not atypically, aquifer, honeydew melon, cloudy, slake

Raki is also a Turkish test of fortitude — one I was determined to pass. With each glass I drank, Elif, our waiter and what felt like everyone in the restaurant cheered me on, and soon my mind was as cloudy as my drink, though not so muddled that I couldn't appreciate raki's traditional accompaniments, a fetalike white cheese and honeydew melon, which provoked and slaked my thirst in equal measure (110 lira for three). Luckily, the Grand Hotel de Londres was only a stumble away.


honeydew melon, Honeydew Weekend


A chronic drought is ravaging farmland. The Gobi Desert is inching south. The Yellow River, the so-called birthplace of Chinese civilization, is so polluted it can no longer supply drinking water. The rapid growth of megacities — 22 million people in Beijing and 12 million in Tianjin alone — has drained underground aquifers that took millenniums to fill.
Not atypically, the Chinese government has a grand and expensive solution: Divert at least six trillion gallons of water each year hundreds of miles from the other great Chinese river, the Yangtze, to slake the thirst of the north China plain and its 440 million people.


  slake
(slāk)

v., slaked, slak·ing, slakes. v.tr.

1. To satisfy (a craving); quench: slaked her thirst.
2. To lessen the force or activity of; moderate: slaking his anger.
3. To cool or refresh by wetting or moistening.
4. To combine (lime) chemically with water or moist air.

v.intr.
To undergo a slaking process; crumble or disintegrate, as lime.

[Middle English slaken, to abate, from Old English slacian, from slæc, slack, sluggish. See slack¹.]

aquifer[aq・ui・fer]

• 発音記号[ǽkwəfər]

[名]《地質学》帯水層.

hóneydèw[hóney・dèw]

(hŭn'ē-dū', -dyū')
n.

1. A sweet sticky substance excreted by various insects, especially aphids, on the leaves of plants.
2. A sweet exudate similar to honeydew on the leaves of plants.
3. A honeydew melon.

[名]

1 [U]（植物や昆虫が分泌する）みつ.

2 みつで甘くしたタバコ.

hóney・dèwed

[形]

slake
(slāk)

v., slaked, slak·ing, slakes. v.tr.

1. To satisfy (a craving); quench: slaked her thirst.
2. To lessen the force or activity of; moderate: slaking his anger.
3. To cool or refresh by wetting or moistening.
4. To combine (lime) chemically with water or moist air.

v.intr.
To undergo a slaking process; crumble or disintegrate, as lime.

[Middle English slaken, to abate, from Old English slacian, from slæc, slack, sluggish. See slack¹.]