downy/flight feather, soothing, narcotics, counternarcotics

In South Korea, elderly YouTubers are gaining popularity thanks to their accumulated skills and personalities. In particular, they attract viewers with their soothing outlooks on life.

著名科學期刊”Cell”，最近（Vol. 144, p461）搭上2010奧斯卡獎熱潮。以《黑天鵝》為例，簡介鍾正明實驗室對羽毛的研究。基於幹細胞在羽毛毛囊內角度的高低，可造成不同對稱性的羽毛。這也是所謂「拓樸生物學」的範例。



Nabokov describes these nymphets as being "Deadly little demons" with feline features and thin, downy limbs. Nymphets are not always the type of girls a normal man would consider the prettiest, but they have a demonic ability to attract men at least ten years older than themselves.

Air Pollution May Have Suppressed Storms, Research Suggests

By JUSTIN GILLIS

To the list of ways humanity seems to have altered the earth, add another candidate: Air pollution may have had a major soothing influence on storm cycles in the North Atlantic.

The New York Times leads with word that the Pentagon has placed 50 major Afghan drug traffickers with ties to the Taliban in a list of targets to be captured or killed. The paper got an early look at a Congressional study set to be released this week, and notes that by putting drug traffickers on the same list as insurgent leaders, the United States is drastically changing its counternarcotics strategy in Afghanistan.

narcotics

n.

1. An addictive drug, such as opium, that reduces pain, alters mood and behavior, and usually induces sleep or stupor. Natural and synthetic narcotics are used in medicine to control pain.
2. A soothing, numbing agent or thing: “There was the blessed narcotic of bridge, at the Colony or at the home of friends” (Louis Auchincloss).

adj.

1. Inducing sleep or stupor; causing narcosis.
2. Of or relating to narcotics, their effects, or their use.
3. Of, relating to, or intended for one addicted to a narcotic.

[Middle English narcotik, from Old French narcotique, from Medieval Latin narcōticum, from Greek narkōtikon, from neuter of narkōtikos, numbing, from narkōsis, a numbing. See narcosis.]

narcotically nar·cot'i·cal·ly adv.


counternarcotics=counter narcotics 反毒

cotton

n.

1. Any of various shrubby plants of the genus Gossypium, having showy flowers and grown for the soft white downy fibers surrounding oil-rich seeds.

油断する 〔不注意である〕be careless ((about)); 〔警戒を怠る〕be off (one's) guard ((toward))


downy
adj. - 絨柔的, 柔和的

(dou'nē)
adj., -i·er, -i·est.

1. Made of or covered with down.
2. 1. Resembling down: downy white clouds.
   2. Quietly soothing; soft.

Definition of soothing

adjective

• having a gently calming effect:she put on some soothing music
• reducing pain or discomfort:almond oil is renowned for its soothing properties

[形]（-i・er, -i・est）

1 綿毛のような, ふわふわした, 柔らかい；綿毛でできた［おおわれた］；うぶ毛の生えた.

2 やさしい, 心を和らげるような.

3 ((俗))油断のならない, 抜け目のない
a downy bird ［fellow］

食えないやつ.