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In Europe, Sharing Moments With History

By STEVEN ERLANGER

From Versailles to Berlin, Prague to Paris, the author finds moments of connection in confrontations with the past.

Georgia Governor Sues Atlanta Mayor to Block Mask Rules

Throughout the crisis, leaders have feuded over restrictive measures. But perhaps nowhere has seen these disputes turn into hostility quite like Georgia.

Bloomberg Calls on President to Take Action

By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ2:18 PM ET

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York, an advocate of gun control, all but demanded Sunday that President Obama confront the prevalence of guns in the United States.

  












Because of Enterprise 2.0 technologies, good content becomes apparent over time. A good idea isn’t always obvious. For example, Gwabs is a game that lets characters fight one another using the elements on a computer desktop, such as toolbars and icons. It came out of a crowdsourcing start-up, Cambrian House, which solicited ideas from a large community and let them vote. It then had the top vote getters face off in a tournament. The company’s executives thought Gwabs was a pretty dumb idea, but it won the tournament. In fact, investors are now funding the game’s development.



On Dec. 31, 1946, President Harry S. Truman officially proclaimed the end of hostilities in World War II.

China Imposes New Tariffs on Some U.S. Vehicles

By KEITH BRADSHER 8 minutes ago

The new duties, which apply mainly to sport utility vehicles and large cars, signal an escalation in trade hostilities.

The philosopher Peter Singer – a fellow Australian – said that the money we spend on luxuries could be used to save people’s lives in developing countries if we so wished. How then can we justify choosing the luxuries? This is a strong argument, and quite confronting. So I asked myself what standard of living is justifiable. How little could I live on? The figure I came to is around £10,000 a year, including rent, clothes, food and holidays.
我的澳大利亚同胞、哲学家彼得•辛格(Peter Singer)曾说过，我们花在奢侈品上的钱，可以用来拯救发展中国家人民的生命——如果我们有这种意愿的话。那么，我们还能如何为选择奢侈品辩护呢？这 是一个强有力的理由，而且无法回避。因此我问自己，什么样的生活标准才是合理的。我的最低生活标准有多高？我估计大约每年1万英镑，包括房租、穿衣、吃饭 和度假。

在研究人員看來，如果想要徹底根除科學領域更廣泛的不平等現象，各界就必須直面並理解這種猶豫不決的心理，以及輕微的、可能出自潛意 識且毫無根據的反數理學科情緒(quantipathy)。充足的證據已經駁斥了那種認為女性大腦根本不能進行空間思維，量子飛躍和數學題運算的觀點。在世界範圍內，女孩的數 學平均成績與男孩大體一致，並無優劣之別。

 As researchers see it, that reluctance, that slight and possibly subliminal case of unfounded quantipathy, must be confronted and understood if the wider inequities in science are to be rooted out for good. Ample evidence refutes the notion that female brains just can’t rotate the object, leap the quantum, do the math. Worldwide, girls’ average math scores are on a par with those of boys.


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 antipathy
 (Definition of antipathy: dislike, hostility) Examples : I have a marked antipathy for people who are too lazy to do their own schoolwork. He was known for his ...

confront
(kən-frŭnt')

v., -front·ed, -front·ing, -fronts.
v.tr.

1. To come face to face with, especially with defiance or hostility: I wish to confront my accuser in a court of law.
2. To bring face to face with: The defendant was confronted with incontrovertible evidence of guilt.
3. To come up against; encounter: confronted danger at every turn.

v.intr.
To engage in confrontation: "She got no child support. [She] didn't argue or confront" (Gail Sheehy).

[French confronter, from Old French, to adjoin, from Medieval Latin cōnfrontāre : Latin com-, com- + Latin frōns, front-, front.]

confronter con·front'er n.
confrontment con·front'ment n.
confrontative con'fron·ta'tive adj.



人・物に〉立ち向かう, （おびえず）直面する；〈人と〉敵対［対決］する


confront danger

危険に立ち向かう


They confronted each other.

2人はわたり合った.


2 ［III[名]（[副]）］〈困難・危険・苦労などが〉〈人に〉立ちはだかる；((通例受身))〈人が〉（困難に）直面する, 立ち向かう((with ...))


Many difficulties confronted him. ［＝He was confronted with ［by］ many difficulties. ］

彼は多くの困難に直面した.


3 ［III[名]（[副]）］〈人を〉（…と）（敵意・反抗心をもって）対決［対抗］させる；〈人に〉（証拠などを）突きつける((with ...))；…を問いつめる


confront the accuser with the accused in court

原告と被告を法廷で対決させる


confront a suspect with the evidence

被疑者に証拠を突きつける.


4 …を（検討・比較のため）（…と）突き合わせる((with ...))


confront theories with experimental results

理論を実験結果と照らし合わせる.

［中ラテン語confrontāri （con-共に＋frōnsひたい＋-āri＝顔を突き合わせる）. △FRONT］

 face off

 (fās'ôf', -ŏf')
n.

1. A method of starting play in ice hockey, lacrosse, and other games in which an official drops the puck or ball between two opposing players who contend for its control.
2. A confrontation: "Marshall's face-off with Jefferson in Marbury v. Madison in 1803" (Newsweek).

hostility

(hŏ-stĭl'ĭ-tē)

n., pl., -ties.
The state of being hostile; antagonism or enmity. See synonyms at enmity.

A hostile act.
hostilities Acts of war; overt warfare.

hostility[hos・til・i・ty] 

• 発音記号[hɑstíləti | hɔs-][名]（複 -ties）[U][C]

1 （…に対する；…の間の）敵意, 敵愾(てきがい)心, 敵対, 対立；敵対行為((to ...；between ...))

a look of hostility
敵意のあるまなざし

show hostility to ［toward］ a person
人に敵意を示す.

2 （計画・考えなどに対する）反対.

3 ((-ties))((形式))戦争［戦闘］行為；交戦

the termination of hostilities
終戦

open ［stop］ hostilities
戦争を始める［やめる］.