U.S.
50 Years Later, It Feels Familiar: How America Fractured in 1968
It was a violent year. Liberals reeled, a war dragged on and protests raged. People got all their news from radio, TV and newspapers. But what if they’d had phones vibrating with modern news alerts?
Amtrak Says Shortfalls and Rules Delayed Safety System
The railroad said technical and regulatory roadblocks had delayed operation of the system, which might have prevented this week’s train derailment.
"This isn’t a case of discrimination by Facebook, not exactly. It’s a case of Facebook offering a platform for its users to bludgeon those who don’t conform."
紐約時報（New York Times）網路版今天在Sinosphere專欄當中，刊登了王霜舟（Austin Ramzy）發表的文章，標題為「台灣捲入餿水油醜聞」（Taiwan Reels From Gutter Oil Scandal）。
文中指出，這起食安醜聞爆發於中秋節期間，使得民眾對於傳統習俗的月餅興趣減低；在這次回收油品醜聞之前，2013年台灣曾發生一連串事件，引發食品品質規範是否落實的疑慮，多家廠商被查出添加非法色料成份到食用油當中，並且用棉籽油等廉價品稀釋橄欖油。
'Watching Miley Cyrus's show feels a bit like being repeatedly bludgeoned over the head, and just as erotic' Guardian culture
Other stadium-sized pop acts signpost their maturity with clanging visual...
The Guardian
“Yahoo Japan is a Japanese company, and most of their employees are Japanese people who fluently understand how the Japanese mind-set and business work,” said Nobuyuki Hayashi, a technology analyst. “But Google’s still a foreigner who’s learned how to speak some Japanese.”
Iceland has been reeling from the effects of the financial crisis since October 2008, when its banks collapsed in the space of a week under the weight of billions of dollars in debt.
冰島自2008年10月以來，一直飽受金融危機效應所苦，當時冰島的銀行因無法承擔數十億美元的債務，在一週內紛紛倒閉。
On May 6, Porsche and Volkswagen set a four-week deadline to create an “integrated” auto concern, but the deadline came and went amid some very public sniping from Mr. Piëch. The conflict centers on whether a fusion would simply make Porsche the 10th brand within the sprawling VW empire, or whether it would be a merger of equals.
An alpha male who is known to create fear among his underlings, Mr. Piëch has made clear that the goal was to reel in Porsche on VW’s terms.
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Nortel Networks filed for protection from creditors in the U.S. and Canada, reeling from sliding demand for its telecom equipment.
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Revenue Shortfalls
School budgets are already reeling from projected shortfalls in state revenue, which can typically make up anywhere from about one-third to two-thirds of district budgets. This coming fiscal year, 23 states are projecting gaps -- where revenues are expected to be lower than expenditures -- compared with 16 last year, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Local revenue sources, often tied to property-tax revenues, are also suffering from the real-estate slowdown.
Japan reeling from latest bizarre murder spree
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
By Julian Ryall in Tokyo
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
By Julian Ryall in Tokyo
A 77-year-old Japanese man bludgeoned his family to death with a hammer to feel "relief", the latest in a series of violent and ...
Japan reeling from latest bizarre murder spree
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
By Julian Ryall in Tokyo
A 77-year-old Japanese man bludgeoned his family to death with a hammer to feel "relief", the latest in a series of violent and ...
bludgeon
- Main Entry: , bludgeon,
- 1blud·geon
- Pronunciation:
- \ˈblə-jən\
- Function:
- noun
- Etymology:
- origin unknown
- Date:
- 1730
bludg·eon (bl
j
n)
n.
A short heavy club, usually of wood, that is thicker or loaded at one end.
tr.v. bludg·eoned, bludg·eon·ing, bludg·eons
1. To hit with or as if with a heavy club.
2. To overcome by or as if by using a heavy club. See Synonyms at intimidate.
[Origin unknown.]
bludgeon·er, bludg
eon·eer (--nîr) n.
A short heavy club, usually of wood, that is thicker or loaded at one end.
1. To hit with or as if with a heavy club.
2. To overcome by or as if by using a heavy club. See Synonyms at intimidate.
eon·er, bludgeon·eer (--nîr) n.VERB
Force or bully (someone) to do something:she was determined not to be bludgeoned intosubmission
drag
shortfall
noun [C]
an amount which is less than the level that was expected or needed:
The drought caused serious shortfalls in the food supply.
A deficit of something required or expected:they are facing an expected $10 billion shortfall in revenue
reel
v.intr.- To be thrown off balance or fall back: reeled from the sharp blow.
- To stagger, lurch, or sway, as from drunkenness: reeled down the alley.
- To go round and round in a whirling motion: gulls reeling and diving.
- To feel dizzy: My head reeled with the facts and figures.
n.
- A device, such as a cylinder, spool, or frame, that turns on an axis and is used for winding and storing rope, tape, film, or other flexible materials.
- A cylindrical device attached to a fishing rod to let out or wind up the line.
- The quantity of wire, film, or other material wound on one reel.
- A set of curved lawn-mower blades that rotate around a bar parallel to the ground, cutting grass while moving against a stationary straight blade.
- To wind on or let out from a reel.
- To recover by winding on a reel: reel in a large fish.
reel off
- To recite fluently and usually at length: reeled off a long list of names and dates.
[Middle English, from Old English hrēol.]
reel：動詞，指使旋轉、搖晃或眩暈、震驚得無法行動，如We were reeling with the news that we had won all that money.（聽到贏了那麼多錢，我們簡直嚇暈了。）reel (MOVE) Show phonetics
verb [I]
1 to walk moving from side to side, looking like you are going to fall:
At closing time he reeled out of the pub and fell down on the pavement.
She hit him so hard that he reeled backwards.
2 If the place where you are reels, what you are looking at seems to go round and round in front of you:
A stone hit his head and the street reeled before his eyes.
3 If you reel, or your mind or brain reels, you feel very confused or shocked and unable to act:
We were reeling (in amazement/shock/delight, etc.) from/with the news that we had won all that money.
Feel shocked, bewildered, or giddy:the Prime Minister was reeling from a savaging inflicted in the Commons
『蔡瀾嘆世界』幾篇
許久沒讀蔡瀾先生先生的專欄。不過最近買進：『蔡瀾嘆世界』（
表面上，蔡瀾是「俗人」，對於享受生命發揮得淋漓盡致的人，
最有意思的是，他的書之用字，對內地讀者應該有注解才好懂。
這本書我最喜愛「頌椿」 -- 相對而言是「長篇」，寫他家人和他認識的椿樹 – 真巧，我想不出來前人將為什麼用椿萱表示父母。
news・reel
ニュース映画.
⇒news
⇒news
fluent
adj.- Able to express oneself readily and effortlessly: a fluent speaker; fluent in three languages.
- Flowing effortlessly; polished: speaks fluent Russian; gave a fluent performance of the sonata.
- Flowing or moving smoothly; graceful: a yacht with long, fluent curves.
- Flowing or capable of flowing; fluid.
[Latin fluēns, fluent-, present participle of fluere, to flow.]
fluency flu'en·cy n.fluently flu'ent·ly adv.
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