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Under pressure | Asia - The Economist
www.economist.com › asia › 2020/04/02 › lockdo...

 Many migrant workers face hardship. ... More immediately, what many of the migrants fear is simply financial ruin, or even starvation. And it is not just the migrants themselves at risk. In 2017 international remittances brought ...


Outdoor Arts Festival is a day of colourful and chaotic street performances, art workshops and live music in the heart of our Colchester Campus this Friday. It’s a big free party full of madcap fun surprises, creative arts workshops and free gifts and everyone is invited. All thanks to the very lovely people at Lakeside Theatre and Art Exchange.

Among Revelers in Cairo, a Sense of Uncertainty Lingers

On Monday, Egyptians puzzled over Mohamed Morsi, their newly elected leader whose accidental candidacy thrust him to the center of a tense national debate about citizenship, religion and politics.

Patients included those who were nerve-wracked ahead of Saturday's presidential vote and depressed afterwards, while there were also increases in mood swings, depression and insomnia, according to the United Daily News.


Carnival revelers spite economic crisis

The economic downturn may have most Europeans scrimping and saving. But in
Germany's carnival strongholds, people are opening up their wallets for the
six days of celebrations.

The DW-WORLD Article
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=ew3v45I44va89pI0


Wreckage of Air France Jet Is Found, Brazil Says

By CHRISTINE NEGRONI
Floating debris in the Atlantic is that of missing Air France Flight 447, the Brazilian minister of defense said.

Denny's: Where the Food Is Free, and Drunks Can Pee

By Sean Gregory / Avenel, NJ
The low-cost restaurant chain is aggressively fighting the downturn by giving away free meals, and appealing to the late-night carousers


...game, music, and revels never cease...hold high revelry and declaim Homer's verses to heroes.

The Beijing Olympics

Our revels now are ended

Aug 28th 2008 | BEIJING
From The Economist print edition

A substantial pageant, but its fading leaves not a wrack behind

IT ALL went much as China’s leaders had hoped. The ceremonies were spectacular, the stadiums as good as any in the world and China won far more gold medals than any other country. The world’s most important politicians showed up and no one, bar a handful of vexatious foreigners, staged protests. But after spending tens of billions of dollars and huge political energy, China’s leaders might be wondering whether it was all worth it.


'Wrack and Ruin'
By DON LEE
Reviewed by LISA DIERBECK
In this madcap novel, two siblings reunite, and crises ensue.

'Ah Dolly, Dolly!' returned the locksmith, shaking his head, and smiling, 'how cruel of you to run upstairs to bed! Come down to breakfast, madcap, and come down lightly, or you'll wake your mother. She must be tired, I am sure - I am.'
Barnaby Rudge CHAPTER IV: IT'S A POOR HEART THAT NEVER REJOICES


ruin
verb T ]
UK 
 
/ˈruː.ɪn/
 US 
 
/ˈruː.ɪn/
B2
to spoil or destroy something completely:
Huge modern hotels have ruined this once unspoilt coastline.
Her injury ruined her chances of winning the race.
to cause a person or company to lose all their money or their good reputation:
Cheap imported goods are ruining many businesses.
If there's a scandal I'll be ruined!

declaim 
verb [I or T] FORMAL
to express something with strong feeling, especially in a loud voice or with forceful language:
[+ speech] "The end of the world is at hand!" the poster declaimed.
She declaimed against the evils of capitalism.

declamation 
noun [C or U] FORMAL
He subjected us to half an hour of impassioned declamation against the new motorway.
Declamations against the press are common enough.

declamatory
adjective FORMAL
a declamatory style
declamatory
  1. Having the quality of a declamation.
  2. Pretentiously rhetorical; bombastic.
Master of Revels 酒宴慶舞等主管

rev・el





━━ n., vi. (〈英〉-ll-) 酒宴(をする,をして騒ぐ); 大いに楽しむ ((in)).

rev・el・(l)er ━━ n.

rev・el・ry

 ━━ n. 酒宴.


revel 
verb [I] -ll- or US USUALLY -l- LITERARY
to dance, drink, sing, etc. at a party or in public, especially in a noisy way

reveller UK, US reveler 
noun [C]
On New Year's Eve, thousands of revellers fill Trafalgar Square.

revelry
noun [C usually plural; U] LITERARY
Sounds of revelry came from next door.
The revelries next door kept me awake all night.


rack (DECAY), MAINLY US wrack Show phonetics
noun
rack and ruin a bad state; decay:
The whole farm was going to rack and ruin.

madcap

(măd'kăp') adj.

Behaving or acting impulsively or rashly; wild.
[MAD + CAP1, head.]
madcap mad'cap' n.

madcap 

adjective

1.1 Done without considering the consequencesfoolishor reckless:
a madcap scheme
also rack n.
  1. Destruction or ruin.
  2. A remnant or vestige of something destroyed.
[Middle English, from Old English wræc, punishment (influenced by Middle Dutch wrak, shipwreck).]

wrack2 also rack (răk) pronunciation
n.
    1. Wreckage, especially of a ship cast ashore.
    2. Chiefly British. Violent destruction of a building or vehicle.
    1. Dried seaweed.
    2. Marine vegetation, especially kelp.

v., wracked also racked, wrack·ing rack·ing, wracks racks. v.tr.
To cause the ruin of; wreck.
v.intr.
To be wrecked.
[Middle English wrak, from Middle Dutch.]

carouser
n.One who carouses; a reveler.

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