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Bloggingheads: Mugged by Reality
Blogger Brian Beutler, right, in conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates of The Atlantic, discusses how being the victim of a violent crime has affected his politics.RONALD REAGAN once described inflation as being “as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit-man”.
callous
ˈkaləs/
adjective
- 1.showing or having an insensitive and cruel disregard for others."his callous comments about the murder made me shiver"
mug (ATTACK)
verb [T] -gg-
to attack a person in a public place and steal their money:
He was mugged in broad daylight.
mugging
noun [C or U]
an act of attacking someone and stealing their money:
Police are concerned that mugging is on the increase.
mugger
noun [C]
a person who attacks people in order to steal their moneyA Hitman is a hired assassin paid to assassinate a target via contract killing. Hitmen in fiction Film A notable example of hitmen in film is the ...
broad full and clear
in broad daylight
If a crime is committed in broad daylight, it happens during the day, when it could have been seen and prevented:Thieves had broken into the car in broad daylight and stolen the stereo.
daylight
n.
- The light of day; sunlight.
- Daybreak.
- Daytime.
- Exposure to public notice: corrupt business practices that were finally brought into the daylight.
- Understanding or insight into what was formerly obscure: new evidence that gave the researchers some daylight into the matter.
- Sports. An opening, as between defensive players, especially one providing an opportunity for action: The running back found some daylight and gained six yards.
- daylights Slang. One's wits: “His adventurism had scared the daylights out of them” (Frederick Forsyth).
see daylight
- To make sufficient progress so that completion of a project seems possible.
As exuberantly talented as Albert Einstein, Bardeen had no desire to mug for the cameras or prove himself eccentric.
True Genius《曠世奇才：巴丁傳》
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True Genius: The Life And Science Of John Bardeen, The only Winner of Two Nobel Prizes in Physics by Lillian Hoddeson and Vicki Daitch
(任何傳記當然值得一讀....何況作者是寫此傳之心人 Bardeen是名人)
這本傳記的首尾兩章，試圖找當代少數研究"天才學( On Genius)之實例。
(現在， 還有諸如”Broken Genius: The Rise And Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age”讓我們了解：傳主對他在Bell Lab的主管之合得諾貝爾獎，很不滿。)
《曠世奇才：巴丁傳》中文版缺失:無索引， 編輯劣--頁眉猛貼叢書名， 真不可思議 ， 注解馬虎
我舉一例可以了解翻譯的"能力之差:
(their preface), "We are painfully aware that this book merely scratches the surface of its subject."
"我們痛苦地意識到，這本書只能對 巴丁的研究對象隔靴搔癢而已。
hitman
ˈhɪtman/
noun
informal
- a person who is paid to kill someone, especially for a criminal or political organization.
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