2020年4月19日 星期日

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Shoestring king - Mexico's bazooka-shy president | The ...
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2 日前 - In Latin America only Venezuela's economy will shrink more. Governments the world over are fighting recessions with fiscal bazookas. Mr López Obrador, usually known as AMLO, has resisted.




The stimulus package is not intended to avoid the recession that already seems to have arrived, but to spur the fastest possible rebound





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A $2trn bazooka

Last week Lord Stevens, a former commissioner of the Metropolitan police, released a lengthy report on how best to reform the police. Everyone, it seems, is anxious to transform the service. The structure of 43 forces in England and Wales is dysfunctional. It is neither cost effective nor able to meet the challenges of organised and cross-border crime http://econ.st/18QO9da

 

'Himalayan viagra' killers jailed

A court in Nepal sentences six men to life in jail for murdering seven rivals in a fight over a rare caterpillar fungus highly prized as an aphrodisiac.





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The U.S. arm of BAE Systems is aiming to broaden its businesses into efforts to improve economic and political stability in war-torn or dysfunctional countries.erect (MAKE VERTICAL) Hide phoneticsverb [T] FORMALto raise something to a vertical position:They erected a marquee to accommodate 500 wedding guests.erect Hide phoneticsadjective1 standing with your back and neck very straight:He's very tall and erect for his 78 years.2 When a part of the body, especially soft tissue, is erect, it is harder and bigger than usual, often pointing out or up:an erect peniserect nippleserectile Hide phoneticsadjective SPECIALIZEDBody tissue or parts of the body which are erectile are able to be filled with blood, making them larger and harder than usual.erection Hide phoneticsnoun [C]When a man has an erection, his penis is temporarily harder and bigger than usual and points up:to get/have an erection"《中英對照讀新聞》Pomegranate juice as good as Viagra石榴汁功效不輸威而鋼
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A recent study conducted by scientists in Los Angeles revealed that pomegranate juice can be an effective alternative to Viagra, a known medication to erectile dysfunction.
由洛杉磯科學家最近進行的一項研究顯示,石榴汁能有效取代知名的勃起障礙藥物威而鋼。"hc:"知名的勃起機能障礙之藥物"偉哥(威而剛) 讓男人"輕而易舉"

巴祖卡(Bazooka)是第二次世界大戰美國陸軍使用的單兵肩扛式火箭彈發射器的綽號。巴祖卡是第一代實戰用的單兵反坦克武器。巴祖卡使用固體火箭作為推進器,彈頭分為高爆(HE)和高爆反坦克(HEAT)彈頭,能夠有效對付裝甲車以及諸如機槍碉堡一類的防禦工事,射程遠超出手榴彈的投擲範圍。因為其管狀外形類似於一種名叫巴祖卡的喇叭狀樂器(鮑勃·伯恩斯在20世紀30年代發明並推廣)而得名。

Soldier with Bazooka M1.jpg
一名士兵手持M1巴祖卡,攝於1943年

dysfunction 
noun [C] SPECIALIZED━━ n. 機能障害; 【社会】逆機能a problem or fault in a part of the body or a machine:There appears to be a dysfunction in the patient's respiratory system.
dysfunctional 
adjective SPECIALIZEDnot behaving or working normally:a dysfunctional family

erectile
e・rec・tile ━━ a. 【医】(組織などが)起立[勃起]性の.

Viagra: was approved by the FDA for erectile dysfunction (1998

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