among many others]" )
(c) "The library's bats are small, often no more than 1 1/2 inches long, from a species called pipistrelle. A second species, called European free-tailed, may be present as well"
Please check the genus name Pipistrellus in the Wikipedia for the meaning of the Latin word.
(d) "Years ago, when workers removed part of a shelf to repair it, they discovered a pile of bat guano about one yard high. A dark stain on the wall next to an opulent portrait of Portuguese monarch Dom João V seems to be a favored spot for bats to urinate."
(e) "Joanina's treasures include the first edition of 'The Lusiads,' a Portuguese epic poem written in 1572 by the country's most famous author, Luís de Camões. * * * Mr Maia do Amaral ['Joanina deputy director António Maia do Amaral' is mentioned previously in this article] acknowledges that many of the library's visitors aren't really interested in those facts."
(i) Os Lusíadas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Os_Lusíadas
(ii) Portuguese-English dictionary:
* os (article): "masculine plural of article o" (See do below.) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/os
* Maia (proper name): "a surname" https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Maia
* do (contraction from [preposition] de of, from + [definitive article] o the) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/do#Portuguese
* Amaral (proper name; etymology: from amaral "a place with an abundance of sages"): "a toponymic surname" https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Amaral
(iii) The Lusiads: "Its title is taken from the word Lusiads, which means 'Portuguese' and in turn comes from Lusitania, the ancient Roman word for Portugal. The Lusiads celebrates the glorious deeds of Portuguese explorers" in Great Discovery
Britannica Kids, undated. https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/The-Lusiads/315649
(f) "Joanina's approach is unusual. Its librarians know of only one other site, the 238-year-old Mafra Palace Library, northwest of Lisbon, that has literature-preserving bats."
of Joanina Library: "Want to see the bats for yourself? The best chance at glimpsing them in action comes at nightfall: Stand on the steps just outside the library's dense teakwood door, and wait for them to emerge and wing their way across the cobbled town square and into the hills.
"You can also try visiting the library on a rainy day, when the chirps and squawks of bats will often resonate from deep within the stacks. Librarians say they often hear the bats 'singing' — emitting social vocalizations — late in the afternoon on drizzly days.
"Some 125 miles to the south, just northwest of Lisbon, another colony of indoor-outdoor bats is in residence at the 300-year-old Library at the National Palace of Mafra. * * * Catching a glimpse of the bats here [Mafra] can also be difficult. The library closes before nightfall
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(a) There is noneed to read the rest.
(b) tealwood 柚木 https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/柚木
(原產地為緬甸 (Kyun)、印尼(Teak)、泰國(Teak)、婆羅洲、爪哇、台灣等)