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The agent had used signal-tracking equipment to home in on the offenders and told the owner, Ronald Bethany, that his lights emitted radio signals that interfered with an AT&T Inc. T +0.43% cellphone tower.
Michigan Naming Fiscal Manager to Help Detroit
By MONICA DAVEY
Gov. Rick Snyder
of Michigan announced on Friday that the city of Detroit is so snarled
in financial woes that the state must appoint an emergency manager to
lead it out of disaster.
Calderón Offers Advice to Obama
Mexican President Felipe Calderón said yesterday that President-elect Barack Obama should take steps to stem a "worrisome" rise in anti-U.S. sentiment in Latin America.
(By Manuel Roig-Franzia, The Washington Post)
UK economy in 'frightening' decline
China
Angry China
May 1st 2008
From The Economist print edition
The recent glimpses of a snarling China should scare the country's government as much as the world
《中英對照讀新聞》Airport device follows fliers’ phones 機場設備追蹤旅人手機
◎管淑平
Today’s smartphones and PDAs could have a new use in the nation’s airports：helping passengers avoid long lines at security checkpoints.
今日的智慧手機和個人數位助理可能在國內的機場有新用途：協助乘客避免在通關安檢時大排長龍。
The Transportation Security Administration is looking at installing devices in airports that home in and detect personal electronic equipment. The aim is to track how long people are stuck in security lines.
運輸安全署正打算在機場安裝可鎖定並偵測個人電子設備的器材，目的是要掌握民眾排隊等候安檢的時間。
The technology has been tested by Purdue University researchers. Thumbnail-size receivers near checkpoints detected serial numbers emitted by some electronic devices being carried by passengers. The receivers recorded the time when a passenger entered a security line and the time when the same passenger cleared the checkpoint.
這種技術由普渡大學研究人員測試過。設於安檢站附近約拇指大小的接收器，可偵測乘客攜帶的電子設備所發出的序號，記錄乘客進入安檢隊伍和通過安檢的時間。
Information about wait times could then be posted on websites and in airports across the country.
等候時間的相關資訊稍後會被張貼在網站和全國各地機場。
"This technology will produce valuable data that can be used in a variety of ways," TSA spokeswoman Lauren Gaches said, noting it could help prevent snarls of checkpoints long lines.
「這項技術將產生寶貴資訊，可用於多種用途，」運輸安全署發言人賈契斯說，並強調這可能有助於避免安檢站大排長龍的混亂。
But civil-liberties experts worry that such a system enables the government to track people’s whereabouts. "It’s serious business when the government begins to get near people’s personal-communication devices," said American Civil Liberties Union privacy expert Jay Stanley.
但是公民自由專家擔心，這類系統能讓政府追蹤民眾動向，「當政府開始要接近民眾的個人通訊設備時，便是嚴重的事情，」美國公民自由聯盟隱私權專家史丹利說。
新聞辭典：
flier：名詞，飛行員、飛行者，在本文中意指搭機的旅客。
home in：動詞片語，瞄準、朝向（某個目標或問題）。例句：His argument homed in on the fault of the system.（他的論點直搗這套系統的缺失。）
Move toward or focus on a goal, as in He began with a couple of jokes before homing in on the main subject of his talk. This expression originally alluded to a vessel, aircraft or missile being guided to its target by a radio beam or some other means. [c. 1920]
The Tunnel
A Japanese army officer is traveling down a deserted road at dusk, on his way back home from fighting in the Second World War. He comes to a large concrete pedestrian tunnel that seems to go on forever into the darkness. Suddenly, an angry, almost demonic-looking anti-tank dog (strapped with explosives) runs out of the tunnel and snarls deeply at him. He proceeds with his walk, afraid, into the tunnel. He comes out the other side, but then witnesses something horrific — the yūrei (ghost) of one of the soldiers (Private Noguchi) whom he had charge over in the war comes out of the tunnel behind him, his face a light blue, signifying that he is dead.The soldier seems not to believe he's dead, but the officer convinces him and the soldier returns into the darkness of the tunnel. Just when he thinks he's seen the worst, the officer sees his entire third platoon marching out of the tunnel. They too are dead, with light blue faces. He tries to convince them that they're dead, and he expresses his deep-seated guilt about letting them all die in the war. They stand mute, in reply to his words. He then orders them to about face,向後轉 and then march back into the tunnel. Lastly, we see a second appearance of the hellish dog, from the beginning of this dream.
This is one of three "nightmares" featured in the film.
Akira Kurosawa's long time friend Ishirō Honda may have helped to direct, or have directed this piece entirely. The two always spoke of filming a story of a dead soldier returning from war.
snarl
verb [I or T]
(especially of dogs) to make a deep rough sound while showing the teeth, usually in anger or (of people) to speak or say something angrily and fiercely:
The dogs started to snarl at each other so I had to separate them.
[+ speech] "Go to hell!", he snarled.
snarl
noun [C]
The dog gave a low snarl so I quickly drew my hand back.
"Take your hands off me!" she said with a snarl.
snarl：動詞或名詞，咆哮、混亂。A cow wandering on the highway causes the traffic snarl-up.（一隻在公路上閒晃的牛造成交通大亂。）
- [動](自)〈犬などが〉（…に）歯をむき出してうなる((at ...))；〈人が〉（…に）がみがみ言う, どなる((at, against ...)).━━(他)1 …をとげとげしく言う, どな...
- snarl
- [名]1 （糸・髪などの）もつれ.2 木の節.3 ((通例a 〜))紛糾, 混乱 a traffic snarl交通麻痺(まひ), 交通渋滞 run into snarls混乱［紛糾］に巻き込ま...
- snarl-up
- [名]交通渋滞, 混雑；混乱.
noun [S or U]
the feeling of fear, especially if felt suddenly, or an experience of fear which happens suddenly:
I lay in bed shaking with fright.
You gave her such a fright turning the lights out like that.
You gave me the fright of my life (= a very severe fright), jumping out of the shadows like that!
frighten
verb [T]
1 to make someone feel fear:
He frightens me when he drives so fast.
You'll frighten the baby wearing that mask.
The noise frightened me to death/out of my wits (= gave me a severe fright).
2 frighten sb into sth to make someone so frightened that they do something they did not want to do
frightened
adjective
feeling afraid or nervous:
She gets frightened when he shouts at her.
The policewoman found a frightened child in the hut.
Are you frightened of spiders?
I was frightened (that) you would fall.
Don't be frightened to complain if the service is bad.
frightening
adjective
making you feel fear:
a frightening thought
a frightening film
It is frightening to think what might happen if she left him.
frighteningly
adverb
She looked frighteningly thin.
model-thin 對我而言太瘦骨嶙峋
worry (PROBLEM)
verb
1 [I] to think about problems or unpleasant things that might happen in a way that makes you feel anxious:
Try not to worry - there's nothing you can do to change the situation.
Don't worry, she'll be all right.
It's silly worrying about things which are outside your control.
[+ (that)] She's worried (that) she might not be able to find another job.
2 [T] to make someone feel anxious because of problems or unpleasant things that might happen:
You worried your mother by not writing.
[+ that] It worries me that he hasn't phoned yet.
The continued lack of rain is starting to worry people.
worry
noun
1 [C] a problem that makes you feel anxious:
health/financial worries
Keeping warm in the winter is a major worry for many old people.
2 [C or U] when you feel anxious about something:
Unemployment, bad health - all sorts of things can be a cause of worry.
It was clear that Anna had no worries about her husband's attempts to flirt.
worried
adjective
She was sitting behind her desk with a worried expression/look on her face.
They don't seem particularly worried about the situation.
You had me worried (= You made me feel anxious) for a moment back there - I thought you wouldn't be able to stop in time.
He was worried sick (= extremely worried) when he heard that there had been an accident.
worriedly Show phonetics
adverb
He looked back worriedly over his shoulder.
worrier Show phonetics
noun [C]
someone who worries a lot:
I can't help being a worrier - some people are just born that way.
worrying Show phonetics
adjective
making you feel anxious:
It's a very worrying situation.
worryingly Show phonetics
adverb
Worryingly, the gun was never found.
worrisome Show phonetics
adjective US FORMAL OR OLD-FASHIONED
worrying:
Alcohol and tobacco consumption by young people is especially worrisome because habits formed early are likely to persist.
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