A Week in Trump’s Washington
What we’ve learned in the Comey-White House maelstrom.
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Syrian Exodus Highlights the Political Failure of the West
A rising tide of Syrian refugees would sooner or later head for Europe. Yet little was done in Western capitals to stop or mitigate the slow-motion disaster that was befalling Syrian citizens and sending them on the run.
German job market to stagnate in election year
The German labor market has finally gotten caught in the maelstrom of the
European recession. But experts see this as a minor slump, and Angela
Merkel's party is even promising a policy of full employment in 2013.
Anti-nuclear protesters surround the Diet in...
July 30, 2012
Thousands of anti-nuclear
protesters almost encircled the Diet building in Tokyo on July 29 in the
latest of more than four months of demonstrations against the reopening
of nuclear plants following the Fukushima nuclear...
此是朝日新聞對"包圍國會"的英文 我會建議採用 "circle the Diet"....
Healing, One Memorial Day at a Time
By JAMES DAO
Every year for the last four years, the men of the Second Battalion,
Fourth Marine Regiment, which fought in Iraq, visit the grave of one of
their fallen comrades.
Italy Fears Jolt Markets
Italy, long a bystander to debt woes, was thrust into the maelstrom, as investors fled its bonds and Europe's leaders struggled to keep the crisis from infecting the Continent's third-largest economy.
Herbert and Marion Sandler were long viewed as the mortgage industry’s model citizens, but have been swept into the maelstrom surrounding who is to blame.
To the investors who have pounded Deutsche’s stock, this view is just willful denial that the bank can avoid what befell its peers. To Deutsche executives, who have largely ruled out tapping government bailout funds, it is justified by the bank’s continuing profitability through the maelstrom.
maelstrom
noun [méilstrəm | -strɔm]
1 [C usually singular] a situation in which there is great confusion, violence and destruction:
The country is gradually being sucked into the maelstrom of civil war.
2 [C] an area of water which moves with a very strong circular movement and sucks in anything that goes past
[名]
1 大渦巻；((the M-))モスケンの大渦巻（ノルウェー北西岸沖の大渦巻）.
2 大混乱, 動乱, 激動
be sucked into the maelstrom of ...
…の動乱に巻き込まれる.
…の動乱に巻き込まれる.
befall
v., -fell (-fĕl'), -fall·en (-fô'lən), -fall·ing, -falls. v.intr.
To come to pass; happen.
v.tr.
To happen to. See synonyms at happen.
[Middle English bifallen, from Old English befeallan, to fall.]
fallen
IN BRIEF: adj. - Killed in battle; Having lost your chastity; Having fallen in or collapsed; Having dropped by
surround[sur・round]
- レベル：最重要
- 発音記号[səráund]
[動](他)［III[名]（[副]）］…を（…で）囲む, 取り巻く；〈軍隊・町などを〉包囲する；〈危険などが〉〈人を〉取り囲む；((受身または〜 -self))（…に）取り囲まれる((with, by ...))
━━[名]
1 ((英))
(1) （窓周りなどの）回り枠.
(2) （壁とカーペットの間の）床；そこに敷く物.
(1) （窓周りなどの）回り枠.
(2) （壁とカーペットの間の）床；そこに敷く物.
3 ((米))《狩り》包囲猟法（で獲物を囲った場所）.
［古フランス語←後ラテン語superundāre （super-上に＋undāre水が流れる＝あふれる）. 英語に入ってROUND1と混同されて意味が変わった］the
force of gravity; Having entered into a particular physical or emotional
state.
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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