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Fewer nukes but in more hands: why the threat of nuclear conflict is higher than at any time in the past twenty-five yearshttp://econ.st/1GC2dbR

The unkicked addiction

Correction to this article IN JANUARY 2007 Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, William Perry and Sam Nunn—two Republican secretaries of state, a Democratic defence...

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As we celebrate our 35th anniversary, we salute three of NPR's founding mothers: Nina Totenberg, Linda Wertheimer and Cokie Roberts -- still kickin' butt after all these years. ‪#‎MEbday35‬

There is one thing which unites her with Nagasu, though.
"Mirai and I are both incredibly excited to go out here and kick some butt," said the 17-year-old, who finished fifth at the 2009 world championships.

They could also get a kick out of women cooing over them as they walk around with their baby.
在男人抱著寶寶外出散步時，那些圍著他們輕聲交談的女人們也讓他們感到愉快。

The Brewers of Europe trade group called the measure a "kick in the teeth", especially since brewers have seen beer production plummet by 6 percent and consumption by 8 percent in the EU since the region’s economic crisis began in 2008.

kick ... in the teeth

((略式))〈物・人を〉さんざんやっつける, ひどい目にあわせる.a kick in the teeth：片語，指遭到不公待遇、被人落井下石，如She was refused promotion which was a real kick in the teeth after all the extra work she’d done.（她在付出了那麼多額外心血後升官卻被拒，簡直是落井下石。）

kick (EXCITEMENT), get a kick out of

The W. Edwards Deming Institute

We got a big kick out of Aileron's "Deming Process Peeps" Halloween costumes this year!

Being A Scot (Hardcover)

by Sean Connery (Author)

"My first big break came when I was five years old. It's taken me more than seventy years to realise that. You see, at five I first learnt to read. It's that simple and it's that profound. I left school at thirteen. I didn't have a formal education...It has been a long return journey from my two-room Fountainbridge home in the smoky industrial end of Edinburgh opposite the McCowans' toffee factory. There was no bathroom with a communal toilet outside. For years we had only gas lighting. Sometimes the light in the shared stairway would be out after some desperado had broken the mantle to bubble gas through milk for kicks."

"史恩‧康納萊交出這本「一直在我腦海中」的回憶錄。書中他透露自己出身窮苦，家裡沒廁所，洗澡要到公共浴室。「我們點煤氣燈點了很多年，有時候小混混會把樓梯間的燈罩弄破，灌牛奶進去看煤氣冒泡泡當樂子。」"




kick (EXCITEMENT) Show phonetics

noun [C]

a strong feeling of excitement and pleasure:

I get a real kick out of owning my own car.

He decided to steal something from the shop, just for kicks (= because he thought it would be exciting).

get a kick out of

to find something interesting and funny, to be amused by something, to laugh about something or to get pleasure out of something.

"I get a kick out of watching the children play"

Definition of kick

verb

• 1 [with object and adverbial] strike or propel forcibly with the foot:police kicked down the door [with object and complement]:he kicked the door open
• [no object] strike out with the foot or feet:she kicked out at him [with object]:he kicked his feet free of a vine
• (chiefly in rugby) score (a goal) by a kick: Wray kicked 11 points

• 2 [with object] informal succeed in giving up (a habit or addiction): I made a New Year resolution to kick the habit she was trying to kick heroin

• 3 [no object] (of a gun) recoil when fired: their guns kick so hard that they have developed a bad case of flinching

noun

• 1a blow or forceful thrust with the foot:a kick in the head
• (in sport) an instance of striking the ball with the foot:Scott’s kick went wide of the goal
• British (chiefly in rugby) a player of specified kicking ability.

• 2 [in singular] a sudden forceful jolt:the shuttle accelerated with a kick
• the recoil of a gun when discharged.
• Billiards & Snooker an irregular movement of the ball caused by dust: he suffered a kick on the pink in frame four

• 3 informal the sharp stimulant effect of alcohol or a drug: strong stuff, this brew: he felt the kick
• a thrill of pleasurable, often reckless excitement:rich kids turning to crime just for kicks I get such a kick out of driving a racing car
• [with modifier] a temporary interest in a particular thing:the jogging kick

4 (kicks) informal, chiefly US soft sports shoes; trainers:a pair of basketball kicks

kick ass

Also, kick butt. Punish or discipline harshly; also, defeat soundly. For example, That foreman's furious; he's going to kick ass before the day is over, or Our team is out to kick butt today. [Vulgar slang; 1940s]

kick (some) ass (or butt)

2

North American vulgar slang Act in a forceful or aggressive manner.

incredibly

アクセント・音節ìn・créd・i・bly 発音記号/‐dəbli/音声を聞く

【副詞】

1

信じられないほど.

2

《口語》 非常に.

用例

She's incredibly beautiful. 彼女はとても美しい.

3

[文全体を修飾して] 信じられないことだが.