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AIT美國選舉英文系列之二：「進化了」(Evolved) "改變心意"之美名
美國大選已進入最後倒數階段，你是否想要更瞭解美國的選舉呢？AIT邀請你和來自華盛頓的作家兼記者查克‧麥考奇恩 (Chuck McCutcheon)，一同透過我們的「選舉英文」影片系列，學習更多的選舉英文用語。

AIT Election English Two: Evolved
Are you interested in learning more about the U.S. Election? Join AIT in learning "Election English" in the next video in our series with author and journalist Chuck McCutcheon. The word this time is “Evolved.”

... it has evolved in 'its own subculture among teens in such... [LA] neighbourhoods as Compton, South Central and Watts,' said the Winston-Salem Journal. 'Groups gather in school grounds, parking lots and yards to perform and 'battle dance' each other. They are typically vocal opponents of violence, thus making the scene an alternative to the gang wars that plague the areas where krumping is popular' (The Guardian )


Japan's Aeon likely to miss China store target
Reuters - USA
TOKYO, June 5 (Reuters) - Japanese retailer Aeon Co Ltd (8267.T) said it is likely to miss its target of opening another 70 supermarkets in China by the end ...Aeon to Cut Spending on 'Toughest' Retail Climate,Aeon, 第一零售網,零售網,零售.
永安?
Google argues that current Web browsers were designed eons ago, before so many of the developments that characterize today’s Web: video everywhere, scams and spyware, viruses that lurk even on legitimate sites, Web-based games and ambitious Web-based programs like Google’s own Docs word processor. As Google’s blog puts it, “We realized that the Web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that we needed to completely rethink the browser.”



eon, UK ALSO aeon
noun [C]
a period of time which is so long that it cannot be measured:

INFORMAL I've been waiting eons for my new computer.(′ē′än) (astronomy) A billion (10⁹) years. Also spelled eon.

bonny
also bon·nie (bŏn'ē)
adj. Scots, -ni·er, -ni·est.

1. Physically attractive or appealing; pretty.
2. Excellent.

[Probably ultimately from French bon, good, from Latin bonus.]

bonnily bon'ni·ly adv.
bonniness bon'ni·ness n.

krumping
noun a type of dancing in which participants, often wearing face paint, dance with one another in a fast and aggressive style mimicking a fight but without any violence [origin unknown]

krumper noun

krump verb

evolve

VERB

• 1Develop gradually.

  [no object] ‘the company has evolved into a major chemical manufacturer’

  ‘the Gothic style evolvedfrom the Romanesque’

  [with object] ‘each school must evolve its own way of working’

  1. 1.1(with reference to an organism or biological feature) develop over successive generations as a result of natural selection.
     [no object] ‘the domestic dog is thought to have evolved from the wolf’
• 2Chemistry 
  [with object] Give off (gas or heat)

  ‘the energy evolved during this chemical change is transferred to water’

Origin

Early 17th century (in the general sense ‘make more complex, develop’): from Latin evolvere, from e- (variant of ex-) out of + volvere to roll.