maturity, mellow, resentment, couverture, umbrage, The West’s naive dreams of changing China lie in the past: its every-country-for-itself worldview is all too clear. Now the best way to temper Xi Jinping’s aggression and bullying is to show that it comes with costs

The West’s naive dreams of changing China lie in the past: its every-country-for-itself worldview is all too clear. Now the best way to temper Xi Jinping’s aggression and bullying is to show that it comes with costs https://econ.st/3WMtlCg

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Maturity is knowing what your limitations are. Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything. ~Kurt Vonnegut

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 The Mellowing of Maxine Waters

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Since becoming the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, Representative Maxine Waters has softened her tone and vowed to protect bankers' interests.

umbrage in Catalonia

 Katrina Merrem and her husband, Noah Houghton, who started Noka three years ago in their Dallas-area apartment, took umbrage at the attack. They will not reveal the source of their chocolate, though most chocolatiers brag about that. Mr. Houghton said, "The couverture is made specially for us."


Daisy：Yes, they've really taken umbrage at the way these newcomers are behaving and the effect they're having on the village.
黛茜：是啊，本地人很不高興新來者的行為，以及他們對這條村的影響。

Andy Burnham has outlined proposals to phase out hospital parking charges for in-patients and some out-patients which he says have caused "great resentment".


Google Responds To UK MP's Critical Column
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By John Letzing Google Inc. took umbrage with a blistering criticism of the Internet giant by a Conservative member of the UK's Parliament published Monday, ...



 Couverture chocolate is a very high quality chocolate that contains extra cocoa butter (32-39%). The higher percentage of cocoa butter, combined with proper tempering, gives the chocolate more sheen, firmer "snap" when broken, and a creamy mellow flavor.






umbrage (ŭm'brĭj)
n.

1. Offense; resentment: took umbrage at their rudeness.
2. 1. Something that affords shade.
   2. Shadow or shade. See synonyms at shade.
3. A vague or indistinct indication; a hint.

[Middle English, shade, from Old French, from Latin umbrāticum, neuter of umbrāticus, of shade, from umbra, shadow.]

[名][U]

1 ((形式・おどけて))不快（感）, 立腹

give umbrage to ...
…を立腹させる

take umbrage (at a ...)
（…に）立腹する, （…を）不快に思う.

2 ((古・詩))陰, 影；（陰を作る）葉の茂り.


這umbrage 注意讀音。它原拉丁是「陰影」意思，不過現在多這樣使用（字義演進可參考諸如Phrases and sayings）：
umbrage          
noun SLIGHTLY FORMAL
take umbrage to feel upset or annoyed, usually because you feel that someone has been rude or shown a lack of respect to you:  生氣
You don't think she'll take umbrage if she isn't invited to the wedding, do you?

Definition of mellow

adjective

• 1(especially of a sound, flavour, or colour) pleasantly smooth or soft; free from harshness:she was hypnotized by the mellow tone of his voice slow cooking gives the dish a sweet, mellow flavour
• (of wine) well-matured and smooth:a mellow, richly flavoured Shiraz
• archaic (of fruit) ripe, sweet, and juicy: one dish of mellow apples

• 2(of a person’s character) tempered by maturity or experience:a more mellow personality
• relaxed and good-humoured:Jean-Claude was feeling mellow

• 3 informal relaxed and cheerful through being slightly drunk:everybody got very mellow and slept well

• 4(of earth) rich and loamy: to most farmers, soil has good tilth when it is mellow and granular and crumbles easily in the hand

verb

• make or become mellow: [with object]:even a warm sun could not mellow the North Sea breeze [no object]:fuller-flavoured whiskies mellow with wood maturation
• [no object] (mellow out) informal relax and enjoy oneself:I need to mellow out, I need to calm down

Derivatives

mellowly

adverb

mellowness

noun

Origin:

late Middle English (in the sense 'ripe, sweet, and juicy'): perhaps from attributive use of Old English melu, melw- (see meal²). The verb dates from the late 16th century

resentment

Pronunciation: /rɪˈzɛntm(ə)nt/

Definition of resentment

noun

[mass noun]

• bitter indignation at having been treated unfairly:his resentment at being demoted [count noun]:some people harbour resentments going back many years

Origin:

early 17th century: from Italian risentimento or French ressentiment, from obsolete French resentir (see resent)