2024年2月22日星期四

crackdown, crackup, fake, faker, apolitical, quarantine, genocide, employing strict controls. a Confederacy of Fakers

Trump’s G.O.P. Is a Confederacy of Fakers

Some of the wealthiest people in America—in Silicon Valley, New York, and beyond—are getting ready for the crackup of civilization.

No government has ever shut down a city of Wuhan’s size, so there’s no road map for Chinese officials, a University of Michigan history and medicine professor said.No government has ever shut down a city of Wuhan’s size, so there’s no road map for Chinese officials, a University of Michigan history and medicine professor said.
WASHINGTONPOST.COM

Here’s how the unprecedented quarantine of one of China’s largest cities could play out

No government has ever shut down a city of Wuhan’s size, so there’s no road map for Chinese officials, a University of Michigan history and medicine professor said.

China is changing its rules on foreign media companies publishing online. Local media and activists have already been coming under increasing censorship under Xi Jinping's regime. From December

Further signs of a crackdown on freedom of expression in China

More signs of a crackdown on expression

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British school pupils have been quarantined in China because the country is employing strict controls to contain swine flu.
China to extend crackdown on shoddy food products

BEIJING (AFP) — China will extend a nationwide crackdown on shoddy food products into the New Year as it seeks to restore confidence in the "made in China" label, according to a government statement seen Monday.
From January 1, the crackdown will focus on 28 categories of food, including rice, cooking oil, meat, dairy products, instant noodles, tea and beer, the nation's product quality watchdog said on its website.
The sale of such food products without the required quality and inspection certificates would also be curbed and violators severely punished, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said.
China has been embarrassed, and its vital exports sector threatened, in 2007 by mounting reports of shoddy, fake or dangerous food and other products.
Chinese-made goods ranging from seafood to car tyres to children's toys have been hit with bans and recalls overseas amid safety fears.
In response, China in August launched a four-month crackdown, which the official Xinhua news agency said had resulted in 192,400 unlicensed food shops being closed and some 1,254 tons of substandard food withdrawn from domestic markets.
The government had earlier also reported hundreds of arrests in the campaign, which had been set to conclude at year-end but will now continue.
The product watchdog's announcement made no mention of how the extended crackdown was expected to affect export products.

Dalai Lama Calls for Tibet Inquiry

...crackdown. The Dalai Lama warned Tibet faced ''cultural genocide'' and appealed to the world for help. Protests against Chinese...Whether intentionally or unintentionally, some kind of cultural genocide is taking place,'' said the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan...

March 16, 2008 - By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - World

中國軍警鎮壓西藏拉薩反中抗暴事件兩天後，藏人示威活動十六日繼續擴大到鄰省四川、青海與甘肅。中國同日宣布將在西藏發動「人民戰爭」，「打擊分裂主義」，呼籲犯罪份子在十七日晚間十二時以前自首，並下令所有國際非政

In Beijing for the opening ceremony, Mr. Bush seemed eager to play the role of the apolitical sports fan, instead of publicly pressing China’s leaders on the ongoing Olympics crackdown. That nicely fit into the Chinese script of talking up sports while shutting down politics.

apolitical

(ā'pə-lĭt'ĭ-kəl)
adj.

Having no interest in or association with politics.

Having no political relevance or importance: claimed that the President's upcoming trip was purely apolitical.

apolitically a'po·lit'i·cal·ly adv.

genocide

noun [U]

the murder of a whole group of people, especially a whole nation, race or religious group:

victims of genocide

genocidal

adjective

a genocidal war/regime

━━ n. （人種・国民の計画的）皆殺し.

gen・o・cid・al　━━ a. 民族［集団］大虐殺の.

中文描寫坐船遭隔離的經驗的，有梁實秋要回天津的過程記錄.....

quarantine
period of time during which a person or animal that might have a disease is kept away from other people or animals so that the disease cannot spread:
The horse had to spend several months in quarantine when it reached Britain.

quarantine (n.)

1660s, "period a ship suspected of carrying disease is kept in isolation," from Italian quarantina giorni, literally "space of forty days," from quaranta "forty," from Latin quadraginta"forty," which is related to quattuor "four" (from PIE root *kwetwer- "four"). So called from the Venetian policy (first enforced in 1377) of keeping ships from plague-stricken countries waiting off its port for 40 days to assure that no latent cases were aboard. Also see lazaretto. The extended sense of "any period of forced isolation" is from 1670s.

Earlier in English the word meant "period of 40 days in which a widow has the right to remain in her dead husband's house" (1520s), and, as quarentyne (15c.), "desert in which Christ fasted for 40 days," from Latin quadraginta "forty."

Chiaheng Wu

在英文裡，隔離檢疫是quarantine,，說明了這個字的來源。法文的四十是quarante，義大利文是quaranta，不管英文的檢疫是從法文或義大利文而來，都說明了這個字與地中海貿易的關聯。絲路連結了廣義的東方與西方，不管貨物在哪裡進入這條貿易路線，在達迦馬發現繞過好望角的航線之前，最後都會匯集在地中海東岸，再透過海運前往義大利，法國。
這條貿易路線也就是鼠疫和其他疫病傳染的途徑。而疫病一旦隨著商船登了岸，又隨著人與貨輾轉到了內陸其他城鎮，往往造成大量死亡與恐懼。當時的人並不知道微生物的致病機制，但是從經驗得知，如果先不與這些從外地來的船隻接觸，靜待一段期間，如果船上的人都沒生病，就表示他們也不會把疾病與死亡帶進來。那麼，要等多久才足以確定呢？從這個字來看，就是要等四十天。
現代社會的步調快得多，醫學也發達得多，檢疫等不了四十天，也不用等四十天，但是恐怕隔離十四天，還是必要的。

quarantine
verb [T]

此 blog 多處使用crackdown

crack・down

━━ n. 取締り ((on)).

http://word-watcher.blogspot.com/search?q=CRACKDOWN

crack down phrasal verb
to start dealing with bad or illegal behaviour in a more severe way:
The library is cracking down on people who lose their books.

crackdown
noun [C]
There has been a series of government crackdowns on safety in factories.

crack-up

noun

INFORMAL

noun: crackup

1.
an emotional breakdown.
"he appeared to be on the verge of a complete crack-up"
2.
an act of breaking up or splitting apart.
"the crack-up of the Soviet Union"

fake (OBJECT)
noun [C]
1 an object which is made to look real or valuable in order to deceive people:
Experts revealed that the painting was a fake.
The gun in his hand was a fake.

2 someone who is not what or whom they say they are:
After working for ten years as a doctor, he was exposed as a fake.

fake
adjective
not real, but made to look or seem real:
He was charged with possessing a fake passport.
fake fur/blood
a fake suntan

fake
verb [T]
to make an object look real or valuable in order to deceive people:
to fake a document/signature

faker
noun [C]

n. - 騙子
v. tr. - 偽造, 冒充, 捏造, 假裝
adj. - 假的, 冒充的
n. - 冒牌貨, 冒充者, 仿造品
v. tr. - 偽造, 冒充, 捏造, 假裝
v. intr. - 假裝, 做假動作, 佯攻