2024年2月6日 星期二

To Tame, blanketed, side with, discouragement, dropout

 


Heavy Snow in China Disrupts Holiday Travel
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Footage from China Central Television, a state media outlet, showed vehicles moving slowly on highways blanketed by snow as the Lunar New Year travel rush begins.CreditCredit...Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
 
To Tame Coronavirus, Mao-Style Social Control Blankets China

To Tame Coronavirus, Mao-Style Social Control Blankets China

By RAYMOND ZHONG and PAUL MOZUR
Despite their high-tech tools, the authorities are mainly relying on a flood of workers to keep hundreds of millions of people from coming in contact with outsiders.



Fact-Check: A Real Rate of 11 Percent?

A claim by Mitt Romney assumes all growth in labor force dropouts is a result of discouragement about the job market, as opposed to baby boomer retirement and other factors.



Top Goldman Leaders Said to Have Overseen Mortgage Unit
By LOUISE STORY
As the bank deals with a fraud suit from the S.E.C., former workers say that in 2006, executives sided with traders who thought home prices would decline.
Ash blanket leads Merkel on detour through Europe

A normal flight from San Francisco to Berlin can take up to 12 hours,
depending on conditions. When a blanket of volcanic ash is covering Europe,
the journey can take a bit longer. Just ask Chancellor Angela Merkel...

The DW-WORLD Article
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=ew4jp7I44va89pI2

Effective Reliability must be tailored to fit program needs and constraints, including life cycle cost (LCC). This document is intentionally structured to discourage indiscriminate blanket application. Tailoring is forced by requiring that specific tasks be selected and, for those tasks identified, that certain essential information relative to implementation of the task be provided by the procuring activity.


"不鼓勵讀者不加區別地將此標準亂套用到許多其他情況"
所有reliability其實都與主體產品特性相關
標準是一些假設和模式之數據


Support or favor, as in The Armenians traditionally side with the Greeks against the Turks. This idiom was first recorded in 1600. For the antonym, see side against.

blanket (UNLIMITED) Show phonetics
adjective [before noun]
including or affecting everything, everyone, or all cases, in a large group or area:
a blanket ban
'Man', as a blanket term for both men and women, is now considered sexist.



blanket
(COVER) Show phonetics
noun [C]
a flat cover made of wool or similar warm material, usually used on a bed

Communist Party Opening Day




blanket
verb [T often passive] LITERARY
to cover something completely with a thick layer:
Outside the fields were blanketed in fog.
Flags blanketed Tiananmen Square during the ceremony.
Photo: Alfred Cheng Jin/Reuters

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