tort, doomsayer, repartee, indifferent to negligent, line one's own pocket(s)

Chan Lowe / South Florida Sun Sentinel

The Lonely Death of Sabrina Seelig

By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS

The family of Sabrina Seelig says she suffered an agonizing death because the care she received at a Brooklyn hospital was indifferent to negligent.

A 1976 triptych by Francis Bacon brought $86.3 million on Wednesday night at Sotheby’s, becoming the most expensive work of contemporary art ever sold at auction and a retort to doomsayers who had predicted that the art market would falter seriously this season because of broad economic anxieties.

A 1976 triptych by Francis Bacon

The most popular exhibit at the American Museum of Tort Law is dedicated to explaining the McDonald’s hot-coffee lawsuit.

Ralph Nader's Tort Museum

The museum presents the idea that personal-injury law isn’t a way to line lawyers’ pockets but a way to hold the powerful to account.

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line one's own pocket(s)

Fig. to make money for oneself in a greedy or dishonest fashion. They are interested in lining their pockets first and serving the peoplesecond. You can't blame them for wanting to line their own pockets.

doomsayer

(dūm'sā'ər) One who predicts calamity at every opportunity.
doomsayers，災難預言者 。基督徒會支持特朗普嗎？學者彼得·魏納(Peter Wehner)在觀點文章中提到了他的觀察：許多堅信人們正面臨道德滅頂之災的基督徒正給予特朗普全力支持，他們承認特朗普個人可能是腐敗的、不道德的，但他的事業——阻止支持墮胎、性開放的民主黨接管美國——卻是有效的。魏納認為，這些“基督教災難預言者”沉溺於自己的黑暗敘事中，這讓他們扭曲了對真實世界的看法。

tort
n. Law
Damage, injury, or a wrongful act done willfully, negligently, or in circumstances involving strict liability, but not involving breach of contract, for which a civil suit can be brought.

[Middle English, injury, from Old French, from Medieval Latin tortum, from Latin, neuter past participle of torquēre, to twist.]

[名]《法律》（人体・財産・名誉などが傷つき補償請求ので きる）不法行為.




repartee
noun [U]
quick and usually amusing answers and remarks in conversation:
Oscar Wilde's plays are full of witty repartee.

おうしゅう　応酬

an answer; 《返事》a reply; 《やりかえす》(a) repartee [retort]; an exchange ((of cups))
・～する　reply; retort; exchange.

negligent[neg・li・gent]

• レベル：社会人必須
• 発音記号[néglidʒənt]

[形]((形式))

1 （勤務・義務などを）怠りがちな, 怠慢な；不注意な；ずぼらな, 無頓着(むとんじゃく)な, 無関心な；（行為などが）投げやりな((of, in ..., in doing))

a negligent student
怠慢な学生

be negligent in dress ［one's work］
身なりをかまわない［仕事がぞんざいである］

He is negligent of punctuation ［his duties］.
句読点に無頓着［職務怠慢］である.

2 ((文))((通例限定))〈人のふるまい・服装などが〉飾らない, 自然な

with negligent grace
むりなく上品に

in a negligent pose
自然なポーズで.

neg・li・gent・ly

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