我們"退休的人，總難免感到人生的品質很難維持，遑論"生活品質升級"。
2017/02/17 - It hasn't even been a full month yet, but many of us who pay close attention to Washington feel like the Trump administration has aged us a full decade. Every day begins with a fearful peek at President Donald Trump's latest ...
Trump turned it down. “What would I ... It tends to cheapen life when you see quality like that going for no reason. It's truly a horrible experience.
As the economy grows ever more complex, the inadequacies of the institutions that underpin it will become more glaring
A Weakened Irene Sweeps Northward
In India, Dynamism Wrestles With Dysfunction By JIM YARDLEY
In Gurgaon and elsewhere in India, economic growth is often the product of a private sector’s improvising to overcome government inadequacies.
The worst financial crisis since the Depression isn't over, yet it's time to put the best brains to work at reconstructing the financial regulatory structure so we don't go through this again.
go through sth (EXPERIENCE) phrasal verb
to experience a difficult or unpleasant situation:
I've been going through a bad patch recently.
You'd think his children would be more sympathetic towards him after all he's gone through (= the many bad things he has experienced).
go through sth (PRACTISE) phrasal verb
to do something in order to practise or as a test:
I'd like you to go through that manoeuvre again and then bring the car to a halt next to the kerb.
inadequacy (ĭn-ăd'ĭ-kwə-sē)
n., pl., -cies.
- The quality or condition of being inadequate.
- An instance of being inadequate; a failing or lack.
Taxpayers on hook as some bailed-out firms prove frail
With CIT in bankruptcy, U.S. is faulted for investing in weakened companies
(By Tomoeh Murakami Tse, The Washington Post)
weak
adj., weak·er, weak·est.
- Lacking physical strength, energy, or vigor; feeble.
- Likely to fail under pressure, stress, or strain; lacking resistance: a weak link in a chain.
- Lacking firmness of character or strength of will.
- Lacking the proper strength or amount of ingredients: weak coffee.
- Lacking the ability to function normally or fully: a weak heart.
- Lacking aptitude or skill: a weak student; weak in math.
- Lacking or resulting from a lack of intelligence.
- Lacking persuasiveness; unconvincing: a weak argument.
- Lacking authority or the power to govern.
- Lacking potency or intensity: weak sunlight.
- Linguistics.
- Of, relating to, or being those verbs in Germanic languages that form a past tense and past participle by means of a dental suffix, as start, started; have, had; bring, brought.
- Of, relating to, or being the inflection of nouns or adjectives in Germanic languages with a declensional suffix that historically contained an n.
- Unstressed or unaccented in pronunciation or poetic meter. Used of a word or syllable.
- Designating a verse ending in which the metrical stress falls on a word or syllable that is unstressed in normal speech, such as a preposition.
- Tending downward in price: a weak market for oil stocks.
[Middle English weike, from Old Norse veikr, pliant.]
SYNONYMS weak, feeble, frail, fragile, infirm, decrepit, debilitated. These adjectives mean lacking or showing a lack of strength. Weak is the most widely applicable: “These poor wretches … were so weak they could hardly sit to their oars” (Daniel Defoe). Feeble suggests pathetic or grievous physical or mental weakness or hopeless inadequacy: a feeble intellect; a feeble effort. Frail implies delicacy and inability to endure or withstand: “an aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small“ (Thomas Hardy.). What is fragile is easily broken, damaged, or destroyed: a fragile, expensive vase; a fragile state of mind after the accident. Infirm implies enfeeblement: “a poor, infirm, weak, and despis'd old man” (Shakespeare). Decrepit describes what is weakened, worn out, or broken down by hard use or the passage of time: a decrepit building slated for demolition. Debilitated suggests a gradual impairment of energy or strength: a debilitated constitution further weakened by overwork.
weaken
tr. & intr.v., -ened, -en·ing, -ens.
To make or become weak or weaker.
weakener weak'en·er n.
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"For management to just say go and have a cup of coffee and get over tiredness, it cheapens the whole issue," Australian Medical Association Vice President Steven Hambleton told Reuters.
「管理階層只是喊著去喝杯咖啡來克服疲倦，貶低了整個議題。」澳洲醫學會副會長史蒂芬．漢貝登說。
"We are talking about serious issues here, and this is not just a serious suggestion at all. It can’t be a weakness to say you’re dog tired," he said.
「我們討論的是嚴肅議題，這卻完全不是一個嚴肅的建議。說自己累到動彈不得，不能算是個缺點，」他說。
get over：片語，度過、克服。例句：You will soon get over your shyness.（你會很快克服害羞的。）
dog tired（dog-tired ）：形容詞，指累到動彈不得、筋疲力盡的。例句：I am so dog tired each time I get back home. （每次我回到家，都累到動彈不得。）
cheapen
ˈtʃiːp(ə)n/
verb
- reduce the price of.
"the depreciation of the dollar would cheapen US exports"
- degrade.
"the mass media cheapen the experience of art"
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