qualm, snowfall, recap, clobber, coveted, recapitulate, heavy snowfall

Inside Saudi Arabia’s Global Push for Nuclear Power

Despite qualms in Washington, Saudi officials have pressed the U.S. for help in developing nuclear power. But they are also exploring other options, like China.

Why can a warming climate increase snowfall?

The warmer the planet becomes, the more moisture the atmosphere can take up and then release as precipitation.

By ELENA SHAO

Dec. 23, 2022

Winter Storm System Brings Heavy Snow, Rain and Wind Across the U.S.

The system has clobbered the Sierra Nevada with heavy snowfall and is expected to develop into a major winter storm across the central U.S.

日前傳出義大利全球知名的「莫札瑞拉」起司含高劑量戴 奧辛事件，引發進口相關國家的疑慮，其中包括台灣也有 進口莫札瑞拉起司，衛生署食品衛生處今(28)天表示，台灣進 口的莫札瑞拉起司並非來自污染區的牛奶，也將隨時留意 義大利後續監控毒起司的情況。

Fallout From the Mozzarella Scare

By Patrick J. Lyons

Workers produce buffalo mozzarella cheese at a Caianello, Italy, on Thursday. (Stefano Renna/Reuters)

The Italian buffalo mozzarella industry seems to finally be getting somewhere in its efforts to combat a dioxin-contamination scare that has been clobbering cheese sales.

(Quick recap: The Campania region around Naples, source of most of Italy’s buffalo milk, is also plagued by illegal burning and dumping of trash and industrial waste by the Camorra, the local mafia. Dioxins, an especially nasty type of chemical pollutant, turned up in January in buffalo milk from some dairies in the region, probably because of the dumping. Investigations, scary headlines, health warnings and consumer qualms about the otherwise coveted cheese have ensued.)

buffalo Show phonetics noun [C] plural buffaloes or buffalo a large animal of the cattle family, with long curved horns 

  clobber (HIT) verb [T] INFORMAL 1 to hit someone or something hard and repeatedly: If you do that again, I'll clobber you (one). 2 to punish someone: The government is proposing new measures to clobber tax dodgers. 3 to harm someone financially: The new supermarket is really going to clobber the small local shops. 

qualm Show phonetics
noun [C usually plural]
an uncomfortable feeling of doubt about whether you are doing the right thing:
She had no qualms about lying to the police.

qualm

  

━━ n. 軽いめまい, 吐き気; 不安, 疑い ((about)); 良心の呵責(かしゃく).
 qualm・ish　━━ a.

covet verb [T] FORMAL to desire something strongly, especially something which belongs to someone else: She always coveted power but never quite achieved it. The Booker Prize is the most coveted British literary award.

covetable  adjective UK FORMAL very desirable

covetous  adjective FORMAL DISAPPROVING desiring something too much, especially something that belongs to someone else: Western companies are casting covetous eyes on the bargain-priced companies of eastern Europe.

covetously  adverb FORMAL DISAPPROVING The boys looked covetously at the shiny new motorcycles.

recap  verb [I or T] -pp- to repeat the main points of an explanation or description: Finally, the teacher recapped the main points of the lesson. To recap, our main aim is to increase sales by 12% this year. recap  noun [S] Could you give me a quick recap on what happened in the meeting?

recapitulate verb [T] FORMAL FOR recap

recapitulation Show phonetics noun [S] FORMAL FOR recap