If the chief minister of the southern Indian state of Kerala, Oommen Chandy, has his way, booze will be banned in India's hardest-drinking state within a decade. At 8.3 litres of alcohol per citizen per year, its rate of consumption is the highest in India http://econ.st/1nPhmZZ
The Big Game Battle
Microsoft's blockbuster videogame "Halo 4" hits the shelves a week before a new version of "Call of Duty" in an epic fight for attention and sales.
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| "... they're great friends. Everyone, that is, except Bogey." Shortly before, Huston remembered, Bogart had gone on a gigantic bender in Paris. He and his wife, Lauren Bacall, both in their cups, were riding down the Champs-Élysees in a horse-drawn coach. "Suddenly ..." She even shared tips on that perennial conundrum of the cash-strapped young person: how to serve cheap booze to guests without them knowing any better. |
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City currency trader Alex Hope who blew ￡204000 a night on drinks to celebrate becoming a millionaire told The Sun he has no regrets--because he can earn that in days.
倫敦外匯交易員艾力克斯．霍普一夜狂歡喝酒喝掉20萬4000英鎊，慶祝他躋身百萬富翁之列，他向「太陽報」說，他不後悔，因為他幾天內就能把這筆錢賺回來。
It is the most expensive bar bill in the UK. The epic outlay included ￡125000 on a bottle of the world’s priciest bubbly. He also shelled out over ￡60000 on other drinks and paid an ￡18540 service charge.
這是英國最貴的酒吧帳單。這筆龐大開支包括花12萬5000英鎊開一瓶全球最貴的香檳。他另外還花了6萬多英鎊在其他飲料，以及1萬8540英鎊的服務費。
But the 23-year-old young whiz kid, who lives in London’s Docklands, insists he is not a show-off. He said："I was embarrassed because it made me look flash and really I’m not."
但是，這名住在倫敦船塢區的23歲青年才俊強調，他不是愛炫耀的人。他說：「我很不好意思，因為這讓我看起來很招搖，其實我不是。」
"But I promised myself when I became a millionaire I would have a night out. I’ve worked hard to afford it. So why not? I can earn ￡50000 a day."
「而是我曾向自己承諾，成為百萬富翁時，要狂歡一夜。我努力工作讓我花得起這樣的錢，所以，為何不呢？我一天就能賺到5萬英鎊。」
新聞辭典：
booze[booze]
- レベル：社会人必須
- 発音記号[búːz]
((略式))[名]
1 [U]アルコール飲料, 酒；((米))ウイスキー
2 [U][C]酒宴.
━━[動](他)(自)((進行形で))（長期にわたって）大酒を飲む((away, up)).
［中オランダ語から］epic
(ĕp'ĭk)
n.
- An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a legendary or traditional hero.
- A literary or dramatic composition that resembles an extended narrative poem celebrating heroic feats.
- A series of events considered appropriate to an epic: the epic of the Old West.
- Of, constituting, having to do with, or suggestive of a literary epic: an epic poem.
- Surpassing the usual or ordinary, particularly in scope or size: "A vast musical panorama . . . it requires an epic musical understanding to do it justice" (Tim Page).
- Heroic and impressive in quality: "Here in the courtroom . . . there was more of that epic atmosphere, the extra amperage of a special moment" (Scott Turow).
[From Latin epicus, from Greek epikos, from epos, word, song.]
epically ep'i·cal·ly adv.outlay：名詞，花費、開支。例句：The outlay on groceries costs most of my weekly income.（日常用品的花費佔掉我每週收入的一大半。）
shell out：動詞片語，付錢。例句：The young man had a car accident after all-night bender and he had to shell out $2000 for car repairs.（這個年輕人喝酒狂歡一整夜後發生車禍，得花2000美元修車。）
booze bender, Ovaltine bender,
One Day film
We could go on an Ovaltine bender.
Ovaltine
NOUN
Origin
Early 20th century; earliest use found in The Trade Marks Journal. Shortened fromOvomaltine, the name of the product in Switzerland, where the manufacturer is based from French ovo- + maltine, with allusion to the inclusion of dried egg in the mixture.
bender
n.
- One that bends: a bender of iron bars; a bender of the truth.
- Slang. A spree, especially a drinking spree.俚語，大肆喝酒狂歡。
- Intoxicated; drunk.
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