Ordnance (artillery) & Ordinance (law)

 









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–noun 

1. cannon or artillery. 



2. military weapons with their equipment, ammunition (彈藥,軍火), etc.

3. the branch of an army that procures, stores, and issues, weapons, munitions (軍需品), and combat vehicles and maintains arsenals for their development and testing. 





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ordinance, ordnance (nn.)   

 

An ordinance is a directive, a law, a statute: The [council] passed an ordinance prohibiting smoking in city hall. 



Ordnance is a military term for weapons, wagons, supplies, and especially artillery: We captured most of their field ordnance. 



Both words are Standard, but note their spellings.





　 　

Still, fashion will not win in the end, and Bergman, a classical giant with modernist ordnance, will re-emerge as [essential] for all ages. 



Film Forum's upcoming retro will prove the point, but so would Fanny and Alexander, Bergman's 1982 career summation and the kind of rich, timeless, cautionless magnum opus we can only receive, like benedictions, from artists who've paid their generation's dues of sweat, risk, tears, and honesty. 



F&A views the oceanic heavings of a close-knit theater family circa 1907 from the [perspective] of the eponymous lad, from warm holiday memories through a medieval stepchildhood and beyond. 



benediction

(大寫)(羅馬天主教) 祈求上帝賜福的儀式

heave

(用力) 舉起,拉起,提起

使鼓起,使起伏



Exploring his own psycho-aesthetic [roots] and how they sprouted in his earlier films (the iconography, from household spaces made menacing to ghosts and suggestions of God himself, virtually [catalogs] the '50s-'60s filmography), Bergman locates a generosity and élan that make F&A feel like his youngest film. 



Pity that the five-hour-plus Swedish TV version isn't being [given] a screen—reportedly, Bergman himself prefers the three-hour theatrical version, but for me, the more of this royal banquet the better. (The curious can seek out the 309-minute British DVD edition.) For the enviable Bergman initiate, this is the spring's main event. 





pyrotechnic

director Paul Thomas Anderson and his crew tested the pyrotechnical [effects] of the oil [derrick] fire

arson

arsenal

The police found an arsenal of [knives] and [guns] in the terrorists' hideout.

an arsenal of [facts] used in a debate

bunker

a [coal] bunker.  

to bunker an army's [defenses].  

Deluge