2021年10月26日 星期二

nab, lavish sth on sb/sth, truants


Delight in the genius of W B Yeats!
可能是顯示的文字是「 "Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses." William Butler Yeats 」的圖像




Japan university gives away iPhones to nab truants The Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A prestigious Japanese university is giving away hundreds of iPhones, in part to use its Global Positioning System to nab students that skip ... Sweden's Investor AB has been creating a ruckus akin to the wheeling and dealing usually associated with private-equity firms. Behind the change: Boerje Ekholm, who last year became the investment firm's new chief executive. They also had to nab him red-handed, or the Paris force, which detested the Sûrete for intruding into its terrain, would raise a ruckus. TOP STORY

'Gifts' Case Nabs a Star

By KARA SCANNELL, SUSANNE CRAIG and JENNIFER LEVITZ

A four-year investigation into gifts lavished on mutual-fund companies by Wall Street has claimed its biggest name: Peter Lynch, legendary investor and adviser to mutual-fund giant Fidelity Investments.

Mr. Lynch, the former Fidelity portfolio-manager star who remains an executive at the company, settled a civil case with the Securities and Exchange Commission alleging that he inappropriately directed two traders on Fidelity's equity desk to obtain tickets to high-profile and often sold-out events.

lavish sth on sb/sth phrasal verb to give someone a lot, or too much, of something such as money, presents or attention: She lavishes money on her grandchildren. The committee lavished praise on the project. 

  ruckus noun [C usually singular] MAINLY US INFORMAL a noisy situation or argument; a rumpus 



truant
/ˈtruːənt/
noun
  1. a pupil who stays away from school without leave or explanation.
    Similar:
    absentee
    non-attender
    skiver
    wag
adjective
  1. (of a pupil) being a truant.
    "truant children"
verb
  1. another way of saying play truant below.
    "if my daughter had been truanting from school I would have been informed"

nab 
 verb [T] -bb- INFORMAL to take something suddenly, or to catch or arrest a criminal: Undercover police officers nabbed (= caught) the men at the airport. Someone nabbed my apple when I wasn't looking!

nab

━━ vt. (-bb-) 〔話〕 ひっつかむ, ひったくる; 〔話〕 盗む; 〔話〕 逮捕する.

沒有留言: