fleeting, gruff, shoplifting, stuff, addled, reassuringly. babylift.

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美國撒離越南，父母在起飛前把女兒送上飛機。這項行動稱為babylift.

The new president will be the centre-left Carlos Alvarado. The election wasn't even close

After a wobble, Costa Rica returns to democratic good sense

Voters are angry. But they elected a reassuringly conventional president

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“We all have digital skeletons in our closet that can come back to bite us. It feels fleeting when we disclose, but digital disclosure is one of the most permanent kinds of disclosure.” —Professor Leslie John

Harvard researcher shows peril of social posts

Yeah, it's temporary, but you still might want to think twice before posting that. That's the message from new Harvard Business School research that looks at behavior on temporary social media platforms such as Snapchat and…

NEWS.HARVARD.EDU

A Trip to Camp to Break a Tech Addiction By MATT HABER In the woods, tech-addled adults can break the bonds of the digital world, at least temporarily, and return to the glories of color wars and real (not Facebook) friends.

  In Trek North, First Lure Is Mexico's Other Line

By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD

Central Americans fleeing crime and economic stagnation are flowing freely across Mexico's southern border and causing a spike in migration to the United States.

In Rome, Still Anxious

Woody Allen’s “To Rome With Love” is the tale of a New Yorkish intellectual addled by conflicting desires.

 

Men Are Shoplifters Too

It's not just bored, lonely women who stuff steaks under their coats.

Shoplifting costs German retailers 5 million euros a day

Germans are known more as big savers than big spenders, but according to a
new report, there's no shortage of small-time thieves.

The DW-WORLD.DE Article
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=eway8fI44va89pI7



The dynastic power exercised by Wall Street tycoons in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was premised on scarce capital. Only a handful of European countries and their private bankers had surplus capital to finance overseas development. In this cash-poor world, J. Pierpont Morgan and other grandees exerted godlike powers over American railroads and manufacturers because they straddled the indispensable capital flows from Europe. With their top hats, thick cigars and gruff manners, these portly tycoons scarcely qualified as altruists. As Morgan liked to warn sentimental souls, “I am not in Wall Street for my health.” Yet he and his ilk rendered America an invaluable service by reassuring European investors that they would receive an adequate return on their investments, securing an uninterrupted flow of capital.

The mutual good will was fleeting.
By June, as the Uighur contingent rose to 800, all recruited from an impoverished rural county not far from China’s border with Tajikistan, disparaging chatter began to circulate. Taxi drivers traded stories about the wild gazes and gruff manners of the Uighurs. Store owners claimed that Uighur women were prone to shoplifting. More ominously, tales of sexually aggressive Uighur men began to spread among the factory’s 16,000 Han workers.


reassuring

making you feel less worried:

He smiled at me in a reassuring way.

More examples

• The two men who called at the house were well-spoken and had a reassuring manner.
• For more than half a century, the reassuring tones of BBC newscasters have informed British television viewers about world events.
• It's very reassuring to know that you'll be there.
• It was very reassuring to hear his voice on the phone.
• Thank you for your kind comments about my performance - it was very reassuring.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

reassuringly

adverb UK ​ /ˌriː.əˈʃɔː.rɪŋ.li/ US ​ /ˌriː.əˈʃʊr.ɪŋ.li/

"Don't worry," he said reassuringly. "Everything will be all right."

shoplift
(shŏp'lĭft')

v., -lift·ed, -lift·ing, -lifts.
v.intr.
To steal merchandise from a store that is open for business.

v.tr.
To steal (articles or an article) from a store that is open for business.

shoplifter shop'lift'er n.
shoplifting shop'lift'ing n.

gruff 
adjective
(of a person's voice) low and unfriendly, or (of a person's behaviour) unfriendly or lacking patience:
"If you must, " came the gruff reply.
He's quite a sweet man beneath the gruff exterior.

gruffly
adverb

gruffness 
noun [U]

stuff(stŭf)
n.

1. The material out of which something is made or formed; substance.
2. The essential substance or elements; essence: "We are such stuff/As dreams are made on" (Shakespeare).
3. Informal.
   1. Unspecified material: Put that stuff over there.
   2. Household or personal articles considered as a group.
   3. Worthless objects.
4. Slang. Specific talk or actions: Don't give me that stuff about being tired.
5. Sports.
   1. The control a player has over a ball, especially to give it spin, english, curve, or speed.
   2. The spin, english, curve, or speed imparted to a ball: "where we could watch the stuff, mainly curves, that the pitchers were putting on the ball" (James Henry Gray).
6. Basketball. A dunk shot.
7. Special capability: The team really showed its stuff and won the championship.
8. Chiefly British. Woven material, especially woolens.
9. Slang. Money; cash.
10. Slang. A drug, especially one that is illegal or habit-forming.

v., stuffed, stuff·ing, stuffs. v.tr.

1. 1. To pack (a container) tightly; cram: stuff a Christmas stocking.
   2. To block (a passage); plug: stuff a crack with caulking.
   3. Basketball. To block (a shot or an opponent who is shooting), especially before the ball leaves the shooter's hands.
2. 1. To place forcefully into a container or space; thrust: stuffed laundry into the bag.
   2. Sports. To shoot (a ball or puck) forcefully into the goal from close range.
   3. Basketball. To dunk (the ball).
3. 1. To fill with an appropriate stuffing: stuff a pillow.
   2. To fill (an animal skin) to restore its natural form for mounting or display.
4. To cram with food.
5. To fill (the mind): His head is stuffed with silly notions.
6. To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box).
7. To apply a preservative and softening agent to (leather).

v.intr.
To overeat; gorge.

idioms:
stuff it Vulgar Slang.

1. Used as an intensive to express extreme anger, frustration, or disgust.

stuff (one's) face Slang.

1. To eat greedily.

[Middle English, from Old French estoffe, from estoffer, to equip, of Germanic origin.]

addle[ad・dle]

• 発音記号[ǽdl]

Pronunciation: /ˈadl/

Definition of addle

verb

[with object] chiefly humorous

• make unable to think clearly; confuse:being in love must have addled your brain

adjective

archaic

• (of an egg) rotten.

Origin:

Middle English: from Old English adela 'liquid filth', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch aal and German Adel 'mire, puddle'

[動](他)(自)

1 （…を）混乱させる［する］.

2 （卵などを）腐らす, 腐る.

［古英語adelaぬかるみ→腐った→精神が混乱した］

ád・dled

[形]〈人・精神が〉錯乱した；混乱した；〈卵が〉腐った.

fleeting sweetness of love

'Button' Bends Time Into Grand Fable

"Benjamin Button" is a one-of-a-kind meditation on mortality and the fleeting sweetness of love, writes Joe Morgenstern.

Mr Wen’s embrace of a style of leadership more commonly associated with politicians in democratic countries, worried about their election prospects, is unlikely to be the action of an individual. Chinese leaders do not make such radical shifts from usual practice without a great deal of thought and a meeting of at least some members of the nine-man Politburo Standing Committee that rules China.
The question now will be whether the Prime Minister’s man-of-the-people image will translate into real policies for change. The leader insisted that this was no fleeting policy.




fleet (QUICK)
adjective LITERARY
able to run quickly:
She was slight and fleet of foot/fleet-footed.

fleeting adjective
brief or quick:
a fleeting glimpse
This is just a fleeting visit.

fleetingly
adverb
I glimpsed her fleetingly through the window.