2024年4月4日 星期四

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Boeing and Airbus are edging towards a potentially coordinated deal to split operations of troubled supplier Spirit AeroSystems , taking on plants needed to support their top jet programs, people familiar with the matter said.

Without any legitimate space in which to vent about this, the grim probability is that violence will go on, with some young Uighurs enraged and desperate enough to choose death in a hail of bullets rather than what they see as a life of subjugation.



I’ve come back often, so it’s not like it was a total shock. But while I wasn’t paying attention, Arizona for some reason got its own Major League Baseball team. New York City’s center of gravity shifted to Brooklyn, at least according to the people who live in Brooklyn.

 

As Cuts Arrive, Parties Pledge to Call Off the Budget Wars

By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and JONATHAN WEISMAN
As a deal to break a budget impasse failed to emerge on Friday, both the president and his Republican adversaries said they would not carry the fight over the cuts into the coming effort to finance the government.
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Merkel hails Nobel Committee's 'wonderful decision'


Although Mr. Jobs took just a nominal $1 salary when he returned to Apple, his compensation became the source of a Silicon Valley scandal in 2006 over the backdating of millions of shares of stock options. But after a company investigation and one by the Securities and Exchange Commission, he was found not to have benefited financially from the backdating and no charges were brought.
The episode did little to taint Mr. Jobs’s standing in the business and technology world. As the gravity of his illness became known, and particularly after he announced he was stepping down, he was increasingly hailed for his genius and true achievement: his ability to blend product design and business market innovation by integrating consumer-oriented software, microelectronic components, industrial design and new business strategies in a way that has not been matched.




DIVVY SOMETHING UP | English meaning


Cambridge Dictionary
https://dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › divvy-up


to share something between a number of people: They haven't yet decided how to divvy up the proceeds from the sale.
pledge
[名]1 [U][C]((形式))堅い約束, 誓約, 言質(げんち);きびしい取り決め[協定];公約 under a pledge of silence沈黙を守ると誓って take a pled...


gravity
  • [grǽvəti]

  • noun

    [mass noun]
    • 1 Physics the force that attracts a body towards the centre of the earth, or towards any other physical body having mass.
    • the degree of intensity of gravity, measured by acceleration.
    • 2extreme importance; seriousness:crimes of the utmost gravity
    • 3solemnity of manner:has the poet ever spoken with greater eloquence or gravity?

    Origin:

    late 15th century (in sense 2): from Old French, or from Latin gravitas 'weight, seriousness', from gravis 'heavy'. sense 1 dates from the 17th century
[名][U]
1 《物理学》重力, (地球)引力
a gravity wave
重力波.
2 重さ, 重量
the center of gravity
重心
specific gravity
比重.
3 まじめさ;威厳, 荘重さ, 真剣さ
with gravity
まじめに, 厳粛に.
4 ((形式))重大さ
the gravity of the situation
事態の重大性.
[△GRAVE

By 2030 China's economy could loom as large as America's in the 1970s
A NEW book, discussed in this week's Economics focus, by Arvind Subramanian of the Peterson Institute for International Economics argues that China’s economic might will overshadow America’s sooner than people think. Mr Subramanian combines each country’s share of world GDP, trade and foreign investment into an index of economic “dominance”. By 2030 China’s share of global economic power will match America’s in the 1970s and Britain’s a century before. Three forces will dictate China’s rise, Mr Subramanian argues: demography, convergence and “gravity”. Since China has over four times America’s population, it only has to produce a quarter of America’s output per head to exceed America’s total output. Indeed, Mr Subramanian thinks China is already the world’s biggest economy, when due account is taken of the low prices charged for many local Chinese goods and services outside its cities. China will be equally dominant in trade, accounting for twice America’s share of imports and exports. That projection relies on the “gravity” model of trade, which assumes that commerce between countries depends on their economic weight and the distance between them.




Court Under Roberts Is Most Conservative in Decades

By ADAM LIPTAK
The court’s center of gravity under Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has edged to the right, based on an analysis of four sets of political science data.

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hail

[MASS NOUN]
1Pellets of frozen rain which fall in showers fromcumulonimbus clouds:rain and hail bounced on the tiled roof
1.1[IN SINGULAR] A large number of things hurledforcefully through the air:a hail of bullets

VERB

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1(it hailsit is hailing, etc.) Hail falls:it hailed so hard we had to stop
2[WITH ADVERBIAL OF DIRECTION] (Of a large number of objects) fall or be hurled forcefully:missiles and bombs hail down from the sky

Origin

Old English hagolhægl (noun), hagalian (verb), ofGermanic origin; related to Dutch hagel and German Hagel.

  • 発音記号[héil]

[動](他)
1 …にあいさつする;…を歓迎する;…を熱烈に是認する
hail a person
人にあいさつする
hail a proposal with the greatest enthusiasm
提案をこの上もなく熱心に受け入れる.
2V[名](as)[名]]〈人に〉(…だと)かっさいを送る, 〈人を〉(…と)呼ぶ
He is hailed as the father of modern anthropology.
彼は現代人類学の父として熱烈な支持を受けている.
3 〈タクシーを〉呼ぶ;〈人を〉呼び止める, 〈人に〉呼びかける
hail a taxi [a cab
タクシーを呼ぶ.
━━(自)(船に)呼びかける((to ...)).
hail from ...
((主におどけて))〈人が〉…出身である;〈船が〉…から来る, …を母港とする
Where does that ship hail from
あの船はどこから来たのか.
━━[名]
1 叫び声, 呼びかけ.
2 [C][U]あいさつ, 歓迎;[U]あいさつ[歓迎]すること, 呼びかけること.
within [out of] hail
(…の)声の届く[届かない]所に((of ...)).
━━[間]((詩・文))((あいさつ・歓迎・歓呼など))万歳
Hail to the king
国王万歳.
[アイスランド語heill(幸運)]
hail・er
[名]



edge on= egg on
edge

v.tr.
    1. To give an edge to (a blade); sharpen.
    2. To tilt (a ski or both skis) in such a way that an edge or both edges bite into the snow.
    1. To put a border or edge on: edged the quilt with embroidery.
    2. To act as or be an edge of: bushes that edged the garden path.
  1. To advance or push slightly or gradually: The dog edged the ball with its nose.
  2. To trim or shape the edge of: edge a lawn.
  3. To surpass or beat by a small margin. Often used with out: The runner edged her opponent out at the last moment.

    pledge


    音節
    pledge
    発音
    plédʒ
    pledgeの変化形
    pledges (複数形) • pledged (過去形) • pledged (過去分詞) • pledging (現在分詞) • pledges (三人称単数現在)
    pledgeの慣用句
    take the pledge, (全1件)
    [名]
    1 [U][C]((形式))堅い約束, 誓約, 言質(げんち);きびしい取り決め[協定];公約
    under a pledge of silence
    沈黙を守ると誓って
    take a pledge
    誓約する
    fulfil [violateone's pledge
    誓約を守る[破る]
    make a pledge to do
    …することを誓う.
    2 [U]質入れ, 担保, 抵当;《法律》(動産)質権;[C]質物, 担保(物)
    be in pledge to ...
    …の担保[抵当, 質]にはいっている
    keep the famous painting as a pledge
    名画を担保に押さえておく
    putlay, give] a jewel in pledge
    宝石を質[担保]に入れる
    hold ... in pledge
    …を質[担保, 抵当]に取ってある.
    3 (友情・忠誠などの)しるし, 保証;(乾杯して示す)支援の保証;((古))乾杯, 祝杯;(夫婦のかすがいとしての)子供(pledge of love).
    4 ((米))(クラブなどへの)入会の約束;入会約束者.
    5 (挑戦のしるしに投げる)手袋[帽子].
    take [sign] the pledge
    ((古風))禁酒の誓いを立てる.
    ━━[動](他)
    1 〈人を〉誓約で縛りつける, 〈人に〉(…することを)誓約させる((to do));((〜 -self))(…を)誓う((to ...))
    pledge oneself to silence
    沈黙を守ることを誓う
    He pledged himself never again to steal.
    二度と盗みはしないと誓った.
    2III[名]/to do/that節]…を堅く約束する, 誓う;…にかけて誓う;〈言質を〉与える
    pledge one's best efforts
    最善の努力をすると誓う
    pledge one's wordhonor
    名誉にかけて約束する
    I pledged never to break my promise. [=I pledged that I would never break my promise. ]
    決して約束を破らないと誓った.
    3 …を(…の)質[抵当]に入れる((for ...)).
    4 ((米))…に(クラブなどへの入会を)約束させる;…を非公認会員で入会させる.
    5 ((古))…のために乾杯する.
    ━━(自)
    1 誓約する.
    2 乾杯する.
    3 ((米))(入会を)約束する.
    pledge・a・ble
    [形]
    plédg・er
    [名]

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