2013年6月1日 星期六

unwind, unwinding, wobble, wobbly, fuel, refueling

Chinese Buyers for A.I.G. Plane Leasing Unit Miss Payment

The consortium of Chinese firms that has agreed to buy the American International Group’s airplane leasing division missed a deposit payment, threatening to unwind the multibillion-dollar transaction.


Social Media in China Fuel Citizen Response to Quake

By DAN LEVIN

The rapid grass-roots response to the April earthquake in Sichaun Province reveals how far China's nascent civil society movement has come since a major quake in 2008. 


Buses powered by natural gas refueling at a station on the outskirts of Moscow. Natural gas costs about $2 a gallon less than gasoline in Russia.
James Hill for The New York Times

Russia Skips Hybrids for Natural-Gas Cars

Russia is making a bet that methane-powered cars are an alluring market for future growth. Above, buses powered by natural gas at a refueling station near Moscow.

AIG Ex-Derivatives Boss: Losses Would Have Been Smaller Without Bailout
AIG's former head of derivatives-trading Joseph Cassano told the financial crisis commission in prepared testimony that AIG would have realized few losses from derivatives if the trades hadn't been unwound in the bailout.


G-8 Ministers Weigh Unwinding Rescue Programs

LECCE, Italy -- World financial leaders are starting to examine how they will unwind their emergency spending packages and bank rescues as signs emerge that the economic crisis may have hit bottom.



Toyota, Japan's largest auto maker, dropped 4.4%, its biggest decline in almost four years. Honda Motor Co., Japan's second-largest auto maker, fell 5.3% and Canon lost 4.9%, near lows for the year. An unwinding of yen carry trades in recent days has pushed the currency sharply higher against the U.S. dollar.

China’s Communist leaders have long tried to balance their desire for a thriving Internet and the economic growth it promotes with their demands for political control. The alarm over Google among Beijing’s younger, better-educated and more Internet savvy citizens — China’s future elite — shows how wobbly that balancing act can be.



Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are the most prominent voices in the Traditionalist camp, but there is also the alliance of Old Guard institutions. For example, a group of Traditionalists met in Virginia last weekend to plot strategy, including Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform, Leonard Leo of the Federalist Society and Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council. According to reports, the attendees were pleased that the election wiped out some of the party’s remaining moderates. “There’s a sense that the Republicans on Capitol Hill are freer of wobbly-kneed Republicans than they were before the election,” the writer R. Emmett Tyrrell told a reporter.


Japan's opposition wobbles on Afghan operation
Reuters
TOKYO (Reuters) - The leader of Japan's opposition Democratic Party said on Wednesday he would end a refueling mission in support of US-led forces in ...


Austen biographer Claire Tomalin argues that Sense and Sensibility has a "wobble in its approach," which developed because Austen, in the course of writing the novel, gradually became less certain about whether sense or sensibility should triumph.[1]


wobble (MOVE) Show phonetics
verb [I or T]
to (cause something to) shake or move from side to side in a way that shows a lack of balance:
That bookcase wobbles whenever you put anything on it.
Don't wobble the table, please, Dan.
FIGURATIVE The company's shares wobbled with the news of a foreign takeover bid.

wobble Show phonetics
noun [C]
I gave the poles a slight wobble and whole tent collapsed.
FIGURATIVE The closure of the company's German subsidiary caused a sharp wobble in its profits.

wobbly Show phonetics
adjective
likely to wobble:
a wobbly ladder/table
I've been in bed with flu and my legs are still feeling all wobbly.
"Look, I've got a wobbly tooth, " said my little daughter, proudly.
HUMOROUS I'm trying to tone up my wobbly bits (= fat areas of the body) generally.

wobbly Show phonetics
noun UK INFORMAL
throw a wobbly to become extremely angry and upset:
My parents threw a wobbly when they found out I'd had a party while they were away.


wobble
(UNCERTAIN) Show phonetics
verb [I] INFORMAL
to be uncertain what to do or to change frequently between two opinions:
The government can't afford to wobble on this issue.

wobble Show phonetics
noun [C] INFORMAL

wobbly Show phonetics
adjective INFORMAL
uncertain what to do or changing frequently between two opinions:
Last week I felt sure I was doing the right thing but I've started to feel a bit wobbly about it.


unwinding
1. The closure of an investment position.

2. The reconciliation of an error previously unseen by a brokerage house.

unwind
[動](-wound)(他)
1 〈巻いたものを〉解く, ほどく;…の緊張をほぐす, くつろがせる(relax).
2 ((文))…を解き放す.
━━(自)〈巻いたものが〉解ける;くつろぐ, 緊張がほぐれる.
ùn・wínd・a・ble
[形]
ùn・wínd・er


unwind
1. The closure of an investment position.

2. The reconciliation of an error previously unseen by a brokerage house.
Investopedia Says:
1. Sometimes referred to as closing out a position. A good example would be unwinding an option position by entering into the opposite transaction.

2. When investment firms accidentally purchase the incorrect stock for a customer, they must reverse the transaction by selling the wrong stock and purchasing the correct one.
Definition of unwind

verb (past and past participle unwound)

  • 1undo or be undone after winding or being wound: [with object]:Ella unwound the long woollen scarf from her neck [no object]:the net unwinds from the reel
2 [no object] relax after a period of work or tension:the Grand Hotel is a superb place to unwind

Definition of fuel

noun

[mass noun]
  • material such as coal, gas, or oil that is burned to produce heat or power: one aircraft ran out of fuel and had to ditch [count noun]:buses powered by alternative fuels [as modifier]:an engine with high fuel consumption
  • short for nuclear fuel.
  • food, drink, or drugs as a source of energy:any protein intake can also be used as fuel
  • a thing that sustains or inflames passion, argument, or other intense emotion:the remuneration packages will add fuel to the debate about top-level rewards

verb (fuels, fuelling, fuelled; US fuels, fueling, fueled)

[with object]
  • 1supply or power (an industrial plant, vehicle, or machine) with fuel:power stations fuelled by low-grade coal
  • 2cause (a fire) to burn more intensely: petrol may have been used to fuel the fire don’t open a door or you could fuel the flames
  • sustain or inflame (an intense feeling):his resignation fuelled speculation of an imminent cabinet reshuffle

Phrases


add fuel to the fire (or flames)

cause a situation or conflict to become more intense.

Origin:

Middle English: from Old French fouaille, based on Latin focus 'hearth' (in late Latin 'fire')

Definition of refuel

verb (refuels, refueling, refueled ; Britishrefuels, refuelling, refuelled)

[with object]
  • supply (a vehicle) with more fuel:the authorities agreed to refuel the plane
  • [no object] (of a vehicle) be supplied with more fuel.

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