Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times
This Land
Grim Story Told With Shovels and Science
By DAN BARRY
The excavation of a mass grave of Irish railroad workers in
Pennsylvania, who died during a cholera epidemic in 1832, answers some
questions and raises many more.
中英對照讀新聞／Fear not Newark... your mayor uses Twitter 紐華克別擔心……你們的市長在用推特
◎ 俞智敏
While other officials took heat for their lame response to paralyzing US blizzards, Newark’s mayor ingeniously used Twitter and earnt himself political kudos for helping dig out those in need.
正當其他官員因未能及時對造成美國交通癱瘓的大風雪作出回應而遭到痛批之際，紐華克市長卻巧妙地透過微網誌推特協助受困市民脫困，替自己贏得政治掌聲。
"I need street names and patience," Cory Booker told one worried tweeter as up to 80 centimeters of snow trapped many New Jersey residents in their homes.
厚達80公分的積雪把許多新澤西州居民困在家中，布克市長在推特上向一名憂心的推友表示，「我需要街道名稱和耐心。」
An avalanche of responses followed, many of which Booker answered with personal house calls, shovel in hand. His Twitter feed, #CoryBooker, reads like a real-time history of one man’s struggle to free his city from the snow.
大批回應隨即如雪花般湧至，布克拿著鏟子親自挨家挨戶造訪了許多居民。他的推特訊息#CoryBooker ，讀起來就像是他一個人單槍匹馬拯救遭大雪圍困城市的即時歷史紀錄一樣。
"I’m on my way to Treamont Ave now to help dig your mom out," one Booker tweet said, while news clips showed the rising star in the Democratic Party working tirelessly to clear pavements, dig out vehicles and rescue stricken citizens.
「我正準備前往崔蒙大道幫忙救出你媽媽，」布克的其中一條推文寫道，而從新聞影片中也可以看到，這位民主黨內新崛起的明星正不辭勞苦地清理人行道，幫忙挖出汽車並對受困的市民伸出援手。
"Plez help my dad he’s snowed in at home & i cant get to him from NY," another tweeter said, using the abbreviations and minimal punctuation that have become the hallmark of the rabidly popular microblogging site.
「拜託我爸被雪困在家裡，我人在紐約沒法幫他，」另一位推友寫道，他使用的是已成為這個廣受歡迎的微網誌網站標記的縮寫文字與最少的標點符號。
Responding like some new media hero, Booker replied： "Please DM （direct message） me his # and address. I will try & help."
布克則像新媒體英雄一般回道，「請發私信把他的號碼與地址給我，我會試著幫忙。」
turnabout, 2009.3.4
In Turnabout, Antitrust Unit Looks at Intel
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The ordeal is a turnabout for Cerberus, which had spent years distancing itself from its once bare-knuckle image. In the summer, it earned kudos for how it handled the tricky financing of its Chrysler buyout. Its earlier purchase of General Motors's financing' arm, GMAC, was a sign that it had truly arrived.
最後結論往往來個大反轉（turnabout
turnabout
noun [C] (180°の）転回, 転向, 寝返り.
a complete change from one situation or condition to its opposite:
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kudos
noun [U]
the fame and public admiration that a person receives as a result of a particular achievement or position in society:
Being an actor has a certain amount of kudos attached to it.
新聞辭典
take （the） heat：俚語，指（為某事而）接受或忍受批評，如The cops have been taking some heat about the Quincy killing. （警方為了昆西殺人事件而飽受指責。）
kudos：名詞，指某人因某件特殊成就或社會地位而獲得的名聲與敬佩、威信等。如The talented, young playwright received kudos for his new drama.（這位年輕天才劇作家因為新劇作而贏得好評。）
be snowed in：指因為下大雪而受困、動彈不得。如We were snowed in for four days last winter.（去年冬天我們被大雪困在家裡整整四天。）
shovel
- shov • el
- 発音
- ʃʌ'vəl
- shovelの変化形
- shovels (複数形) • shovels (三人称単数現在)
- shovelの慣用句
- put in one's shovel, （全1件）
[名]
2 シャベル1杯（分）(shovelful).
3 ((略式))＝shovel hat.
put in one's shovel
((略式))くちばしを入れる.
━━[動]（〜ed, 〜・ing；((英))〜led, 〜・ling）(他)
1 …をシャベルですくう；〈道などを〉シャベルで作る；機関士として働く.
2 …を大量に入れる［かき集める］, かきこむ, つめこむ, …を（シャベルで）掘る, かき除く
━━(自)シャベルを使う.- shóvel hàt
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