The first success of the environmental movements of the 1960s was to save the whale. Now, with deep irony, whales may be about to save us with their poo.'
Much Riding on Apple-Samsung Patent Trial
By STEVE LOHR
A trial opening Monday is the latest phase in a global campaign of
smartphone patent litigation whose importance goes beyond legal
maneuvering.
US presses Japan to resolve base dispute
Washington Post
By Blaine Harden and John Pomfret TOKYO -- US Ambassador John Roos said Friday the Obama administration expects the new government of Japan to move quickly ...
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JIEGU, China — Prime Minister Wen Jiabao spent Friday in the Tibetan high country, comforting survivors of this week’s devastating earthquake in a prominent display of concern by the country’s Han leadership for one of China’s most troubled ethnic minorities.
“No matter whether you are Tibetans or Hans, you are all in one family,” Mr. Wen said during a visit to an orphanage in Yushu Prefecture, a remote area of western China to which he had raced on Thursday after canceling a trip to Indonesia, state news media reported. President Hu Jintao also changed his plans after the quake, cutting short a trip to Brazil.
At the end, the train with Noriko speeds from Onomichi back to Tokyo, leaving behind Kyoko and Shukichi.
India's Way Protests Awaken a Goliath in India
By JIM YARDLEY
Recent anticorruption protests
have stirred the middle class, which includes families like the Roys,
above, that have remained disengaged from politics.
AS Mindel Appel showed me the contents of her freezer, my pulse began to race.
心跳加速是指您感覺心跳異常快、劇烈、有力或不規則。它通常被描述為心悸，如果靜止心率超過每分鐘 100 次，則醫學上稱為心動過速。感覺如何：胸口劇烈跳動或搏動；心跳顫動或翻騰感；漏跳或多跳；感覺喉嚨或頸部脈搏跳動強烈。常見且無害的原因：強烈的情緒：壓力、焦慮、恐慌或恐懼；興奮劑：咖啡或能量飲料中的咖啡因、尼古丁或感冒藥；體力活動：劇烈運動，此時心率加快是完全正常的；生活方式因素：脫水、睡眠不足或飲酒；荷爾蒙變化：懷孕、月經或更年期。
A racing heart means you feel your heartbeat as unusually fast, pounding, hard, or irregular. It is often described as a form of heart palpitations or medically classified as tachycardia if the resting heart rate exceeds 100 beats per minute. [1, 2, 3]
What It Feels Like
- Pounding or throbbing heavily in the chest.
- Fluttering or a flip-flop sensation.
- Skipped or extra beats.
Common, Harmless Causes
- Strong emotions: Stress, anxiety, panic, or fear.
- Stimulants: Caffeine from coffee or energy drinks, nicotine, or cold medications.
- Physical activity: Strenuous exercise where a fast rate is completely normal.
- Lifestyle factors: Dehydration, lack of sleep, or alcohol.
race
v., raced, rac·ing, rac·es. v.intr.
- Sports. To compete in a contest of speed.
- To move rapidly or at top speed: We raced home. My heart was racing with fear.
- To run too rapidly due to decreased resistance or unnecessary provision of fuel: adjusted the idle to keep the engine from racing.
- Sports.
- To compete against in a race.
- To cause to compete in a race: She races horses for a living.
- To transport rapidly or at top speed; rush: raced the injured motorist to the hospital.
- To cause (an engine with the gears disengaged, for example) to run swiftly or too swiftly.
race
n.- Sports.
- A competition of speed, as in running or riding.
- races A series of such competitions held at a specified time on a regular course: a fan of the dog races.
- An extended competition in which participants struggle like runners to be the winner: the presidential race.
- Steady or rapid onward movement: the race of time.
- A strong or swift current of water.
- The channel of such a current.
- An artificial channel built to transport water and use its energy. Also called raceway.
- A groovelike part of a machine in which a moving part slides or rolls.
- See slipstream (sense 1).
v., raced, rac·ing, rac·es. v.intr.
- Sports. To compete in a contest of speed.
- To move rapidly or at top speed: We raced home. My heart was racing with fear.
- To run too rapidly due to decreased resistance or unnecessary provision of fuel: adjusted the idle to keep the engine from racing.
- Sports.
- To compete against in a race.
- To cause to compete in a race: She races horses for a living.
- To transport rapidly or at top speed; rush: raced the injured motorist to the hospital.
- To cause (an engine with the gears disengaged, for example) to run swiftly or too swiftly.
[Middle English ras, from Old Norse rās, rush, running.]
speed
━━[動]（sped 〔spéd〕 or(他)3, (自)2, 4で〜・ed）(他)
2 ［III[名]（[副]）］〈足どりなどを〉速める, 〈人・馬・車などを〉急がす, 急がせる, 疾走させる
4 〈人の〉出発を早める, をすみやかに帰らせる.
━━(自)
1 ［I（[副]）］速く動く［進む］, 疾走する((along))；〈時間が〉すばやく過ぎ去る((by, past))
2 速度を増す((up))；((ふつう進行形))〈車などが〉制限速度以上で走る
3 〈人が〉（一定の仕方・方法で）やっていく；〈物・事が〉うまくいく.
4 ((古))成功［繁栄］する.
［古英語spēdより. 原義は「成功」］
cut short
Abbreviate, stop abruptly, as in The thunderstorm cut short our picnic, or She cut her short, saying she'd already heard the story of their breakup. Shakespeare used this term to mean "put a sudden end to someone's life": "Rather than bloody war shall cut them short" (2 Henry VI, 4:4), a less common usage today. The broader usage dates from the mid-1600s.
Roo or Roos may refer to:
Roo
- Roo, a character from the Winnie-the-Pooh books by A. A. Milne
- Roo, a nickname for footballer Wayne Rooney (born 1985), a Manchester United player
pooh
Line breaks: pooh
Pronunciation: /puː
/
/
(also poo)
INFORMAL
EXCLAMATION
NOUN
VERB
Origin
natural exclamation: first recorded in English in the late16th century.
Roos
- Roos, a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England
- Roos, the Dutch word for rose and pronounced almost identically, unlike the nickname for kangaroos; a commonly used as a given name for girls
- Roos, the Flemish family extent in the region of Hoogstraten, Belgium
- Roos, a common nickname for kangaroos
- Roos, short for KangaROOS, a brand of shoe with a pocket inside
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riding
(rī'dĭng)
n.
- The act of riding.
- Horseback riding.
rid·ing2 (rī'dĭng)
n.
- An administrative division or electoral division in Canada.
- Any one of three former administrative divisions of Yorkshire, England.
[Middle English, alteration of trithing, from Old English *thrithing, from Old Norse thridhjungr, third part, from thridhi, third.]
