By JANE PERLEZ
China said it would respond to foreign aircraft in its new air
defense zone according to "how big the threat" was, after a flight by
American B-52s through the airspace.
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Rivals Seek New Balance
Obama and Chinese President Hu, seeking a steadier footing for the often-troubled U.S.-China relationship, played up common interests—and soft-pedaled longstanding issues that divide them.
I, too, wrote a column at that time about the derivation of keister - a borrowing, through Yiddish, of the German Kiste, "chest" - with its original meaning of "satchel, handbag" and its current meaning of "fanny, rump, bottom, tush, can, buttocks, backside" as well as the British "bum" and the French "derrière." (The bureaucratic cognoscenti prefer "posterior," as in the initialese slogan C.Y.A., meaning "cover your posterior." The "a" stands for a synonym not permitted in The Times, as an admiring salute to a diktat by the former executive editor, A.M. Rosenthal, who thought it was in bad taste and boldly asserted his stylistic prerogative. But I divagate.)
Voter Anger Sweeps Europe
French
voters elected François Hollande as president on Sunday, giving France a
Socialist leader who has pledged to shift the burden of hardship onto
the rich and resolve the protracted euro sovereign-debt crisis by
softening the current prescription of austerity.
pedal1
Syllabification: (ped·al)
Pronunciation: /ˈpedl/
Translate pedal | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish noun
- each of a set of two or three levers on a piano, particularly (also sustaining pedal) one that, when depressed by the foot, prevents the dampers from stopping the sound when the keys are released. The second is the soft pedal; a third, if present, produces either selective sustaining or complete muffling of the tone.
- Musicshort for pedal note.
verb (pedals, pedaling, pedaled ; Britishpedals, pedalling, pedalled)
[no object]Origin:
early 17th century (denoting a foot-operated lever of an organ): from French pédale, from Italian pedale, from Latin pedalis 'a foot in length', from pes, ped- 'foot'backpedal
Syllabification: (back·ped·al)
Pronunciation: /ˈbakˌpedl/
verb (backpedals, backpedaling, backpedaled ; Britishbackpedals, backpedalling, backpedalled)
[no object]divagate (DY-vuh-gayt)
verb intr.: To wander or digress.
[dáivəgèit]
[動](自)さまよう；〈話が〉わき道にそれる, 脱線する.
Etymology
From Latin divagatus, past participle of divagari (to wander off), from dis- (away) + vagari (to wander). Earliest documented use: 1599.
Usage
"Unfortunately, John Armstrong leaves the 'big point' dangling and undeveloped while he divagates about economic efficiency." — Felipe Fern?ndez-Armesto; In Search of Civilization (book review); The Times (London, UK); Jun 18, 2009.
U.K.'s Osborne Woos U.S. Banks
The
British finance minister insists he doesn't aim to boost London by
soft-pedaling on U.K. regulation of banks in the wake of new U.S. rules,
but he did use a visit to New York to try to impress the attractions
of London.
soft-pedaling
(sôft'pĕd'l, sŏft'-)
tr.v., -aled, or -alled, -al·ing, or -al·ling, -als, or -als.
- Music. To soften or mute the tone of by depressing the soft pedal.
- Informal. To make less emphatic or obvious; play down: soft-pedal a potentially explosive issue.
- efficiency
- [名]（複 -cies）
current[cur・rent]
- 発音記号[kə'ːrənt | kʌ'r-]
[形]((限定))1 今の, 現時の, 新しい, 最新の；当世［現代］風の, はやりの
current English
現代［時事］英語the current fiscal year
今会計年度the current price
時価the current issue of a magazine
雑誌の今号the current style
当世の流行型the current generation gap
現代の風潮である世代の断絶.2 一般に知られて［行われて］いる；〈情報が〉流布している；〈慣行が〉通例となっている, 習慣的な；〈貨幣が〉流通している(circulating)
the current use of the word
その語の慣用法current funds
流動資金（有価証券・手形・小切手など即時換金できるもの）.3 その時の.━━[名]1 （川などの）流れ, 流動；流れの速さ.2 流れるもの（川など）；潮流, 海流；気流
a swift current
急流the Japan Current
日本海流a cold ［a warm］ current
寒流［暖流］the upper air current
上層気流.3 [U][C]《電気》電流(electric current)；電流の強さ
a direct ［a continuous］ current
直流switch off the current
電流を切る.4 ((通例the ［a］ 〜))（時・事件などの）流れ, 成り行き；（時代・社会などの）一般的傾向, 趨勢(すうせい)；風潮［ラテン語current（currere流れる＋-ent現在分詞語尾＝流れている→現時の）. △CURRICULUM］1 [U]効果的な働き（をする能力）；能率；（機械の）効率 promote ［increase］ efficiency能率を高める marginal efficiency...
the current of public opinion
世論の動向the current of events
事の成り行きswim ［go］ with ［against］ the current
時勢に従う［逆らう］. - efficiency apartment
- ((米))ワンルームアパート［マンション］, 簡易アパート.
- efficiency engineer
- 能率専門家：産業の能率の増進を研究する.
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