2015年10月29日 星期四

double-jointed, telethon, to the nth degree

The key thing about online applications [like Google] is that they are platform agnostic....Open source doesn't require licensing fees, and is like a double-jointed Russian gymnast: It's flexible. Really flexible. This puts it in a far better position to provide a platform for the new platform agnostic online world.

Banks' Telethon Is Nearly Over
Big banks have raised at least $85 billion in just the past month through selling shares to investors and other fund-raising. The sum leaves most of them holding considerably more capital than U.S. regulators required as part of "stress tests."


M.I.T. Taking Student Blogs to Nth Degree 
By TAMAR LEWIN
Dozens of colleges are embracing student blogs on their Web sites, seeing them as a powerful admissions tool.


to the nth degree

To the utmost, as in They'd decked out the house to the nth degree. This expression comes from mathematics, where to the nth means "to any required power" (n standing for any number). It was first recorded in 1852.


telethon

n.
A lengthy television program to raise funds for a charity.
[TELE– + (MARA)THON.] 將marathon




double-jointedadj.
Having unusually flexible joints, especially of the limbs or fingers.

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