| It was Conservative MPs who began the trend of dumping prime ministers in a fit of pique. But a Tory vice has now become a Labour one. Register for free to discover why that is bad news for Britain He gets up around 8 a.m. and moseys down to the kitchen to make coffee. He takes a mug upstairs and gets back in bed, where he sits with his laptop, catching up on what’s happening online. If something piques his interest, he bookmarks it in a file. |
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What they’re reading
Business School faculty members share the books that are piquing their interest this summer, pulling from fiction, technology, history, and more.
As researchers scramble to find new drugs and vaccines for Covid-19, a vaccine that is more than a century old has piqued researchers' interests
CNN.COM
How a 100-year-old vaccine for tuberculosis could help fight the novel coronavirus But it'll cost you. And yet the democracy flourishing in Taiwan has been greeted in other parts of the Chinese-speaking world with a certain pique, and even with hostility. —Ian Buruma, New Republic, 3 Apr. 2000
To Pique Interest, Start-Ups Try a Digital Velvet Rope
New York Times
By JENNA WORTHAM Demand for Google's new social networking service, Google+, has been intense since its debut last month in a limited test mode. To get in, you must be invited by someone who is already a member, so Facebook and Twitter are peppered ...Mrs. Clinton also said it was premature to comment on China’s announcement late Monday that it had successfully tested its first land-based missile defense system — a move analysts said was intended to signal Beijing’s pique at the administration’s decision to sell weapons to Taiwan.
Obama Ponders Outreach to Elements of the Taliban
By HELENE COOPER and SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
In an interview with The Times, President Obama opened the door to a reconciliation process in which the American military would reach out to elements of the Taliban.
Finally, in 1952, the actor, a British subject, was virtually exiled by the United States. While he was sailing to Britain on vacation, the Attorney General announced that he could not re-enter the country unless he could prove his "moral worth." Piqued, Chaplin spent the rest of his life in Europe, settling on a 38-acre estate at Vevey, Switzerland.
紐約時報這則類似短篇"訃文"Eliot Spitzer
At first glance, the case against four people accused of running an online escort business seemed routine. Then elements piqued interest for some reporters.
Performance evaluations of the different local sex workers can be found at various escort review boards worldwide. Escort review boards are online-forums, which are used primarily to trade information between potential clients and sex workers. In addition, escort review boards are used to advertise the various services of sex workers.
Wikipedia article "Sex worker".
What they’re reading
Business School faculty members share the books that are piquing their interest this summer, pulling from fiction, technology, history, and more.
As researchers scramble to find new drugs and vaccines for Covid-19, a vaccine that is more than a century old has piqued researchers' interests
CNN.COM
How a 100-year-old vaccine for tuberculosis could help fight the novel coronavirus But it'll cost you. And yet the democracy flourishing in Taiwan has been greeted in other parts of the Chinese-speaking world with a certain pique, and even with hostility. —Ian Buruma, New Republic, 3 Apr. 2000
保守黨議員們率先掀起了因一時衝動而罷免首相的風潮。但如今，保守黨的這一惡習卻變成了工黨的。免費註冊，了解這對英國為何是個壞消息。
他早上八點左右起床，慢慢地走到廚房煮咖啡。他端著咖啡杯上樓，回到床上，打開筆記型電腦，瀏覽網路動態。如果有什麼引起他的興趣，他就會把它收藏起來。
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他們在讀什麼
商學院的教職員分享了他們今夏感興趣的書籍，涵蓋小說、科技、歷史等多個領域。
在研究人員爭相尋找新冠病毒新藥和疫苗之際，一種已有百年歷史的疫苗引起了他們的關注。
Essential Media Entertainment and BBC Films initially developed Saving Mr. Banks as an independent production until 2011, when producer Alison Owen approached Walt Disney Pictures for permission to use copyrighted elements. The film's subject matter piqued Disney's interest, leading the studio to acquire the screenplay and produce the film.[5] Principal photography commenced the following year in September before wrapping in November 2012; the film was shot entirely in the Southern California area, primarily at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, where a majority of the film's narrative takes place.[6][7]To Pique Interest, Start-Ups Try a Digital Velvet Rope
New York Times
By JENNA WORTHAM Demand for Google's new social networking service, Google+, has been intense since its debut last month in a limited test mode. To get in, you must be invited by someone who is already a member, so Facebook and Twitter are peppered ...Mrs. Clinton also said it was premature to comment on China’s announcement late Monday that it had successfully tested its first land-based missile defense system — a move analysts said was intended to signal Beijing’s pique at the administration’s decision to sell weapons to Taiwan.
Obama Ponders Outreach to Elements of the Taliban
By HELENE COOPER and SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
In an interview with The Times, President Obama opened the door to a reconciliation process in which the American military would reach out to elements of the Taliban.
Finally, in 1952, the actor, a British subject, was virtually exiled by the United States. While he was sailing to Britain on vacation, the Attorney General announced that he could not re-enter the country unless he could prove his "moral worth." Piqued, Chaplin spent the rest of his life in Europe, settling on a 38-acre estate at Vevey, Switzerland.
紐約時報這則類似短篇"訃文"Eliot Spitzer
4 Arrests, Then 6 Days to a Resignation
It All Began With a Curious Vice Case
By MICHAEL POWELL and NICHOLAS CONFESSOREAt first glance, the case against four people accused of running an online escort business seemed routine. Then elements piqued interest for some reporters.
Performance evaluations of the different local sex workers can be found at various escort review boards worldwide. Escort review boards are online-forums, which are used primarily to trade information between potential clients and sex workers. In addition, escort review boards are used to advertise the various services of sex workers.
Wikipedia article "Sex worker".
mosey
/ˈməʊzi/
mosey
- 音節mo • sey
- 発音móuzi
noun [C]
a part of something:
List the elements which make up a perfect dinner party.
The film had all the elements of a good thriller.
We weren't even taught the elements of (= basic information about) physics at school.
the elements plural noun MAINLY HUMOROUS
the weather, usually bad weather:
We decided to brave the elements and go for a walk (= go for a walk despite the bad weather).
- elements of geometry
- 幾何の初歩
- elements of instability
- 不安定要素 ｛ふあんてい ようそ｝
- elements of mechanism
- 機械要素 ｛きかい ようそ｝
- elements of musical notation
- 楽譜用記号 ｛がくふ よう きごう｝
- elements of national power
- 国力 ｛こくりょく｝ の要素 ｛ようそ｝
- elements of physics
- 物理学初歩 ｛ぶつりがく しょほ｝
- Elements of Style
- 【著作】 《The 〜》英語文章ルールブック◆米1959《著》ウィリアム・ストランク(William Strunk, Jr....
- elements of terrestrial magnetism
- 磁気要素 ｛じき ようそ｝
- elements of the nitrogen group
- 窒素族元素 ｛ちっそ ぞく げんそ｝
- elements of the platinum group
- 白金族元素 ｛はっきん ぞく げんそ｝
thriller
(thrĭl'ər)
n.
One that thrills, especially a sensational or suspenseful book, story, play, or movie.
pique (pēk)
n.
A state of vexation caused by a perceived slight or indignity; a feeling of wounded pride.
tr.v., piqued, piqu·ing, piques.
pique
noun [U] piqued adjective
a feeling of anger and annoyance, especially caused by damage to your feeling of pride in yourself:
He stormed from the room in a fit of pique, shouting that he had been misunderstood.
in a fit of [out of] pique かっとなって.
━━ vt. 立腹させる, （感情を）傷つける; （興味などを）そそる.
pique oneself on …を自慢する.
- To cause to feel resentment or indignation.
- To provoke; arouse: The portrait piqued her curiosity.
- To pride (oneself): He piqued himself on his stylish attire.
[French, a prick, irritation, from Old French, from piquer, to prick, from Vulgar Latin *piccāre, ultimately of imitative origin.]
pique
noun [U] piqued adjective
a feeling of anger and annoyance, especially caused by damage to your feeling of pride in yourself:
He stormed from the room in a fit of pique, shouting that he had been misunderstood.
pique━━ n. 立腹, 不興, 不きげん.
in a fit of [out of] pique かっとなって.━━ vt. 立腹させる, （感情を）傷つける; （興味などを）そそる.
pique oneself on …を自慢する.
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