출처: Sisir Kumar Chatterjee, Philip Larkin.
※ 발췌 (excerpt):
( ... ... ) The first stanza of "Deceptions" describes the girls's plight after being raped:
Even so distant, I can taste the grief,
Bitter and sharp with stalks, he made you gulp.
The sun's occasional print, the brisk brief
Worry of wheels along the street outside
Where bridal London bows the other way,
And light, unanswerable and tall and wide,
Forbids the scar to heal, and drives
Shame out of hiding. All the unhurried day
Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.
In the second stanza the speaker proceeds to "console" the girl, even though he is fully aware of the futility of his attempt to offer consolation:
For you would hardly care
That you were less deceived, out on that bed,
Than he was, stumbling up the breathless stair
To burst into fulfilment's desolate attic.
Feminist critics altogether miss Larkin's message in the poen when they accuse him of sympathizing less with the victim than with the rapist. Kate, a fictitious feminist created by Holderness in his dramatic essay entitled "Reading 'Deceptions'─A Dramatic Conversation," for example, objects to Larkin's readiness "to excuse the violator, by casting him as equally a victim," to the way "the poet prefers to exculpate the man." ( ... ... )
출처: John Gilroy, Reading Philip Larkin: Selected Poems.
※ 발췌 (excerpt):
( ... ... ) In interview Larkin described how the poem was a way of saying 'how awful sex is and how we want to get away from it' 'Dry-point certainly describes the sexual impulse as a troublesome recurrence demanding fulfilment 'until we begin dying'─that is, either 'Endlessly' (1) until dealth, or perhaps taking the Elizabethan use of the term 'dying' for the sexual act itself, a bursting of that particular 'bubble' (2) The experience of the rapist in Larkin's 'Deceptions', with his 'burst into fulfilment's desolate attic', is one, it seems, universally shared. ( ... )
2016년 11월 30일 수요일
[메모] Philip Larkin, Deceptions, Fulfilment's desolate attic
2016년 11월 29일 화요일
Dic/ usages/ it's just the thing
─ It's just one of those things.
Said of an unpleasant happening, etc. one cannot account for or do anything to prevent:
- Now, my wife is a terrible snorer. It's just one of those things.
─ It's just the thing.
that's exactly what one wants or needs:
- Would this be suitable, madam? Yes, it's just the thing.
─ Note: The expression does not correlate in meaning with the phrase that's the thing─that's the point; that is indeed the reason:
- We've not got enough money to buy a house. That's the thing─they cost such a lot of money, don't they
CF. http://getintoenglish.com/english-phrase-thats-the-thing/
CF. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=that%27s+the+thing
CF. http://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/15401/what-does-thing-mean-in-this-is-the-thing
2016년 11월 28일 월요일
Dic/ culture: 투자은행/ Face time
1. Face Time: How Investment Banking interns are trying to impress their bosses
It means spending as much time as physically possible in the office
Two and a half years ago a young Moritz Erhardt collapsed dead in his shower. Moritz had allegedly worked until 6am for three consecutive days as an intern at Bank of America’s Merrill Lynch London offices. Moritz suffered an epileptic seizure and died. A coroner’s report ruled that the seizure which killed Moritz could happen naturally because of his epilepsy, although fatigue could have triggered it too.
2. Face time
In the sphere of investment banking, it describes the period when staff have to hang around the office just because their boss is still there. This may also involve staying at the office until an acceptable late time (11 p.m. or later) so that others think a staff member is busy, and no one burdens him/her with more work. Face time in some institutions can extend to as far as 2 a.m. Notoriously, investment banking hours are quite harsh, and investment bankers are expected to spend a lot of time in the office every day. Eighty-hour work weeks are not uncommon.
3. “Face Time”: Financial Expression of the Day
Face Time, noun phrase, in investment banking, the act of putting in more hours at the office than necessary to accomplish a given day’s worth of work; typically manifested as arriving to work earlier than co-workers and superiors, and leaving work after all colleagues have undocked for the day.
Usage Note: Germane primarily to the analyst and associate, Face Time is an affectation for the purpose of leading superiors (and competing colleagues) to believe one is uber dedicated to maniacal levels of hard work and is possessed of an unquenchable lust for the honors and riches of a tenured investment banker. One of the most mysterious puzzles inside the royal domain of investment banking, Face Time has persisted as a practice among young bankers probably since the 1980’s.
2016년 11월 26일 토요일
Dic/ some usages/ on: sth on you; just not on; sth on your mind; mind is on sth
─ You can say that you have something on you if you are carrying it in your pocket or in a bag.
- I didn't have any money on me.
─ If you say that something is not on or is just not on, you mean that it is unacceptable or impossible. (mainly BRITISH INFORMAL)
- We shouldn't use the police in that way. It's just not on.
─ If something is on your mind, you are worried or concerned about it and think about it a lot.
- This game has been on my mind all week.
- I just forgot, I've had a lot on my mind.
─ If your mind is on something or you have your mind on something, you are thinking about that thing.
- At school I was always in trouble - my mind was never on my work.
2016년 11월 19일 토요일
2016년 11월 18일 금요일
[메모] electrified ring fence in banking, in the UK after the crisis of 2008
※ 발췌 (excerpts):
1. Ring-fence needs electrification, says Banking Commission report (12 Dec 2012)
( ... ) Commenting on the publication of the report, the Chairman of the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards, Andrew Tyrie MP, said:
"Parliament took the unprecedented step of creating its own inquiry into banking standards, in the wake of the first revelations about the Libor scandal. The latest revelations of collusion, corruption and market-rigging beggar belief. It is the clearest illustration yet that a great deal more needs to be done to restore standards in banking.
The Government asked us to look an one of its main proposals for increasing financial stability─ring fencing─as part of our work.
( ... ... )
For the ring-fence to succeed, banks need to be discouraged from gaming the rules. All history tells us they will do this unless incentivised not to.
That's why we recommend electrification. The legislation needs to set out a reserve power for separation; the regulator needs to know he can use it.
Furthermore, we need periodic reviews of the sector to reassure us that the ring-fence as a whole is working. Thougher measures may yet be required.
( ... ... )
1. Electrifying the ring-fence:
Para 93:
- The Commission ...welcomes the Government’s action to bring forward legislation to implement a ring-fence.
Para 104:
- While ring-fenced banks will carry out the majority of essential economic functions which need protecting, it is important to be clear that it is these functions that enjoy protection and not the bank itself or its shareholders or creditors. There should be no government guarantee of ring-fenced banks, nor perception of one. Neither does ring-fencing mean that risks from non-ring-fenced banks can be ignored, as such institutions will remain systemic and difficult to resolve.
Para 163:
- The ring-fence envisaged by the Government may, in the long run, not provide an adequate degree of separation. Nor may it be adequate to buttress banking standards. Additional powers are essential to provide adequate incentives for the banks to comply not just with the rules of the ring-fence, but also with their spirit. In the absence of the Commission’s legislative proposals to electrify the ring-fence, the risk that the ring-fence will eventually fail will be much higher.
Para 164:
- The Commission recommends that the forthcoming legislation add reserve powers to implement full separation.
( ... ... )
2. Britain’s electrified ring fence (World Finance, 4 Feb 2013)
The British chancellor has proposed a ring fence separating high-street retails banking from investment banking branches within institutions will need to be 'electrified' with severe sanctions. Osborne will publish the Banking Reform Bill giving regulators the power to split banks up if they do not comply fully with new rules designed to protect British taxpayers.
"My message to the banks is clear: if a bank flouts the rules, the regulator and the Treasury will have the power to break it up altogether─full separation, not just ring fence," Osborne said in a speech in Bournemouth.
The British Bankers’ Association (BBA) said the new bill would bring “uncertainty for investors” and make it more difficult for banks to raise capital, leaving them with less available money to lend to the private sector. Anthony Browne, chief executive of the BBA has warned that moving away from the universal model of banking will compromise banks’ abilities to provide all the services British businesses will require.
For the time being regulators will only have the power to split up individual non-compliant banks, rather than a complete industry-wide separation. However, there have already been calls to give regulators sweeping powers over the ring fence.
( ... ... )
3. UK banking review urges 'electrified' ring-fence (US News, 21 Dec 2012)
The U.K. government needs to get tougher in its proposals to reform the banking industry by splitting high-street activities from riskier investment banking, Britain's Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards said Friday.
The commission reported Friday that proposals for a "ring-fence" to protect retail banks needed to be "electrified" to discourage banks from probing for loopholes.
Commission Chairman Andrew Tyrie says that would mean giving regulators the power to force a complete separation of a lender's retail business from its investment banking. Risky investments including exotic derivatives undermined banks' stability in 2008, prompting taxpayer bailouts of two big U.K. banks.
( ... ... )
4. MPs: protect bank deposits with 'electrified' ring-fence (Citywire, 21 Dec 2012)
The government's Banking Commission has called for the 'electriication' of the proposed ring-fence around consumer deposits in banks following more 'collusion and corruption' in the banking sector.
A report by the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards, chaired by Andrew Tyrie, said ring-fencing consumer deposits from banks’ riskier business is welcomed, but the government must go further to protect consumers deposits and protect taxpayers from the risk of another bailout.
2016년 11월 15일 화요일
Dic/ 용어: 직책/ partial look at some ways of naming positions in investment banks
출처: "Barclays reorganizes management of investment bank", REUTERS, 17 Apr 2014
※ 발췌(excerpt):
( ... ) The British lender said in a statement that it had appointed Eric Felder as head of markets, supervising the investment bank's global sales and trading businesses across all asset classes.
Felder, who joined Barclays from now defunct U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers in 2008, was previously co-head of securities.
In addition, Joe McGrath and Richard Taylor were named as co-heads of banking, responsible for the investment bank's global corporate finance and strategic advisory units.
As former Goldman Sachs banker, McGrath was most recently a co-head of the global finance and risk solutions business. Taylor, who has in the past worked for BoAML and HSBC, was head of investment banking in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region.
( ... ... )
출처: "HSBC to Rejig Structure at Head of Investment Bank", 2 May 2014
※ 발췌(excerpt):
( ... ) Jose-Luis Guerrero is becoming head of global banking and markets for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. This is a new position. Global banking and markets is what HSBC calls its investment bank.
The current head of markets for Europe, the Middle East and Africa—Thibaut de Roux—will be promoted to Mr. Guerrero's old job as global head of markets. Both moves are effective June 15.
( ... ... )
2016년 11월 12일 토요일
Dic/ usages/ easy, too easy (for someone) to do something
─ If you say that something is easy or too easy, you are criticizing someone because they have done the most obvious or least difficult thing, and have not considered the situation carefully enough.
- That's easy for you to say ...
- It was all too easy to believe it.
─ used for saying that it is very easy to make a mistake or to do something that will cause problems.
- For most people it is all too easy to put on weight.
- It is all too easy for someone in authority to think that they are better than everyone else.
─. It's easy (for someone) to do something: used for saying that someone thinks a situation is simple, when it is really very complicated or difficult:
- It is easy for people in cities to think that small towns have no crime.
- It's easy to forget that many problems remain to be solved.
2016년 11월 11일 금요일
Dic/ usages/ bust my balls
1. When someone scolds or berates you for something that they don't like.
2. To harass with the intent to break one's spirit.
- When I ask you if you settled that dispute with the IRS, I am not just trying to bust your balls. I am trying to help.
- cf. There is a way to castrate a calf, instead of cutting off the testicles you break them. To "bust your balls" is to turn them from a bull into a steer. Properly directed harassment can have a similar effect on humans.
3. ( ... ) it seems the slang broadened out to mean anybody who puts another person down or gives them a hard time. Now it is reference between guys and girls and has a general "put down" connotation. Another derivation of this term is "bust my chops".
4. If you were to "bust my balls" you would be having a right go at me about something.
2016년 11월 4일 금요일
Dic/ a usage/ up to something
─ occupied with, engaged in, as in:
- What have you been up to lately.
- We knew those two were up to something.
- I'm sure those kids are up to no good.
- What's she up to?
- What've you been up to?
- I'm sure he's up to to no good (= doing something bad).
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