2020年1月3日 星期五

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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

Matthew Walker  | 出售者:Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Inc


Gunman and 12 Victims Killed in Shooting at D.C. Navy Yard

By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT

A former Navy reservist killed at least 12 people on Monday in a mass shooting at a naval office building in Washington, and then was killed by the police, officials said.

Elizabeth Warren's plan to break-up today's tech titans—Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple—could unlock vast value

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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP

 The Legal Fight to Unlock Phones
A legal battle is brewing over whether law-enforcement agents have the right to obtain passwords to crack into suspects' smartphones.

China Turns to Texas for Drilling Know-How
Cnooc's $2 billion deal with Chesapeake Energy stands to give the Chinese state-owned company the tools to unlock potentially lucrative energy deposits in its own backyard.





India Unlocks Door for Global Retailers India paved the way for international supermarkets and department stores to establish joint ventures, a major step in opening one of the last great consumer markets that has been off-limits to many of the world's biggest retailers.

ùnlóck[ùn・lóck]

[動](他)
1 〈ドア・箱などの〉錠を(特にかぎで)あける;〈しっかり閉じたものを〉開く
leave the door unlocked
ドアの錠を掛けないでおく.
2 …を明らかにする;〈秘密などを〉打ち明ける, 漏らす
unlock the mysteries of the universe
宇宙の神秘を明らかにする.
━━(自)錠がはずれる[あく];束縛から解放される.
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yard  2

Pronunciation: /jɑːd/
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noun

  • 1chiefly British a piece of uncultivated ground adjoining a building, typically one enclosed by walls or other buildings: tiny houses with the lavatory in the yard
  • North American the garden of a house.
  • 2  an area of land used for a particular purpose or business:a builder’s yard
  • (the Yard) Britishinformal term for Scotland Yard.
  • 3West Indian a house and the land attached.
  • an urban residential compound comprising a number of small rented dwellings around a shared open area.
  • South African a plot of land, or the grounds of a building, accommodating a number of small rooms let out as living space.
  • 4 (Yard) (especially among expatriate Jamaicans) home; Jamaica: life in Yard is no Caribbean holiday

verb

[with object]
  • 1North American store or transport (wood) in or to a timber yard: he is the last logger to be using a sled for yarding logs (as noun yarding)Canadian operators never practised yarding on a wider scale
  • 2put (farm animals) into an enclosure:sheep should be yarded even in the spring
  • 3 [no object] North American (of moose) gather as a herd for the winter: they note changes in the numbers of moose yarding together

Origin:

Old English geard 'building, home, region', from a Germanic base related to Russian gorod 'town'. Compare with garden and orchard

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