2016年10月5日星期三

rebarbative, retrograde, unpleasant incident

The decision is the first indication that Theresa May will continue David Cameron's ambitions to go "all out" for fracking, despite concerns that opening up a new supply of fossil fuels is a retrograde step given the need to reduce carbon emissions.

It came on the same day Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, the leading economist, warned that attempts to deliver economic growth with a high-carbon strategy would "self-destruct".

THE SOUND OF SILENCE

零噪音的狂歡－無聲party嗨翻天

2015年08月10日

DJs at silent discos play loud music, but the songs are played through radio transmitters. These radio signals are then picked up by wireless headphones. One of the cool things about silent discos is that two or more DJs can be playing right next to each other and listeners can switch from channel to channel to find the music they like. This would be impossible with speakers because the different songs would come together in an unpleasant way.

無聲派對上的DJ把音樂放得很大聲，但歌曲卻是透過無線電發送器來播放出來。接著無線耳機會接收這些無線電訊號。無聲派對上最酷的一點就是兩個或兩個以上的DJ可以在彼此身旁播放音樂，而且聽的人也可以轉換一個又一個的頻道來找到他們喜歡的音樂。如果是用音響來播放的話根本就是不可能的，因為同時播放不同的音樂並不悅耳。

生活必備字詞

signals n. 訊號，信號
switch vi. & vt.轉換
Shirley turned on the TV and switched the channels back and forth.
unpleasant a. 令人不愉快的
Don't let this unpleasant incident come between us.

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Ideological currents in China

Tilting backwards

Whoever wrote it, a new policy paper is making Xi Jinping's government look chillingly retrograde 221

In the official press and online, constitutionalism emerges as the centre of a fight 117

New Yorkers have been fortunate that Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a normally rebarbative and unpleasantly combative, even retrograde figure, has rapidly attained Churchillian status. Calmly, unsentimentally, and with extraordinary compassion, he has marshalled the city's heroic police, fire and emergency services to admirable effect and, alas, with huge loss of life.

Announcing the Latest Big Thing
By WENDY MacLEOD
Don't be a retrograde loser. This is the newest new normal.

Definition of retrograde

adjective

directed or moving backward:a retrograde flow
reverting to an earlier and inferior condition:to go back on the progress that has been made would be a retrograde step
(of the order of something) reversed; inverse:the retrograde form of these inscriptions
(of amnesia) involving the period immediately preceding the causal event.
Geology (of a metamorphic change) resulting from a decrease in temperature or pressure.
Astronomy & Astrology (of the apparent motion of a planet) in a reverse direction from normal (from east to west), resulting from the relative orbital progress of the earth and the planet. The opposite of prograde.
Astronomy (of the orbit or rotation of a planet or planetary satellite) in a reverse direction from that normal in the solar system.

noun

rare

a degenerate person.

verb

[no object]

1 archaic go back in position or time:our history must retrograde for the space of a few pages
revert to an earlier and usually inferior condition:people cannot habitually trample on law and justice without retrograding toward barbarism