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Taiwan has accused China of carrying out a "gross violation of basic human rights" after eight Taiwanese citizens were deported from Kenya to mainland China.
Taiwan has accused China of carrying out a "gross violation of basic human rights" after eight Taiwanese citizens were deported from Kenya to mainland China.
Misha Semenov, an architecture major, has been named valedictorian of the Class of 2015. Neil Hannan, a classics major, will be salutatorian. Congratulations to both!
Misha Semenov, an architecture major, has been named valedictorian of the Class of 2015. Neil Hannan, a classics major, will be salutatorian. Congratulations to both!
Fewer than 60 percent of students with autism earn a diploma. He graduated at the top of his class.
Making a Mountain Out of a Digital Molehill
In Panetta’s Final Stretch of Tenure, a New Crisis Emerges
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
LONDON — A trip to Europe for the United States’ defense secretary, had
felt like valedictory lap, but the tone changed with news of the
abductions
China's Ministry of Public Security said Monday that it conducted the nine-province operation in December after receiving reports of child abductions from southern China's Fujian and Yunnan provinces. The ministry said the child trafficking activities ...
Gas: Coal's Worst Frenemy
You know things are bad when you start rooting for the enemy. For coal miners, it's that bad.
Google is still pulling in money hand over fist, but Wall Street is hungry for the company's next act.
Jesse Matthew was found on a beach some 1,300 miles from where he's wanted in the disappearance of missing student Hannah Graham. He had been sought on suspicion of abduction with the intent to defile:http://cnn.it/1Dyt9Gg
官方公佈檔案的行為，也惹來外界質疑，
hand over fist
If you make or lose money hand over fist, you make or lose a lot of money very quickly:Business was good and we were making money hand over fist.
[ MASS NOUN]
[L. lustratio: cf. F. lustration.]
1. The act of lustrating or purifying.
The main goal of lustration is to rid these countries of any past abuses that had occurred under a former regime. This purification process is carried in many ways such as banning former members of the communist parties, or people involved, from being involved in public positions.[2]
valedictory
Line breaks: val¦edic|tory
valedictorian
Line breaks: val¦edic|tor¦ian
音節ab・duc・tion 発音記号/æbdˈʌkʃən/
A humourous/sarcastic remark, used to indicate the unlikeliness of some event or to mock the credulity of others. For example, "I might make a start on papering the back bedroom tomorrow". "Yes, and pigs might fly".
A correspondent recently drew my attention to a book by John Winthrop and wondered if it might be the origin of the expression 'pigs might fly'. Winthrop was an English Puritan explorer who settled in Massachusetts in 1630 and recounted his story in The History of New England, 1630-1649, which was transcribed from Winthrop's 17th century notes and published in 1908:
Why pigs? Other creatures were previously cited in similar phrases - 'snails may fly', 'cows might fly' etc., but it is pigs have stood the test of time as the favoured image of an animal that is particularly unsuited to flight. It is probably the bulkiness of the creatures and their habit of rooting in earth that suggests an intensely ramping nature [...and it's nice to have an opportunity to sneak in the little-used 'ramping', which means no more nor less than 'unable to fly'].
Thomas Fuller, in Gnomologia, 1732, was the first to explicitly single out the pig as a ham-fisted aeronaut:
Flying pigs appeared in print in the UK quite often throughout the rest of the 19th century. The Illustrated Times referred to them in an issue in August 1855:
Lewis Carroll also conjured one up in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865:
Gas: Coal's Worst Frenemy
You know things are bad when you start rooting for the enemy. For coal miners, it's that bad.
Frenemy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frenemy - Cached
"Frenemy" (alternately spelled "frienemy") is a portmanteau of "friend" and "Google is still pulling in money hand over fist, but Wall Street is hungry for the company's next act.
Jesse Matthew was found on a beach some 1,300 miles from where he's wanted in the disappearance of missing student Hannah Graham. He had been sought on suspicion of abduction with the intent to defile:http://cnn.it/1Dyt9Gg
官方公佈檔案的行為，也惹來外界質疑，
轉型正義週訊 Vol.11 (2008/8/6)
* 2008-08-05捷克：公佈共黨時期情治檔案引起爭議東歐各國在共黨垮台後，多頒佈施行淨化法（Lustration Law），曾在共黨時期為情治單位或秘密警察服務，hand over fist
If you make or lose money hand over fist, you make or lose a lot of money very quickly:Business was good and we were making money hand over fist.
abduction
Line breaks: ab|duc¦tion
Pronunciation: /əbˈdʌkʃn/
NOUN
lustrate
Line breaks: lus|trate
Pronunciation: /ˈlʌstreɪt/
- A freeing from sin, guilt, or defilement: purgation, purification. Seeclean/dirty, religion.
[L. lustratio: cf. F. lustration.]
1. The act of lustrating or purifying.
And holy water for lustration bring.Dryden. 2. (Antiq.) A sacrifice, or ceremony, by which cities, fields, armies, or people, defiled by crimes, pestilence, or other cause of uncleanness, were purified.
Modern use
In the period after the fall of the various European Communist states in 1989–1991, the term came to refer to the policy of limiting participation of former communists, and especially informants of the communist secret police, in the successor governments or even in civil service positions. As of 1996 various lustration laws of varying scope were implemented in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Albania, Bulgaria, the Baltic States (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia), Germany, Poland, Romania, Russia[citation needed] and Ukraine[citation needed]; it should be noted that regional differences were very significant (for example, in the Czech Republic and Germany the lustration was much stronger than in other countries). As of 1996 lustration laws did not exist in Belarus, nor in the former Soviet Central Asian Republics (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan) (Ellis, 1996).The main goal of lustration is to rid these countries of any past abuses that had occurred under a former regime. This purification process is carried in many ways such as banning former members of the communist parties, or people involved, from being involved in public positions.[2]
valedictory
- val • e • dic • to • ry
- 発音
- væ`lədíktəri
- valedictoryの変化形
- valedictories (複数形)
[形]((形式))告別の（際の）.
━━[名]
1 ((米))卒業生総代の告別演説.
2 （一般に）別れの言葉, 告別の辞.
Pronunciation: /ˌvalɪˈdɪkt(ə)ri /
Pronunciation: /ˌvalɪdɪkˈtɔːrɪən/
音節ab・duc・tion 発音記号/æbdˈʌkʃən/
【名詞】【不可算名詞】
1
誘拐.
2
root[root2]
- 発音記号[rúːt]
[動](自)
1 〈豚などが〉（食べ物をあさるため）鼻で地面を掘る((about, around))；〈人が〉（物を捜して；…の中を）かき回す, 探す((about, around/for ...；through, in, among ...))
2 ((略式))（…を）声援［応援］する(cheer)((for ...)).
━━(他)〈豚などが〉〈庭などを〉鼻先でほじくり返す；〈人が〉〈秘密・真実などを〉明るみに出す, 探り出す, 〈人を〉見つけ出す((out))；［root A out B/root B out for A］〈A（人）にBを〉捜し出して［見つけて］やる
Definition of molehill
noun
Phrases
Pigs might fly
MeaningA humourous/sarcastic remark, used to indicate the unlikeliness of some event or to mock the credulity of others. For example, "I might make a start on papering the back bedroom tomorrow". "Yes, and pigs might fly".
Origin
'Pigs might fly, or as some would have it 'pigs may fly', is an example of an adynaton, that is, a figure of speech that uses inflated comparison to such an extent as to suggest complete impossibility. Other examples are 'It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle...' and 'Make a mountain out of a molehill'.A correspondent recently drew my attention to a book by John Winthrop and wondered if it might be the origin of the expression 'pigs might fly'. Winthrop was an English Puritan explorer who settled in Massachusetts in 1630 and recounted his story in The History of New England, 1630-1649, which was transcribed from Winthrop's 17th century notes and published in 1908:
In this year one James Everell, a sober, discreet man, and two others, saw a great light in the night at Muddy River. When it stood still, it flamed up, and was about three yards square; when it ran, it was contracted into the figure of a swine: it ran as swift as an arrow towards Charlton, and so up and down about two or three hours.Whether Everett and his pals had been at the fermented cranberry juice or whether they were the first to record an attempted alien abduction we don't know, but we can be sure that their visions weren't the source of the popular saying. The original version of the succinct 'pigs might fly' was 'pigs fly with their tails forward', which is first found in a list of proverbs in the 1616 edition of John Withals's English-Latin dictionary - A Shorte Dictionarie for Yonge Begynners:
Pigs fly in the ayre with their tayles forward.This form of the expression was in use for two hundred years as a sarcastic rejoinder to any overly optimistic prediction made by the gullible, much as we now use "...and pigs might fly".
Why pigs? Other creatures were previously cited in similar phrases - 'snails may fly', 'cows might fly' etc., but it is pigs have stood the test of time as the favoured image of an animal that is particularly unsuited to flight. It is probably the bulkiness of the creatures and their habit of rooting in earth that suggests an intensely ramping nature [...and it's nice to have an opportunity to sneak in the little-used 'ramping', which means no more nor less than 'unable to fly'].Thomas Fuller, in Gnomologia, 1732, was the first to explicitly single out the pig as a ham-fisted aeronaut:
That is as likely as to see an Hog fly.The first example that I can find of our currently used 'pigs may fly/pigs might fly' form is from The Autobiography of Jack Ketch By Charles Whitehead, 1835:
Yes, pigs may fly, but they're very unlikely birds.Having an autobiography that is written by someone else is commonplace in the celebrity-obsessed 21st century, but wasn't in Ketch's day. Ketch was the executioner employed by Charles II and his days were lived out in the 17th century, so, unless our eponymous hangman really was a ghost writer, we have to assume the words of an 'autobiography' written 150 years after his death were Whitehead's rather than his.
Flying pigs appeared in print in the UK quite often throughout the rest of the 19th century. The Illustrated Times referred to them in an issue in August 1855:
...pigs might fly. An elephant, too, might dance on the tight-rope,
Lewis Carroll also conjured one up in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865:"I've a right to think," said Alice sharply... "Just about as much right," said the Duchess, "as pigs have to fly."It can't be long before another correspondent adds to the list of unlikely origins of 'the whole nine yards' and suggests that it derives from Winthrop's 'three yards square' combustible aerial pig.
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