Catalonia's independence referendum bogged down the region's president, Carles Puigdemont, in October. In one of his most popular cartoons of the year @kaltoons offered his take
Catalonia's independence referendum bogged down the region's president, Carles Puigdemont, in October. In one of his most popular cartoons of the year @kaltoons offered his take
Trillions Spent, but Crises Like Greece’s Persist
Beyond Greece and Puerto Rico, high borrowing is also bogging down the globally significant economies of Brazil, Turkey, Italy and China.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Hundreds of technicians and engineers are camped out in Tokyo hotels trying to revive Japan's nuclear industry, shut down in the ...
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J.P. Morgan Struggles to Unwind Huge Bets
The size of J.P. Morgan's bets is bogging down its efforts to extract itself and threatening deeper losses.
His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day,
while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help
coming from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog.
There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy,
screaming and struggling to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved the
lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death.
The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse
surroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and
introduced himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had
saved.
'I want to repay you,' said the nobleman.. 'You saved my
son's life.'
'No, I can't accept payment for what I did,' the Scottish farmer
replied waving off the offer. At that moment, the farmer's own son
came to the door of the family hovel.
'Is that your son?' the nobleman asked.
'Yes,' the farmer replied proudly.
'I'll make you a deal. Let me provide him with the level of education
my own son will enjoy If the lad is anything like his father, he'll
no doubt grow to be a man we both will be proud of.' And that he
did.
Farmer Fleming's son attended the very best schools and in time,
graduated from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and went
on to become known throughout the world as the note d Sir Alexander
Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin.
Years afterward, the same nobleman's son who was saved from the bog
was stricken with pneumonia. 肺炎
What saved his life this time? Penicillin.
The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill .. His son's name?
Sir Winston Churchill.
*****
Someone once said: What goes around comes around.
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
Sing like nobody's listening.
Live like it's Heaven on Earth .
From book-shaped biscuit tins to literary handbags, blooks (an abbreviation of "book-look") are a little quirky, but entirely delightful.
eBay, PayPal and Google join anti-phishing forces
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PayPal and its owner eBay have announced a link-up with Google's Gmail webmail service to protect consumers against fraudulent e-mails and phishing attacks. ...The Downside of Friends: Facebook's Hacking Problem
By CLAIRE SUDDATH
Why should you be leery of your friends? Because the same scams we've learned to watch out for in e-mail are popping up on the mega-networking site
Phish is an Internet scam designed to trick the recipient into revealing credit card, passwords, social security numbers and other personal information to individuals who intend to use them for fraudulent purposes. The scam is known as "phishing" and the communications are sent to appear to look as if they come from reputable companies. The e-mails often instruct the recipient to verify or update account information by requesting a reply to his e-mail with updated information, or by providing the recipient with a link to a website where the new information may be entered. Anyone who receives such an email should not respond to it, or click on any links provided, but should contact the company who purportedly sent the notice, to inform them of the scam.
scam
n.
A fraudulent business scheme; a swindle.
tr.v., scammed, scam·ming, scams.
To defraud; swindle.
[Origin unknown.]
scammer scam'mer n.
bog (TOILET) Show phonetics
noun [C] UK SLANG
a toilet:
I'm just going to nip to the bog.
We've run out of bog paper/roll.
bog (WET AREA) Show phoneticsnoun [C] UK SLANG
a toilet:
I'm just going to nip to the bog.
We've run out of bog paper/roll.
noun [C or U]
soft, wet earth, or an area of this
[名]
1 [C][U]沼地, 湿地, 沼沢地帯, 湿地帯.
2 ((通例〜s))((英俗))（屋外）便所.
━━[動]（〜ged, 〜・ging）(他)(自)（…を）泥沼に沈める［沈む］；はまり込ませる［はまる］；（交渉などを）難航させる, にっちもさっちもいかなくなる((down)). ▼(他)では通例受身
Bog off！
((英話))ほっといてくれ.
((英話))ほっといてくれ.
bog
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Pronunciation: /bɒg/
noun
noun
- 1.1 Ecology wetland with acid peaty soil, typically dominated by peat moss. Compare with 1) in Oxford Dictionaries (British & World English)">fen1.
verb (bogs, bogging, bogged)
Origin
Middle English: from Irish or Scottish Gaelic bogach, from bog 'soft'.bog down
Become stuck, be unable to progress, as in Their research bogged down because they lacked the laboratory expertise. This expression transfers sinking into the mud of a swamp to being hampered or halted. [First half of 1900s]
1 (be/get bogged down) be or become stuck in mud or wet ground:the family Rover became bogged down on the beach road
boggy
adjective
describes ground that is soft and wet
hovel
noun [C]
a small home which is dirty and in bad condition
noun [U]
1 dirt or animal excrement:
You're treading muck into the carpet with your dirty shoes!
a pile of dog muck
2 something you consider disgusting or very low quality:
I'm not eating that muck!
The immigrants were treated like muck (= treated badly, as if they were not important).
mucky
adjective
1 INFORMAL dirty:
Get your mucky feet off that chair!
Don't walk all over my clean floor in your mucky boots.
2 UK INFORMAL pornographic:
a mucky book/film/magazine
國四英雄傳 p 不發音Pneumonia is an infection of the lung, and can be caused by nearly any class of organism known to cause human infections. These include bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites. In the United States, pneumonia is the sixth most common disease leading to death. It is also the most common fatal infection acquired by already hospitalized patients. In developing countries, pneumonia ties with diarrhea as the most common cause of death.
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