No more crying over spilt milk.
And that means cheese is also super cheap!
When snow closes schools, milk sales fall.
Taiwan, an Island Adrift
Wall Street Journal
The killing of
Taiwanese fisherman Hung Shih-Cheng by the Philippine Coast Guard last month was a tragedy, but
Taiwan
overreacted by swiftly announcing sanctions and deploying warships
before completing any investigation. The likely explanation is that
...
"If you do have a drink, it’s best to leave an
hour and a half to two hours before going to bed so the alcohol is
already wearing off."
「如果你真的要喝，最好是睡前一個半到兩個小時喝，這樣上床睡覺時酒精已經慢慢消退。」
wear off：動詞片語，磨損，漸漸減少。例句：The narcotic should relieve your pain for several hours before it wears off.（麻藥藥效消退之前，應該可以舒緩你的疼痛數小時。）
馬偕的回憶錄沒有他的座右銘 Rather Burn Out Than Rust Out 曹永洋譯"寧毀不銹"
By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON
McComb, Miss., was
a battleground in the war for voting rights in the South. Residents
disagree over whether their state and eight others need federal
approval for voting changes.
Deepwater Horizon Should Have Survived Blowout
Eight months after the explosion of the Macondo oil well, the 11 people who were killed on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig often seem like somewhat of an afterthought. Most of the attention is usually on the oil
spill, as if the deaths of the 11 people on the rig — not to mention dozens of injuries — were inevitable. Yet that was hardly the case considering the Horizon had multiple safety mechanisms that should have worked.
But on that fateful April 20 "every one of the Horizon's defenses failed," writes the
New York Times in an extensive investigation. Some defense systems never worked. Others were deployed too late. Most of all though there seems to have been multiple failures of communication that paralyzed many in the crew right at the time when they should have been working together.
The crew members were well-versed in safety issues, but they routinely failed to prepare for the worst possible scenario. And when it happened, many simply didn't know how to react, often failing to realize just how bad things were until it was too late. Already under pressure from executives due to many delays, some in the crew were terrified of
overreacting in a way that could damage costly equipment. "Even with the Horizon burning, powerless and gutted by explosions, there was still resistance to the strongest possible measure that might save the rig," writes the
Times. Other safety mechanisms, such as the emergency-disconnect system, "failed to work for reasons that remain unclear."
Definition of overreact
verb
[no object]
respond more emotionally or forcibly than is justified:the Authority are urging people not to overreact to the problem
Derivatives
HORIZON
[名]
1 ((the 〜))地平線, 水平線
below the horizon
地［水］平線下に
There is an ominous cloud on the horizon.
不気味な雲が地平線上にある
The sun sank beyond ［rose above］ the horizon of the ocean.
太陽は大洋の水平線のかなたに沈んだ［水平線から昇った］.
2 ((the 〜))《天文》地平
the sensible horizon
地理地平
the celestial horizon
天球［天文］地平.
3 ((通例〜s；複数扱い))（認識・知識・経験・理解などの）限界, 範囲
expand ［broaden］ one's horizons
視野を広める
There were more exciting matters than marriage on his horizon.
彼には結婚よりもっと胸をときめかせることがほかにあった.
4 《地質学》層準.
on ［over］ the horizon
きざしが見えて, 将来起こりそうで
Sign of peaceful settlement is on the horizon.
平和的解決へのきざしが見える.
［ラテン語←ギリシャ語horízōn（horízein限る＋-ōn現在分詞形）］
(hə-rī'zən) 
n.
- The apparent intersection of the earth and sky as seen by an observer. Also called apparent horizon.
- Astronomy.
- The sensible horizon.
- The celestial horizon.
- The limit of the theoretically possible universe.
- The range of one's knowledge, experience, or interest.
- Geology.
- A specific position in a stratigraphic column, such as the location of one or more fossils, that serves to identify the stratum with a particular period.
- A specific layer of soil or subsoil in a vertical cross section of land.
- Archaeology. A period during which the influence of a specified culture spread rapidly over a defined area: artifacts associated with the Olmec horizon in Mesoamerica.
[Middle English orizon, from Old French, from Latin, from Greek horizōn (kuklos), limiting (circle), horizon, present participle of horizein, to limit, from horos, boundary.]
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After a dangerous chemical spill polluted north China waterways and
delays in reporting it raised the specter of the second cover-up of an
industrial accident in weeks in Shanxi province the problem is seeping
into the political system.
In the latest incident, nine tons of a
39-ton spill of the chemical aniline from a plant in Shanxi flowed by
river deep into neighboring provinces before local authorities went
public with the news. Days earlier, Shanxi authorities conceded
officials in another part of the province had also taken their time in
disclosing a deadly Dec. 25 railway tunnel cave-in that killed eight
workers.
The aniline discharge killed fish in the Zhouzhang
River. When news of the spill was made public on Saturday, five days
after the incident, the Hebei province city of Handan shut off water
supplies for many residents. State media said the pollution was detected
in Henan province as well.
The political damage may be more
long-lasting than the risk to human and animal health from the aniline,
which is used in dyeing, agriculture fertilizers and rubber
manufacturing. News of cover-ups in China increasingly prompt searching
for someone to blame and Shanxi now has a top official with widespread
name recognition: Li Xiaopeng, the son of an unpopular former Chinese
premier, Li Peng. The younger Mr. Li became acting governor of the
province late last year after a career in the power sector, which gorges
on Shanxi coal for its electrical plants.
State media said Mr.
Li expressed contrition about the railway tunnel collapse, which
occurred just as he was assuming his new office. He visited the site and
promised a full investigation.
Now blame is falling onto Mr. Li
for delays in reporting the chemical spill, though there is no evidence
top levels of the provincial government were aware of the accident when
it took place. On Sina Corp. SINA -0.36%’s Weibo microblog service, one
writer said Monday that Mr. Li “should resign as an apology to the
people.”
So far, clear political fallout from the chemical
spillage has been localized to the city of Changzhi , where the initial
spill was detected on Dec. 31. It was blamed on faulty equipment at a
plant run by state-owned Shanxi Tianji Coal Chemical Industry Group. The
company sacked four of its employees.
Zhang Bao, Changzhi’s mayor, appeared at a news conference early Monday to explain delays in informing the public.
In
his nationally broadcast comments, Mr. Zhang said that the initial
reading of a 1.5 ton spill appeared manageable by the company. But
officials failed to realize how poor company management, faulty
equipment and open rainwater drains would conspire to send the chemicals
into the river.
“[We] never imagined that such a small accident could turn into a big environmental pollution incident,” Mr. Zhang said.
[動]（〜ed or((英))spilt 〔spílt〕）(他)
1 ［III[名]（[副]）］…を（…から；…に）（偶然に）こぼす((from ...；on, over ...))；…をばらまく, まき散らす
2 ((文))（殺傷などで）〈血を〉流す；（ナイフ・剣で）殺傷する.
4 ((俗))〈秘密を〉漏らす, 打ちあける, ばらす；〈不満などを〉ぶちまける((out)).
5 《海事》〈帆から〉風を抜く；〈風を〉受け流す.
━━(自)
1 （…から）こぼれる；（車などから）落ちる；〈ハンカチなどが〉のぞく((out/from, out of ...))；あふれる((over)).
2 いっぱいに広がる［散らばる］.
━━[名]
1 こぼれる［こぼす］こと；こぼれた量［物］；流出
2 こぼれた跡, よごれ.
4 ((略式))（馬・車・自転車などから）落ちること, 転落
[名]（ダムなどの）放水路.
[名][U]
1 鉄さび(iron rust)；（金属一般の）さび；さび状のしみ［よごれ］
2 （精神・能力などの）さびつき, 鈍化, 不活発
3 《植物病理》さび病；サビ菌(rust fungus).
4 さび色, 赤褐色.
━━[動](自)
1 〈鉄などが〉さびる, さびつく, 腐食する((away, out)).
2 さび病になる.
3 〈才能・腕などが〉（不使用などのために）鈍る, だめになる((away, out))
4 〈木の葉などが〉さび色になる((up)).
━━(他)
1 …をさびさせる, さびつかせる.
2 …をだめにする, 害する；《植物》…をさび病にかからせる.
3 …をさび色にする.
rust together
（さびさせて）接合する.
━━[形]さび色の.
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