famine, “famine of beauty” line, trajectory, slice, dimple, carveout, scourge, self-sustained

Since his death on Jan. 18 at the age of 73, that “famine of beauty” line has been quoted again and again in obituaries and in the hundreds of social media posts memorializing his life.

The world had pretty much licked famine, until 2020. The last famine declared by the United Nations authorities was in a small part of South Sudan for a few months in 2017 — but now the U.N. warns that famine is looming in Yemen, South Sudan, Burkina Faso and northeastern Nigeria, with 16 other countries slightly behind in that trajectory toward catastrophe.

直到2020年，世界幾乎消除了飢荒。聯合國當局宣布的最後一場飢荒是在2017年在南蘇丹的一小部分地區發生的幾個月。但是現在，聯合國警告說，南蘇丹也門即將發生飢荒， 布基納法索和尼日利亞東北部，與其他16個國家相比，朝著這場災難的軌跡稍稍落後。

“Famines are now back,” said Mark Lowcock, the United Nations humanitarian chief. “It will be a horrible stain on humanity for decades to come if we become the generation to oversee the return of such a terrible scourge. This is still avoidable.”

“飢荒現在又回來了，”聯合國人道主義事務負責人馬克·洛考克說。 “如果我們這一代眼睜睜看這種可怕禍害的到來，那將是幾十年來對人類的可怕污點。 這仍然是可以避免的。”

  Some Countries Lobby for More in Race for Visas

By ERIC LIPTON

The prospect of immigration overhaul has spurred energetic lobbying from many foreign nations seeking a little something extra, whether additional work permits or visa-free tourist visits.

 White House Prepares to Formalize Tariffs but Floats Exemptions White House Prepares to Formalize Tariffs but Floats Exemptions
By ANA SWANSON
The administration is expected to formally announce tariffs on Thursday despite pushback from Republican lawmakers and as officials began signaling carve-outs for certain countries.

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"This could turn into a stealth immigration policy. Every country is going to try to negotiate its own carve-out."

RONIL HIRA, a professor of public policy at Rochester Institute of Technology, on countries that lobby for special treatment in an immigration bill.

On the Court, Keeping an Ear on the Ball

By THOMAS LIN
In blind tennis, invented in Japan and spreading in the United States, players rely on their hearing to follow the trajectory of a foam ball that rattles when in play.

This Golf Ball Won’t Slice But It’s Illegal
By BILL PENNINGTON

The dimples on the Polara create a straighter and lower trajectory, but there’s a drawback: the ball does not conform to the official rules of golf. 

Stable limit-cycles imply self sustained oscillations. Any small
perturbation from the closed trajectory would cause the system to
return to the limit-cycle, making the system stick to the limit-cycle.




Biosphere 2: 8 people entered a sealed complex in Oracle, Arizona, for an experiment in self-sustained living; they exited 3 hungry years later on the same date (1991)

- Japan's economy is far from achieving self-sustained growth as the export-led recovery fails to spur spending at home, according to Kazuo ...

self-sustained chain reaction



We do have a viable business here. There have been a lot of doubts about that in the press and what we're saying is that we see ourselves on a really nice trajectory.

Syria War Chronicler Became a Victim

By ANNE BARNARD, HWAIDA SAAD and HANIA MOURTADA 5:59 PM ET

Fidaa al-Baali’s trajectory reflected the shift in the Syrian conflict.

trajectory
(trə-jĕk'tə-rē)
n., pl. -ries.

1. 1. The path of a projectile or other moving body through space.
   2. A chosen or taken course: “What died with [the assassinated leaders] was a moral trajectory, a style of aspiration” (Lance Morrow).
2. Mathematics. A curve that cuts all of a given family of curves or surfaces at the same angle.

[New Latin trāiectōria, feminine of trāiectōrius, from Latin trāiectus, past participle of trāicere, to throw across. See traject.]

trajectory[tra・jec・to・ry]

• 発音記号[trədʒéktəri]
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[名]

1 （ロケットなどの描く）曲線, 弧, 弾道, 飛しょう径路；（運動する物体が描く）軌道.

2 《幾何学》軌道.

3 （人生・結婚生活などの）道筋, 歴程.

sélf-sustáining[sélf-sustáining

[形]自給の, 自営の, 独立の, 自立した（self-supporting）.

sélf-sustáined

[形]

 

carve
v.intr.

1. To engrave or cut figures as an art, hobby, or trade.
2. To disjoint, slice, and serve meat or poultry.

Definition of carveout

noun

• 1  a small company created from a larger one:companies that are breaking up—through spin-offs, split-offs, and carveouts
• a class of medical procedures treated separately with regard to insurance coverage.
• a class of employees treated separately with regard to benefits.

2  the activity of effecting a carveout.

slice

(slīs)
n.

1. 1. A thin broad piece cut from a larger object: ate a slice of cheese; examined a slice of the diseased lung.
   2. An often wedge-shaped piece cut from a larger, usually circular object: ordered a slice of pie; shared a slice of pizza.
2. A portion or share: a slice of the profits.
3. 1. A knife with a broad, thin, flexible blade, used for cutting and serving food.
   2. A similar implement for spreading printing ink.
4. Sports.
   1. The course of a ball that curves in the direction of the dominant hand of the player propelling it, as to the right of a right-handed player.
   2. A stroke that causes a ball to follow such a course: a golfer with a bad slice.
   3. A ball propelled on such a course.
   4. A stroke, as in tennis, in which the ball is struck with a downward motion with the open face of the racket in order to impart backspin.

v., sliced, slic·ing, slic·es. v.tr.

1. To cut or divide into slices: slice a loaf of bread.
2. To cut from a larger piece: slice off a piece of salami.
3. To cut through or across with or as if with a knife: The harvester sliced the field.
4. To divide into portions or shares; parcel out.
5. To spread, work at, or clear away with a bladed tool such as a slice bar.
6. Sports. To hit (a ball) with a slice.

v.intr.

1. To move like a knife: The destroyer sliced through the water.
2. Sports. To hit a ball with a slice.

[Middle English, splinter, from Old French esclice, from esclicier, to splinter, of Germanic origin.]

sliceable slice'a·ble adj.
slicer slic'er n.

[名]

1 （…の）薄片, 一切れ((of ...))

a slice ［two slices］ of bread ［toast］
1枚［2枚］のパン［トースト］（▼「一塊のパン」はa loaf of bread）.

2 一部, 部分；分け前

a slice of the cake
利益の分け前

a slice of the inheritance
遺産の一部

a slice of life
人生の一断面.

3 薄刃のへら：フライ返し, 印刷用インクべらなど.

4 《スポーツ》スライス：打者の利き手の方向に曲がるボールの飛び方.

━━[動](他)

1 …を薄く切る, 薄片に切り分ける((up))；薄く切り取る((off, away))

She sliced the heel off the loaf of bread.
パンの耳を薄く切り取った

It is slicing things fine.
気骨の折れることだ.

2 〈指などを〉（ナイフなどで）切る((with ...))；…を切り進む.

3 …を（へらなどで）削り［かき］取る((with ...)).

4 《スポーツ》〈ボールを〉スライスさせる.

5 ((米俗))〈人を〉だます, ぼる.

━━(自)

1 《スポーツ》〈選手が〉ボールをスライスさせて打つ, 〈ボールが〉スライスして飛ぶ.

2 薄く切るように進む.

3 （…を）切る((into, through ...))

slice into one's finger by mistake
あやまって指を切る.

any way you slice it

((米話))どこからみても.

［古フランス語esclice （esclicier裂く＋-ce＝裂いたもの）. △SLIT］

slíc・er

[名]（パン・ベーコンなどの）薄切り機.

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