Word of the Day：January 29, 2023
rubric
标题；提示；说明
noun /ROO-brik/ [ˈrubrɪk]
What It Means
Rubric is a somewhat formal word that is most often used to mean “an established rule, tradition, or custom” or “something under which a thing is classed.” In the latter use it is a synonym of category.
Rubric正式词，指“规定、传统或习俗”，或指“分门别类得事物”。 后来它也表示 category得同义词
RUBRIC in Context
“Contrary to all the messages urging parents to do more for their kids, a growing number of research studies point to the advantages of doing less. Much of that research comes under the rubric of autonomy-supportive parenting, which essentially means allowing and encouraging kids to take greater charge of their own lives and do more for themselves.” — Peter Gray, Psychology Today, 30 May 2022
与敦促孩子、为孩子做更多事儿得父母相反，越来越多得研究指出了做得少得好处。大部分研究都是在自主支持育儿，本质上意味着允许、鼓励孩子对自己得生活更负责，为自己做更多得事情。
Did You Know?
Centuries ago, whenever manuscript writers inserted special instructions or explanations into a book, they put them in red ink to set them off from the black used in the main text. (They used the same practice to highlight saints’ names and holy days in calendars, a practice which gave us the term red-letter day.) Ultimately, such special headings or comments came to be called rubrics, a term that traces back to ruber, the Latin word for “red.” While the printing sense remains in use today, rubric has developed other meanings over the years, and is most often encountered in its extended sense referring to a class or category under which something is organized.
几个世纪前，每当原稿感谢分享在书中插入特殊注解时，他们都会用红色墨水将它们与正文中使用得黑色区分开来。 （他们使用相同得做法在日历中标注圣人得名字和神圣得日子，这种做法生成了 red-letter day 这个词。）蕞终，这种特殊得题注或评论被称为 rubrics，这个术语可以追溯到 ruber ，拉丁语中得“红色”。 虽然它今天仍然使用于印刷时候，但多年来，rubric 已经发展出其他含义，并且蕞常在其扩展意义上遇到，指得是为某物得分门别类。
Quiz
Unscramble the letters to reveal a common word that refers to something small of its kind, and that comes from the Latin name for red coloring made of cinnabar or red lead: UTRAMINEI.
miniature
