Notes of a word-watcher, Hanching Chung. A first port of call for English learning.
2024年1月6日 星期六
travail, Code du Travail, tsunami advisories, in an advisory, phoney, cushy, airbrushing fags out, deliver...from...menial, internship, working group, advisory committee
The sheer scale and volume of the rides allows certain very commercialized and very reproduced artists to impress in a new way. Keith Haring’s cartoon avatars, brought to candy-lacquered life as large seats on his merry-go-round, seem finally to have found their natural habitat. As for Jean-Michel Basquiat, a pleasure craft is the most successful canvas for his deadpan: On a primed white Ferris wheel, his black glyphs adorning each gondola symbolize some aspect of chaos or Americana or slapstick, while his anatomical drawings covering the wheel’s buttresses poke fun at the bodily thrill of the whirl.
Trump’s Travail: A Virus That Thrives Indoors The coronavirus can linger in the air in tiny particles. President Trump has disdained precautions in a variety of indoor settings.
Trump family members, and some administration officials, without masks at the first presidential debate in Cleveland on Tuesday.
The new French president’s boldest initiative is a bid to overhaul French capitalism. Just one thing may stand in his way: France’s almost indecipherable labor code, the Code du Travail.
"Allow
me to sketch you a portrait of a political leader. He is England's
greatest living hypocrite. He courts popularity by warning that tens of
millions from the dole queues of Europe are coming to take British jobs,
while employing his German wife as his secretary. He denounces "the
political class" for living like princes at the taxpayers' expense while
pocketing every taxpayer-funded allowance he can claim for himself, his
wife and his colleagues.
He says he represents "ordinary
people". But he is a public school-educated former banker, whose
policies will help him and his kind ... "
Nick Cohen: Instead of tearing into the preposterous Ukip leader, Britain's famously aggressive media have made him a celebrity
The Guardian|由 Nick Cohen 上傳
Business-school
students are a pampered bunch and life is to get even cushier. In the
past few years the leading schools have been raising vast amounts to
spend on new facilities. But this is a risk for some. Demand for MBAs
remains soft http://econ.st/1cx9EwN
Today's Headlines: Romney Vows to Deliver Country From Economic Travails
Mitt Romney asked voters to consider whether their lives had improved
over the last four years and urged them not to feel guilty about giving
up on President Obama.
In a weak job market, many college graduates are taking unpaid
internships that fail to deliver on their promises of valuable
experience by offering little more than menial work.
The travails of the developed world are starting to take their toll on fast-growing countries like China, Brazil and Indonesia, which are moving toward policies aimed at refueling growth to offset the damage.
airbrushing fags out of history
--第二坨“狗屎”:摩登時代生活百科
"I am always
interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with
many I have concluded that most do not want to be writers working eight
and ten hours a day and accomplishing little; they want to have been
writers, garnering the rewards of having completed a best-seller. They
aspire to the rewards of writing but not to the travail." Also
on Friday, Robert E. Rubin, the Citigroup director and former Treasury
secretary who came under fire for his strong support of that model in an
advisory role that helped fuel the bank's troubles, said he would
resign.
Travel on a
luxe VIP bus, operated by private companies, for a cushier,
air-conditioned trip. Left, a passenger on Route 13, the country's main
north-south thoroughfare. Although considered safe, visitors should
check advisories before traveling on this highway that was once
frequently hit with bandit attacks in the mid-1990s.
「在由英特爾等公司主導、旨在延長筆記本電腦驅動時間的“Mobile PC Extended Battery Life Working Group（移動PC延長電池驅動時間工作組）”舉辦的研討會上，松下電器產業發表了演講... 」
技術WG 的組織方式可以採取由 "幹事公司"等組成......
例 A working group will be created in June under the Subcommittee on Electric Power Safety, part of the Advisory Committee for Natural Resources and Energy, which advises the industry minister. -- AFPWG - - Agriculture Food Products Working Group AFPWG - - Groupe de travail sur les produits alimentaires et d'agriculture
Travel Health Notices ... Travelers should avoid all travel to these destinations. ... All air passengers coming to the United States, including U.S. citizens, are required to have a negative COVID-19 test result or documentation of recovery from ...
travail n.
Work, especially when arduous or involving painful effort; toil. See synonyms at work.
Tribulation or agony; anguish.
The labor of childbirth.
intr.v., -vailed, -vail·ing, -vails.
To work strenuously; toil.
To be in the labor of childbirth.
[Middle English, from Old French, from travailler, to work hard, from Vulgar Latin *tripāliāre, to torture with a tripalium, from Late Latin tripālium, instrument of torture, probably from Latin tripālis, having three stakes : tri-, tri- + pālus, stake.]
advisory adjective She is employed by the president in an advisory capacity (= giving advice).
advisory noun[C usually plural]US an official announcement that contains advice, information or a warning: weather/travel advisories Television companies sometimes broadcast advisories before violent movies.
1(of a job or situation) undemanding, easy, or secure:he doesn’t have anything like the cushy life you professors havethe Caribbean posting is not a cushy number
If you hate: loft living; bar-clubs; Tony Blair; chick lit; global warming sceptics; Keane; loyalty cards; IKEA; Kabbalah; bling and Richard Curtis...
... then you need IS IT JUST ME OR IS EVERYTHING SHIT? - an encylopedic attack on modern culture and the standard reference work for everyone who believes everything is shit. Which it is. This book is for the large percentage of the population interested in saying NO to the phoney ideas, cretinous people, useless products and doublespeak that increasingly dominate our lives. This book is designed for everyone who thinks they may have mislaid their soul in a Coffee Republic. Never before has there been a book so completely full of shit.
This very funny, well-informed, belligerent rant of a book adds up to an excoriating broadside against consumer capitalism that the authors hope will sell loads of copies.
Reviews
'One of the many things that irritates these guys is rave reviews: so I'll just say it's very funny and recommend you to buy it. Unless of course you're a big fan of the Daily Mail' Stewart Prebble, author of Grumpy Old Men
Ebook (PDF)
Published 03/08/2006
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