barrel (Slang), countless, pressing (URGENT) , be caught without sth. set sth aside (IGNORE)

BOHMTE, Germany -- Like countless other communities, this west German town lived for years with a miserable traffic problem. Each day, thousands of cars and big trucks barreled along the two-lane main street, forcing pedestrians and cyclists to scamper for their lives.

基於對目前所發現的有限數量星球的研究，鮑斯博士估計，每個類似太陽的恆星都平均擁有一顆類似地球的行星。 根據這一簡單計算，存在能夠維持生命條件的星球將數不勝數。



“I have to set aside my English-teacher hat now and then,” said Fred Chancey, recently retired from Chemeketa Community College in Salem, Ore., who showed up for the second year in a row, just to listen. “But a lot of it is really good stuff. I like the blue-collar school of poetry.”



But Amazon said that it sees its Kindle reader and devices like the iPhone as complementary, and that people will use their mobile phones to read books only for short periods, such as while waiting in grocery store lines.
“We think the iPhone can be a great companion device for customers who are caught without their Kindle,” said Ian Freed, Amazon’s vice president in charge of the Kindle.


When asked whether the government would be able to revive the economy in the coming year and solve the country's pressing economic problems, 57.5 percent of respondents said they were not confident – 29 percentage points higher than those who said they were. (Table 3)

政府能否在未來一年提振景氣，解決人民的燃眉之急？五七．五％的民眾沒有信心，比有信心者多出約二十九個百分點。





Feed the World - Now!

It’s one of the most pressing issues of our generation: the food crisis.
But how can the international community solve the problem?

The DW-WORLD Article
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=evynndI44va89pI0




pressing (URGENT)
adjective
urgent or needing to be dealt with immediately:
a pressing need for housing
a pressing issue
The most pressing question is what do we do next?
be caught without sth
to not have something, especially when it is needed:
He doesn't like to be caught without any biscuits in the house.

set-aside
noun [U]
when farmers are paid in order not to grow crops on areas of land, or land of this type

set sth aside (IGNORE) phrasal verb
1 to decide that you will not be influenced by your own feelings or opinions because they are not important at a particular time:
In times of war people tend to set aside political differences.

2 to ignore or not think about a particular fact or situation while considering a matter:
Setting aside the question of cost, what do you think of the idea in principle?


countless
adjective
very many; too many to be counted:
There are countless arguments against this ridiculous proposal.
I've heard it played countless times on the radio.

━━ n. たる; ひとたる分, 1バレル ((米では石油で159リットル2 In the oil industry, a barrel of oil is equal to 159 litre，ワインなどで119リットル)); （機械などの）円筒; （牛・馬の）胴体 （trunk）; 銃身.
a barrel of / barrels of　〔話〕 いっぱいの…, たくさんの….
over a barrel　窮地に陥って; 〔話〕 （他の人に）牛耳られて.
scrape (the bottom of) the barrel　〔話〕 残りかすを使う, （やむをえず）最後［唯一］の手をつかう.
━━ v. （〈英〉-ll-） （…を）たるに詰める; 〔米俗〕 （自動車を）飛ばす.v.intr. Slang.
To move at a high speed or rate of progress: “That the European Union barreled ahead was not surprising” (Richard W. Stevenson).

barrel chair　（背の丸い）安楽いす.
barrel-chested　━━ a. （大きくて丸い）がっしりした胸の.
barrel distortion　【コンピュータ】たる形球面収差.
bar・rel・ful　━━ n. 一たる.
barrel・house　〔米〕 安酒屋; 騒々しいジャズの一種.
barrel organ　手回しオルガン.
barrel race, barrel racing　バレル・レース ((女性用のロデオ競技で，たるのまわりをジグザグに走る)).
barrel roll　【航空】連続横転.