Reader's Digestの定番記事の一つ、Triviaクイズ6月号の問題に出てきた単語が気になりました。
In culinary terms, what does the term 'chiffonade' mean?
Reader's Digestの料理記事も読んでいるのですが、この単語は覚えがありません。
答えを見ると： To cut leafy greens or herbs into long, thin strips. と書かれていました。
一応辞書の説明も見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: A preparation of shredded or finely cut leaf vegetables, used as a garnish for soup.: Cut very finely across the roll to create a chiffonade.
・Dictionary.com: a mixture of finely cut vegetables, herbs, or the like, for use in soups, salads, etc.
料理用語なのでやはりフランスからの外来語ですね。
Reader's Digest ６月号のWord PowerクイズのテーマはThe Shape of Thingsで、私は１５問中６問も間違えましたが、６問の単語の内初めて見る単語は "sigmoid" だけでした。
答えは "curved like an S" で例文として "On Superman's chest sits a single bold, scarlet sigmoid symbol.が示されていました。
一応 "sigmoid" の説明を辞書でも確認します。
Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary: 1 a: curved like the letter C; b: curved in two directions like the letter S
The shape sense of sigmoid is most often used in scientific contexts to describe an s-shaped curve on a graph. Usually, though, sigmoid is used in contexts relating to the sigmoid colon-the contracted and crooked part of the colon immediately above the rectum. Sigmoid comes from sigma, the name of the 18th letter of the Greek alphabet. At one time sigma had a common form that was shaped like the Roman letter C (hence sense 1a), but sigma is equivalent to the English letter S (hence sense 1b).
今日この頃の天気を表すのにぴったりの単語がReader's Digest ６月号の記事 Saving Barle the Circus Bear に出てきました。
She endured mental and physical pain - trainers whipped the bears on the face, head and hindquarters - as well as a sweltering Caribbean environment hostile to her polar-bred sensibilities.
"swelter" の説明を辞書でみます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: (Of a person or the atmosphere at a particular time or place) be uncomfortably hot: ‘Barney sweltered in his doorman’s uniform’
説明が丁寧な次の辞書も見ます。
・Vocabulary.com: To swelter is to be hot -- very, very hot, like on a humid, ninety-degree day. To swelter is to feel like you're in an oven.
This word is most often seen in the form sweltering, as in "The weather is sweltering! It's been over 95 degrees for a week straight." Any form of swelter is going to involve major heat -- enough heat to make you sweat buckets. The opposite of swelter is "freeze."
She endured mental and physical pain - trainers whipped the bears on the face, head and hindquarters - as well as a sweltering Caribbean environment hostile to her polar-bred sensibilities.
"swelter" の説明を辞書でみます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: (Of a person or the atmosphere at a particular time or place) be uncomfortably hot: ‘Barney sweltered in his doorman’s uniform’
説明が丁寧な次の辞書も見ます。
・Vocabulary.com: To swelter is to be hot -- very, very hot, like on a humid, ninety-degree day. To swelter is to feel like you're in an oven.
This word is most often seen in the form sweltering, as in "The weather is sweltering! It's been over 95 degrees for a week straight." Any form of swelter is going to involve major heat -- enough heat to make you sweat buckets. The opposite of swelter is "freeze."
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