As a lockdown in Shanghai continues, some residents are buckling under the government’s strict measures — a sign of the toll two years of zero-Covid policies have taken on the Chinese people.隨著上海繼續封鎖，一些居民在政府的嚴格措施下屈服——這表明兩年的零新冠政策對中國人民造成了損失。
Russian Front Lines Have Buckled and Troops Have Fled
- The fall of Izium, a Russian-held city in Ukraine’s east, is the most devastating blow to the Kremlin since its humiliating retreat from Kyiv in the spring.
- 2022.9.11
Strange-looking lenticular clouds form over Cape Town, South Africa.
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Unsurprisingly, perhaps, some buckle under the weight of these great acting clans. In 2010 Danjuro’s son, Ebizo Ichikawa XI, was beaten up in a Tokyo nightclub brawl. The incident led to his suspension from kabuki and the blackening of the family name. For weeks afterwards, Ebizo had to endure the sort of media circus that accompanies Hollywood scandals, and repeated questions about whether his nirami would survive the assault. His career has yet to recover completely.
Perhaps more significantly, eight million people in the United States looked up their congressional representatives through Wikipedia and, it is claimed, went on to protest about Sopa and Pipa. Wikipedia paints a picture of jammed switchboards at Capitol Hill and servers buckling under the weight of email from protestors.
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Missoni’s Line Crashes Target’s Web Site
By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD
Target’s web site buckled Tuesday under the demand for a limited-edition line by designers Margherita and Angela Missoni, seen above at a Target store in New York.
The South is entering the most dangerous period in which case numbers are large, growth is still high and health systems start to buckle
When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases -- bestial atrocities, iron heel, bloodstained tyranny, free peoples of the world, stand shoulder to shoulder -- one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy: a feeling which suddenly becomes stronger at moments when the light catches the speaker's spectacles and turns them into blank discs which seem to have no eyes behind them.
buckler (noun) Armor carried on the arm to intercept blows. Synonyms: shield Usage: As soon as he deflected his opponent's blow with his buckler, he went on the offensive, slashing away with his sword.
blacken
- blackenの変化形
- blackened (過去形) • blackened (過去分詞) • blackening (現在分詞) • blackens (三人称単数現在)
[動](他)
1 …を黒くする；…を暗くする.
2 〈人格・名誉などを〉汚す, 中傷する.
3 〈魚・肉を〉香辛料をまぶして外側を強火で焼く. ▼内側は柔らかい.
━━(自)黒くなる；暗くなる.buckle
n.
- A clasp for fastening two ends, as of straps or a belt, in which a device attached to one of the ends is fitted or coupled to the other.
- An ornament that resembles this clasp, such as a metal square on a shoe or hat.
- An instance of bending, warping, or crumpling; a bend or bulge.
v., -led, -ling, -les. v.tr.
- To fasten with a buckle.
- To cause to bend, warp, or crumple.
to bend something or become bent, often as a result of force, heat, or weakness: The intense heat from the fire had caused the factory roof to ...
- To become fastened with a buckle.
- To bend, warp, or crumple, as under pressure or heat.
- To give way; collapse: My knees buckled with fear.
- To succumb, as to exhaustion or authority; give in: finally buckled under the excessive demands of the job.
buckle down
- To apply oneself with determination.
- To use a safety belt, especially in an automobile.
[Middle English bokel, from Old French boucle, from Latin buccula, cheek strap of a helmet, diminutive of bucca, cheek.]
Urban Dictionary: Party Hack
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Someone who blindly agrees with and supports their political party simply because of their refusal to accept that they themselves may have been mis...hack2 (hăk)
n.
- A horse used for riding or driving; a hackney.
- A worn-out horse for hire; a jade.
- One who undertakes unpleasant or distasteful tasks for money or reward; a hireling.
- A writer hired to produce routine or commercial writing.
- A carriage or hackney for hire.
- Informal.
- A taxicab.
- See hackie.
n.
- Southwestern U.S. A rounded earthenware pot or jar, used especially for cooking or for carrying water.
- An olla podrida.
[Spanish, from Old Spanish, from Latin, variant of aula, aulla, pot, jar.]
REGIONAL NOTE The unglazed earthenware olla, a large crock or jar, was used for generations in southwestern parts of the United States where Spanish language and culture predominate, particularly in south Texas and California. The olla was usually used to store water on a patio and was wrapped in burlap to keep the water cool.
三成與四分之三：讀兩本《堂吉訶德》翻譯的一些感想
去年無意間在網路上看到某人指出，楊絳先生翻譯《堂吉訶德》
《堂吉訶德》楊絳譯 台北：聯經，1988
《堂吉訶德》屠孟超譯 南京：譯林，1995
我只看第一章的第一段。
起先兩本無大差別，不過楊先生注解比較好/多。
「不久以前，有位紳士住在拉‧曼卻的一個村上，村名我不想提了，
「不久前，在拉‧曼卻的一個村莊（村名我不想提了），
然後碰到：
屠孟超本「…..這樣，花去了一年三成的收入。」
楊絳本「…..這就花了他一年四分之三的收入。」
嚇一跳，急忙想找我的企鵝板英文翻譯本比對，卻找不到。
於是上網查對
http://csdl.tamu.edu/
IN a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to
call to mind, there lived not long since one of those gentlemen that
keep a lance in the lance-rack, an old buckler, a lean hack, and a
greyhound for coursing. An olla of rather more beef than mutton, a
salad on most nights, scraps on Saturdays, lentils on Fridays, and a
pigeon or so extra on Sundays, made away with three-quarters of his
income.
似乎屠孟超先生的翻譯有誤（或版本不同）。
不過，此英文本用greyhound（我們以前有專文討論它），
總之楊絳本應該是第一優先。
lentil,
小扁豆（學名：Lens culinaris）又名兵豆、濱豆，屬一年生草本莢果，種子可作食用，每株約40公分（16英寸）高。
lenticular
lɛnˈtɪkjʊlə/
adjective
- 1.shaped like a lentil, especially by being biconvex."lenticular lenses"
- 2.relating to the lens of the eye.
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