2024年12月17日 星期二

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It will remain as politically fraught and physically dangerous as ever. Crackdowns will increase and tragedies may soon follow
She and Dickens enlisted in the tours of the Southern Folk Cultural Revival Project, where an integrated confederation of musicians trekked across the South for little money, reintroducing the musical heritage to the communities that fostered it. Gerrard often drove the cramped little van through the fraught region, the diverse roster making for a mobile political statement.









Andrea Mantovani for The New York Times

After Mocking France’s Literary Elite, a Fraught Invite Into the Club

A Senegal-born writer has won high praise from Paris’s insular publishing establishment. But the novelist wonders: Is it “a way to silence me”?


China reported 61 new infections on Monday, with 41 of them in politically fraught Xinjiang province.

In the midst of a pandemic and fraught political landscape, the court saw cases involving religion, abortion, civil rights and presidential power
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The 2019-20 Supreme Court term defied simple ideological division
Hopes for a harmonious start to negotiations on a new relationship have already been dashed

Boris Johnson sets course for the hardest possible BrexitECONOMIST.COM
Negotiations on a new relationship between Britain and the EU will be fraught
Boris Johnson sets course for the hardest possible Brexit

Declaring an emergency is only the initial hurdle. Several fraught steps must be taken in order to allocate billions in federal funds to a border wall
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Debates over Israeli policy, and particularly over the country's treatment of Palestinians, have long been fixtures on college campuses. But it seems these intellectual tussles are growing both more frequent and more fraught http://econ.st/1PGdwzV
Democracy in America
Are calls to boycott Israel anti-Semitic?
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There aren’t many people who could make Netanyahu sit still for a tongue-lashing. Hillary Clinton is one of them.

If Clinton becomes president, Netanyahu will see his old sparring partner...
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An Immigrant at Ease, Swayed by One Who Wasn’t

Life in the United States seemed easy for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. For his brother, Tamerlan, another suspect in the case who was killed, it seemed more fraught.



Undue Process
By ABBE SMITH


An investigative journalist examines a juvenile justice scandal, and a maverick defense lawyer recounts his most fraught case.


The U.S.-China relationship is at its most fraught in decades and mutual understanding and cooperation is critical. 



due process正當法律過程

n.
An established course for judicial proceedings or other governmental activities designed to safeguard the legal rights of the individual.

probable ground 合理理由
prob·a·ble (prŏb'ə-bəl) pronunciation
adj.
  1. Likely to happen or to be true: War seemed probable in 1938. The home team, far ahead, is the probable winner.
  2. Likely but uncertain; plausible.
  3. Theology. Of or relating to opinions and actions in ethics and morals for whose lawfulness intrinsic reasons or extrinsic authority may be adduced.
[Middle English, plausible, from Old French, from Latin probābilis, from probāre, to prove. See prove.]




danger

Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪn(d)ʒə/

Definition of danger
noun

[mass noun]
  • the possibility of suffering harm or injury:his life was in danger
  • [count noun] a cause or likely cause of harm or injury:the dangers of smoking
  • the possibility of something unwelcome or unpleasant happening:she was in danger of being exploited there was no danger of the champagne running out
  • British the status of a railway signal indicating that the line is not clear and that a train should not proceed: one of the trains involved passed a signal at danger
Phrases

out of danger

(of a person who has suffered a serious injury or illness) not expected to die: the hospital said she was out of immediate danger

Origin:

Middle English (in the sense 'jurisdiction or power', specifically 'power to harm'): from Old French dangier, based on Latin dominus 'lord'

Able Danger 潛在危險 was a classified military planning effort led by the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM). It was created as a result of a directive from the Joint Chiefs of Staff in early October 1999 by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Hugh Shelton, to develop an information operations campaign plan against transnational terrorism, "specifically al-Qaeda."[citation needed]




fraught


 発音 frɔ'ːt
fraughtの変化形  fraughts (複数形)
[形]
1 ((叙述))困難な, 問題をはらんだ;(悪意・危険に)満ちた, (…を)伴う((with ...))
a task fraught with danger
危険を伴う仕事.
2 困った, 心配して.
3 ((古・詩))(物を)満載した((with ...)).
━━[名]((スコット))(船の)積み荷, 船荷.

 fraught

adjective
  • 1 (fraught with) (of a situation or course of action) filled with (something undesirable):marketing any new product is fraught with danger
  • causing or affected by anxiety or stress:there was a fraught silence she sounded a bit fraught

Origin: late Middle English, 'laden, equipped', past participle of obsolete fraught 'load with cargo', from Middle Dutch vrachten, from vracht 'ship's cargo'. Compare with freight

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