2020年11月8日 星期日

tottering, sanguine, self-serving, rightward lurch, creaked and tottered under the strain of covid-19




For three months, 1843 followed medical staff in London as they fought the most devastating pandemic in a century. There was exhilaration and there were tears. Colleagues became patients. Death was faced every day. The NHS creaked and tottered under the strain of covid-19. But it did not collapse. From 1843

At the heart of Russia’s malaise is the weakening of market forces and suppression of competition, which means there is no longer much of a market economy. The country’s exceptional growth between 1998 and 2008 was essentially imported: it was down to easy money, brought about by rising oil prices and cheap credit. Russia's only way out now is to restructure the economy in order to restore the role of markets http://econ.st/1J2TBJX


JUDGING by the lack of economic news in Russia’s media, a crisis has arrived. Just as in Soviet days, state television does not report facts, it conceals them. The...
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Not only is this not being addressed, but the self-serving, rightward lurch in Washington is all but guaranteed to make matters worse for working people. The zealots reading the economic tea leaves see brighter days ahead. They can afford to be sanguine. They’re working.


 bimulous sky, *When the Sky Is Like Lace* (
*When the Sky Is Like Lace* (1975) 💛 Barbara Cooney (1917-2000)

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tottering piles of dirty dishes


Bimulous.
I grew up under a bimulous sky.
It was something we were always looking for, as children.
A bimulous sky is a rarity, a phenomenon that only happens once or twice a year, but unmistakable to those in search of them.
Usually, the air is warm, there is a cool breeze, and the sky is an indescribable hue, somewhere between purple, blue and black. There might be twinkling stars, or wispy clouds on the horizon. Somewhere within the warm humid air, or traveling on the cool breeze, the atmosphere is always one of expectation, of anticipation.






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例文
to totter発音を聞く例文帳に追加
よろめく - EDR日英対訳辞書
to totter along発音を聞く例文帳に追加
タドタド歩く - 斎藤和英大辞典
to staggertotter発音を聞く例文帳に追加
たじたじとなる - 斎藤和英大辞典
to stagger alongtotter along―reel along発音を聞く例文帳に追加
ヨロヨロ歩く - 斎藤和英大辞典
to totter発音を聞く例文帳に追加
勢いがないさま - EDR日英対訳辞書
部屋芯トッター - 特許庁
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totter to one's feet発音を聞く例文帳に追加
よろよろと立ち上がる. - 研究社 新英和中辞典

to walk with difficulty in a way that looks as if you are about to fall
跌跌撞撞,踉蹌
She tottered unsteadily down the stairs in her high-heeled shoes.她穿著高跟鞋跌跌撞撞地走下樓來。
to shake and move from side to side
來回搖晃
Several tall piles of books tottered and fell.堆得高高的幾疊書搖晃了幾下就倒了下來。
(of a companygovernment, etc.) to become weaker and less likely to carry on existing
(公司、政府等)搖搖欲墜,行將滅亡
The industry has tottered from crisis to crisis now for two years.兩年來,該產業危機不斷,風雨飄搖。


rightward
(rīt'wərd) pronunciation
adv. & adj.
To or on the right.


lurch,
(lûrch) pronunciation
intr.v., lurched, lurch·ing, lurch·es.
  1. To stagger. See synonyms at blunder.
  2. To roll or pitch suddenly or erratically: The ship lurched in the storm. The car gave a start and then lurched forward.
n.
  1. A staggering or tottering movement or gait.
  2. An abrupt rolling or pitching.
[Origin unknown.]
lurchingly lurch'ing·ly adv.

lurch2 (lûrch) pronunciation
n.
The losing position of a cribbage player who scores 30 points or less to the winner's 61.

idiom:
in the lurch
  1. In a difficult or embarrassing position.
[Perhaps back-formation from Middle English lurching, a total victory at a kind of game, perhaps akin to lurken, to lurk. See lurk.]





sanguine

  • [sǽŋgwin]
[形]((形式))
1 (…について)自信たっぷりの;快活な;楽天的な((of, as to, about ...))
He is sanguine about [of] our chances.
我々が勝つものと決めている.
2 赤みを帯びた, 血色のよい;(古代生理学で)多血質の.
3 血紅色の.
4 血なまぐさい, 凶暴な.
━━[名]
1 (デッサン用の)赤褐色コンテ.
2 [U]赤紫色.
[ラテン語sanguineus (sanguis血+-eous=血の)]


totter

Line breaks: tot¦ter
Pronunciation: /ˈtɒtə 
  
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VERB

[NO OBJECT, WITH ADVERBIAL]
1Move in a feeble or unsteady way:hunched figure tottering down the path
1.1(usually as adjective tottering) (Of a building)shake or rock as if about to collapse:tottering, gutted houses

NOUN

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Origin

Middle English: from Middle Dutch touteren 'to swing' (the original sense in English).

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