et cetera, et cetera 英文人行道: budge, interminable, distillation. in the teeth of something

2023年2月27日星期一

budge, interminable, distillation. in the teeth of something

Russia’s New Offensive Sends Conscripts Into the Teeth of Ukraine’s Lines

A month into the campaign, Russian forces have barely budged despite forays by small units in fields, pine forests and ruined towns.

‘The last week in Rome has been interminable’ – Agnes Crawford on a deserted Eternal City: https://www.apollo-magazine.com/rome-coronavirus-quarantine/With the whole of Italy in lockdown, the streets of Rome are empty – and the city without visitors has a strange and confusing atmosphere

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Rome in a time of quarantine | Apollo Magazine
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"Feininger's 1947 photo of Route 66 is a beautiful distillation of an idea: namely, that the American West is a place where people find themselves, or lose themselves, amid heat, sun, open spaces, enormous skies." Road trip, anyone?
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(Andreas Feininger—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Foreign students contribute over $30 billion to the American economy, according to a new report from the Brookings Institution, a think-tank. But few are invited to stay past their studies. The number of H-1B visas, which are given to skilled foreign workers, has barely budged over the past decade. America is not trying to poach bright young minds, say officials http://econ.st/1vWJAHs

“She belonged to a different age, but being so entire, so complete, would always stand up on the horizon, stone-white, eminent, like a lighthouse marking some past stage on this adventurous, long, long voyage, this interminable — this interminable life.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

in the teeth of something

idiom

If something happens or is done in the teeth of difficulties, the difficulties cause problems but do not stop it:

The road was built in the teeth of fierce opposition from the public.

vein

A pervading character or quality; a streak: "All through the interminable narrative there ran a vein of impressive earnestness" (Mark Twain). See synonyms at streak.