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Cathay asks its 27,000 employees to take three weeks unpaid leave

America's Health Worker Mismatch

By KATE TULENKO

We need to improve the state of our schools for health professionals, to fill needs at home and reduce the flood of imported health workers, who are needed in their own countries.


unpaid leave 無薪價
MISMATCH
Arlington’s Broken Trust
Families of the nation’s war dead should never have to endure mismarked graves and other injustices at Arlington National Cemetery.


mismatchtr.v., -matched, -match·ing, -match·es.
To match unsuitably or inaccurately.

mismatch mis'match' (mĭs'măch', mĭs-măch') n.


Grave

[形]（grav・er；grav・est）

1. 1〈人・性格・顔つき・声などが〉重々しい，厳粛な，荘重な；まじめな，本気の，深刻な
   • grave music
   • おごそかな音楽
2. 2〈責任・問題などが〉重大な；危険［危機］をはらんだ，容易ならぬ，ゆゆしい
   • a grave crisis
   • 重大な危機
3. 3〈色が〉くすんだ，じみな
4. 4/ɡréiv, ɡrάːv/（比較なし）《文法》低調［下降調］の；低［抑音］符号（｀）の［をもつ］（⇔acute）；アクセントのない
   • grave accent
   • 低［抑音］アクセント

━━/またɡrάːv/名C《文法》低［抑音］アクセント（◇｀）

語源

［原義は「重い」］

Definition of grave

noun

• a hole dug in the ground to receive a coffin or corpse, typically marked by a stone or mound: the coffin was lowered into the grave a mass grave
• (often the grave) used as an allusive term for death:life beyond the grave
• a place where a broken or discarded object lies:they lifted the aircraft from its watery grave

Phrases

dig one's own grave

do something foolish which causes one’s downfall: you’re digging your own grave by walking away right now

(as) silent (or quiet) as the grave

extremely quiet: the huge room was as silent as the grave

take the (or one's etc.) secret to the grave

die without revealing a secret: if there ever was a body, he took the secret to the grave

turn (North American also roll over or turn over) in one's grave

used to express the opinion that something would have caused anger or distress in someone who is now dead:if my father saw the weeds he would turn in his grave

Origin:

Old English græf, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch graf and German Grab

Definition of graveyard

noun

a burial ground, especially one beside a church: he was buried in the graveyard of St Mary’s parish church a state-sponsored graveyard of artistic ambition

gravesite

Syllabification: (grave·site)

Pronunciation: /ˈgrāvˌsīt/

Definition of gravesite

noun

the location of a person’s grave.

flood[flood]

• 発音記号[flʌ'd]
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[名]

1 洪水, 大水, 水害；((the F-))ノアの洪水〈《聖書》創世記7〉

before the flood ［the Flood］
((略式・おどけて))ずっと以前［昔］に.

2 ((通例a 〜))（物の）大氾濫(はんらん), 奔流(ほんりゅう), 横溢(おういつ), （言葉・涙・怒りなどの）ほとばしり, （人・手紙などの）殺到, （感情・光・物の）充満((of ...))

a flood of questions
質問の洪水

a flood of sunlight
あふれる日差し

a flood of callers
来客の殺到

in floods of tears
どっと涙を流して

feel a great flood of relief
大いに安心する.

3 満潮, 上げ潮（⇔ebb）；（繁栄・時流の）潮時

at the flood
満潮時に［で］；((比喩))よい潮時に.

4 ((通例〜s))((略式))＝floodlight.

5 ((〜s))((俗))（特に裾がくるぶしの上にくる）短めのズボン, つんつるてんのズボン.

6 ((古・詩))大洋, 海, 川.

flood and field

水陸, 海陸.

in flood

〈川が〉氾濫して；〈土地が〉水浸しになって.

━━[動](他)

1 〈雨が〉〈川などを〉氾濫させる；〈家・畑・道路などを〉浸水［冠水］させる, 水浸しにする；〈容器などに〉水などをあふれさせる

The river flooded a large area.
川が氾濫して広い地域が水浸しになった.

2 ((受身))〈人が〉洪水で（家などから）立ちのかされる((out)).

3 …に潅漑(かんがい)する；…に多量の水を注ぐ；〈火事に〉滝のように放水する.

4 〈光・感情・考えなどが〉あふれる, みなぎる, 〈人・物が〉…に押し寄せる, 殺到する((out))；((しばしば受身))…を（…で）氾濫させる, あふれさせる, 〈人を〉（感情などで）いっぱいにする, 〈人に〉（手紙・質問などを）殺到させる, 〈場所などを〉（光などで）満たす, 照らす((with ...))

She flooded him with affection.
彼にあふれるような愛情を注いだ

The stories of their romance flooded every magazine.
2人のロマンス記事がどの雑誌にも氾濫した.

5 …を投光照明で照らす.

6 《自動車》〈キャブレターを〉（燃料を送りすぎて）オーバーフローさせる.

━━(自)

1 ［I（[副]）］〈人・物・感情などが〉（…に）あふれる, 殺到する, 押し寄せてくる((in/into, over ...))；〈記憶が〉よみがえる((back))

People flooded into the place.
そこへ人がどっと押し寄せた.

2 〈河川が〉氾濫する；〈潮が〉さす；〈場所が〉水浸しになる；（…で）充満する((with ...)).

3 （出産時に）多量出血する；月経過多である.