2024年12月17日 星期二

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It will remain as politically fraught and physically dangerous as ever. Crackdowns will increase and tragedies may soon follow

Cher Can, and Does, Turn Back Time

In the first volume of her memoir (which she hasn’t read), she explores her difficult childhood, her fraught marriage to Sonny Bono and how she found her voice.



But the military is facing new challenges to its authority from a discontented public, making this an especially fraught moment in the nation’s history.





Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin were two of the most esteemed thinkers of the 20th century, but their relationship was fraught. In Kei Hiruta's book, readers can learn how their profoundly different views continue to offer important lessons for political thought today. https://hubs.ly/Q01Dr9m_0



The lone link for aid between Syria and Turkey is unusable, complicating an already fraught response.




Nukes, Oil and a Prince’s Redemption: A Trip Fraught With Perils for Biden

NEWS ANALYSIS

Nukes, Oil and a Prince’s Redemption: A Trip Fraught With Perils for Biden

By David E. Sanger and Peter Baker

President Biden is heading to the Mideast with one eye on U.S. strategic goals abroad and another on his political vulnerabilities back home.



Rana Foroohar: Young people calling the coronavirus a 'boomer remover' may reflect the general lack of empathy in society these days, but it may also mirror the free floating political anger that the current generation have for their elders.

From the moment he landed in Pyongyang, North Korean officials quickly asserted control.


BLOOMBERG.COM
Inside Pompeo's Fraught North Korea Trip
The trip reflects the difficulty in dealing with one of the world’s most reclusive and unpredictable regimes.

Ocean science agency chief floats removing ‘climate’ from mission statement and focusing on trade deficit https://wapo.st/2yU1IxR

On the tail end of the Cambridge Analytica revelations, Facebook has another scandal on its hands.


Zuckerberg Hits Users with the Hard Truth: You Agreed to This
After another privacy bombshell, Facebook tells horrified users, “it’s explained right there in the app.”
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Leaked Trump Transcripts Show Fraught Relationships With World Leaders
The transcripts detail Trump's calls with Australia's Malcolm Turnbull and…
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Representations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith Lectures

on Page 63:
"... No one is ever free of attachments and sentiments of course. Nor do I have in mind here the so-called free- floating intellectual, whose technical competence is on loan and for sale to anyone. ..."

AIG reported a $5.3 billion loss, hurt by a write-down linked to subprime mortgages that fell in value by $11.2 billion before taxes. The results indicate the road ahead could be fraught with peril given problems in the housing and credit markets.   2008

fraught (FULL OF) 
adjective ━━ a. (心配・危険に)満ちている ((with)); 〔話〕 困った.
fraught with full of unpleasant things such as problems or dangers:
The negotiations have been fraught with difficulties/problems right from the start.
From beginning to end, the airlift was fraught with risks.fraught (ANXIOUS) 

adjective
causing or having extreme worry or anxiety:
This is one of the most fraught weekends of the year for the security forces.
The atmosphere in the office is rather fraught.



tail end
noun
  1. the last or hindmost part of something.

    "we joined the tail end of a queue"
    • CRICKET
      the end of the batting order; the tail.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/zht/詞典/英語-漢語-繁體/float

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float翻譯:不下沈, 漂浮, 移動, (使)漂流;(使)浮動;(使)飄動;(使)飄移, 優雅地移動,飄然移動, 漂泊;遊蕩, 建議, 提出,提請考慮(計劃或想法), 改變價值, (使)(貨幣)實現匯率自由浮動, 企業, (公司或企業)首次發行(股票)上市, 錢, (酒吧等用於給顧客找 ...

free-floating adjective
not supporting any particular political party

這在諸如外匯上還有"可達任何匯率水準"等意思

adj.
  1. Not committed or decided.
  2. Experienced without an obvious basis or cause: free-floating anxiety.
  3. Capable of free movement; not bound.
adj. - 獨立的, 無明顯原因的, 能向任何方向活動的

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 自由に動く

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