Once-lost ancient bronze statues reemerge for a once-in-a-lifetime exhibit.
Once-lost ancient bronze statues reemerge for a once-in-a-lifetime exhibit.
Turkish Leader Says He Had a ‘Duty’ to Clear Istanbul Park
By SEBNEM ARSU, TIM ARANGO and MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ
While government forces moved swiftly on Sunday to quash the vestiges of
the protest movement in Istanbul, opposition leaders vowed to press on,
with two trade unions planning a one-day strike Monday to protest the
crackdown.
Taiwan’s government has long discarded most of the fictions that used to sustain its claim to legitimacy over all of China: parliamentary seats for mainland constituencies, government bodies planning for the reconquest, and so on. That Taiwan and China make the same territorial claims is a last vestige of a shared “one China” outlook. Yet its handling of the row with the Philippines shows how even a “pro-China” government in Taiwan in fact believes in “one China, one Taiwan”.
It is easier to get someplace crawling over the tops of New York taxi cabs than inside one. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
8月30日是「強迫失蹤受害者國際日」（ International Day of the Disappeared,），
總部設於美國紐約的「國際轉型正義中心」(
但這個手段並未能滅絕受害者家屬對正義與真相的追求，
Chinese Consultant Buys U.K. Auto Maker
A Chinese consultant at the center of British auto maker MG Rover's collapse in 2005 has bought another struggling vestige of the U.K.'s auto industry.
“It's been six years since Pete Sampras played the U.S. Open, and with his retirement went the last vestige of a tennis style that dominated the sport for decades: the serve-and-volley.”
- Aron Pilhofer, The New York Times
Red List Update: Half the World's Primates Could Disappear Soon
Close to half of the world’s primates are in danger of becoming extinct.
That’s according to the latest update of the Red List of Endangered
Species published by the International Union for the Conservation of
Nature or IUCN this week.
The DW-WORLD Article
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/
In this classic bestseller, Liza Dalby, the only non-Japanese ever to have trained as a geisha, offers an insider's look at the exclusive world of female companions and the Japanese male elite. Her new preface considers the geisha today as a vestige of tradition as Japan heads into the 21st century. 62 photos/illustrations.
Definition of vestige
noun
Origin:
late Middle English: from French, from Latin vestigium 'footprint'vestige noun [C] FORMAL
a still existing small part or amount of something larger, stronger or more important that existed in the past but does not exist now:
These old buildings are the last vestiges of a colonial past.
There is now no vestige of hope that the missing children will be found alive.
vestigial
adjective
1 [before noun] being a small remaining part or amount
2 SPECIALIZED describes something, especially a part of the body, that has not developed completely, or has stopped being used and has almost disappeared:
a vestigial organ/limb/tail
"a society whch abandons all vestige of enthusiasm beccomes a dangeously disaffected place."“放棄所有風采熱情的社會，將會是危險的不滿之地。”
ves・tige
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━━ n. 跡, （かすかな）形跡［痕跡，面影］ ((of)); ((普通否定語を伴って)) ほんの少し ((of)); 【生物】退化器管; 〔まれ〕 足跡.
ves・tig・i・al
━━ a. 痕跡の; 【生物】退化した.
ves・tig・i・al・ly ad.
vestigial organ 【生物】痕跡器官.
ves・tig・i・al ━━ a. 痕跡の; 【生物】退化した.ves・tig・i・al・ly ad.
vestigial organ 【生物】痕跡器官.
verb [I]
If people or things disappear, they go somewhere where they cannot be seen or found:
The search was called off for the sailors who disappeared in the storm.
This is a way of life that is fast disappearing.
I can't find my keys anywhere - they've completely disappeared.
The sun disappeared behind a cloud.
We looked for her but she had disappeared into the crowd.
The film is about a girl who mysteriously disappeared while on a picnic at Hanging Rock.
I don't know how it's possible for a person to disappear without trace.
the disappeared plural noun
people who have been killed by a government or army, usually for political reasons, and whose bodies have not been found
disappearance
noun [C or U]
when someone or something disappears:
A man was being questioned in connection with her disappearance.extinct Show phonetics
adjective
1 not now existing:
There is concern that the giant panda will soon become extinct.
Many tribes became extinct when they came into contact with Western illnesses.
A lot of trades have become extinct because of the development of technology.
2 An extinct volcano is one that is not now active (= will not explode again).
extinction Show phonetics
noun [U]
The extinction of the dinosaurs occurred (= they stopped existing) millions of years ago.
Many species of plants and animals are in danger of/threatened with extinction (= being destroyed so that they no longer exist).
Some people predict the extinction of family life as we know it today.
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Dictator Loses Grip in Desert
Gadhafi clung to the vestiges of power in Libya amid the specter of civil war, as pillars of his state fell away from him—including, stingingly, the loss of a vital airport in eastern Libya following a four-day seige by antiregime forces.
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