2024年5月23日 星期四

imperil, Taiwania, vituperation, tawdry. “Vladimir Putin believes that democracies like ours will not be able to sustain supporting Ukraine for what might be years to come,” writes the German chancellor in a guest essay. “Proving Mr Putin wrong starts at home”


“Vladimir Putin believes that democracies like ours will not be able to sustain supporting Ukraine for what might be years to come,” writes the German chancellor in a guest essay. “Proving Mr Putin wrong starts at home” https://econ.st/44SrsFS

Illustration: @dan.will


Britain’s Leader Takes an Economic Gamble. Will It Sink Her Government?

Three weeks into her term, Prime Minister Liz Truss’s financial plans have thrown the markets and Britain’s currency into chaos and imperiled her future.

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Fear of a Trade War Is Straining the Global Economy
By PETER S. GOODMAN, IAN AUSTEN and ELISABETH MALKIN

Only a few months ago, the global economy appeared to be humming, with all major nations growing in unison. Now, the world’s fortunes are imperiled by an unfolding trade war.


Recent developments do not mean that Mr Trump is about to be hauled out of the Oval Office in handcuffs


Michael Cohen and Rudy Giuliani have only imperiled Donald Trump
Though their acts look tawdry rather than criminal
ECONOMIST.COM


...was greeted with high praise and with vituperation




Yet Rand’s appeal has been undimmed by either the vituperation of her critics or the peculiarity of her admirers. Her insight in “Atlas Shrugged”—that society cannot thrive unless it is willing to give freedom to its entrepreneurs and innovators—has proved to be prescient. Even if John Galt is under threat once again in the West, he is back in business in China and India.




tawdry
ˈtɔːdri/
adjective
  1. 1.
    showy but cheap and of poor quality.

    "tawdry jewellery"

vituperation

n.
  1. The act or an instance of vituperating; abusive censure.
  2. Sustained, harshly abusive language; invective.


noun
  1. bitter and abusive language.

    "no one else attracted such vituperation from him"



「台灣杉」在 2017 年全球 500 強超級電腦榜單中,取得第95 名的好成績,今天正式啟用啦!

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Taiwania - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwania

Taiwania, with the single living species Taiwania cryptomerioides, is a large coniferous tree in the cypress family Cupressaceae.
Range · ‎Morphology · ‎History


台灣杉
化石時期: 50–0 Ma
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始新世 - 近期[1]
Taiwania cryptomerioides3.jpg
保護狀況
Status iucn3.1 VU zh-hant.svg
易危IUCN 3.1[2]
科學分類
域:真核域 Eukarya
界:植物界 Plantae
門:松柏門 Pinophyta
綱:松柏綱 Pinopsida
目:松柏目 Pinales
科:柏科 Cupressaceae
亞科:台灣杉亞科 Taiwanioideae
屬:台灣杉屬 Taiwania
種:台灣杉 T. cryptomerioides
二名法
Taiwania cryptomerioides
Hayata, 1906[3]
台灣杉學名Taiwania cryptomerioides魯凱語:wa driwru ki Dramare Ka angatu,意為撞到月亮的樹[4])又稱台灣爺、亞杉等,是一種大型的柏科台灣杉屬植物,為台灣特有種台灣杉屬Taiwania)主要分布於台灣中部以及南部地區約1,500至2,500公尺高的山區,非法伐木的行為已導致這類樹木瀕臨絕種

歷史[編輯]

1906年由日本植物學家早田文藏台灣發表,以台灣之名來命名這個

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