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Taiwan to Aid Struggling Companies

Taiwan plans to provide about $6 billion in financial aid for struggling companies. Chip maker Nanya could seek assistance this week.

Ms. Luo said she struggled in 20 different occupations — secretary, saleswoman, restaurateur and translator among them — before deciding to take a break. She traveled to Paris in 2006 for vacation. It was there that she first saw pole dancing.

“I wandered into a pub, and there was a woman dancing on the stage,” she said. “I thought it was beautiful.”

Ms. Luo, who quickly discovered that pole dancing for fitness was popular in America, realized that if she could take away the shadier aspects of the erotic dance and repackage it into an activity more acceptable to mainstream Chinese women, she might create a Chinese fitness revolution. Here was an exercise that would allow women to stay fit and express their sexuality with an unprecedented degree of openness and freedom.

pole dancing 鋼管舞蹈

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struggle (EFFORT) Show phonetics
verb [I]
1 to experience difficulty and make a very great effort in order to do something:
[+ to infinitive] The dog had been struggling to get free of the wire noose.
I've been struggling to understand this article all afternoon.
Fish struggle for survival when the water level drops in the lake.

2 struggle along/through/out, etc. to move somewhere with great effort:
He struggled along the rough road holding his son.
By this time he'd managed to struggle out of bed.

3 INFORMAL to be in danger of failing or being defeated:
After the first half, United were really struggling at 1-3 down.

struggle Show phonetics
noun [C]
It was a terrible struggle for him to accept her death.
The people of this country will continue in their struggle for independence.
[+ to infinitive] She never gave up the struggle to have her son freed from prison.
It's going to be an uphill struggle (= very difficult) to get your ideas accepted.

struggling Show phonetics
adjective
unsuccessful but trying hard to succeed:
It's the story of a struggling artist who marries a rich woman.

restaurant Hide phonetics
noun [C]
a place where meals are prepared and served to customers

restaurateur Hide phonetics
noun [C] FORMAL
a person who owns and manages a restaurant

repackage

(rē-păk'ĭj) tr.v., -aged, -ag·ing, -ag·es.

To package again or anew, especially in a more attractive package.