According to Chad's army, President Déby had died in clashes with rebels. Read our article from the archive on how America and France have been propping up the authoritarian leaderAmazon’s new boss is “Nice!” or maybe “Nice!!!!”: Karen Weise and Dai have a
fun glimpse at Andy Jassy, who in a few months will become the chief executive of Amazon. Jassy was a “brain double” of Jeff Bezos, one person said, and staff obsessed over Jassy’s email replies of “Nice,” followed by a seemingly random number of exclamation points.
The Borowitz Report: “Our social-media trolls did some of their finest work to put Rick over the top, but, in the final analysis, we were a day late and a ruble short,” the Russian President said.
A Quantum Computer Aces Its Test
By QUENTIN HARDY May 10, 2013
Nordic telecom operators that flocked to Russia in recent years could face a big earnings hit from the plunging value of the ruble as the downturn worsens.
Russian Declaration Hits Markets
Investors sold Russian equities and the ruble as Moscow recognized Georgia's regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent.
For a country where half of all grandparents look after their grandchildren every day – one in eight for more than nine hours a day – the strike call threatens to disrupt the working lives of a significant proportion of the population and expose the extent to which this unpaid work is propping up the economy.
對於一個半數祖父母都得每天照顧孫兒的國家而言──8分之1的祖父母每天當保母的時間超過9小時──這項罷工號召可能威脅到全國大部份人口的正常職場生活,同時也暴露出這份無給職工作對支撐國家經濟的重要程度。
Moscow Moves to Calm Investors
Top Russian officials sought to reassure investors alarmed by the sudden removal of long-serving Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, predicting a rebound for the ruble even as the central bank said it spent $2.36 billion on Monday to shore up the slumping currency.
prop
To support by placing something beneath or against; shore up.
prop up 助ける, 支える, 支持する
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Definition of exclamation
noun
a sudden cry or remark expressing surprise, strong emotion, or pain:an exclamation of amazement
Grammar
A remark expressing surprise, delight, pain, anger, or other strong emotion, often spoken with extra force or emphasis:How wonderful! In
writing, exclamations are often shown by the use of an exclamation
mark. Exclamation sentences can have a special grammatical construction,
which involves changing the normal sentence order and starting the
sentence in one of two ways: The sentence begins with how + adjective:How strange it looked from below! (instead of It looked strange from below.) The sentence begins with what + noun phrase:What an incredible confidence trick the election polls have turned out to be. (instead of The election polls have turned out to be an incredible confidence trick.)In speech particularly, exclamations frequently contain no verb:How stupid of me!
exclamation
informal
expressing shock and alarm, often for humorous effect:I had a dip in the 40 degree pool (yikes!)
Origin:
1970s: of unknown origin; compare with
yoicks
Exclamation marks, also known as exclamation points, were originally called the "note of admiration." They are used to exclaim something. They are commonly used after interjections (words or phrases that are used to exclaim, command or protest like “wow” or “oh”).
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