2021年2月18日 星期四

blowback, reap what they sow




Ted Cruz’s Cancún Trip: Family Texts Detail His Political Blunder



The senator faced fierce blowback for fleeing his state as a disaster unfolded.

Reuters


Experts Warn of Iraq Blowback A campaign of U.S. airstrikes against the group Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria could motivate the extremists to retaliate against American civilians, experts say. Thousands of people have fled the militants and sought safety in a mountain range

Apple Presses for iPad Rights in China

Apple defended its claim to the iPad name in China before a high court, alleging that Proview Electronics knowingly sold the rights to the trademark and is trying to unfairly reap financial benefits.

The author of at least 17 books over five decades, Johnson had argued that America's heavy military presence and operations worldwide would eventually lead to retaliation. His book "Blowback: The Cost and Consequences of American Empire," predated the Sept. 11 attacks by over a year.
"'Blowback' is shorthand for saying that a nation reaps what it sows, even if it does not fully know or understand what it has sown," he wrote in the book.




Chalmers Johnson, contrarian scholar on Asia, dies
BusinessWeek
By JAY ALABASTER American scholar Chalmers Johnson, a sharp critic of US foreign policy whose views on Japan's economic rise bucked the establishment 30 ...



blowback

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Pronunciation: /ˈbləʊbak /

NOUN

1A process in which gases expand or travel in a direction opposite to the usual one, especially through escape of pressure or delayed combustion.
chiefly US The unintended adverse results of a political action or situation:
this is the blowback from all those aggressive public health campaigns

blówbàck[blów・bàck]

名]
1 (気流の)逆流.
2 (銃の発砲時の)反動, 後座.
3 (マイクロフィルムなどの)拡大.
4 (秘密情報部員が外国で流し)本国に逆輸入された偽の情報.
5 ((主に米)) (政治行為の)予期せぬ不都合な結果.


胡適著名的句子有:「做了過河卒子,只能拼命向前」「要怎麼收穫,先怎麼栽」「有幾分證據,說幾分話」。

reap[reap]

  • 発音記号[ríːp]
[動](他)
1 〈作物を〉刈る;〈畑などの〉作物を刈り取る;…を収穫する
reap a field
畑の作物を刈り取る
reap the wheat in the field
畑の小麦を刈り取る
reap a large harvest of wheat
大豊作の小麦を収穫する.
2 …を(努力・行為などの結果として)受ける, 獲得する
reap the fruits of one's efforts
努力の成果を得る
reap the rewards [the benefits]
利益を得る
reap what one has sown
自分のしたことの報いを受ける.
━━(自)刈り取る, 収穫する, 報いを受ける, 利益を得る.
reap where one has not sown[reap where one has not sown]


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