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The Moderates Who Lighted the Fuse

By GEOFFREY KABASERVICE

Why are moderate Republican legislators repeating the errors of a previous generation of moderates who elevated Newt Gingrich to party leadership?

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Don't let moderate talk from Tehran hide a rush to the nuclear finish line.

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Send weapons to moderate fighters and negotiate with Russia.


 DING, DING, ROUND TWO: President Obama and Mitt Romney square off on Long Island tonight (9 p.m. ET) for the second of this month's three presidential debates. The GOP challenger will be hoping to keep the momentum going from Denver, where he delivered a stronger-than-expected performance that brought an end to the idea that the president was slowly marching toward an inevitable November win. Obama, meanwhile, will look to match some (but probably not all) of Joe Biden's passion from last week to reassure worried Democrats while winning back any of the moderate voters (particularly of the female variety) who may have left his camp since his stumble on the Rocky Mountain stage.



With Australian biotech company Florigene, it said it spliced into roses the gene that leads to the synthesis of the blue pigment Delphinidin in petunias. 在與澳洲Florigene生技公司合作下，三得利公司表示已把一種能讓牽牛花合成藍色色素飛燕草素的基因，與玫瑰的基因相結合。


pe·tu·nia (pĭ-tūn'yə, -tyūn'-)
n.

1. Any of various widely cultivated South American plants of the genus Petunia, having alternate, entire leaves and funnel-shaped flowers in colors from white to purple.
2. A moderate to dark purple.

[New Latin Petunia, genus name, from obsolete French pétun, tobacco, from Portuguese petum, of Tupi-Guarani origin.]

moderate

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adjective

Pronunciation: /ˈmɒd(ə)rət/

• average in amount, intensity, quality, or degree:we walked at a moderate pace
• (of a person, party, or policy) not radical or excessively right- or left-wing:a moderate reform programme

noun

Pronunciation: /ˈmɒd(ə)rət/

• a person who holds moderate views, especially in politics: an unlikely alliance of radicals and moderates

verb

Pronunciation: /ˈmɒdəreɪt/

• 1make or become less extreme, intense, rigorous, or violent: [with object]:I shall not moderate my criticism [no object]:the weather has moderated considerably

• 2 [with object] British review (examination papers, results, or candidates) in relation to an agreed standard so as to ensure consistency of marking: the dependability of an examining system rests on those who set, moderate, and mark the papers

• 3 [with object] (in academic and ecclesiastical contexts) preside over (a deliberative body) or at (a debate):a panel moderated by a Harvard University law professor
• [no object] (especially in the Presbyterian Church in Scotland) act as a moderator; preside: it is the Presbytery that moderates

• 4monitor (an Internet message board or chat room) for inappropriate or offensive content.

• 5 [with object] Physics retard (neutrons) with a moderator: the neutrons causing fission are not moderated but react at high energies

Derivatives

moderateness

noun

moderatism

Pronunciation: /ˈmɒd(ə)rətɪz(ə)m/

noun

Origin:

late Middle English: from Latin moderat- 'reduced, controlled', from the verb moderare; related to modest

moderate[mod・er・ate]

レベル：大学入試程度
発音記号[mɑ'dərət | mɔ'd-]

[形]

1 ((限定))〈人・行動などが〉極端に走らない, 度を過ごさない, はめをはずさない（⇔extreme）

a moderate request
穏やかな要求

have a moderate temper［view］
気質［考え方］が穏健である.

2 （量・程度・質などが）適度の（⇔excessive）；中くらいの, ころあいの, 並の, まあまあの（▼並以下のものを婉曲的にさすこともある）；〈価格が〉低い, 安い

moderate abilities
平凡な才能

at moderate speed
適度なスピードで.

3 〈天候などが〉穏やかな

a moderate climate
温和な気候.

4 穏健派［主義］の（⇔radical）

moderate groups
穏健派グループ.

━━[名]穏健な人, （特に政治や宗教上の）穏健主義者；((通例M-))穏健な改革を唱える政党の一員.動] 〔mdrèit | md-〕 (他)

1 ((形式))…を適度にする, 和らげる, 加減する

moderate prices
値段を引く

He moderated his demands.
彼は要求を控えめにした.

2 〈公開討論会・集会などを〉司会する.

━━(自)

1 ((形式))適度になる, 穏やかになる, 和らぐ

2 司会する.

［ラテン語moderātus （modus尺度＋-ātus過去分詞語尾＝尺度で調節された）. △MODULATE, MODIFY］

mod・er・ate・ness

[名]

  moderate

adjective

Pronunciation: /ˈmɒd(ə)rət/

• average in amount, intensity, quality, or degree:we walked at a moderate pace
• (of a person, party, or policy) not radical or excessively right- or left-wing:a moderate reform programme

noun

Pronunciation: /ˈmɒd(ə)rət/

• a person who holds moderate views, especially in politics: an unlikely alliance of radicals and moderates

verb

Pronunciation: /ˈmɒdəreɪt/

• 1make or become less extreme, intense, rigorous, or violent: [with object]:I shall not moderate my criticism [no object]:the weather has moderated considerably

• 2 [with object] British review (examination papers, results, or candidates) in relation to an agreed standard so as to ensure consistency of marking: the dependability of an examining system rests on those who set, moderate, and mark the papers

• 3 [with object] (in academic and ecclesiastical contexts) preside over (a deliberative body) or at (a debate):a panel moderated by a Harvard University law professor
• [no object] (especially in the Presbyterian Church in Scotland) act as a moderator; preside: it is the Presbytery that moderates

• 4monitor (an Internet message board or chat room) for inappropriate or offensive content.

• 5 [with object] Physics retard (neutrons) with a moderator: the neutrons causing fission are not moderated but react at high energies

Derivatives

moderatism

Pronunciation: /ˈmɒd(ə)rətɪz(ə)m/

noun

Origin:

late Middle English: from Latin moderat- 'reduced, controlled', from the verb moderare; related to modest


 dither

verb

[no object]

• 1be indecisive:I can’t bear people who dither he was dithering about the election date

• 2 [with object] add white noise to (a digital recording) to reduce distortion of low-amplitude signals.
• display or print (a colour image) in such a way that it appears to contain more colours than are really available: (as adjective dithered)  dithered bitmaps

noun

• 1 [mass noun] informal indecisive behaviour:after months of dither ministers had still not agreed

• 2 [in singular] a state of agitation:all of a dither, he prophesied instant chaos

Derivatives

ditherer

noun

dithery

adjective

Origin:

mid 17th century (in the dialect sense 'tremble, quiver'): variant of dialect didder; related to dodder¹

light the (or a) fuse

do something that creates a tense or exciting situation:his goal midway through the first half lit the fuse