Syrians Place Booby-Trapped Ammunition in Rebels’ Guns
By C. J. CHIVERS
DEIR SONBUL, Syria — The Syrian government has salted ammunition with ordnance that explodes inside fighters’ guns, killing or wounding them while destroying their weapons.
Yulia hasn't yet worn sirloin steak to an awards ceremony like Lady Gaga (although her DJ career did begin at a night club called Meat in Shinjuku, Tokyo), but she is keen to test her own and everybody else's boundaries.
Scrutinizing Google’s Reign
By STEVE LOHR and CLAIRE CAIN MILLER
Google’s slogan may be don’t be evil, but U.S. and European antitrust regulators want to know if the company, led by Eric Schmidt, has lived up to that creed.
Some web users have criticized the plan as "discrimination against the poor," saying Hong Kong was a much fairer and more modern city than Guangzhou, where people could not be expected to live up to such high standards.
一些網友批評該計畫「歧視窮人」，表示香港是遠比廣州公平、現代的都市，無法期待廣州人遵守如此高的標準。
live up to︰片語，遵守、落實。例句︰The politician failed to live up to his promises.（這名政治人物沒有實踐他的承諾。）
1. Live or act in accordance with; also, measure up to. For example, Children rarely live up to their parents' ideals, or This new technology has not lived up to our expectations. [Late 1600s]
2. Carry out, fulfill, as in She certainly lived up to her end of the bargain. [First half of 1800s]
- loin
- [名]1 [C][U]（牛・豚・羊の）腰肉. ⇒BEEF（図）2 ((〜s))((主に文))腰, 腰部；（生殖力の源としての）下腹, 股(また) the fruit of one's loins...
- loincloth
- [名]下帯；（熱帯地方の人の）腰布, 腰巻き.
surloin
(sûr'loin')
n.
A cut of meat, especially of beef, from the upper part of the loin just in front of the round.
[名][U][C]サーロイン：牛の腰肉上部.
[Middle English surloine, from Old French surlonge, *surloigne : sur, above (from Latin super) + longe, loigne, loin; see loin.]
bóoby tràp[bóoby tràp]
1 ((略式))偽装爆弾, 仕掛け爆弾［地雷］.
2 まぬけだまし：戸をあけたとたんに物が落ちるようないたずら.
bóoby-tràp
[動](他)…にbooby trapを仕掛ける.
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