JPMorgan Sets Aside Money for Bad Debts as ‘Mild Recession’ Looms
The bank, the biggest in the United States, reported a large profit in its latest quarter, but said it was girding for a downturn later in the year.
The bank, the biggest in the United States, reported a large profit in its latest quarter, but said it was girding for a downturn later in the year.
Ukraine Girds for Kyiv Attack Amid Signs of Slowing Russian Advance
By Valerie Hopkins, Andrew E. Kramer and Michael Levenson
President Volodymyr Zelensky warned in a video address that Russian “sabotage groups” had entered Kyiv with the aim of decapitating his government by “destroying the head of state.”
Trump’s Empire Girded With $885 Million in Tax Breaks
Donald J. Trump has relied on the government and taxpayers to benefit the core of his Manhattan real estate developments.
Money-Laundering Probe Touches Putin Inner Circle4
Wary of North Korea, Japan Puts Missile Defense in Tokyo
New York Times
TOKYO — The Japanese Army set up a battery of interceptor missiles on the grounds of the Defense Ministry in central Tokyo on Tuesday, as the nation girded itself for a possible missile test by North Korea, maybe as soon as this week.
More Weather Extremes Leave Parts of U.S. Grid Buckling
By MATTHEW L. WALD and JOHN SCHWARTZ 7:48 PM ET
From highways to power plants, the concrete, steel and engineering that undergird the nation’s infrastructure are being dangerously taxed by heat, drought and storms.
Google Girds for a Grilling
Wall Street Journal
By THOMAS CATAN and AMIR EFRATI Google Inc. is taking no chances as its executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, prepares to face a Senate hearing Wednesday on whether the company is abusing its dominance in Internet search. Associated Press Bill Gates ...H-P Girds for Battle
Friday will be a key test for Hewlett-Packard as it aims to launch its first tablet computer to rival Apple's iPad.
Tension Rises in Iran as Both Sides Gird for Demonstration
By NAZILA FATHI and ALAN COWELL
Torn between conciliation and an ever-greater risk of reprisals and possible bloodshed, the opposition movement in Iran seemed to reach a pivotal phase Saturday.
POLITICS AND POLICY Internet Providers Gird for FCC Fight
Cable and phone companies are gearing up for a fight as the FCC starts work on a strategy for delivering Internet service to homes.
TELEVISION REVIEW | 'STYLISTA'
It’s a Fashionista War: Wear Armor
By GINIA BELLAFANTE “Stylista,” which begins on Wednesday on CW, may even surpass “The Devil Wears Prada” as a treatise on the empty ambition and distaste for civility that girds so much of the fashion world.
Some analysts are girding for a third-quarter loss of $1.8 billion or more from U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers, instead of the modest profit they had previously expected, according to The Wall Street Journal.
They couldn't find either. And it is this melancholy failure of the balance of trade that leads to the under girding, as it were, of the opium business in China. Opium started to be sold by British traders and later by American traders to the Chinese because the West simply could not find enough products to attract the Chinese in a sort of barter exchange at the time.
這悲慘的平衡貿易上的無能，導致英國更需要在中國賣鴉片。開始由英國商人出售鴉片給中國（美國貿易商稍後加入），之所以如此，正因為在當時以物易物的貿易下，西方根本無法找到足夠吸引中國商人的產品來交換。
un·der·gird
- \ˌən-dər-ˈgərd\
- transitive verb
- Date:1526
took measures to undergird the ship — Acts 27:17(Revised Standard Version)
2: to form the basis or foundation of : strengthen, support
facts and statistics subtly undergird his commentary — Susan Q. Stranahan
v., gird·ed or girt (gûrt), gird·ing, girds. v.tr.
- To encircle with a belt or band.
- To fasten or secure (clothing, for example) with a belt or band.
- To surround. See synonyms at surround.
- To equip or endow.
- To prepare (oneself) for action.
To prepare for action: “Men still spoke of peace but girded more sternly for war” (W. Bruce Lincoln).
[R] The knights girded themselves for battle (= put on their swords and fighting clothes).
to get ready to do something or deal with something:
We girded ourselves for the fray (= prepared for action or trouble).
Europe's finest golfers are girding their loins for the challenge of the Ryder Cup.
idiom:
gird (up) (one's) loins
- To summon up one's inner resources in preparation for action.
注意 諸如 "大陸英漢辭典" 在 gird和 loin兩字對此的翻譯是"不一致的"
[Middle English girden, from Old English gyrdan.]
| gird | (verb) Prepare oneself for a military confrontation. |
| Synonyms: | arm, build up, fortify |
| Usage: | They are girding themselves for battle against a new enemy. |
━━ vt. （〜ed, girt） 腰に巻く, 帯で締める ((with, up)); 身に着ける ((on)); （権力などを）与える ((with)); 囲む ((with)).
gird oneself / gird (up) one's loins しっかり帯を締める［準備する］ ((for)).
gird up 〔雅〕 衣服を腰までまくる［まくって帯で留める］.
empty gird oneself / gird (up) one's loins しっかり帯を締める［準備する］ ((for)). gird up 〔雅〕 衣服を腰までまくる［まくって帯で留める］.
adj., -ti·er, -ti·est.
- Holding or containing nothing.
- Mathematics. Having no elements or members; null: an empty set.
- Having no occupants or inhabitants; vacant: an empty chair; empty desert.
- Lacking force or power: an empty threat.
- Lacking purpose or substance; meaningless: an empty life.
- Not put to use; idle: empty hours.
- Needing nourishment; hungry: “More fierce and more inexorable far/Than empty tigers or the roaring sea” (Shakespeare).
- Devoid; destitute: empty of pity.
v., -tied, -ty·ing, -ties. v.tr.
- To remove the contents of: emptied the dishwasher.
- To transfer or pour off completely: empty the ashes into a pail.
- To unburden; relieve: empty oneself of doubt.
- To become empty: The theater emptied after the performance.
- To discharge its contents: The river empties into a bay.
An empty container.
[Middle English, from Old English ǣmtig, vacant, unoccupied, from ǣmetta, leisure.]
emptily emp'ti·ly adv.emptiness emp'ti·ness n.
SYNONYMS empty, vacant, blank, void, vacuous, bare, barren. These adjectives mean without contents that could or should be present.
Empty applies to what is wholly lacking contents or substance: an empty room; empty promises.
Vacant refers to what is without an occupant or incumbent, or to what is without intelligence or thought: a vacant auditorium; a vacant stare.
Blank stresses the absence of something, especially on a surface, that would convey meaning or content: blank pages.
Void applies to what is free from or completely destitute of discernible content: gibberish void of all meaning.
Vacuous describes what is as devoid of substance as a vacuum is: led a vacuous life.
Something that is bare lacks surface covering (a bare head) or detail (the bare facts); the word also denotes the condition of being stripped of contents or furnishings: a bare closet.
Barren literally and figuratively stresses lack of productivity: barren land; writing barren of insight.
See also synonyms at vain.
buckle[buck・le]
- 発音記号[bʌ'kl]
[名]
1 （ベルト・革帯などの）締め金具, 留め金, バックル；（靴の）飾り留め金.
2 （熱・圧力による板金などの）ゆがみ, ねじれ.
━━[動](他)
2 …を（熱・圧力を加えて）曲げる, たわめる, ねじる, 縮ませる；ねじ込む((into)).
3 ((〜 -self))（行動するために）用意する, （仕事に）身を入れる((to ...)).
━━(自)
2 （仕事の）用意をする, 身を入れる；力を合わせて（事に）あたる((down/to ...)).
4 （…に）屈服［降参］する, 譲る((under/to, under ...)).
buckle to
((英))仕事にまじめに取りかかる, 一生懸命にやる.▼toは副詞で 〔tú
〕 と発音.
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