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Fantasies of great wealth often involve visions of fancy cars and palatial homes on remote bluffs. Yet satisfaction with these material purchases wears off fairly quickly. What was once exciting and new becomes old-hat; remorse creeps in

May should call the bluff of the "increasingly desperate Brexiteers" and "outline, once and for all, what kind of future relationship the country wants with the European Union," Verhofstadt told the British The Mail on Sunday newspaper.

Sacrilegious glory: See Fellini’s Vatican fashion show, including what was censored by the church!

Federico Fellini’s Roma isn’t one of his more popular films by a long shot, perhaps partially because it’s such an hardhearted departure from his…

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Are Grimm’s Fairy Tales too twisted for children?


Stephen Evans explores the twisted world of Grimm's Fairy Tales – bedtime stories complete with mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide and incest.

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The Greek secret to living well?


Naxos: Lush Greek isle delivers the good life


Some places are better than others at fulfilling the powerful human desire to live well. The Greek island of Naxos delivers.
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China is dangerously short of water. While the south is a lush, lake-filled region, the north, which has half the population and most of the farmland, is more like a desert. The international definition of water stress is 1,000 cubic metres of usable water per person per year. The average northern Chinese has less than a fifth of that amount http://econ.st/1ebvIR1

Since the end of World War II, Japanese has become a completely homogenized "cookie-cutter" language around the nation. And now that globalization is in progress, I fear the landscape of the Japanese language will become even more uninteresting as the old lush forests of local dialects die out.

In Its First Life, an Oil Platform; in Its Next, a Reef?

By MELISSA GASKILL

A lush ecosystem has grown around High Island 389-A, a dormant oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico that is facing demolition.

 The poem, which celebrates the carnal passions of the "eternal spirit of atheism" to a "maid of mountains", was banned from publication for decades. Anton Rubinstein's lush opera on the same subject was also banned by censors who deemed it sacrilegious and stupid.



An excellent book. Mr. Nixon spelled out the realities of the Cold War conflict, the true nature of our Soviet adversary, and the steps necessary to win the conflict and prevent the devastating consequences of full scale military conflict.
The veracity of this work is borne out by the subsequent actions of the Reagan administration to call the Soviets' bluff and force the collapse of their empire.

常用語是：“to call one's bluff”，To call one's bluff 就是 “揭露某個人虛張聲勢的做法”．這個俗語來自美國人喜歡玩的撲克牌遊戲．有時你手裡的牌很壞，但是你想讓別人認為你手裡的牌好極了，可是別人又不相信你，對你進行挑戰，這就是to call one's bluff．你聽聽一位打牌老手是怎麼說的：

Sometimes you can scare the other players out of the game with a bluff and ‘steal’ the pot with a worthless hand. But it can be very expensive if another player calls your bluff.

他說：“有的時候你可以虛張聲勢把其他牌友嚇住了，這樣你就偷偷地用一手壞牌贏了錢．可是，要是另一個打牌的人不相信你，向你挑戰，那你就可能會輸不少錢。”

To call one's bluff 這個說法現在已經不侷限在打牌上了．下面這個例子是一個公司的經理在對他的助手講話：

One of our salesmen asked for a raise in salary today, and said he'd have to leave if we didn't give him a raise. But I called his bluff -- I told him no, and wished him good luck. Then he said he'd stay on with us because he liked working here so much.

他說：“我們公司的一個推銷員今天要我給他加工資，說是要是我不給他加工資，他就不在這兒幹了．但是我沒上他的當，拒絕了他的要求，還祝他好運氣．於是他就改口說他非常喜歡這兒的工作，願意在這兒繼續做下去。”

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Betting with a mediocre or drawing hand that could possibly improve because of the existence of various outs.
SoundPoker Says: If the bet gets everyone else to fold, it would be considered a bluff. However if it does not, the hand might still improve on the draw or on succeeding cards.

For example: You have a Jack of Hearts and a Ten of Hearts (Jh,Th) and the flop is Ace of Hearts, Queen of Spades, Seven of Hearts. (Ah, Qs, 7h).

Any Heart (for the flush) or King (for the straight) will give you a good hand. You have several outs which gives you a relatively decent chance of hitting a winning card on the turn. To raise the pot and intimidate your opponents it might be prudent to re-raise or check-raise as the odds are in your favor. Even if you miss on the turn there is still an opportunity to continue to bet as other players will hopefully feel threatened by your previous play.

As the search for pings continues, Malaysia's acting transport minister says it would be difficult to clear crew or passengers until the two recorders are located. http://cnn.it/1gqAnl0

Official: Black boxes crucial if those aboard MH 370 to be cleared

Malaysian official on Sunday reaffirmed the importance of finding the black boxes of Malaysia Airline flight 370.

CNN|由 RALPH ELLIS AND NIC ROBERTSON, CNN 上傳

 historical cloaks

Most of Porter’s evidence is culled from sources like the National Bureau of Economic Research and The Journal of Economic Perspectives — outlets that routinely publish fascinating research cloaked in jargon.






Vatican shuffle cloaked in controversy
  There could be a number of explanations for why Ettore Gotti Tedeschi was asked to step down as head of the Vatican bank. The Holy See, however, has remained tight-lipped about the reasons.



Calling bluffs in the eurozone crisis

 In mid-June, Greece will have renewed elections. If opponents of the EU's austerity course win, then a Greek exit from the eurozone seems more likely. The consequences would be fatal for Greece and uncertain for the EU.

bluff noun (CLIFF)

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[ C ] a cliff or very steep bank

call somebody's bluff

Expose someone's deception, invite a showdown, as in I don't believe they have enough capital; I'm going to call their bluff. This term comes from poker, where bluffing (pretending) that one has better cards than one's opponents is an intrinsic part of the game, and calling someone's bluff means forcing them to show their cards. By the late 1800s it was being applied to other enterprises. Also see show one's hand.

ping

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Pronunciation: /pɪŋ /NOUN

• An abrupt high-pitched ringing sound:the ping of the oven timer
  

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• 1Make or cause to make a ping:[NO OBJECT]: the doorbell pinged[WITH OBJECT]: Victoria pinged the bell
  

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• 2[WITH OBJECT] Computing Query (another computer on a network) to determine whether there is a connection to it.
  

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• 2.1Send an email or other electronic message to (someone):at least a dozen people have pinged me or called to tell me this
  

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• 3US another term for pink⁵.

Derivatives

pinger

NOUN

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Origin

mid 19th century: imitative.

cloak
(klōk) 
n.

1. A loose outer garment, such as a cape.
2. Something that covers or conceals: a cloak of secrecy.

tr.v., cloaked, cloak·ing, cloaks.
To cover or conceal with or as if with a cloak. See synonyms at clothe, disguise, hide¹.

[Middle English cloke, from Old North French cloque, cloak, bell (from its shape), from Medieval Latin clocca. See clock¹.]

cloak

Syllabification: (cloak)

Pronunciation: /klōk/

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noun

• an outdoor overgarment, typically sleeveless, that hangs loosely from the shoulders.
• something serving to hide or disguise something:lifting the cloak of secrecy on the arms trade

verb

[with object]

• dress in a cloak:she cloaked herself in black
• hide, cover, or disguise (something):the horror of war was cloaked in the trappings of chivalry

Origin:

Middle English: from Old French cloke, dialect variant of cloche 'bell, cloak' (from its bell shape), from medieval Latin clocca 'bell'. Compare with clock¹

[名]

1 ケープ, マント, そでなし外套(がいとう).

2 ((a 〜))おおい隠すもの［手段］, 偽装, 口実

a cloak of snow
雪の衣

a cloak for espionage
スパイ行為のための偽装.

under the ［a］ cloak of ...

…に名をかりて, 乗じて, かこつけて

under the cloak of charity
慈善の美名に隠れて.

━━[動](他)((通例受身))…を（…で）おおい隠す((in, with ...))

cloaked in secrecy
秘密に隠されて

cloaked in darkness
((文))闇におおわれて.

［中ラテン語clocca（鈴）より. マントは鈴の形をしていることによる. cloccaはまたCLOCK¹のつづり字をとって「時計」となる］

twisted 

Pronunciation: /ˈtwɪstɪd/ 

ADJECTIVE

1Forced out of its natural or proper shape; crumpled:the crash left a trail of twisted metal across the carriageway

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1.1(Of a joint) injured by wrenching; sprained:suffering a twisted ankle, he was carried from the field

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2(Of a personality or a way of thinking) unpleasantly or unhealthily abnormal; warped:a man with a twisted mind

Definition of lush

adjective

• 1(of vegetation, especially grass) growing luxuriantly:lush greenery and cultivated fields
• very rich and providing great sensory pleasure:lush orchestrations

• 2British informal sexually attractive.
• very good or impressive:I had some really lush pressies

Derivatives

lushly
adverb

lushness
noun

Origin:

late Middle English: perhaps an alteration of obsolete lash 'soft, lax', from Old French lasche 'lax', by association with luscious

 lush

(lŭsh)
adj., lush·er, lush·est.

1. 1. Having or characterized by luxuriant vegetation.
   2. Abundant; plentiful. See synonyms at profuse.
   3. Extremely productive; thriving.
2. 1. Luxurious; opulent: the lush décor of a grand hotel.
   2. Extremely pleasing to the senses: a lush scent; lush fruit; the lush sounds of an orchestra.
   3. Voluptuous or sensual.
3. Overelaborate or extravagant: lush rhetoric.

[Middle English, relaxed, soft, probably alteration of lache, loose, weak, from Old French lasche, soft, succulent, from laschier, to loosen, from Late Latin laxicāre, to become shaky, frequentative of Latin laxāre, to open, relax, from laxus, loose. See lax.]

lushly lush'ly adv.
lushness lush'ness n.

lush² (lŭsh) Slang.
n.
A drunkard.

intr.v., lushed, lush·ing, lush·es.
To drink liquor to excess.

[Origin unknown.]

lush

[形]1 〈植物が〉青々と茂った, みずみずしい.2 〈場所が〉青草の茂った；（地味の）肥えた.3 ((略式))豪華な；ぜいたくな, 華々しい, 飾りたてた, 大げさな.lush・ly[副]

lush

((米略式))[名]1 大酒飲み, 飲んべえ；酔っぱらい a lush hound飲んだくれ a lush house飲み屋.2 [U]酒.━━[動](自)酒を飲む.━━(他)〈酒を〉飲む；〈人...

  sacrilegious

 (săk'rə-lĭj'əs, -lē'jəs)
adj.

1. Grossly irreverent toward what is or is held to be sacred.
2. Having committed sacrilege.

sacrilegiously sac'ri·le'gious·ly adv.
sacrilegiousness sac'ri·le'gious·ness n.

USAGE NOTE   Sacrilegious, the adjective form of sacrilege, is often misspelled through confusion with religious.

Pronunciation: /ˌsakrɪˈlɪdʒəs/

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Definition of sacrilegious

adjective

• involving or committing sacrilege:a sacrilegious act it seems sacrilegious to say this, but it’s really not that great a film

Derivatives

acrilegiously

Pronunciation: /-ˈlɪdʒəsli/

adverb