Singapore and Hong Kong said on Wednesday that a travel bubble between the two Asian financial centers would begin this month, allowing travelers to bypass quarantine.
BY IAIN MARLOW, NATALIE LUNG AND APPLE LAM
The laws will shape the future of Hong Kong, raising questions about the autonomy of a city whose status is a underpinned by its distinction from the mainland.
By the time we were born, fashions had changed, and women were encouraged to breast-feed their babies. My mother went at it vigorously because, as she told me later, "I wanted to override the bad genes your father has contributed to your existence."
2008
U.S. Worried About China's Hackers
A debate is brewing in the U.S. government over whether to publicly warn businesspeople and other travelers heading to the Beijing Olympics about the dangers posed by Chinese computer hackers.
2007
新聞
Hackers Bypass iPhone Limits
Hackers have figured out ways to override some of the restrictions imposed by Apple and AT&T on the iPhone.
: the act of nullifying; making null and void; counteracting or overriding the effect or force of something [syn: {nullification}]
"It had too much exposure to the sub-prime market in the United States and it overpaid for the giant Dutch bank ABN Amro at the height of the boom."
Sub-prime loans are those to people with poor credit records. An RBS consortium paid 71bn euros ($91bn; £61bn) for ABN Amro in October 2007.
Catholics aspiring to attend a papal Mass are offering to cook, trade, donate or pay. Ticket seekers have offered swaps for box seats to Washington Nationals baseball games and a concert by pop punk artist Avril Lavigne.
A few entrepreneurs are proffering tickets and passes -- given away free -- for as much as $150 online. Church officials are trying to stop such transactions -- by cracking down on Internet sales and requiring ticket recipients to show ID -- to the annoyance of people like Mr. Pigott. "I thought this was America and capitalism overrode the church," he says.
"Cognitive cladistics and cultural override in Hominid spatial cognition"
by Daniel B. M. Haun, Christian J. Rapold, Josep Call, Gabriele Janzen, and Stephen C. Levinson
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the height of sth
1 the time when a situation or event is strongest or most full of activity:
August is the height of the tourist season.
At the height of the violence/crisis we were left without any help.
2 an extreme example of something:
the height of fashion
3 the time when you are most successful in what you do:
She was at the height of her career when he first met her.
overpay
verb [T often passive] overpaid, overpaid
to pay someone too much:
I felt I should tell my boss she'd overpaid me by £50.
DISAPPROVING City lawyers are grossly overpaid for what they do.
overpaid
adjective
You can claim back the overpaid tax by filling in this form.
The bureaucrats, widely regarded as under-worked and overpaid, did not get much public sympathy for their pay claim.
override (MORE IMPORTANT)
verb [T] overrode, overridden
to be more important than something:
Parents' concern for their children's future often overrides all their other concerns.
overriding
adjective [before noun]
more important than anything else:
The government's overriding concern is to reduce inflation.
Veto Loss May Spur U.S. Spending Cuts
A U.S. House of Representatives vote fell two short of the two-third majority required to override President Bush's veto of a popular $150.7 billion bill for education, labor and medical research.
override (NOT ACCEPT)
verb [T] overrode, overridden
1 (of a person who has the necessary authority) to refuse to accept or to decide against a previous decision, an order, a person, etc:
Every time I make a suggestion at work, my boss overrides me/it.
The President used his veto to override the committee's decision.
2 to operate an automatic machine by hand:
He overrode the autopilot when he realised it was malfunctioning.
3 to take control over something, especially in order to change the way it operates:
The pills are designed to override your body's own hormones.
override
noun [C]
1 a device that changes the control of a machine or system in special situations, especially from automatic to manual:
The heating system has a manual override.
2 in American politics, the refusal of an elected group of people to accept a decision made by an elected leader:
The vote fell short of the majority needed for an override of the Governor's veto.
override (TRAVEL)
verb [I] overrode, overridden
to travel on public transport further than your ticket allows you to:
There is a £20 penalty for passengers who travel without a ticket or override.
overriding
noun [U]
There is a penalty for overriding.
這樣有些問題，譬如說，它缺 override的本意：「乘坐達的站超過車票上友效的站，坐過頭啦…..」即缺下述日文的第一義和 override(travel)義類。
日文
━━ vt. （場所を）乗って越す; 踏みにじる; 無視する; 無効にする, くつがえす; （馬を）乗りつぶす; 優先する; 【コンピュータ】重ね処理して消す.【替換值】
over・riding ━━ a. 最優先の, 最も重要な.
2 to operate an automatic machine by hand:
He overrode the autopilot when he realised it was malfunctioning.
3 to take control over something, especially in order to change the way it operates:
The pills are designed to override your body's own hormones.
override
noun [C]
1 a device that changes the control of a machine or system in special situations, especially from automatic to manual:
The heating system has a manual override.
2 in American politics, the refusal of an elected group of people to accept a decision made by an elected leader:
The vote fell short of the majority needed for an override of the Governor's veto.
verb [I usually + adverb or preposition]
to get into someone else's computer system without permission in order to find out information or do something illegal:
Computer hacking has become very widespread over the last decade.
A programmer had managed to hack into some top-secret government data.
hacker
noun [C] (ALSO computer hacker)
someone who hacks into other people's computer systems
bypass
verb [T]
1 to avoid something by going around it:
We were in a hurry so we decided to bypass Canterbury because we knew there'd be a lot of traffic.
2 to ignore a rule or official authority:
They bypassed the committee and went straight to senior management.
bypass
noun [C]
a road built around a town or village so that traffic does not need to travel through it
(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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