2021年8月10日 星期二

alfresco, -riddled, riddled with, unarmed, tub-thumping, giant alfresco exhibition of the Nation's Favourite Paintings

This summer, we're teaming up with Westminster City Council to bring art outdoors. You can now walk through centuries of iconic works in our giant alfresco exhibition of the Nation's Favourite Paintings and enjoy a programme of free, daily outdoor art activities on Trafalgar Square: https://bit.ly/2T3byIi
Supported by illy and CASS ART
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Taiwanese officials said the dead man was unarmed, and his boat was riddled with bullet holes. The public, whipped up by a tub-thumping press, was outraged.


Collection of Credit Card Debt Is Riddled With Problems
By JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG

Judges said that big lenders are using inaccurate or incomplete records to go after consumers, including some who have already paid their debts.


SAN FRANCISCO — On Friday at lunchtime, as Google employees dined al fresco, a hundred protesters descended on the company’s Silicon Valley campus. A group called the Raging Grannies sang a song called “The Battle Hymn for the Internet,” and others carried signs reading, “Google is evil if the price is right.”

But a week ago, Google stunned many of its allies by crossing the aisle and teaming up with Verizon Communications to propose that net neutrality rules should not apply to wireless access and to outline rules for the wired Internet that critics say are riddled with loopholes.





Doubt Is Cast on Consultants Hired to Fix Banks' Abuses
By JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG and BEN PROTESS
Authorities are scrutinizing the private companies hired to clean up financial misdeeds, taking aim at a conflict-riddled, billion-dollar industry.


Definition of riddle



When Hemming was just 26, his first full-scale expedition into the Amazon was cut short when the expedition’s leader, a friend of Hemming’s from Oxford, was ambushed by a group of Panará tribesmen. The Indians riddled the young man with eight arrows and crushed his skull with a handmade club.


riddle (MAKE HOLES) Show phonetics
verb [T]
to make a lot of holes in something:
The anti-aircraft guns riddled the plane's wings with bullets.

riddled Show phonetics
adjective
riddled with holes full of holes:
He wore an old jacket riddled with holes.



verb

[with object]
  • 1make many holes in (someone or something), especially with gunshot:his car was riddled by sniper fire
  • fill or permeate (someone or something), especially with something undesirable:the existing law is riddled with loopholes her body was riddled with arthritis
  • 2pass (a substance) through a large coarse sieve:for final potting, the soil mixture is not riddled
  • remove ashes or other unwanted material from (something, especially a fire or stove) with a sieve: she heard Mr Evans riddling the fire

noun

  • a large coarse sieve, especially one used for separating ashes from cinders or sand from gravel.

Origin:

late Old English hriddel, of Germanic origin; from an Indo-European root shared by Latin cribrum 'sieve', cernere 'separate', and Greek krinein 'decide'


riddle

tr.v., -dled, -dling, -dles.
  1. To pierce with numerous holes; perforate: riddle a target with bullets.
  2. To spread throughout: "Election campaigns have always been riddled with demagogy and worse" (New Republic).
  3. To put (gravel, for example) through a coarse sieve.
n.
A coarse sieve, as for gravel.

[Middle English ridelen, to sift, from riddil, sieve, from Old English hriddel.]


al fresco,


adv.
In the fresh air; outdoors: dining alfresco.

adj.
Taking place outdoors; outdoor: an alfresco conference.

[Italian al fresco, in the fresh (air) : al, in the (a, to, in , from Latin ad; see ad- + il, the , from Latin ille) + fresco, fresh.]

 tub-thumping 敲擊講桌tub滔滔不絕的傳教士

tub-thumping

 [形][名][U]熱弁を振るう(こと).


informal, derogatory
Definition of tub-thumping

adjective

[attributive]
  • expressing opinions in a loud or aggressive manner:a tub-thumping speech

noun

[mass noun]
  • the expression of opinions in a loud or aggressive way: where I had expected bluster and tub-thumping, I got sweetly understated humour


Derivatives


tub-thumper

noun
[名]((英略式))(テーブルをたたいて)熱弁を振るう説教師[演説者].


ねつ‐べん【熱弁/熱×辯】

 
    熱のこもった弁論。熱烈な弁舌。「―を振るう」

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Among his tasks is to pump out radioactive liquid that has collected inside the burned-out reactor. This happens whenever it rains. The sarcophagus was built 25 years ago in a panic, as radiation streamed into populated areas after an explosion at the reactor, and now it is riddled with cracks.