2015年12月29日 星期二

retake, revisit, reiterate, keep the ink flowing




Iraqi Forces Retake Center of Key City
From ISIS

By FALIH HASSAN and SEWELL CHAN 5:32 PM ET
Islamic State militants fled the government headquarters in the western city of Ramadi, although pockets of resistance remained in the north and east.



China using currency reserves to retake its place as economic power In the 19th century China began its slow economic decline. Nearly 200 years later, the People’s Republic is using its abundant currency reserves to buy its way back to economic prominence, raising concerns in the West.
The American International Group said on Friday that it lost nearly $2.7 billion for the second quarter, swinging from a profit during the same time last year as it took an accounting charge for a big unit it plans to sell to MetLife.

But excluding the $3.3 billion goodwill impairment charge, A.I.G. reported a $1.3 billion profit for the quarter, a 17 percent rise over last year's results as the firm said its insurance operations were stable and that it had recorded investment gains.

A.I.G. reiterated that it is still in the process of selling off several major units to help pay back its government bailout.



H.P. Tries to Keep the Ink Flowing
By ASHLEE VANCE
Hewlett-Packard’s printing group has been one of the company’s star performers, accounting for nearly a quarter of overall revenue, but that may be changing.




revisiting


This week, we’re revisiting some of our favorite pieces from 2015. Here's one about the virality of a single sentence.

Jesse Browner on the strange experience of seeing one’s words find a…
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赫胥黎在Brave New World Revisited...
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revisiting在蔡英文的用法,不是「重訪」,而是"從不同的觀點在從新評估局勢"。

民報
不排除將「重訪」(revisiting)台灣向來的獨立自主主張。這幾乎跟蔡之前所提出的「維持現狀」,同樣模糊曖昧;卻一樣有著異曲同工之妙;這類話術「金鐘罩」,讓中國跟國民黨對於蔡的獨立立場抓摸不著,難有機會下手。


【民報】美聯社:蔡英文高明話術 台灣不排除「重回」獨立自主
《美聯社》(The Associated…
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revisit
Line breaks: re|visit
Pronunciation: /riːˈvɪzɪt/

Definition of revisit in English:

verb (revisitsrevisitingrevisited)

[WITH OBJECT]
1Come back to or visit again:she was anxious to revisit some of her old haunts in Paris
1.1Consider (a situation or problem) again or from a different perspective:the council will have to revisit the issue at a general meeting this summer

retake
tr.v., -took (-tʊk'), -tak·en (-tā'kən), -tak·ing, -takes.
  1. To take back or again.
  2. To recapture.
  3. To photograph, film, or record again.
n. ('tāk')
  1. A taking again.
  2. The act or an instance of photographing, filming, or recording again.

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