It was a bracing start for what turned out to be a wild 13-month effort to devise a modern-day security strategy for a president with no experience, more interest in cutting deals than designing a long-term strategy — and an unwillingness to sit for intelligence briefings, much less discussion of containing an angry, decaying Russia or of a 50-year plan to compete with a rising China. So “Battlegrounds” is, at its heart, the McMaster strategic plan that might have come to fruition had he worked for a president who was interested in strategic plans.這一振奮人心的開端之後，卻是瘋狂的13個月，他在這段時間裡努力設計現代安全戰略，而他所效力的總統毫無經驗，對達成交易而不是設計長期戰略更感興趣——他連坐下聽情報簡報會都不情願，更不用說參與關於遏制憤怒而衰敗的俄羅斯、或製定與正在崛起的中國競爭的50年計劃的討論了。所以，《戰場》這本書的核心，就是麥克馬斯特原本可能成為現實的戰略計劃——如果他是為一位對戰略計劃感興趣的總統工作的話。
Bracing for a Bailout Backlash
By ADAM NAGOURNEY
The Obama administration is worried that populist anger at financial institutions and Wall Street could complicate its agenda.
Japanese leader thought his country "weak" for surrendering after Hiroshima
Japan's wartime leader felt betrayed by a weak-willed public and a frightened government, according to newly discovered private diaries.
General Hideki Tojo lashed out at his countrymen in his journal even after atomic bombs had been dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Some growers have lashed out at Japan, arguing that it keeps raising the drug residue standard simply to protect its own eel farms against competition. But growers here say buyers from Japan will eventually be forced to purchase eels from China.Chinese Policies Led Slowly to Backlash in Tibet
The only surprising thing about unrest in Tibet may be that Beijing managed to keep things stable for so long.
bracing
adjective
UK /ˈbreɪ.sɪŋ/ US /ˈbreɪ.sɪŋ/(PREPARE) verb [R]
to prepare yourself physically or mentally for something unpleasant:
The passengers were told to brace themselves (= to press their bodies hard against something or hold them very stiff) for a crash landing.
She told me she had some bad news for me and I braced myself for a shock.
backlash
noun [C]
a strong feeling among a group of people in reaction to a tendency or recent events in society or politics:
the Sixties backlash against bourgeois materialism
the backlash against feminism
（機械の）がた（つき）; 激しい反動, 反発.
white back-lash （人種差別撤廃運動に対する）白人側の巻返し.
white back-lash （人種差別撤廃運動に対する）白人側の巻返し.
lash (HIT) T] to hit with a lot of force:
The prisoners were regularly lashed with electric cable.
The sound of the rain lashing against the windows was deafening.
See also lash out.
2 [T] to criticize someone severely
lash
1 [C or S] a thin strip of leather at the end of a whip, or a hit with this, especially as a form of punishment:
He received 30 lashes for the crime.
The punishment for disobedience was the lash.
whiplash Show phonetics
noun [C or U]
a neck injury caused by a sudden forward movement of the upper body, especially in a car accident:
a whiplash injury
豐田汽車宣佈開發出了可減輕追尾時對頸部造成傷害的"主動頭枕"，並將配備在計劃近期上市的新車型上。計劃首先配備于預定在2007年7月全面改進的"Ist"上，之後將依次擴大採用範圍。
主動頭枕的工作原理是：追尾時，
lashing
usually singular]
when someone is hit with a whip as a punishment:
FIGURATIVE He was given a tongue lashing (= criticized severely) after the game.
lash out (ATTACK) phrasal verb
to suddenly attack someone or something physically or criticise them in an angry way:
I was only teasing him and suddenly he lashed out (at me) and hit me in the face.
Why's Tina in such a bad mood? She really lashed out at me when I was late for work.
lash out (sth) (SPEND MONEY) phrasal verb UK INFORMAL
to spend a large amount of money in an unnecessary or wasteful way:
He lashed out £5000 on his daughter's wedding.
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