2024年7月17日 星期三

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"Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver."

--from "Reflections on the Revolution in France and Other Writings" ByEdmund Burke

The survey also asked those polled to identify the biggest crises Taiwan faces, with more than one choice permitted. The top choices were: a serious economic recession (62 percent), continued wrangling among political parties (48.8 percent), and corruption in political circles (31.9 percent). The people's biggest concern clearly centered on economic issues, with the number of respondents citing the country's economic woes 10 percentage points higher than last year, but they also remained worried about the performance of political parties and clean governance. (Table 13)




在此次國情調查中，人民也犀利(sic)點出台灣目前最大的危機，在複選選項中勾選率最高者分別是：經濟嚴重衰退（六二％）、政黨惡鬥（四八．八％）、政治貪腐（三一．九％）。民眾最大的憂慮是經濟議題，較去年增加十個百分點以上，但民眾對政黨表現、政治清明程度也同樣感到憂心。


Prosecutors said the remaining six defendants shouldn't be affected by such a decision because they weren't involved in the wrangle over the payment of legal fees. The defendants all have pleaded not guilty.


Couldn’t wrangle tickets to the premiere of “Spider-Man 3”? Console yourself with a free screening of the David Bowie-Jennifer Connelly fantasy “Labyrinth.”

Frank Rich: Two Cheers for Rod Blagojevich

The Illinois governor is a timely whipping boy for an era of corruption and lack of accountability.



Why China Keeps Picking on Sarkozy
TIME - USA
In China, the energetic French leader has a strikingly different standing: he is Beijing's favorite international whipping boy. The latest humiliation comes ...

Drucker 說社會生態學家的要求之一是尊重語言( respect for language.)......Karl Kraus 是20世紀德文的大師，被翻譯成"他是當時最優秀的德語語言學家"。
And for Kraus, language was morality. Language was integrity. To corrupt language was to corrupt society and individual alike."克勞斯認為，語言就是道德，是誠實的秉性。腐蝕語言就是腐蝕社會和個人。" (頁244)

 梁永安譯： 語言是道德的體現，是誠正的體現，語言的失序會同時帶來社會與個人的失序



whipping boy
n.
  1. A scapegoat.
  2. A boy formerly raised with a prince or other young nobleman and whipped for the latter's misdeeds. 這玩藝西藏中國等地百年前都還有
Jimmy Stewart (about Pie): “The horse was amazing. I rode him for 22 years. I never was able to buy him because he was owned by a little girl by the name of Stevie Myers, who is the daughter of an old wrangler who used to wrangle horses for Tom Mix and W.S. Hart. He retired and he gave this horse to her. He was a sort of a maverick. He hurt a couple of people. I saw him when I started making Westerns. Audie Murphy rode him a couple of times. He nearly killed Glen Ford, ran right into a tree… But I liked this darned little horse. He was a little bit small, a little quarter horse and Arabian. I got to know him like a friend. I actually believed that he understood about making pictures. I ran at a full gallop, straight towards the camera, pulled him up and then did a lot of dialogue and he stood absolutely still. He never moved. He knew when the camera would start rolling and when they did the slates. He knew that because his ears came up.”




wrangle 
noun [C]
an argument, especially one which continues for a long period of time:
a lengthy wrangle about/over costs
The joint venture ended in a legal wrangle between the two companies.

wrangle
verb [I]
They had been wrangling with the authorities about/over parking spaces.

wrangling 
noun [U]
political wrangling

wrangle
v., -gled, -gling, -gles. v.intr.
To quarrel noisily or angrily; bicker. See synonyms at argue.
v.tr.
  1. To win or obtain by argument.
  2. To herd (horses or other livestock).
n.
  1. The act of wrangling.
  2. An angry, noisy argument or dispute.





corrupt
See definition in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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Pronunciation: /kəˈrʌpt/Definition of corrupt in English:

adjective

1Having or showing a willingness to act dishonestly in return for money or personal gain:unscrupulous logging companies assisted by corrupt officials
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1.1Evil or morally depraved:the old corrupt order
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2(Of a text or a computer database or program) made unreliable by errors or alterations:a progressively corrupt magnetic record is usable nonetheless
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3archaic (Of organic or inorganic matter) in a state of decay; rotten or putrid:a corrupt and rotting corpse
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verb

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1Cause to act dishonestly in return for money or personal gain:there is a continuing fear of firms corrupting politicians in the search for contracts
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1.1Cause to become morally depraved:he has corrupted the boy
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2Change or debase by making errors or unintentional alterations:a backup copy will be needed if the original copy becomes corruptedEpicurus’s teachings have since been much corrupted
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3archaic Infect; contaminate:(as adjective corrupting) the corrupting smell of death
Derivativescorrupter

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corruptibility

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corruptible

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corruptive

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corruptly
adverb


corruptness


Origin
Middle English: from Latin corruptus, past participle of corrumpere 'mar, bribe, destroy', from cor-'altogether' + rumpere 'to break'.
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  • Corrupt comes from Latin corrumpere ‘mar, bribe, destroy’, from cor- ‘altogether’ andrumpere ‘to break’. Also from rumpere are disrupt (Late Middle English) ‘break apart’;eruption (Late Middle English) a breaking out; interrupt (Late Middle English) ‘to break between’. See words at rut
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