2024年2月5日 星期一

embroil, lock horn, gravy train, easy money, "show trial", fault, wild hope; unfounded, naval drill,


“It’s the sovereign right of Ukraine and the right of the president of Ukraine to make his personnel decisions.” he said on CBS’s Face the Nation. “We’ve been clear, we’re just not going to get embroiled in that particular decision. We have indicated that directly to the Ukrainians.”


GlaxoSmithKline is embroiled in a potential $1.9 billion battle with the IRS over tax deductions Glaxo generated from its merger.



Google, WSJ Lock Horns Over Net Neutrality
CRN - Manhasset,NY,USA
Google struck back at an article published in the Wall Street Journal on Monday that claimed the Internet search engine giant was proposing a plan that ...


California Embroiled in a Battle Over the Budget

By JENNIFER STEINHAUER
Democrats who control the state Legislature are butting heads with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has vowed not to sign bills into law until he sees a budget on his desk.


EU foreign ministers condemn Suu Kyi trial in Burma

European Union foreign ministers said that the bloc would look into
applying new sanctions to the military regime in Burma as they condemned
the "show trial" of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

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http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=ew0wgcI44va89pI6


China Faults US-Japan Naval Drills in Call to Ease North Korea Tensions

U.S.: China Debt Fears 

Are Unfounded

The White House moved to rebut China's suggestion that its vast U.S. financial holdings might not be safe.

The Ladies' Companion - Page 236 1839 Joan forgot that her love was a sin—forgot her prison bonds—her condemnation—every

thing, in the wild hope that had taken possession of her soul. ... The End of the Affair - Page 28 by Graham Greene - Fiction - 1951 I had a wild hope that the sight of me a few days before had woken not love, of
course, but a sentiment, a memory which I might work on. .
30年前我讀這本小說時沒注意這表示。
by Thomas Merton - Poetry - 1980
I sing quietly to the immediate heart
One more wild hope dies of affliction.
The blue girl fumbles with her books and bags.
She goes and will never return. ..
「她打長途。接電話的鄰人不便說他已死了,說:「不知道。」下午她收到信,獲知他死了。但一個wild hope,信是五天前寄的,剛才還說「不知道」,會不又救活回來了?但信上明白說的:「已經於昨天火化了,」沒有希望,一點希望沒有──都燒成灰了。」(王文興“1980年手記(中)” 聯合報╱2008.03.12】)

gravy train, easy money, "show trial", fault, wild hope; unfounded, naval drill,



Will an expenses scandal force British politicians off the gravy
train?

Britain is in the grip of an intense - but rather unusual - political
scandal. For once, it is not just the government that has been affected.

The DW-WORLD Article

gravy train
Meaning #1: income obtained with a minimum of effort
Synonym: easy money

unfounded
adjective
describes a claim or piece of news that is not based on fact:
I'm pleased to see that our fears about the weather proved totally unfounded.

wild
· Based on little or no evidence or probability; unfounded: wild accusations; a wild guess.

lock horn

Become embroiled in conflict, as in At the town meeting Kate and Steve locked horns over increasing the property tax. This expression alludes to how stags and bulls use their horns to fight one another. [First half of 1800s]

embroil 
verb [T]
to cause someone to become involved in an argument or a difficult situation:
[R] She had no desire to embroil herself in lengthy lawsuits with the tabloid newspapers.
The United Nations was reluctant to get its forces embroiled in civil war.

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