Giving Big, a California Couple Gets Gratitude and Scrutiny
Lynda and Stewart Resnick have directed their pistachio fortune toward large, transformational gifts, but also drawn some criticism for their water use in an often parched state.
Reporting from Los Angeles, Lost Hills and Delano, Calif.
Standing on the grand staircase of Lynda and Stewart Resnick's opulent Beverly Hills mansion at a party last fall — where Diane Keaton, Bob Iger and Brian Grazer were among the luminaries making small talk over crudités and Sazerac cocktails — the author Walter Isaacson took a moment to thank his hosts.
Not only were the Resnicks giving the party to celebrate his new biography of Elon Musk, they had also been major supporters of his former professional home, the Aspen Institute, donating $36 million to the think tank over the years.
Packing your bags? A tiny Nova Scotia isle is ready to take you in.
阿月渾子（學名：Pistacia vera，英語：Pistachios），最早的商品名是開口笑，形容其硬殼裂開如笑容之狀，但迅速被更口語化的開心果取代，是一種常見乾果，是漆樹科黃連木屬的植物。開心果營養豐富，味道可口，是很受歡迎的堅果類零食。富含維生素A、維生素E，能提高免疫力、增強體質。
開心果 | |
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| 開心果的成熟果實 | |
科學分類 | |
| 界： | 植物界 Plantae |
| 演化支： | 維管束植物 Tracheophyta |
| 演化支： | 被子植物 Angiosperms |
| 演化支： | 真雙子葉植物 Eudicots |
| 演化支： | 薔薇類植物 Rosids |
| 目： | 無患子目 Sapindales |
| 科： | 漆樹科 Anacardiaceae |
| 屬： | 黃連木屬 Pistacia |
| 種： | 開心果 P. vera |
| 二名法 | |
| Pistacia vera | |
開心果（學名：Pistacia vera，英語：pistachio）是一種常見乾果，正式名稱為阿月渾子，是漆樹科黃連木屬的植物。開心果營養豐富，味道可口，是很受歡迎的零食。最早的漢語商品名是開口笑，形容其硬殼裂開如笑容之狀，但迅速被更口語化的開心果取代。富含維生素A、維生素E。
reticule
n. - 手提袋, 網袋, 細十字線
Meaning #1: a woman's drawstring handbag; usually made of net or beading or brocade; used in 18th and 19th centuries
Meaning #2: a network of fine lines, dots, cross hairs, or wires in the focal plane of the eyepiece of an optical instrument
Synonyms: reticle, graticule
ret・i・cule
━━ n. （網製）手さげ袋; 【コンピュータ】レティクル ((ICの回路パターンの焼き付けられた原版)).
ridicule
noun [U]
unkind words or actions that make someone or something look stupid or worthless:
She was treated with scorn and ridicule by her colleagues when she applied for the job.
He's become an object of ridicule (= a person that everyone thinks is stupid and criticizes or laughs at).
ridicule
verb [T]
to laugh at someone in an unkind way:
She rarely spoke her mind out of fear of being ridiculed.
At the time he was ridiculed for his ideas.
ridiculous
adjective
stupid or unreasonable and deserving to be laughed at:
Do I look ridiculous in this hat?
Don't be so ridiculous! I can't possibly afford to go on holiday.
It's ridiculous to expect a two-year-old to be able to read!
ridiculously
adverb
Hotel rooms in the city are ridiculously overpriced during the festival.
2004
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21:15 2004/6/4
ridicule
可別被戲弄了
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ridicule ['rıdıֽkjuːl]
noun
1 language or behaviour intended to humiliate or mock; derision
verb
2 [transitive] to make fun of, mock, or deride
[ETYMOLOGY: 17th Century: from French, from Latin ridiculus, from ridere to laugh]
2009 hc
French, from Latin rīdiculum, joke, from neuter of rīdiculus, laughable. See ridiculous.]
'ridi"culer noun
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ridicule [ʀidikyl]
adjectif
ridiculous
nom masculin
ridiculousness nom non comptable
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reticule ['rɛtıˌkjuːl]
noun
1 (in the 18th and 19th centuries) a woman's small bag or purse, usually in the form of a pouch with a drawstring and made of net, beading, brocade, etc.
2 a variant of: reticle
[ETYMOLOGY: 18th Century: from French réticule, from Latin reticulum RETICLE]
……
Emma saw symptoms of it immediately in the expression of her face; and while paying her own compliments to Mrs. Bates, and appearing to attend to the good old lady's replies, she saw her with a sort of anxious parade of mystery fold up a letter which she had apparently been reading aloud to Miss Fairfax, and return it into the purple and gold ridicule by her side, saying, with significant nods, ……
- Jane Austen: Emma Vol.3, Ch.16
……
《艾瑪》卷三第十六章裡這段用了一個很奇怪的字：ridicule，若照線上The Collins English Dictionary 所提供的有限解釋，或一般的英漢大辭典，可能無法理解奧斯汀在描述什麼。儘管辭典上已經說明了它的字源來自法文和拉丁文，但是奧斯汀在這裡用的其實是法文ridicule的另一種意義，它的意思相當於 reticule，也是源自法文拼法稍有差別的réticule。
查清楚，可別被戲弄了。
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