ransack, woolsack, subservient, ashore, be in the eye of the storm, pull the wool over someone's eyes

The Ransacked Mansions of Tunisia

The Saudi interior minister might be losing his grip.

Mohammed bin Nayef, Saudi strong man in a power struggle

Prince Mohammed is in the eye of the storm as the Middle East plunges deeper into crisis.

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Georgia woman's lost camera washes ashore in TaiwanFox News
NEWNAN, Ga. – A Georgia woman has been reunited with her camera and photos after the camera she lost during a 2007 trip to Hawaii washed ashore in Taiwan. Lindsay Scallan says she was on a scuba diving trip when she lost her camera during a night ...


...people in subservient positions.

RavelsteinA本有些數字和人名等看錯之地方：例如：

He quoted Schiller's to the same effect: "Live with your century but do not be its creature." p.82

A：他會引用雪萊的話以達到相同的效果：「與你的世紀共生，但別成為它的創造物。」
hc：The term literally means "a created thing," and is sometimes used in theology to contrast a created object with a divine Creator under discussion.
B：他引用席勒具有相同效果的話：「活在你的世紀，但不要成為它的奴隸。」
hc：Creature :意思之一One dependent on or subservient to another 或 a person who is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else

be in the eye of the storm

to be very much involved in an argument or problem that affects a lot of people International aid agencies were in the eye of the stormwhen war broke out in the country.

pull the wool over someone's eyes

deceive someone by telling untruths.

subservient[sub・ser・vi・ent]

• レベル：社会人必須
• 発音記号[səbsə'ːrviənt]
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[形]

1 屈従する, 卑屈な, こびへつらう, 追従する. ⇒OBEDIENT[類語]

2 （目的達成に）役だつ, 助けになる((to ...)).

3 ((形式))（…に）副次的な, 付随［従属］する((to ...)).


Cyclone Favio ransacks Mozambique

A powerful tropical cyclone with winds of up to 230 kilometres per
hour has swept ashore in central Mozambique. Cyclone Favio, the
strongest to hit the south-east African country, has brought heavy
rains and misery to tens of thousands of people already forced from
their homes by flooding. A second storm, Cyclone Gamede, has been
churning in the Indian Ocean northeast of Madagascar, and is
threatening to make landfall in central Mozambique before dawn
Friday. Angola, Zambia and Malawi have also been affected by stormy
weather.

ransack
(răn'săk')
tr.v., -sacked, -sack·ing, -sacks.

1. To search or examine thoroughly.
2. To search carefully for plunder; pillage.

[Middle English ransaken, from Old Norse rannsaka : rann, house + *saka, to search, seek.]

ransacker ran'sack'er n.

wool·sack

(wʊl'săk')

n.

1. A sack for wool.
2. The official seat of the Lord Chancellor in the House of Lords.

[名]
1 羊毛袋.
2 ((the〜))((英))（羊毛の詰めてある）大上院議長(Lord Chancellor)の席；上院議長の職

reach the woolsack
上院議長になる.



ashore
音節
a • shore
発音
əʃɔ'ːr
レベル
社会人必須
[副]
1 浜へ［に］, 岸へ［に］, 浅瀬へ［に］

go ［come］ ashore
（船から）上陸する
run ［go, get］ ashore
浅瀬に乗り上げる
be driven ashore
浜に打ち上げられる.
2 陸上で［に］

life ［service］ ashore
陸上生活［勤務］.