Notes of a word-watcher, Hanching Chung. A first port of call for English learning.
2018年3月18日 星期日
recharge, out of the dead zone, pessimistic, optimistic, quintessential, State of the Nation
In December 2007, now known to be the first month of the Great Recession, Larry Kudlow declared “there’s no recession coming. The pessimistas were wrong.”
Larry Kudlow is the quintessential member of the Republican Party’s business wing
ECONOMIST.COM
When Schopenhauer was asked where he wished to be buried, he answered, “Anywhere; they will find me;” and
the stone that marks his grave at Frankfort bears merely the inscription “Arthur Schopenhauer,” without even the date of his
birth or death. Schopenhauer, the pessimist, had a sufficiently optimistic conviction that his message to the world would
ultimately be listened to — a conviction that never failed him during a lifetime of disappointments, of neglect in quarters
where perhaps he would have most cherished appreciation; a conviction that only showed some signs of being justified a few
years before his death.
Nokia might beat pessimistic first-quarter expectations when it reports this week. But that won't mean its stock is out of the dead zone.
此 the dead zone指股價疲軟區
另外許多類似說法之一 Dead zones are hypoxic (low-oxygen) areas in the world's oceans, the observed incidences of which have been increasing since oceanographers began noting them in the 1970s.
BERLIN — Experts agreed that several new factors had converged to make a
free-trade agreement more likely. China’s rapidly growing economy may
present the single most compelling one.
State of the Nation
CommonWealth Magazine's latest State of the Nation survey indicates that Taiwan's people are pessimistic about the future state of the economy and skeptical about the government's performance. Society has grown further divided, with more people supporting formal independence for Taiwan than ever before.
About the Survey
The CommonWealth Magazine 2009 State of the Nation Survey was conducted by telephone by the CommonWealth Survey Research Center between Dec. 17 and Dec. 21, 2008. The survey received 1,087 valid responses from Taiwanese citizens 18 years of age or older, and has a confidence interval of 95 percent and a margin of error of plus/minus 3 percent.
The survey's results were examined for sample representativeness based on respondents' gender, place of residence, age, education background and other factors, and adjusted accordingly.
The State of the Nation by William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
A speech by William Pitt 'The Elder', 1st Earl of Chatham, on Lord Rockinghams motion for an enquiry into the state of the nation, to examine the actions of the Grafton ministry, in the wake of the resignation of a number of government ministers & supporters over the case of John Wilkes. Given to the House of Lords on 22 January 1770.
MY LORDS, - I meant to have arisen immediately to second the motion made by the noble Lord (Rockingham). The charge which the noble Duke (Grafton) seemed to think affected himself particularly, did undoubtedly demand an early answer. It was proper he should speak before me, and I am as ready as any man to applaud the decency and propriety with which he has expressed himself...
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