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India, a nation notorious for bureaucracy and red tape, has dramatically loosened its visa policies: travellers from 43 nations, including Germany, Japan, Russia and America, will now be able to receive visas upon arrival. The new policy is far from perfect, but it's a step in the right direction, and one that travellers should applaudhttp://econ.st/1yJQX76

Common sense comes to India

RED TAPE is the bane of frequent business travellers. Many places in the world require arduous and expensive visa applications for even the most routine travel. I...

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“I understand they are in there for a reason. Obviously they did something wrong. But they are human, too. So are we,” said Amy Parsons. The conjugal visits she has with her husband, who is serving a 60-year term, are slated to end soon.

No Heel Hazards (or Gusts) as Subway Expands By SAM ROBERTS When the first phase of the Second Avenue subway makes its debut in 2016, metal sidewalk grates, the bane of women in pumps, will be absent.

A Legal Bane of Wall Street Switches Sides

By BEN PROTESS and PETER LATTMAN

Robert S. Khuzami is following the quintessential Washington script: an influential government insider becoming a paid advocate for industries he once policed.

 Google, Microsoft slate spying bill
New Zealand Herald
The new Telecommunications (Interception Capability and Security) bill being considered by Parliament's law and order committee would allow the Government to place the same obligations on internet service companies such as Google, Facebook and ...

German Politics Faces Grass-Roots Threat
By JUDY DEMPSEY 3:10 PM ET

Loosely translated as “enraged citizen,” the Wutbürger has stepped outside the classical system, and has become the bane of every political party in Germany.

燕卜逊举了莎剧《一报还一报》中的一例：

Shakespeare's Measure for Measure Act 1, Scene 2 with ...

Our Natures do pursue
Like Rats that ravyn downe their proper Bane
A thirsty evil,and when we drink we die.
正像饥不择食的饿鼠吞咽毒饵一样，人为了满足他的天性中的欲念，也会饮鸩止渴，送了自己的性命。（朱生豪译）


(bane

n.

1. Fatal injury or ruin: "Hath some fond lover tic'd thee to thy bane?" (George Herbert).
2. 1. A cause of harm, ruin, or death: "Obedience,/Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,/Makes slaves of men" (Percy Bysshe Shelley).
   2. A source of persistent annoyance or exasperation: "The spellings of foreign names are often the bane of busy copy editors" (Norm Goldstein).
3. A deadly poison.

[Middle English, destroyer, from Old English bana.]

[名]

1 破滅のもと；悩みの種

be the bane of a person's existence
人の破滅のもと［命取り］になる

Tobacco is denounced as a bane.
タバコは有害だと非難を浴びている.

2 [U]((主に複合語))猛毒

ratsbane
猫いらず

WOLFSBANE.

3 ((詩))死, 破滅.)

bane

Syllabification: (bane)

Pronunciation: /bān/

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noun

[usually in singular]

• a cause of great distress or annoyance:the bane of the decorator is the long, narrow hall the depressions that were the the bane of her existence
• archaic something, typically poison, that causes death.

 slate

verb

[with object]

• 1 cover (something, especially a roof) with slates.

• 2 British informal criticize severely:his work was slated by the critics

• 3 (usually be slated) chiefly North American schedule; plan:renovations are slated for late June [with object]:construction is slated to begin late next year
• nominate (someone) as a candidate for an office or post:I understand that I am being slated for promotion

4identify (a movie take) using a slate.s