2011年10月7日 星期五

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Apple Shares See Muted Reaction to Jobs's Death
Apple shares treaded fairly even ground Thursday following Steve Jobs's death, offering further evidence that company's stock price was no longer intertwined with the fate of the company's chairman, co-founder and visionary.


Police officials had assured Parliament, judges, lawyers and the public that there was no evidence of broad hacking.
Andrew Testa for The New York Times

Tabloids’ Stain Rubs Off on Scotland Yard

Testimony and new evidence indicate that Scotland Yard and News International were so intertwined that they both wanted to contain the phone-hacking investigation.

rub off on

Become transferred to another, influence through close contact, as in We hoped some of their good manners would rub off on our children. This idiom alludes to transferring something like paint to another substance by rubbing against it. [Mid-1900s]


ruboff

or rub-off (rŭb'ôf', -ŏf') pronunciation
n.

  1. An act or result of rubbing off: a ruboff of color onto the fabric.
  2. An influence or repercussion: a negative ruboff on marketers generated by dishonest practices.



Henry Adams is the author of Tom and Jack: The Intertwined Lives of Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock, to be published in November by Bloomsbury Press.



At first the government seemed intent on making sure AIG paid high interest rates for the taxpayer funds, but now those dreams seem to be over as officials have concluded the insurance company is so intertwined with other parts of the financial sector that its collapse would be much more expensive in the long run.


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intertwine Show phonetics
verb [I or T]
to twist or be twisted together, or to be connected so as to be difficult to separate:
The town's prosperity is inextricably intertwined with the fortunes of the factory.
The trees' branches intertwined to form a dark roof over the path.

  • closely-intertwined with
  • 《be 〜》〜と密接{みっせつ}に関連し合う
  • complexly intertwined with related factors
  • 《be 〜》関連{かんれん}する要因{よういん}が複雑{ふくざつ}に絡み合う
  • deeply intertwined promise and peril
  • deeply-intertwined promise and perilより転送
    可能性{かのうせい}と危険{きけん}が複雑{ふくざつ}に絡み合った状態{じょうたい}
  • deeply-intertwined promise and peril
  • 可能性{かのうせい}と危険{きけん}が複雑{ふくざつ}に絡み合った状態{じょうたい}
  • intertwined in some way or other with one's life
  • 《be 〜》〜の人生{じんせい}に何らかの形でつながりを持った

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