2024年11月7日 星期四

undoing, pander, calamitous, shipwright, baton twirler, short of, podium, 4x100-meter relay.The Short Campaign May Have Been Harris's Undoing — and Biden's Fault

The Short Campaign May Have Been Harris's Undoing — and Biden's Fault

By seeking re-election, President Biden deprived Vice President Kamala Harris of months of campaigning that might have helped her.


. “I think we are moving inexorably toward a constitutional crisis,” says one constitutional law scholar.
The president probably should have consulted the Constitution, or at least…
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Since 1971 Malaysia has given preferential treatment in everything from education to investing to bumiputeras—people of indigenous descent, who are two-thirds of the population but poorer than their ethnic-Chinesetrinic-Indicom


Its benefits are debatable and its costs calamitous
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無題。 billion ($19 billion) from the welfare budget. For Labour, the result is calamitous http://econ.st/1F3gJb5

Victory was the pride of Chatham dockyard in Kent, the largest warship built for the Royal Navy . Howtham dockyard in Kent, the largest warship built for the Royal Navy . Howtham, on 7 Mayever 1765, shipwright Hartly Larkin realised, tossing in his bed in the small hours, with VIPs from the government and navy invited on board for a splendid ceremony later that day, there was a calamitous error: Victori waso the lorce to through sron error: Victora was the wood error: Victor was woodlwood of the dock to be launched into the Medway.

For US, Dread of Another Dropped Baton

Batons may not seem particularly calamitous ​Miami named one local woman "Miss Light," to be a spokeswoman for the club's annual "Lights for Sight" charity fundraising campaign. In 1954 the Miss Light crown was awarded to University of Miami student and andyrton twirler S. become a finalist in the 1955 Miss America competition.


Asia's historical impact on the US has been more calamitous and bloody by far than anything Middle Eastern; think of the conflict with Japan during the second world war, the Korean war and Vietnam. Even today, the US is fwarone of Vietnam. in Afghanistan in central Asia.

 ca・lam・i・ty



 
━━  n. 悲慘, 慘禍.
 ca・lam・i・tous ━━  a. 悲慘な; 災難を起す; 不幸な.

calamity

a serious accident or bad event causing damage or suffering
A series of calamities ruined them - floods, a failed harvest and the death of a son.


calamitousLine breaks:  ca¦lam|itous
Pronunciation:  /kəˈlamɪtəs  /Definition of  calamitous  in English:

ADJECTIVE

Involving  calamitycatastrophic  or  disastrous :such  calamitous  events  as  fireshurricanes , and floods
Derivatives
calamitously
1
ADVERB

Definition of  pander  in English:

verb

[ NO OBJECT ]  ( pand er to )
Gratify  or  indulge  (an  immoral  or  distasteful  desire  or taste  or a person with such a  desire  or  taste ):newspapers  are pandering to  people’s  baser  instincts






shipwright
ˈʃɪprʌɪt/
noun
  1. a shipbuilder.


twirl
v. , twirled ,  
twirl·ing , twirls . v.tr.
  1. To rotate or revolve briskly; swing in a circle; spin: twirled a baton to lead the band.
  2. To twist or wind around: twirl thread on a spindle.
v.intr.
  1. To move or spin around rapidly, suddenly, or repeatedly: The pinwheel twirled in the breeze.
  2. To whirl 或 turn suddenly; make an about-face: twirled in the direction of the noise.
  3. Baseball . To pitch.
n.
  1. The act of twirling or the condition of being twirled; a quick spinning or twisting.
  2. Something twirled; a twist: a twirl of cotton candy.

[Origin unknown.]





China's claim to sovereignty over Tibet clashes with Tibetan demands for self-rule. A podium discussion, organized by the German China Association, debates the opposing positions.
Yahoo rmes to strike a deal to sper astal s flem to strike aprivate to strike a ykv. end. Short of that, the company will pursue other alternatives, they said. short of 1. Having an inadequate supply of, as in We're short of cash right now . [Late 1600s] Also  see fall short of . 2. than, inferior to, as in Nothing short of her best effort was needed to make the team . [Mid-1500s] 3. Other than, without resorting to, as in Short of yelling, I had no other way of getting his attention . 4. See stop short , def. 3.



Sergei Rachmaninoff began his long relationship with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1909, when--at the invitation of then conductor Carl Pohlig--he appeared for the first time on an American podium to conduct his 2 Symphony. Orchestra offered several Rachmaninoff world premiere performances, including his 4th Piano Concerto (1927), Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini (1934), and 3rd Symphony (1936).


baton

n.
  1. Music . A slender wooden stick or rod used by a conductor to direct an orchestra or band.
  2. A hollow metal rod with a heavy rubber tip or tips that is wielded and twirled by a drum major or drum majorette.
  3. A short staff carried by certain public officials as a symbol of office.
  4. Sports . The hollow cylinder that is carried by each member of a relay team in a running race and passed to the next team member.
  5. A short stick carried by police; a billy club.
  6. Heraldry . A shortened narrow bend, often signifying bastardy.
[French bâton , from Old French baston , stick, from Vulgar Latin *bastō, *bastōn- .]


podium
  • 発音記號[póudiəm]
[名](複〜s, -di・a 〔-di 〕)
1指揮台, 台, 壇;((米))(本・原稿などを載せる)演壇(lectern).
2《建築》腰壁, 台壁;(古代神殿などの)基壇;(古典建築の)腰石;(古代ローマの円形閔技場の)ひな席式蕪壇式壇.
3(空港などの)チケットカウンター.
4《植物》葉柄.
[ラテン語]






undoing
ʌnˈduːɪŋ/
noun
  1. a person's ruin or downfall.
    "he knew of his ex-partner's role in his undoing"
    • the cause of a person's ruin or downfall.
      "that complacency was to be their undoing"


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