sugar, Sugar-high, daddy, candy, Candy Hearts, candied over, container, sugarcoating, bagasse, sugar candy, sugar-coated, overpower. experiencing a “sugar high” of factory construction fueled by heavy bank lending.

Economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York warned last month that China is experiencing a “sugar high” of factory construction fueled by heavy bank lending.

紐約聯邦儲備銀行經濟學家上個月發出警告，稱中國在大舉銀行貸款推動下正經歷工廠建造的「高糖效應」。

Sugar-high

Definition & Meaning | YourDictionary

A state of hyperactivity caused by excessive consumption of sugar. Wiktionary.

What Do Candy Hearts Tell Us? Be Clever. Be Current. Be Mine.

The sweet messages on those valentine hearts require careful planning and editing. And they speak volumes about the state of our lives and loves.

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''Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.''

-- Virginia Woolf's May 13, 1926 entry from "The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume 3"

 Panama Seizes Korean Ship, and Sugar-Coated Arms Parts

By RICK GLADSTONE and DAVID E. SANGER

A freighter on its way from Cuba to North Korea was found carrying missile-system components cloaked in a cargo of sugar, the Panamanian authorities said.

There was no sugarcoating.

In Germany December’s machine-tool orders were 40% lower than a year earlier. Half of China’s 9,000 or so toy exporters have gone bust. Taiwan’s shipments of notebook computers fell by a third in the month of January. The number of cars being assembled in America was 60% below January 2008.

$0.00, not counting fuel and handling: that is the cheapest quote right now if you want to ship a container from southern China to Europe. Back in the summer of 2007 the shipper would have charged $1,400. Half-empty freighters are just one sign of a worldwide collapse in manufacturing.




Taiwan gravel shippers say China is killing their business
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TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – More than a hundred gravel shippers called on the government Monday to persuade China to lift a ban on their business despite direct ...

小小導讀一下：《第六十七隻穿山甲》裡的「他」，是所謂的，如果硬要貼標籤的話，「熟男daddy」。

文學小說裡不能把話說盡，也不能說破。所以我只能以文字堆砌這角色。我不能直接說他是「熟男」。說破了就不美了。

熟男daddy，當然是一個武斷的標籤。每個人都不同。請愛惜個體的差異。

但，在同志世界裡，的確有這樣的族群存在。

中年，有蒼白髮絲，注重身材管理（不管是所謂的壯碩或者熊或者精瘦，都是有管理的），熟，眼神滄桑，嗓音有刮痕，一，懂得身體穴位。

他們不見得擁有很外顯的，「輕易被判別歸類的」，所謂「同志氣質」。甚至，很多人都不知道他們性向，知道之後也會稍微驚訝一下，啊？他是喔？當然，有痕跡可循。還有，bi的流動。

喜歡他們的人不少。

青春至上的世界，其實很多人「戀熟」，喜歡這樣的daddy。

台灣應該是沒有daddy聚集地，吧？有的話請跟我說。美國有。例如，Palm Springs，到那裡，真的會看到滿坑滿谷來這裡退休的daddies。很多矽谷有錢工程師就是來這裡早早退休。有錢的話，可以考慮加上一個sugar。

我已經正式中年了，我身邊的確有熟男daddy的好友。非常受歡迎。很有魅力。

寫這個角色的時候，這是我的設定，我想，同志讀者，應該能輕易讀出我放出的訊息。

稍微導讀一下。因為我發現，很多讀者似乎都沒抓到這個。

大家不要那麼焦慮。熟了，老了，沒那麼糟。戀熟，戀老，愛daddy，都是真實存在的情感波動。

導讀結束。這種歪斜導讀怎麼能放書呢？只能放臉書。

ship (BOAT) Show phonetics
noun [C]
a large boat for travelling on water, especially across the sea:
a sailing ship
a merchant/naval ship
They boarded (= went on to) a ship that was sailing (= leaving) the next day.


ship Show phonetics
verb [T usually + adverb or preposition] -pp-
to send something, usually a large object or a large quantity of objects or people, to a distant place:
We ship books out to New York every month.

shipper Show phonetics
noun [C usually plural]
a person or company whose job is to organize the sending of goods from one place to another:
wine shippers

shipping Show phonetics
noun [U]
1 ships considered as a group:
This stretch of water is heavily used by shipping.

2 when goods are sent from one place to another, especially by ship:
The cost is $205 plus $3 for shipping.
The fruit is picked and artificially ripened before shipping.

砂石


gravel
noun [U]
small rounded stones, often mixed with sand:
a gravel path

gravelled, US USUALLY graveled
adjective

gravelly
adjective
gravelly soil

• gravel pit noun [C]

1. a place where gravel is dug out of the ground

• 含蜜糖 - 黒砂糖・白下糖・カソナード（赤砂糖）
• 分蜜糖 - 粗糖 - 精製糖
• 精製糖 - ザラメ糖・車糖・加工糖・液糖
• ザラメ糖 - 白双糖・中双糖・グラニュー糖
• 車糖 - 上白糖・三温糖
• 加工糖 - 角砂糖・氷砂糖・粉砂糖

• その他の砂糖
• 和三盆（含蜜糖の一種）
• メープルシロップ（カエデの樹液を煮詰めたもの）
• 蜂蜜

Sugar (not only sucrose, but also other varieties such as glucose) may cause some children to become hyperactive — giving rise to the terms "sugar high", "sugar rush" and "sugar buzz".

"The Myth of the Sugar Buzz" article from Skepticism.Net

川北 稔（KAWAKITA MINORU）的翻譯和著作並行：『砂糖の世界史』（岩波書店, 1996年）有兩漢譯：

《砂糖的世界史》；陳惠文譯， 台北：玉山社 出版社 2005；鄭渠譯 天津：百花文藝， 2007

這本的取材，其實是他翻譯シドニー・W・ミンツ『甘さと権力――砂糖が語る近代史』（平凡社, 1988年）

砂糖又名白砂糖，含蔗糖95％以上的結晶體，比綿白糖含水率低，結晶顆粒較大，是一種常用的調味品，也是最常用的甜味劑。（Wikipedia article "Sugar"條的百分之一翻譯）。

The Sanskrit word for "sugar" (sharkara), also means "gravel". Similarly, the Chinese use the term "gravel sugar" (Traditional Chinese: 砂糖) for table sugar. 英語:sugar と、日本語:satou の頭部は、砂糖をあらわす梵語からきた、語源を同じくする言葉である。

1. A sweet crystalline or powdered substance, white when pure, consisting of sucrose obtained mainly from sugar cane and sugar beets and used in many foods, drinks, and medicines to improve their taste. Also called table sugar.
2. Any of a class of water-soluble crystalline carbohydrates, including sucrose and lactose, having a characteristically sweet taste and classified as monosaccharides, disaccharides, and trisaccharides.
3. A unit, such as a lump or cube, in which sugar is dispensed or taken.
4. Slang. Sweetheart. Used as a term of endearment.

v., -ared, -ar·ing, -ars. v.tr.

1. To coat, cover, or sweeten with sugar.
2. To make less distasteful or more appealing.

v.intr.

1. To form sugar.
2. To form granules; granulate.
3. To make sugar or syrup from sugar maple sap. Often used with off.

[Middle English sugre, from Old French sukere, from Medieval Latin succārum, from Old Italian zucchero, from Arabic sukkar, from Persian shakar, from Sanskrit śarkarā, grit, ground sugar.]

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 糖, 甜言蜜語, 糖塊
v. tr. - 加糖於, 粉飾, 使甜蜜
v. intr. - 製成糖

idioms:

• sugar beet 甜菜
• sugar bowl 糖罐
• sugar cane 甘蔗
• sugar daddy 老色迷
• sugar lump 方糖
• sugar the pill 把苦藥裹上糖衣, 使苦事容易被接受
• sugared almond 加糖衣的杏仁

━━ n. 砂糖; 【化】糖; 〔米話〕 ((好きな人への呼びかけ)) お前, きみ.

━━ vt. …に砂糖を入れる［かぶせる，ふりかける］; 甘くする, 甘いことばを使う; 不快さを和らげる.

━━ vi. 糖化する; 〔米〕 カエデ糖を造る; 〔米〕 糖液を煮つめる ((off)).

 sugar basin　（卓上用の）砂糖入れ.

 sugar beet　【植】テンサイ, サトウダイコン.

 sugar bowl　＝sugar basin.

 sugar・cane　サトウキビ.

 sugar-coat　━━ vt. 糖衣をかぶせる; よく見せかける.

sugar・coated　a. 糖衣を着せた; 不快さを包み隠した; よく見せかけた.

 sugar daddy　〔俗〕 若い女にせっせと金をみつぐ年配の男.

 sug・ared　━━ a. 砂糖をかけた, （ことばの）甘い, お世辞の.

 sug・ar・less　━━ a. 無糖の.

 sugar・loaf　棒砂糖 ((円錐形などの)); すり鉢山.

 sugar maple　【植】サトウカエデ.

 sugar of lead　【化】鉛糖.

 sugar・plum　〔英古〕 キャンデー, ボンボン.

 sugar snap pea　＝snap pea.

 sugar tongs　━━ n.pl. 角砂糖ばさみ.

 Sugar Twin　【商標】シュガー・ツイン ((米国Alberto-Culver社製の人口甘味料)).

 sug・ar・y　━━ a. 〔けなして〕 甘い; へつらいの.

sugar
(shʊg'ər)
n.

1. A sweet crystalline or powdered substance, white when pure, consisting of sucrose obtained mainly from sugar cane and sugar beets and used in many foods, drinks, and medicines to improve their taste. Also called table sugar.
2. Any of a class of water-soluble crystalline carbohydrates, including sucrose and lactose, having a characteristically sweet taste and classified as monosaccharides, disaccharides, and trisaccharides.
3. A unit, such as a lump or cube, in which sugar is dispensed or taken.
4. Slang. Sweetheart. Used as a term of endearment.

v., -ared, -ar·ing, -ars. v.tr.

1. To coat, cover, or sweeten with sugar.
2. To make less distasteful or more appealing.

v.intr.

1. To form sugar.
2. To form granules; granulate.
3. To make sugar or syrup from sugar maple sap. Often used with off.

[Middle English sugre, from Old French sukere, from Medieval Latin succārum, from Old Italian zucchero, from Arabic sukkar, from Persian shakar, from Sanskrit śarkarā, grit, ground sugar.]

sugarer sug'ar·er n.(kăn'dē)

Bagasse

bagasse

bəˈɡas/

noun

1. the dry pulpy residue left after the extraction of juice from sugar cane.
2. 
   

candy
n., pl., -dies.

1. A rich sweet confection made with sugar and often flavored or combined with fruits or nuts.
2. A piece of such a confection.

v., -died, -dy·ing, -dies. v.tr.

1. To reduce to sugar crystals.
2. To cook, preserve, saturate, or coat with sugar or syrup.
3. To make pleasant or agreeable; sweeten.

v.intr.

1. To become crystallized into sugar.
2. To become coated with sugar or syrup.

[WITH OBJECT] (often as adjective candied)  

Preserve (fruit) by coating and impregnating it with a sugar syrup:candied fruit

MORE EXAMPLE SENTENCES

• Okay, it's not exactly sugar-free, since some of the dried fruits are candied with sugar.
• Generally, these fruits are candied, but they may also be eaten fresh.
• I'm not a big fan of fruitcake; candied fruit is not my thing.

[Middle English candi, crystallized cane sugar, short for sugre-candi, translation of Old French sucre candi and Old Italian zucchero candi, both from Arabic sukkar qandīy : sukkar, sugar + qandīy, candied (from qand, cane sugar , probably from Dravidian kaṇṭu, lump).]

sugarcoat

Syllabification: (sug·ar·coat)

Pronunciation: /ˈSHo͝ogərˌkōt/

verb

[with object]

• coat (an item of food) with sugar: (as adjective sugarcoated)sugarcoated almonds
• make superficially attractive or acceptable:you won’t see him sugarcoat the truth
• make excessively sentimental:the filmmakers' proficiency is overpowered by their tendency to sugarcoat the material

  overpower

verb

[with object]

• defeat or overcome with superior strength.
• be too intense for; overwhelm:they were overpowered by the fumes