标题: Economist, Mar 30, 2013 [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 4-14-2013 16:28 标题: Economist, Mar 30, 2013 (1)
(2) Manufacturing towns | The Last of the Metal-Bashers; In odd corners of the country British industry clings on. http://www.economist.com/news/br ... -last-metal-bashers
("In most parts of Britain, manufacturing has all but disappeared in the past half-century. * * * Britain has so few manufacturing cluster left. * * * the service-sector business that Britain does so well")
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Note:
(a) Devonshire Dock Hall http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devonshire_Dock_Hall
(a large shipbuilding complex that forms part of the BAE Systems Submarine Solutions shipyard; named after the dock that lies next to it)
* Devon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devon
(archaically known as Devonshire; is a county of England; derives its name from Dumnonia, which, during the British Iron Age and Roman Britain, was the homeland of the Dumnonii Celts)
(b) Barrow-in-Furness http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrow-in-Furness
(a town in the county of Cumbria, England; situated at the tip of the Furness peninsula; section 1 Toponymy; sectin 2.2 19th century: Its success was a result of the availability of local iron ore, coal from the Cumberland mines and easy rail and sea transport)
(i) Furness http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furness
(section 1 History: name)
(ii) Cumbria http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbria
("The names 'Cumbria' and 'Cumberland' are derived from the name these [ancient] people [who lived there] gave themselves, Cymru (pronounced cum-ri), which originally meant 'compatriots' in Old Welsh. The place names Cymru, its Latinised version Cambria, Cumbria and Cumberland all derive their names from this common root")
(c) The article mentions "Pendle in Lancashire by the Yorkshire Dales."
(i) Pendle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendle
(borough of Lancashire, England; The name Pendle comes from the Cumbric word 'Pen' meaning hill (or head), a reference to Pendle Hill)
(ii) Yorkshire Dales http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkshire_Dales
(an upland; lies mostly within Yorkshire; The word dale comes from the Nordic/Germanic word for valley (dal, tal))
(d) The article continues, referring to "Corby, a former steel town in Northamptonshire."
(i) Corby http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corby
(a borough located in the county of Northamptonshire)
Quote:
"The first evidence of permanent settlement comes from the 8th century when Danish invaders arrived and the settlement became known as 'Kori's by' – Kori's settlement.
"In 1931 Corby was a small village with a population of around 1,500 [when steel firm Stewarts & Lloyds built a large stell works]
(ii) Northamptonshire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northamptonshire
(The county seat is Northampton)
Quote: "The county was first recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (1011), as Hamtunscire: the scire (shire) of Hamtun (the homestead). The 'North' was added to distinguish Northampton from the other important Hamtun further south: Southampton - though the origins of the two names are in fact different.
(iii) Northampton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northampton
("Northampton began life as a pre-Norman village known as Hamm tun (which means either the village by the well-watered meadow (by the River Nene) or (as Ekwall states), 'hamtun' meaning the 'main settlement' as opposed to outlying settlements) and was only ca.0.60 acres (2,400 m2). The settlement was later called North Hamm tun, possibly to distinguish it from Southampton")
(e) The article says, "In Pendle the taxi drivers wear Salwar kameez and speak Urdu."
"In 2012 it [Amity Printing] printed more than 12m bibles and New Testaments. This makes Amity one of the largest printers of bibles in the world.
"exports have increased and it [Amity] says that roughly two-thirds of bibles printed in 2011 went overseas. Meanwhile, domestic sales have remained static, at about 4m copies per year.
Note:
(a)
(i) ideogram http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideogram
(Although Chinese characters are logograms, two of the smaller classes in the traditional classification are ideographic in origin" 指事字 and 会意字)
(ii) ideogram (n):
"a picture or symbol used in a system of writing to represent a thing or an idea but not a particular word or phrase for it; especially : one that represents not the object pictured but some thing or idea that the object pictured is supposed to suggest" http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ideogram
(iii) logogram (n):
"a letter, symbol, or sign used to represent an entire word <the ampersand and dollar sign are logograms>"
(iv) log- or logo- (prefix; Greek, from logos speech, word, reason):
"word : thought : speech : discourse <logogram>"
(b) I can not find LU Gengsheng's Chinese name, but he has reasons to lie low. Gengsheng is likely 更生, meaning "born again" (as in born again Christians).
(c) Amity Printing Co, Ltd 南京爱德印刷有限公司 http://www.amityprinting.com/english/home.asp
("成立于1988年8月的中外合资企业，中方是爱德基金会投资的南京爱德发展有限公司，外方是联合圣经公会")
smart (adj):
"6a : NEAT, TRIM <soldiers in smart uniforms>
b : stylish or elegant in dress or appearance
* * *
7a : being a guided missile <a laser-guided smart bomb>
b : operating by automation <a smart machine tool>" http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/smart