small-bore, headphone, earphone, earbud, grind on, drill bit, borehole, confiscate, an inflection point

If Mr Trump's steel tariffs are the first shot in a trade war, it is, for China, small bore

Big Change for China and the World

Is China, emboldened by its economic power, asserting itself in ways that mean the world is at an “inflection point”?

Blasts in the Night, a Smell, and a Flood of Syrian Victims
By BEN HUBBARD, MARK MAZZETTI and MARK LANDLER
The attack has brought widespread condemnation on President Bashar al-Assad's government, and it is shaping up as an inflection point for a war that has been grinding on for more than two years.

Those earbuds might be damaging your hearing.

The confiscated items included drill bits, a memory card, a mobile phone, a charger and batteries, plus earphones.


被查獲的物品包括鑽頭、一張記憶卡、一支手機、一具充電器和電池，還有耳機。
 Asian Firms Brace for Profit Pain

Asia's biggest companies are predicting profit pain as sluggish growth grinds on in China and Europe.

Definition of earbud in English:

NOUN

(usually earbuds)

A very small headphone, worn inside the ear.

Definition of earphone in English:

NOUN

(usually earphones)

An electrical device worn on the ear to receive radioor telephone communications or to listen to a radio, MP3 player, etc.

Definition of headphone in English:

NOUN

(usually headphones)

A device consisting of a pair of earphones joined by a band placed over the head, for listening to audiosignals such as music or speech:I sloshed along the shore listening to Mozart on my headphones(as modifier headphone) a headphone socket

grind on[grind on]

  continue for a long time in a wearying or tedious way:the rail talks grind on

〈うんざりすることが〉だらだらと続く.
(′bak ′öf) (engineering) To unscrew or disconnect. To withdraw the drill bit from a borehole. To withdraw a cutting tool or grinding wheel from contact with the workpiece.

confiscate：動詞，沒收、查抄。例句：The customs officers searched those cargos and confiscated a large quantity of contraband goods.（海關人員搜索那些貨櫃，查獲大批走私物品。）

small-bore

adjective

1. denoting a firearm with a narrow bore, in international and Olympic shooting generally .22 inch calibre (5.6 millimetre bore).

   • NORTH AMERICANinformal

     trivial; unimportant.

     "small-bore economic issues"

borehole

  音節

bóre • hòle

boreholeの変化形

boreholes (複数形)

[名]《採鉱》鑿井(さくせい), 試錐(しすい)孔.

inflection point

noun

• 1 (also point of inflection) Mathematics a point of a curve at which a change in the direction of curvature occurs.

2chiefly US (in business) a time of significant change in a situation; a turning point: the economy has crossed an inflection point and is poised for bigger things