backing,"full backing" , endorse (SUPPORT), misguided

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Intel Calls FTC Lawsuit Misguided

Doug Melamed, Intel's senior vice president and general counsel, calls FTC's lawsuit against Intel "misguided and unwarranted."

French president Nicolas Sarkozy also assured Hamid Karzai of France's "full backing" as he congratulated the Afghan leader on his re-election.

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By CHOIRE SICHA
Why the Federal Trade Commission’s effort to regulate online endorsements is misguided.



G-8 Backs Greenhouse-Gas Cuts

The Group of Eight officially endorsed a goal of halving greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050 and promised "ambitious" cuts over the next decade or two. But they also urged fast-growing emerging economies to pledge their own meaningful reductions. (Statement)

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misguide

━━ vt. 誤った指導をする, 思い誤らせる.
mis・guidance　━━ n.
mis・guided　━━ a. 誤った.
mis・guidedly　ad.


endorse (SUPPORT) Hide phonetics
verb [T]
1 to make a public statement of your approval or support for something or someone:
The National Executive is expected to endorse these recommendations.
FORMAL I fully endorse (= agree with) everything the Chairperson has said.

2 to appear in an advertisement, saying that you use and like a particular product:
They paid $2 million to the world champion to endorse their new aftershave.

endorsement Hide phonetics
noun [C or U]

It's a period of translation and of the key backing to the idea of translation, the first composition of a good Chinese English dictionary in which the languages were shared and pulled together by, actually, missionary scholars at the same time as they compiled their dictionary to translate the whole of the Bible into Chinese. And this feat was finished with the first draft version around about 1830.

在這時期，翻譯和其想法的關鍵支持、參考品等勃興。在傳教士-學者們翻譯整部聖經成中文時，首部優良漢英字典也編成，由所有的相關人員來參考。這翻譯壯舉約在1830年完成初稿。

backing (băk'ĭng)

1. Something forming a back: the backing of a carpet.
2. 1. Support or aid: financial backing.
   2. Approval or endorsement: The President has backing from the farm belt.

back・ing

━━ n. 裏打ち; 支援（グループ）; 裏書; 裏板; （製本の）背付け; 【楽】伴奏; 後退; 逆行.
back・ing memory　【コンピュータ】補助記憶装置.
back・ing storage　【コンピュータ】補助記憶装置 （back・ing store）.