Resistance appears to be stiffer than Russian forces expected.
When Neil Young and Joni Mitchell saw an injustice, they used to attack it by writing protest songs. Today, the two musicians prefer to speak out by pressing the mute button. The pair have withdrawn their recordings from Spotify, the world’s biggest music streamer, in protest at “The Joe Rogan Experience”, a podcast that gave airtime to anti-vaxxers. Spotify has decided to hang on to its podcaster.Joe Rogan is a bigmouth who is wrong about covid-19 and probably much else. Yet he has broken no laws, nor even, Spotify seems to believe, the company’s content rules. As a matter of principle, Mr Rogan should be able to speak—even if he is wrong.But Spotify, and other platforms like it, must be clear about what their publishing rules are. The failure to spell out what is and isn't allowed risks having a chilling effect, in which people steer clear of controversy for fear of triggering the unpredictable censor. The content-moderation wars have officially come to audio. Read more about free speech’s new frontier: https://econ.trib.al/0qi4k2b
Spotify Responds to Complaints About Covid Misinformation
Following protests of Spotify kicked off by Neil Young, the music streaming service has announced that it will add content advisories before podcasts that discuss COVID-19. https://abcn.ws/3KYZVZh
Arizona Democrats Censure Sinema After Filibuster Vote
Ofcom will now have patrolling powers online. In November we examined the increasing desire to force social-media platforms to safeguard users
Life is changing for the tech giants
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Countries are increasingly willing to censor speech online
To stiff contractors.
"I did everything right. And then Trump cheated me. It’s a callous way to do business."
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censure 強烈責難...
Sigmund Freud, a pioneer of modern psychology, was born on May 6th 1856. "A Dangerous Method" portrayed Freud as a witty patriarch, siding with him against his stiff-necked protégé Carl Jung
Taiwan's premier, Jiang Yi-huah, quits after his ruling pro-China party suffers stiff defeat in local elections.
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Europe’s Antitrust Chief Censures Google’s Motorola Mobility Over Key PatentsGermans React Coolly to Moody's Warning
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warning that the euro crisis could cost Germany its triple-A credit
rating is stepping up pressure on Merkel to take bolder action, but also
stiffening domestic opposition to further bailouts, including within
her ruling coalition.
Japanese lawmakers approved censure motions against two members of Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's cabinet, in a tactical blow that could complicate his efforts to push through a contentious tax-increase bill. prissy | (adjective) Excessively or affectedly prim and proper. |
| Synonyms: | priggish, prudish, square-toed, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian, puritanical, prim |
| Usage: | A free-spirited party girl, I am the complete opposite of my prissy and well-mannered sister. |
Vote in Kyrgyzstan Gets Harsh Criticism
European observers issued a stiff censure of presidential elections in Kyrgyzstan, where President Bakiyev claimed a landslide victory that would cement his hold on power.
Clinton Speaks of Shielding Mideast From Iran
By MARK LANDLER and DAVID E. SANGER
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton stiffened the American line against Iran.
THEATER REVIEW | 'WAITING FOR GODOT'
Tramps for Eternity
By BEN BRANTLEY
Anthony Page’s smart, engaging production of “Waiting for Godot” makes it clear that this greatest of 20th-century plays is also entertainment of a high order.
U.N. conference delegates rejected banning toxic waste exports, instead encouraging countries to institute their own controls. The proposal ran into stiff opposition from the U.S., Japan, Canada and India.
Toyota to hike price of Prius, luxury models in Japan
The Daily Yomiuri - Osaka,Japan
Toyota Motor Corp. has begun discussions on raising retail prices of its hybrid engine-powered Prius and luxury models in Japan in response to rising steel ...
noun [C]
an increase in the cost of something, especially a large or unwanted increase:
The recent hike in train fares came as a shock to commuters.
hike
verb [I or T]
The Chancellor has hiked (up) interest rates again.hike (WALK) Show phonetics
noun [C]
a long walk, especially in the countryside
hike
verb [I]
to go for a long walk in the countryside
hiking
noun [U]
We're going hiking in the Lake District next weekend.
hiker
noun [C]
On sunny days the trails are full of hikers.
take a hike／walk：慣用語，滾啦、閃遠一點（美國日常用語，以不禮貌方式叫人走開）。例句：Take a hike! Stop bothering me!（滾啦！別煩我！）
stiff
(stĭf)
adj., stiff·er, stiff·est.
- Difficult to bend; rigid.
- Not moving or operating easily or freely; resistant: a stiff hinge.
- Lacking ease or comfort of movement; not limber: a stiff neck.
- Drawn tightly; taut.
- Rigidly formal.
- Lacking ease or grace.
- Not liquid, loose, or fluid; thick: stiff dough.
- Firm, as in purpose; resolute.
- Having a strong, swift, steady force or movement: a stiff current; a stiff breeze.
- Potent or strong: a stiff drink.
- Difficult, laborious, or arduous: a stiff hike; a stiff examination.
- Difficult to comprehend or accept; harsh or severe: a stiff penalty.
- Excessively high: a stiff price.
- Nautical. Not heeling over much in spite of great wind or the press of the sail.
- In a stiff manner: frozen stiff.
- To a complete extent; totally: bored stiff.
- A corpse.
- A person regarded as constrained, priggish, or overly formal.
- A drunk.
- A person: a lucky stiff; just an ordinary working stiff.
- A hobo; a tramp.
- A person who tips poorly.
- To tip (someone) inadequately or not at all, as for a service rendered: paid the dinner check but stiffed the waiter.
- To cheat (someone) of something owed: My roommate stiffed me out of last month's rent.
- To fail to give or supply (something expected or promised).
[Middle English, from Old English stīf.]
stiffish stiff'ish adj.stiffly stiff'ly adv.
stiffness stiff'ness n.
SYNONYMS stiff, rigid, inflexible, inelastic, tense. These adjectives describe what is very firm and does not easily bend or give way.
Stiff, the least specific, refers to what can be flexed only with difficulty (a brush with stiff bristles); with reference to persons it often suggests a lack of ease, cold formality, or fixity, as of purpose: “stiff in opinions” (John Dryden).
Rigid and inflexible apply to what cannot be bent without damage or deformation (a table of rigid plastic; an inflexible knife blade); figuratively they describe what does not relent or yield: “under the dictates of a rigid disciplinarian” (Thomas B. Aldrich). “In religion the law is written, and inflexible, never to do evil” (Oliver Goldsmith).
Inelastic refers largely to what will not stretch and spring back without marked physical change: inelastic construction materials. Tense means stretched tight and figuratively applies to what is marked by tautness or strain: “that tense moment of expectation” (Arnold Bennett).
tramp
v., tramped, tramp·ing, tramps.
v.intr.- To walk with a firm, heavy step; trudge.
- To travel on foot; hike.
- To wander about aimlessly.
- To traverse on foot: tramp the fields.
- To tread down; trample: tramp down snow.
- A heavy footfall.
- The sound produced by heavy walking or marching.
- A walking trip; a hike.
- One who travels aimlessly about on foot, doing odd jobs or begging for a living; a vagrant.
- A prostitute.
- A person regarded as promiscuous.
- Nautical. A tramp steamer.
- A metal plate attached to the sole of a shoe for protection, as when spading ground.
[Middle English trampen, to walk heavily, from Middle Low German.]
tramper tramp'er n.trampish tramp'ish adj.
trampy tramp'y adj.
censor
noun [C]
a person whose job is to read books, watch films, etc. in order to remove anything offensive from them, or who reads private letters, especially sent during war or from prison, to remove parts considered unsuitable
censor
verb [T]
The book was heavily censored when first published.
censorship noun [U]
censorship of the press
censure
n.- An expression of strong disapproval or harsh criticism.
- An official rebuke, as by a legislature of one of its members.
- To criticize severely; blame. See synonyms at criticize.
- To express official disapproval of: “whether the Senate will censure one of its members for conflict of interest” (Washington Post).
censure[cen・sure]
- 発音記号[sénʃər]
- [名][U]((形式))激しい非難, とがめ, きびしい譴責(けんせき)；不信任の表明
unreasonable censure of ［for］ a play
不当にきびしい劇評
不当にきびしい劇評
deserve censure
当然非難されるべきである
当然非難されるべきである
pass a vote of censure against ［on］ a person
人の不信任案を可決する.
人の不信任案を可決する.
━━[動](他)〈人を〉（…の点で）痛烈に批判［非難］する, とがめる((for ...))
censure a person for a fault ［for being lazy］
人の落ち度［怠惰］をとがめる.
人の落ち度［怠惰］をとがめる.
━━(自)批判［非難］する, とがめる.
［ラテン語censūra（censor検閲係＋-URE＝検閲をする役所→判断→非難）. △CENSOR, CENSUS］
stiff
━━ ad. ひどく.
bore … stiff （人）をひどく退屈させる. scare … stiff （人）をひどく脅かす.━━ n. 〔俗〕 死体; 〔俗〕 …なやつ; 堅苦しい［融通のきかない］人.
stiff・en
━━ v. 堅くする［なる］; 強くする［なる］; 硬化［直］させる［する］ ((up)); よそよそしくなる; 〔俗〕 殺す.stiff・en・er n. 芯(しん).
stiff・en・ing n. stiffener の材料.
stiff・ly ━━ ad.
stiff-necked ━━ a. 首筋がこわばった; 頑固な.ADJECTIVE
stiff・ness ━━ n.stiffen[stiff・en]
- 発音記号[stífən]
[動](他)
1 …を強める, 強化する；〈態度・決意などを〉強める, 頑固にする, 硬化させる；…を緊張させる；〈文体などを〉堅苦しくする
3 〈値段などを〉高くする, 上げる；〈要求などを〉きびしくする.
━━(自)（←(他)）
1 〈体などが〉こわばる, 硬直する, 〈態度・決意などが〉堅くなる, 硬化する；緊張する.
2 〈物が〉固くなる, 凝固する.
3 強さ［困難さ］を増す.
4 〈物価が〉上がる；〈相場が〉強含みとなる；〈要求などが〉きびしくなる.
4 〈物価が〉上がる；〈相場が〉強含みとなる；〈要求などが〉きびしくなる.
spade1
Pronunciation: /speɪd/
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