rowing, brawl, clinic, ballot, spat, melee, set straight, give sth a chance

 

  In his new film Southpaw, Jake Gyllenhaal piles on the muscle to play a brawling boxer. He talks about his dramatic physical transformation – and what it means to be a man (via Guardian film)

Jake Gyllenhaal: ‘I’m fascinated by my own anger’

In his new film Southpaw, Jake Gyllenhaal piles on the muscle to play a brawling boxer. He talks about his dramatic physical transformation – and what it means to be a man

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As Vatican Manages Crisis, Book Details Infighting

By RACHEL DONADIO

An investigative reporter’s book offers glimpses of behind-the-scenes spats and power struggles as the Roman Catholic Church again moves to manage a crisis.

 

A $1 Cigarette Tax Starts a $47 Million Brawl in California

By ADAM NAGOURNEY

Health groups are pushing a ballot initiative to impose a $1-a-pack tax, provoking a storm of advertisements to defeat the biggest threat the industry has faced in the state in a decade.

Georgetown basketball game in China ends in a brawl
Washington Post (blog)
By Jenna Johnson As another extension of goodwill from Georgetown University to its academic partners in China, the university president traveled there this month with the men's basketball team for clinics with Chinese students and a handful of ...

Georgetown's Chinese Goodwill Trip Turns Ugly With Basketball Brawl

Exhibition game in Beijing ends early after both benches clear.

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 《中英對照讀新聞》Party invite on Facebook sparks melee in Dutch town 臉書邀請開趴 引發荷蘭城鎮混戰

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Riot police broke up crowds of youths who turned violent in a Dutch town late on Friday after several thousand people descended on the community following an invitation to a birthday party posted on Facebook, Dutch media reported.
荷蘭媒體報導，在數千人因一則張貼在臉書上的慶生邀請而突然湧進荷蘭一座城鎮後，鎮暴警察週五晚間驅散行為轉成暴力的年輕群眾。
Media reports said six people were hurt, including three seriously, after disturbances broke out in the northern Dutch town of Haren. Reports said shops were vandalized and looted, a car set on fire, and street signs and lampposts damaged before police broke up the crowds.
媒體報導，荷蘭北部的哈倫鎮爆發騷亂後，有6人受傷，包括3人傷勢嚴重。報導說，在警方驅散群眾前，商店遭任意破壞、洗劫，一部車被縱火，街道標誌與街燈柱毀損。
Up to 600 riot police were on the scene during the disturbances, according to one media report. There were at least 20 arrests, media said.
一家媒體指出，騷亂中，多達600名鎮暴警察派駐現場。媒體說，至少20人被捕。
Some 30,000 people received the invitation from a girl announcing her 16th birthday party on Facebook, according to media reports. The party was intended to be a small-scale celebration, but the girl did not set her Facebook event to private and the invitation went viral.
媒體指出，約3萬人收到一名在臉書上宣布她16歲慶生派對的女孩邀請。這個派對打算是一場小型慶生會，但女孩沒有將她的臉書活動設定為私人性質，因此邀請被瘋狂散播。
Reports said up to 3,000 people showed up in the town of 18,000. Haren had been bracing for the event for most of the week.（Reuters）
報導說，多達3000人現身於這座人口1萬8000人的城鎮。哈倫耗費該週大部分時間為這可能的情況預作防備。（路透）
新聞辭典
descend（on/upon）︰動詞，襲擊、突然拜訪。例句︰The plague descended on this ill-nourished population.（瘟疫突然降臨這些營養不良的居民間。）
go viral︰動詞片語，瘋狂傳播、流行、爆紅。例句︰A YouTube video of a girl singing karaoke in a grocery store has gone viral.（一名女孩在一家雜貨店內高唱卡拉OK的YouTube影片一夕爆紅。）
brace（for/against）︰動詞，做好準備。例句︰The candidate braced for another defeat.（該名候選人做好了再度失敗的準備。）

"Give Peace a Chance" is a song written by John Lennon, originally under the
moniker Lennon/McCartney, released as a single in 1969 by the Plastic Ono
Band ...

Turkey's battles

Giving war a chance

The Turkish response to a surge in Kurdish violence has been swift and hard

Japan's next prime minister

A fish called Noda

Not much to set the pulse pounding, but at least he has some priorities set straight

set straight
Correct someone by providing accurate information; also, make an arrangement honest or fair. For example, Let me set you straight about Lisa; she's never actually worked for us, or To set matters straight I'll pay you back Monday. It is sometimes put as set the record straight, meaning "correct an inaccurate account," as in Just to set the record straight, we arrived at ten. [First half of 1900s]

melee, mêlée[me・lee, mê・lée]

発音記号[méilei | mél-]

[名]((a ［the］ 〜))

1 乱闘, 混戦.

2 混乱, 騒ぎ, 雑踏.

［古フランス語meslee（meslerまぜる）. △MEDDLE, MEDLEY］

row
(rō)
n.

1. A series of objects placed next to each other, usually in a straight line.
2. A succession without a break or gap in time: won the title for three years in a row.
3. A line of adjacent seats, as in a theater, auditorium, or classroom.
4. A continuous line of buildings along a street.

tr.v., rowed, row·ing, rows.
To place in a row.

idiom:
a tough row to hoe Informal.

1. A difficult situation to endure.

[Middle English, from Old English rāw.]

row² (rō)

v., rowed, row·ing, rows. v.intr. Nautical
To propel a boat with or as if with oars.

v.tr.

1. Nautical.
   1. To propel (a boat) with or as if with oars.
   2. To carry in or on a boat propelled by oars.
   3. To use (a specified number of oars or people deploying them).
2. To propel or convey in a manner resembling rowing of a boat.
3. Sports.
   1. To pull (an oar) as part of a racing crew.
   2. To race against by rowing.

n. Nautical

1. 1. The act or an instance of rowing.
   2. A shift at the oars of a boat.
2. A trip or an excursion in a rowboat.

[Middle English rowen, from Old English rōwan.]

rower row'er n.

row³ (rou)
n.

1. A boisterous disturbance or quarrel; a brawl. See synonyms at brawl.
2. An uproar; a great noise.

intr.v., rowed, row·ing, rows.
To take part in a quarrel, brawl, or uproar.

[Origin unknown.]

brawl

(brôl)
n.

1. A noisy quarrel or fight.
2. A loud party.
3. A loud, roaring noise.

intr.v., brawled, brawl·ing, brawls.

1. To quarrel or fight noisily.
2. To flow noisily, as water.

[Middle English braul, from braullen, to quarrel.]

brawler brawl'er n.
brawlingly brawl'ing·ly adv.

SYNONYMS brawl, broil, donnybrook, fracas, fray, free-for-all, melee, row. These nouns denote a noisy, disorderly, and often violent quarrel or fight: a barroom brawl; a broil between the opposing teams; a vicious legal donnybrook; a fracas among prison inmates; eager for the fray; a free-for-all in the schoolyard; police plunging into the melee; an angry domestic row.

clinic

• [klínik]

(klĭn'ĭk)
n.

1. A facility, often associated with a hospital or medical school, that is devoted to the diagnosis and care of outpatients.
2. A medical establishment run by several specialists working in cooperation and sharing the same facilities.
3. A group session offering counsel or instruction in a particular field or activity: a vocational clinic; a tennis clinic.
4. 1. A seminar or meeting of physicians and medical students in which medical instruction is conducted in the presence of the patient, as at the bedside.
   2. A place where such instruction occurs.
   3. A class or lecture of medical instruction conducted in this manner.

[French clinique, from Greek klīnikē (tekhnē), clinical (method), feminine of klīnikos, from klīnē, couch, bed. See clinandrium.]

[名]

1 （医科大学・病院付属の）外来（患者診療室）(outpatient clinic)；診療所, クリニック；((米))（複数の独立した専門医から成る）集団診療所

a maternity clinic
産婦人科医院.

2 臨床医, 診療所の医者.

3 [U]臨床講義［実習］；((集合的))臨床講義のクラス［受講学生］；臨床教室.

4 ((米))特別講座短期実習；（一般に）相談所, セミナー

a writing clinic
書き方教室.

5 ((英))診療（時間）

hold a clinic
診療を行う.

━━[形]＝clinical.

［ラテン語←ギリシャ語klīnikós （kln寝台＋-IC＝臨床の）］

ballot

[名]1 [U][C]投票；無記名投票；くじ引き；((the 〜))投票権 an open ［a secret］ ballot記名［無記名］投票 by single ［postal］ ballo...