This summer, we're teaming up with Westminster City Council to bring art outdoors. You can now walk through centuries of iconic works in our giant alfresco exhibition of the Nation's Favourite Paintings and enjoy a programme of free, daily outdoor art activities on Trafalgar Square: https://bit.ly/2T3byIi
Taiwanese officials said the dead man was unarmed, and his boat was
riddled with bullet holes. The public, whipped up by a tub-thumping
press, was outraged.
Collection of Credit Card Debt Is Riddled With Problems
By JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG
Judges said that big lenders are using inaccurate or incomplete records to go after consumers, including some who have already paid their debts.
SAN FRANCISCO — On Friday at lunchtime, as Google employees dined al fresco, a hundred protesters descended on the company’s Silicon Valley campus. A group called the Raging Grannies sang a song called “The Battle Hymn for the Internet,” and others carried signs reading, “Google is evil if the price is right.”
But a week ago, Google stunned many of its allies by crossing the aisle and teaming up with Verizon Communications to propose that net neutrality rules should not apply to wireless access and to outline rules for the wired Internet that critics say are riddled with loopholes.
Doubt Is Cast on Consultants Hired to Fix Banks' Abuses
By JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG and BEN PROTESS
Authorities are scrutinizing the private companies hired to clean up financial misdeeds, taking aim at a conflict-riddled, billion-dollar industry.
riddle
tr.v., -dled, -dling, -dles.
A coarse sieve, as for gravel.
al fresco,
adv.
In the fresh air; outdoors: dining alfresco.
adj.
Taking place outdoors; outdoor: an alfresco conference.
Collection of Credit Card Debt Is Riddled With Problems
By JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG
Judges said that big lenders are using inaccurate or incomplete records to go after consumers, including some who have already paid their debts.
SAN FRANCISCO — On Friday at lunchtime, as Google employees dined al fresco, a hundred protesters descended on the company’s Silicon Valley campus. A group called the Raging Grannies sang a song called “The Battle Hymn for the Internet,” and others carried signs reading, “Google is evil if the price is right.”
But a week ago, Google stunned many of its allies by crossing the aisle and teaming up with Verizon Communications to propose that net neutrality rules should not apply to wireless access and to outline rules for the wired Internet that critics say are riddled with loopholes.
Doubt Is Cast on Consultants Hired to Fix Banks' Abuses
By JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG and BEN PROTESS
Authorities are scrutinizing the private companies hired to clean up financial misdeeds, taking aim at a conflict-riddled, billion-dollar industry.
Definition of riddle
When Hemming was just 26, his first full-scale expedition into the Amazon was cut short when the expedition’s leader, a friend of Hemming’s from Oxford, was ambushed by a group of Panará tribesmen. The Indians riddled the young man with eight arrows and crushed his skull with a handmade club.
riddle (MAKE HOLES) Show phonetics
verb [T]
to make a lot of holes in something:
The anti-aircraft guns riddled the plane's wings with bullets.
riddled Show phonetics
adjective
riddled with holes full of holes:
He wore an old jacket riddled with holes.
When Hemming was just 26, his first full-scale expedition into the Amazon was cut short when the expedition’s leader, a friend of Hemming’s from Oxford, was ambushed by a group of Panará tribesmen. The Indians riddled the young man with eight arrows and crushed his skull with a handmade club.
riddle (MAKE HOLES) Show phonetics
verb [T]
to make a lot of holes in something:
The anti-aircraft guns riddled the plane's wings with bullets.
riddled Show phonetics
adjective
riddled with holes full of holes:
He wore an old jacket riddled with holes.
verb
[with object]noun
Origin:
late Old English hriddel, of Germanic origin; from an Indo-European root shared by Latin cribrum 'sieve', cernere 'separate', and Greek krinein 'decide'tr.v., -dled, -dling, -dles.
- To pierce with numerous holes; perforate: riddle a target with bullets.
- To spread throughout: "Election campaigns have always been riddled with demagogy and worse" (New Republic).
- To put (gravel, for example) through a coarse sieve.
A coarse sieve, as for gravel.
[Middle English ridelen, to sift, from riddil, sieve, from Old English hriddel.]
al fresco,
adv.
In the fresh air; outdoors: dining alfresco.
adj.
Taking place outdoors; outdoor: an alfresco conference.
[Italian al fresco, in the fresh (air) : al, in the (a, to, in , from Latin ad; see ad- + il, the , from Latin ille) + fresco, fresh.]
tub-thumping 敲擊講桌tub滔滔不絕的傳教士
tub-thumping 敲擊講桌tub滔滔不絕的傳教士
tub-thumping
[形][名][U]熱弁を振るう（こと）.
informal, derogatory
Definition of tub-thumping
adjective
[attributive]noun
[mass noun]ねつ‐べん【熱弁／熱×辯】
熱のこもった弁論。熱烈な弁舌。「―を振るう」
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Among his tasks is to pump out radioactive liquid that has collected inside the burned-out reactor. This happens whenever it rains. The sarcophagus was built 25 years ago in a panic, as radiation streamed into populated areas after an explosion at the reactor, and now it is riddled with cracks.
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