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Dr. Leslie Hendeles began prodding the Food and Drug Administration to reject a decongestant in cold medicines when he had a mop of curly red hair and Bill Clinton had just become president.

"每日一歌（14）不聽你人生少一塊 只有在藍月非常藍的時候 聽說昨天是超級藍月，就是超級滿月又碰上老外說的藍月（blue moon），非常罕見。 外國人沒有陰曆，陽曆一個月只有一次月圓，大約每兩三年會碰到一次一個月內出現兩次月圓，這個月亮就叫藍月。 因此，英文裡有once in a blue moon，代表非常罕見的意思。譬如藍白兩黨民意代表要正常，還真是once in a blue moon。 哈。 所以今天你要聽一首非常美麗的歌叫作〈Once in a Very Blue Moon〉，這首歌讓我初識鄉村歌后Nanci Griffith，她有個非常特殊的嗓門，一聽難忘。這首歌算是她的代表作。 很遺憾，她在兩年前去世了，這樣的美聲是once in a very blue moon才有的珍寶，下次再出現，不知何時。"

The record-breaking 180-day journey involved sickness, visa issues, and a crash with a moped.

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Couple cycle around the world on tandem bike

China urged the United States on Thursday not to allow Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen to stop over in Hawaii next week when she makes a tour of the island's diplomatic allies in the Pacific, adding another irritant to Beijing-Washington ties.



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China urges U.S. to block Taiwan leader's Hawaii stop-over

 The family had no car; sometimes all four of them would travel on the family moped. 

'Huge concern' as teen moped crime in London rises

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China Defers Death Penalty for Disgraced Official’s Wife

By ANDREW JACOBS

Gu Kailai, the wife of Bo Xilai, received a suspended death sentence for the poisoning death of a British business associate. In the Chinese legal system, such a sentence is often commuted to life in prison.

Back at the miserable settlement outside Pnomh Penh, Od Jah, the young mother of six, uses rainwater to cook with. She explains that her husband works on a building site 30 kilometers away. He goes there every Monday and comes back on Saturday with a few dollars. He sleeps on site because he cannot afford to commute by moped taxi.


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Sony halts production of the cassette Walkman in Japan

irritant

/ˈɪrɪt(ə)nt/

noun

1. 1.

   a substance that causes slight inflammation or other discomfort to the body.

   "a powerful skin irritant"
2. 2.

   a thing that is continually annoying or distracting.

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Released in 1979, they were popular with commuters, joggers and teenagers, but they were also an irritant to many, who found the tinny noise from the ...


irritant

[形]（心を）刺激する, いらいらさせる, 〈薬などが〉刺激性の, ぴりぴりする.

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1 刺激物, （心の）刺激剤.

2 《病理学・医学》刺激薬［剤］.

Moped - Wikipedia

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A moped is a small motorcycle, generally having a less stringent licensing requirement than motorcycles or automobiles because mopeds typically travel about ...

mo·ped (mō'pĕd')
n.
A lightweight motorized bicycle that can be pedaled as well as driven by a low-powered gasoline engine.

[From MO(TOR) + PED(AL).]

• 発音記号[móupèd]
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[名]モペット：補助エンジン（50cc未満）つき自転車.

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mop

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noun. noun. /mɑp/ enlarge image. a tool for washing floors that has a long handle with a bunch of thick strings or soft material at the end a mop and bucket.

mop

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 /mɑp/

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a stick having at one end a mass of thick, cloth strings or a sponge (= soft substance) that you slide along a floor to spread or absorb a liquid in cleaning the floor

 

A mop of hair is a lot of hair in a thick mass:

The child’s face was framed by a mop of brown curls.

 commute

 (kə-myūt')

v., -mut·ed, -mut·ing, -mutes.

v.intr.

1. To travel as a commuter.
2. 1. To make substitution or exchange.
   2. To serve as a substitute.
3. To pay in gross, usually at a reduced rate, rather than in individual payments.
4. Mathematics & Logic. To satisfy or engage in a commutative operation.

v.tr.

1. To substitute (one thing for another); exchange.
2. To change (a penalty, debt, or payment) to a less severe one.

n.
An act or instance of commuting, especially the trip made by a commuter: a 22-mile commute; an easy commute.

[Middle English commuten, to transform, from Latin commūtāre : com-, com- + mūtāre, to change.]