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–verb (used with object)

1. to distribute 

or 

apportion by measure; allot; dole (賑濟) (usually fol. by out): to mete [out] punishment.  



2. Archaic. to measure. 



dole

賑濟物,施捨物

【英】【口】失業救濟金



–noun 

1. a limiting mark.

2. a limit or boundary.





　

If this summer's "The Dark Knight" raised the bar for seriousness, ambition and dramatic realism in the comicbook-based superhero genre, "The Spirit" reps its antithesis: Relentlessly cartoonish and campy, it's a work of pure digital artifice, feverishly committed to its own beautiful, hollow universe to the exclusion of any real narrative interest or engagement with its characters.



antithesis

–noun

1. opposition; contrast: the antithesis of [right] and [wrong]. 

2. the direct opposite (usually fol. 

by 

of or to): Her behavior was the very antithesis [of] cowardly.  



3. Rhetoric. 

a. the placing of a sentence or one of its parts against another to which it is opposed to form a balanced contrast of ideas, as in "Give me liberty or give me death."

b. the second sentence or part thus set in opposition, as "or give me death." 

 

4. Philosophy. See under Hegelian dialectic.  





As such, it's not clear exactly who the pic's intended audience is. Devotees of Eisner's original creation, who first popped up in Sunday newspapers around 1940, won't warm to this ultra-stylized update, and fans of "Sin City" (which Miller adapted from his own comicbook series and co-helmed with Robert Rodriguez) will find it pretty weak sauce -- a soft-boiled PG-13 trifle to whet their [appetites] for "Sin City 2" in 2010. 



whet

–verb (used with object) 

1. to sharpen (a knife, tool, etc.) by grinding 

or friction.

2. to make keen or eager; stimulate: to whet the [appetite]; to whet the [curiosity]. 



Initially, Miller's screenplay seems to break with formula by dispensing [with] the origin story of its eponymous hero. As the pic opens, ex-cop Denny Colt (Gabriel Macht) has already been transformed via mysterious means into a vigilante with almost as many lives as the stray cats strewn throughout the pic. With his dark fedora, cape and eyemask, boldly [ac]centuated by a blood-red necktie, the Spirit cuts an imposing figure on this black-and-white canvas; predictably, he's something of a ladies' man, but, as he discloses in voiceover, his one true love is the city whose mean streets offer him [no] shortage of opportunities to mete [out] justice.



fedora

一種男式軟呢帽

cape 

披肩,斗篷





tumescent

tumid

turgid (swollen) turgid [language]

turbid (dark & muddy)

bloat

Overeating bloated their [bellies]. The [carcass] started to bloat.

to [cure] (fishes) as bloaters. 

The promotion has bloated his [ego] to an alarming degree. 



eke

increase, enlarge, lengthen.

Eva and Jan are musicians who have withdrawn to a remote island where they eke out a [living] by growing and selling fruit. 

Debilitate