accrue, opprobrium heaped on, lurch

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 In closed-door meetings and in veiled attacks in the media, Communist Party officials have been heaping opprobrium on Mr Bo and members of his family. Their aim, it appears, is to make allegations stick that the Bos were corrupt and that his wife was complicit in the murder of a British businessman.

 But even after Mr Bo’s sacking on March 15th, government-owned bookshops in Chongqing continued to stock books that discuss the model and Mr Bo’s role in implementing it. Liberal scholars in China have delighted in picking apart Mr Bo’s policies, which they characterise as a lurch back towards Maoism.





Bosses who walked away with large payouts

ON TUESDAY July 27th BP announced its chief executive, Tony Hayward, was stepping down after just three years in the job. He leaves with a year’s salary, GBP1m ($1.6m), and a pension reported to be worth GBP11m, accrued over 28 years of service. On the same day the company revealed a quarterly loss of GBP17 billion, reflecting the cost of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Mr Hayward has received criticism over his handling of the Deepwater Horizon spill. For all the opprobrium heaped on him over the last few months, Mr Hayward's payout is modest compared with those enjoyed by many similarly high-profile bosses.

accrue

v., -crued, -cru·ing, -crues.

v.intr.

1. To come to one as a gain, addition, or increment: interest accruing in my savings account.
2. To increase, accumulate, or come about as a result of growth: common sense that accrues with experience.
3. To come into existence as a claim that is legally enforceable.

v.tr.
To accumulate over time: I have accrued 15 days of sick leave.

[Middle English acreuen, from Old French acreu, past participle of acroistre, to increase, add, from Latin accrēscere, to grow : ad-, ad- +crēscere, to arise.]

accruable ac·cru'a·ble adj.
accruement ac·crue'ment n.

[MASS NOUN]

1Harsh criticism or censure:the critical opprobrium generated by his films1.1

Public disgrace arising from shameful conduct:the opprobrium of being closely associated with gangsters

opprobrium

op·pro·bri·um (ə-prō'brē-əm)

n.

1. Disgrace arising from exceedingly shameful conduct; ignominy.
2. Scornful reproach or contempt: a term of opprobrium.
3. A cause of shame or disgrace.

[Latin, from opprobrāre, to reproach : ob-, against; see ob- + probum, reproach.]

opprobrium[op・pro・bri・um]

• 発音記号[əpróubriəm]

[名][U]((形式))

1 不名誉, 非難する［される］こと；虐待を受けること.

2 不名誉のもと, 非難の的.

 lurch

• 発音記号[lə'ːrtʃ]

[名]

1 突然の揺れ；（船などの）不意の傾斜, 傾き

with a lurch
がたんと揺れて.

2 よろめき, 千鳥足.

━━[動](自)

1 〈船が〉急に傾く, 不意に揺れる.

2 よろめく, ぐらぐらする.

lurch・ing・ly

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