Millions in China are seeking treatment and advice on the internet. The government is egging them on
"They're standing around with egg on their faces doing nothing - get rid of the upper level. I said: 'Stanley, now you tell me. But of course he was right'.
Web Privacy Goes From Regulatory Nuisance to Business Imperative
By SOMINI SENGUPTA
SAN FRANCISCO — Internet companies like Microsoft and Facebook are
egging each other on to prove to consumers that data is safe and in
their control.
Martin Luther 'dwarves' installation stirs church ire
An art project devoted to Protestant reformer Martin Luther has caused
outrage among some church officials. They don't like the meter-high statues
of the theologian that have been installed in a town square.
Hitachi in U.K. Nuclear Bid
Japan's Hitachi is the preferred bidder to acquire Horizon, a British nuclear project jointly owned by RWE and E.ON.
egg
Dudfield, egged on by her friends, was flashing passing motorists from a traffic island in the middle of a four-lane road in the southern city of Invercargill.
在友人的慫恿下，杜德菲爾德在南方城市英佛卡吉爾的一條四線道中央的安全島上朝往來駕駛展露胸部。
egg on
Incite, urge ahead, provoke, as in Jack is always egging me on to drive faster, or Seemingly quiet, Margo actually eggs on Donald to quarrel with his staff. This expression has nothing to do with hen's eggs but comes from an Old Norse word, eggja, "to edge." Both edge on and egg on were used interchangeably, but today the latter is preferred. [c. 1200]
dwarves
Traditional rural English speech rarely, if ever, uses the term ‘dwarf’ for a supernatural creature, even though in the 19th and 20th centuries it has become very familiar in literature as the preferred translation of various German, French, and Scandinavian words for sturdy gnome-like beings living underground or in forests.
with egg on one's face
dwarf[dwarf]
- 発音記号[dwɔ'ːrf]
[名]（複 〜s, dwarves 〔dw
rvz〕）
rvz〕）
1 （神話・伝説中の）小びと：普通魔力を持つ.
2 ((古風))小びと.
3 （動植物の）矮小(わいしょう)体.
4 《天文》＝dwarf star.
━━[形]((限定))（異常に）小さい, 小型の.
━━[動](他)
1 ((通例受身))…を（対照的に）小さく見せる.
━━(自)小さくなる.
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