2024年11月24日 星期日

yikes, flabbergasted, Hellenicity.Pick and shovel investing

I Downloaded the Information That Facebook Has on Me. Yikes.
By BRIAN X. CHEN

Using a tool that Facebook offers its users, our columnist found out more than he wanted to know about the social network, the ad industry and himself.
The Economist

016年4月8日 9:24 ·


Chinese officials were flabbergasted when the pope received a more rapturous response than president Xi Jinping in New York last September



Will relations between China and the Catholic church start to thaw?
1/2: A portrait of China's complex relationship with Christianity

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Pick and shovel investing involves purchasing stocks that provide the goods, services or technology needed for an industry to produce a final product. This allows investors to gain exposure to an industry with lower risk by investing in suppliers rather than the stocks that make the end product.



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Plato shares his two favorite #Laingprize winners: David Grene's masterful translation of Herodotus, and Jonathan Hall's "Hellenicity," on the emergence of Hellenic identity in ancient Greece.
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yikes
jʌɪks/
exclamation
informal
  1. expressing shock and alarm, often for humorous effect.
    "I had a dip in the 40 degree pool (yikes!)"

Hellenicity

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Hellenic +‎ -ity

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key)/ˌhɛlɛˈnɪsəti/

Noun[edit]

Hellenicity (uncountable)
  1. The quality or condition of being Ancient Greek

flabbergast
ˈflabəɡɑːst/
verb
informal
past tense: flabbergasted; past participle: flabbergasted
  1. surprise (someone) greatly; astonish.

    "this news has left me totally flabbergasted"

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