Culture and Lifestyle
cagey spin, chary, payback, flummery, tingling刺痛。. oatmeal or wheatmeal 燕麥片或小麥粉
謹慎的旋轉、謹慎、回報、、笨拙
Political Stagecraft in China’s Trial of Fallen Official
By EDWARD WONG and JONATHAN ANSFIELD
Analysts say the spectacle is an effort by China’s leaders to convince
allies of Bo Xilai that he had his say in court, and that the long
sentence he is expected to get is based on evidence, not political
payback.
It seems to me now that Solomon was the truest man who ever spoke, and yet that he a little managed the truth with a view to popular conservatism; or else there have been many corruptions and interpolations of the text--In reading some of Goethe's sayings, so worshipped by his votaries, I came across this, " Live in the all." That is to say, your separate identity is but a wretched one,--good; but get out of yourself, spread and expand yourself, and bring to yourself the tinglings of life that are felt in the flowers and the woods, that are felt in the planets Saturn and Venus, and the Fixed Stars. What nonsense! Here is a fellow with a raging toothache. "My dear boy," Goethe says to him, "you are sorely afflicted with that tooth; but you must live in the all, and then you will be happy!" As with all great genius, there is an immense deal of flummery in Goethe, and in proportion to my own contact with him, a monstrous deal of it in me.體驗一切. corruption腐敗; 堕落; 贈収賄; （原文などの）崩れ; 【言】転訛, なまり; 【コンピュータ】（データの）破壊.
BOOKS OF THE TIMES
Memoir Is Palin’s Payback to McCain Campaign
By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
Sarah Palin’s new book is part cagey spin job and part earnest autobiography. Its most compelling sections deal not with politics, but with her life in Alaska.
2008年12月，維基解密創辦人朱利安．亞桑傑（Julian Assange）因被控性侵在英國倫敦遭到逮捕，各大企業為求自保，立即封殺維基解密與亞桑傑，「匿名者」便發起「報復行動」（Operation Payback）還以顏色，包括萬事達卡、威士卡、eBay等急欲與維基解密切割的知名企業網站，全都遭殃。
Qaeda Link Seen in Deadly Blast in Yemen Capital
By ROBERT F. WORTH and ERIC SCHMITT
A huge suicide bombing on Monday left hundreds dead and wounded,
stunning the beleaguered government and delivering a stark setback to
the American campaign against Al Qaeda’s regional franchise.
chary  | (adjective) Very cautious; wary. |
| Synonyms: | cagey |
| Usage: | She was chary of the risks associated with opening her own business. |
Definition of payback
noun
ca·gey ca·gy (kā'jē)
also adj., -gi·er, -gi·est.
- Wary; careful: a cagey avoidance of a definite answer.
- Crafty; shrewd: a cagey lawyer.
[Origin unknown.]
cagily ca'gi·ly adv.caginess ca'gi·ness n.
spin
n.
- The act of spinning.
- A swift whirling motion.
- A state of mental confusion.
- Informal. A short drive in a vehicle: took a spin in the new car.
- The flight condition of an aircraft in a nose-down, spiraling, stalled descent.
- A distinctive point of view, emphasis, or interpretation: "Dryden . . . was adept at putting spin on an apparently neutral recital of facts" (Robert M. Adams).
- A distinctive character or style: an innovative chef who puts a new spin on traditional fare.
- Physics.
- The intrinsic angular momentum of a subatomic particle. Also called spin angular momentum.
- The total angular momentum of an atomic nucleus.
- A quantum number expressing spin angular momentum.
flummery
Pronunciation: /ˈflʌm(ə)ri/Definition of flummerynoun (plural flummeries)
[mass noun]Origin:
early 17th century (denoting a dish made with oatmeal or wheatmeal boiled to a jelly): from Welsh llymru; perhaps related to llymrig 'soft, slippery''Definition of tingleverb
noun
Origin:
late Middle English: perhaps a variant of tinkle. The original notion was perhaps 'ring in response to a loud noise', but the term was very early applied to the result of hearing something shocking
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