2020年3月1日 星期日

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QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"If you get milk from an unscreened sharer, you put your child at risk. I hate to say this to an informal sharer, because they are trying to do good. But they are playing a game of Russian roulette."
KIM UPDEGROVE, president of the Human Milk Banking Association of North America, on the risks of sharing breast milk.




Presidential spokesman Jay Carney said Monday that Obama is not conceding the next 10 months to "campaigning alone" when people need economic help. On the goals of helping people get a fair shot, Carney said, "There's ample room within those boundaries for bipartisan cooperation and for getting this done."


Asked in an interview Tuesday about Romney's relatively modest tax rate in the range of 15 percent, given that he's a multi-millionaire, Plouffe said, "We need to change our tax system. We need to change our tax code so that everybody is doing their fair share."


During the meeting, which the F.T. described as "tetchy," one shareholder criticized what was called a two-tier structure of Carrefour investors: those who knew about the company's troubles, and those who didn't.


shot



shot

  • Informal.
    1. An attempt; a try: took a shot at losing weight.
    2. A guess.
    3. An opportunity: gave him a fair shot at the part in the play.
    4. A chance at odds; something to bet on: The horse was a four-to-one shot.
    1. A solid projectile designed to be discharged from a firearm or cannon.



  • Word of the Day:
    tetchy (TECH-ee)

    adjective: Easily annoyed; oversensitive.

    Etymology
    Of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Middle English tache/teche (blemish). Earliest documented use: 1597.

    Usage
    "O comes across as tired and tetchy, and fed up with being unfairly treated by the press." — So Who Wrote O?; Daily Mail (London, UK); Jan 21, 2011.


    New Delhi's decision to 'muzzle' the net creates protest


    Climate change sceptics 'playing Russian roulette with planet'
    Telegraph.co.uk - ‎Feb 12, 2010‎
    Critics of the science behind man-made global warming theories are playing "Russian roulette with the planet", the new head of the controversial unit at the centre of the "climategate" storm has warned.


    Russian roulette

    Syllabification: (Rus·sian rou·lette)
    Translate Russian roulette | into Italian | into Spanishnoun
    • the practice of loading a bullet into one chamber of a revolver, spinning the cylinder, and then pulling the trigger while pointing the gun at one’s own head.
    • an activity that is potentially very dangerous.


    Russian roulette (Russian: Русская рулетка, Russkaya ruletka) is a potentially lethal game of chance in which participants place a single round in a revolver, spin the cylinder, place the muzzle against their head and pull the trigger. "Russian" refers to the supposed country of origin of the game and roulette to the element of risk-taking and the spinning of the revolver's cylinder being reminiscent of spinning a roulette wheel.


    n.
    1. A stunt in which one spins the cylinder of a revolver loaded with only one bullet, aims the muzzle at one's head, and pulls the trigger.
    2. An act of reckless bravado.

    A revolver, as used in



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    A muzzle may be: the snout of an animal; Muzzle (device), a device that covers an animal's snout; Muzzle (firearms), the mouth of a firearm; Muzzle (song), ...

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