2024年12月16日 星期一

gun-shy, camera-shy, farmed fish, crossover. Putin Speaks on Topics Important and Obscure, but Stays Mum on Syria


With Elon Musk outlining plans for Tesla Inc to use traditional advertising for the first time, viewers might see the electric-vehicle maker's Model Y crossover or upcoming Cybertruck pickup - maybe even the billionaire CEO himself - on TV or online.


farmed fish

fish

美國周四晚發佈「進口品警告」稱,對中國鯰魚、鯪魚、蝦和鰻魚實施自動扣留並禁止入境。
The seafood named in the F.D.A.’s “import alert” are shrimp; catfish; eel; basa, which are similar to catfish; and dace, similar to carp.

除非進口商通過獨立的檢測來證明這些產品不含未經批准的殘留物質。
Under the import alert, the seafood can be sold in the United States only if importers provide independent testing that shows the seafood does not contain the contaminants.

FDA助理局長艾奇遜表示,在對部分進口的中國海產品取樣抽檢後,美國發現進口的海產品中"不斷"有抗生素超標污染問題。

美國發現的藥物殘留物包括硝基夫喃、孔雀石綠和□諾酮類抗生素。美國規定這些抗生素不能在海產養殖中使用,中國水產養殖業也禁止使用硝基夫喃和孔雀石綠。None of the antibiotics and food additives found in the Chinese seafood — nitrofuran, malachite green, gentian violet and fluoroquinolones — are on the approved list of regulators.

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fish farm noun [C] 水產養殖場
an enclosed area of water used for breeding and growing fish

這兒養的,稱為 farm-raised fish/seafood/ farmed fish and shrimp
例:
In the latest move against Chinese imports, the Food and Drug Administration yesterday effectively blocked the sale of five types of farm-raised seafood from China because of repeated instances of contamination from unapproved animal drugs and food additives….

F.D.A. officials said yesterday, however, that the agency inspected a higher percentage of Chinese seafood imports — 5 percent — because of continuing concerns about farm-raised fish from that country.

**** 這動詞類似「想從水中找出魚」般:
fish (SEARCH)
verb [I usually + adverb or preposition]
to search, especially in difficult conditions:


She fished in her tool box for the right spanner.
The director was fishing for information about our strategy.
He's always fishing for compliments (= trying to make people say good things about him).

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fish sth out phrasal verb [M] INFORMAL
to pull something out of water or take something out of a bag or pocket:
Police fished a body out of the river this morning.
He fished out a coin from his pocket.
(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)

gun-shy
(gŭn'shī')
adj.
  1. Afraid of loud noise, such as that of gunfire.
  2. Extremely distrustful or wary.

adj. - 怕槍炮聲的, 風聲鶴唳的

東晉時秦主苻堅率眾列陣肥水,謝玄等以八千精兵渡水還擊,秦兵大敗,潰兵聽到風聲和鶴鳴,皆以王師已至。典出晉書˙卷七十八˙謝安傳。後形容極為驚慌疑懼。宋˙李曾伯˙醉蓬萊˙問金城方略詞:見說棋邊,風聲鶴唳,膽落胡虜。紅樓夢˙第一○二回:賈珍方好,賈蓉等相繼而病。如此接連數月,鬧得兩府俱怕。從此風聲鶴唳,草木皆妖。亦作鶴唳風聲


If a Chinese company does make an actual bid for an American high-tech company, a former government official said, and that bid is blocked for political reasons, then Chinese companies may become even warier of investing in 

Putin Speaks on Topics Important and Obscure, but Stays Mum on Syria

In a televised meeting with his top military brass, Vladimir Putin left Syria unmentioned and made it clear that winning in Ukraine was his top priority.



American companies and the government in Beijing may begin to suspect that Washington so distrusts China that it is trying to throw roadblocks in the path of its economic development.

“If they are blocked, I would suspect this would at a minimum contribute to their being gun-shy of the U.S. government,” said Mr. Lieberthal, a Chinese speaker who stays in close touch with a range of Chinese government officials and American corporate leaders.

silent
keep mum

intransitive verb

1
to perform in a pantomime
2
to go about merrymaking in disguise during festivals

mum

3 of 5

noun (1)

a strong ale or beer

mum

4 of 5

chiefly British spelling of mom

mum

5 of 5

noun

contribute to sth phrasal verb
to help to cause an event or situation:
Smoking certainly contributed to his early death.

camera-shy
adjective [after verb]
If someone is camera-shy, they dislike having their photograph taken.

(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)



crossover
noun
  1. 1.
    a point or place of crossing from one side to the other.
  2. 2.
    the process of achieving success in a different field or style, especially in popular music.
    "a jazz–classical crossover album"

a change from one form to another, or a mixture of different types: There's been a lot of crossover from comic books to movies. His crossover ...


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