2016年5月20日 星期五

runaway, bank runs, running mate, running battle, deliver (PRODUCE), running-book titles

How can a sport as simple as running inspire so many new books every year?
Since 2009, the number of running-book titles published per year has nearly tripled to 267 last year, according to Bowker, a tracker of publishing trends.
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EBay won a case against Tiffany over the sale of counterfeit jewelry on its site, delivering the first significant victory to the e-commerce company in its running battle with luxury goods companies over fake merchandise.

By ADAM NAGOURNEY 6:53 PM ET
The two governors, Charlie Crist and Bobby Jindal, and Mitt Romney are viewed as contenders to run with Senator John McCain.


bank runs

The financial crisis currently under way is basically an updated version of the wave of bank runs that swept the nation three generations ago. People aren’t pulling cash out of banks to put it in their mattresses — but they’re doing the modern equivalent, pulling their money out of the shadow banking system and putting it into Treasury bills. And the result, now as then, is a vicious circle of financial contraction.


俗語中"跑(run)銀行三點半(最後期限)"等......

但是 銀行本身也會有資金周轉大問題(擠兌等: RUN (A series of unexpected and urgent demands, as by depositors or customers: a run on a bank.)) 也叫 bank run


running mate noun [C]
in the US, a political partner chosen for a politician who is trying to get elected:
If a candidate for president wins the election, his/her running mate becomes the vice president.

deliver (PRODUCE)
verb [I or T]
to achieve or produce; to fulfil something promised:
The government has failed to deliver (what it promised).
MAINLY US The Republicans are relying on their agricultural policies to deliver the farmers' vote (= to persuade farmers to vote for them).



running battle
an argument that lasts over several different occasions:
I've had a running battle with the neighbours over whose responsibility that fence is.

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