- First Night
The story opens with a quotation from the poem "The Flower" by Ivan Turgenev:
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- "And was it his destined part
- Only one moment in his life
- To be close to your heart?
- Or was he fated from the start
- to live for just one fleeting instant,
- within the purlieus of your heart."
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"I hope we may say that thus, this fateful morning, came to an end all wars." — David Lloyd George, in an Armistice Day speech to the House of Commons, 1918
“If you raise quail, you don’t need much feed,” says Liu Yongxing, explaining their choice. “Quails are small. And we didn’t have much land or mone
After rapidly expanding in Sichuan, home to the world’s biggest pig population, they built feed mills all over the country.
“The Liu brothers are very smart and grasped the opportunity early,” says Wan Zhaojun, dean of the Sichuan Animal Husbandry Institute. “Living standards were improving dramatically; meat consumption was going up. This was the golden time for the feed business and they were right there.”
John Dean at Issue in Nixon Tapes Feud
By PATRICIA COHEN
Critics say that the most authoritative transcripts of the tapes were edited in ways that paint a more benign portrait of one of the central figures, John W. Dean III.
The failure rate for entrepreneurs — whether social or purely capitalist — is high. Still, ePals’ backers are betting that it is worth the risk. “These kinds of opportunities to do well and do good at the same time don’t grow on trees,” said Mr. Kapor, the ePals investor and a philanthropist. “But I do think that ePals could be one of them.”
It Grows on Trees is a 1952 fantasy comedy film about a couple who discover that two trees they planted in their backyard grow money. It starred Irene Dunne (in her last film role) and Dean Jagger.
EU approves quake aid for Italy
Brussels has earmarked 500 million euros in aid to assist the quake-hit
Italian city of L'Aquila. The decision comes as the region prepares for a
G8 summit.
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Pork Barrel Remains Hidden in U.S. Budget
By RON NIXON
Lawmakers can secretly direct billions of dollars to pet projects through vague requests called “soft earmarks.”
verb [T often passive]
to keep or intend something for a particular purpose:
Five billion dollars of this year's budget is already earmarked for hospital improvements.
pork-barrel
adjective [before noun] US SLANG DISAPPROVING
involving the spending of large amounts of money in an area in order to become more popular with local voters:
pork-barrel projects/spending
pork
pork barrel 〔米話〕 政府事業計画［交付金］ ((特定選挙区のみに与える)). pork butcher （ソーセージなど）豚肉製品販売業者.
pork・er ━━ n. 食用豚; 豚. pork・pie, pork pie 豚のひき肉入りパイ. pork・pie (hat) 上部の平たいソフト帽. pork・y ━━ a., n. ブタの（ような）; 〔話〕 太った; 〔米俗〕 生意気な; 〔米話〕 ヤマアラシ.failure rate 失敗率
(′fāl·yər ′rāt) (engineering) The probability of failure per unit of time of items in operation; sometimes estimated as a ratio of the number of failures to the accumulated operating time for the items.
most important in what is being discussed:
The point at issue is what is best for the child.
feed
noun
1 [C] UK (US feeding) when a baby has something to eat or drink:
The baby had a feed an hour ago, so she can't be hungry.
2 [U] food eaten by animals that are not kept as pets:
cattle/animal feed
See also chickenfeed.
3 [C] OLD-FASHIONED a large meal
purlieu
ˈpəːljuː/
noun
plural noun: purlieus
- 1.the area near or surrounding a place.
"the photogenic purlieus of Cambridge" - 2.BRITISHhistoricala tract on the border of a forest, especially one earlier included in it and still partly subject to forest laws.
"they wished the purlieus to be completely free from the Forest law"
2008
英國舉行儀式紀念戰爭陣亡將士
每年有近8000老兵參加紀念儀式
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在上午11點全國進行2分鐘默哀，女王在倫敦市中心的國家戰爭紀念碑獻了花圈。
在倫敦的紀念儀式中，數以千計的老兵列隊穿過白廳街的紀念碑致意。
在伊拉克和阿富汗的英軍部隊也舉行了紀念儀式。
今年的紀念日正好是第一次世界大戰停戰日90周年。
英國有近90萬人在第一次世界大戰中喪生。
英國首相布朗，外相米利班德以及各反對黨領袖也參加儀式獻了花圈。
英聯邦國家的40多個使節也參加紀念活動獻了花圈。
每年約有8000名英國老兵參加陣亡將士紀念儀式。
為了紀念在世界大戰中犧牲的將士，英國曾在1936年通過法定程序，確定每年離一戰停戰日最近的一個星期日為“陣亡將士紀念日”，也稱“休戰紀念日”（Armistice Day），今年的紀念日是11月9日。
1954年后，這個節日與“退伍軍人節”合在一起紀念。
Armistice Day - Wikipedia
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Armistice Day is commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France ...
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Armistice Day is commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France ...Top stories
armistice Show phonetics
noun [S]
an agreement between two countries or groups at war to stop fighting for a particular time, especially to talk about possible peace:
A two-week armistice has been declared between the rival factions.
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