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BREAKING | Tsai Ing-wen sweeps to victory in Taiwan presidential election

Taiwan's voters make a stand against China's influence.



President Tsai Ing-wen won a landslide victory over China-friendly opposition challenger Han Kuo-yu.

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Tsai Wins Second Term in Landslide as Voters Stand Up to Beijing

Ted Cruz's Support Softens Among the Delegates He Courted

By JEREMY W. PETERS
The gravitational pull of Donald J. Trump's recent primary landslides is drawing more Republicans toward him, threatening Mr. Cruz's hopes of winning in a floor fight.
An Audience With Omaha's Oracle
Warren Buffett Is a Hero to Chinese Investors,
But Americans Hold Him in High Regard, Too
May 6, 2008 10:02 p.m.


The Chinese version of this column is available here.


In China, Warren Buffett is invariably referred to as the "god of stocks." Chinese can't get enough of him: Two of his biographies are the No. 1 and No. 2 best-sellers on dangdang.com, China's equivalent of Amazon.com, ranking ahead of bios of such notable people as Jack Welch, Bill Clinton and Bill Gates. I read my first Buffett book, the Chinese translation of Roger Lowenstein's "Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist," in 1997. It was impossible not to -- everybody was talking about it.
覲見巴菲特
2008年05月06日15:20

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袁莉

那個感覺是從明尼阿波利斯機場開始的。我週五從紐約飛到那裡轉機到奧馬哈。登機前﹐機場工作人員開始叫最後一刻拿到座位的侯坐乘客名字﹐每位被叫的人都是一副欣喜若狂的模樣﹐一位年輕人夸張的表情和動作足以讓人以為他中了彩票。
But fears of flooding remained elsewhere. Officials warned that heavy rain forecast for early in the week could weaken some of the 391 reservoirs that dot the region and threaten thousands of people downstream. Also at flooding risk, authorities said, were areas adjoining 21 rivers blocked by huge landslides.



Taiwan's opposition nationalists win poll 2008.1

Taiwan's opposition nationalists have won a landslide victory in parliamentary elections, according to official results. The Kuomintang, which favors closer ties to China, won 72% of the seats in the 113-seat chamber. Independence-leaning President Chen Shui-bian conceded defeat and said he would resign as chairman of his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). The elections are being viewed as a barometer for Taiwan's presidential poll to be held in March.

desideratum
de·sid·er·a·tum (dĭ-sĭd'ə-rā'təm, -rä'-) 
n., pl. -ta (-tə).
n. - 所願望之物, 迫切需要之物

n. - ぜひほしいもの
Something considered necessary or highly desirable: “The point is not that the artist has ‘penetrated the character’ of his sitter, that commonplace desideratum of portraiture” (Robert Hughes).


[Latin dēsīderātum, from neuter past participle of dēsīderāre, to desire. See desire.]

[L.] something desired as essential

the concept that peace of mind is the great desideratum - Warren Weaver
This concept meets the desiderata.

audience 

(FORMAL MEETING) Show phonetics

noun [C]

a formal meeting that you have with an important person:

She had a private audience with the king.
au・di・ence

  


━━ n. 聴衆, 観客; 読者（たち）; 聴取者; 声の届く所にいる人; （芸能人などの）取り巻き; （主義などの）信奉者; 謁見, 聞くこと, 聴講; 聴聞.

 be received in audience　謁見を許される.

 give [grant] an audience to　…に謁見を賜う.

 audience chamber [room]　謁見室.

Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Onward and Upward with the Arts Hanya Yanagihara’s Audience of One As a fashion editor, she celebrates idiosyncratic forms of beauty. As a novelist, she explores dark themes of abuse and shame. In both cases, she’s worried only about pleasing herself. By D. T. Max

audience

音節au • di • ence
発音ɔ́ːdiəns
基本単語レベル
[名]
1C〔集合的に；単複両扱い〕（講演・演奏会など催しの）聴衆（解説的語義）
（映画・演劇などの）観客，観衆，見物人（◆「聞く」行為が中心）；（テレビの）視聴者，（ラジオの）聴取者，（本・新聞などの）読者，（芸術などの）享受者；（特定の個人・主義などの）信奉者，共鳴者，ファン

a large [a small] audience
大勢［少数］の聴衆
The audience was [were] enthusiastic.
観衆は熱狂的だった
an audience rating
視聴率
That author has a wider audience.
この作家は読者層が広い
an increasing audience for a policy
増えつつある政策支持者
2U（訴え・意見などの）聴取；C聴取の機会

The committee gave him an audience.
委員会は彼の意見を聴聞した
3U（国王・法王・高官などの）話を拝聴すること；C正式会見，謁見≪with，of≫

a letter of audience
謁見状
At ten the King granted him an audience [received him in audience].
国王は１０時に彼を引見した
He had an audience with [of] the Pope.
彼は法皇に拝謁した語源［原義は「聞くこと」］

landslide (VICTORY)
noun [C]
the winning of an election with an extremely large number of votes:
The opinion polls are predicting a Liberal landslide in next week's election.
a landslide victory
landslide (FALLING EARTH) Show phonetics
noun [C] (ALSO landslip)
a mass of rock and earth moving suddenly and quickly down a steep slope