2022年8月14日 星期日

bistro, rearguard, Compare vanguard. rearguard defense, rearguard action, way up






Are Paris Bistros Unesco Worthy?

A campaign to get the street cafes the status of “intangible cultural heritage” is underway. Supporters cite the role they played after the 2015 terrorist attacks.



The meal you are having in a Parisian bistro may not have been prepared from fresh ingredients delivered that morning. To many French, this is an astonishing affront to their very culture.

the restaurant has a modern bistro feel

During the day, the LudoBites space is Gram & Papa’s, a breakfast-and-lunch joint with a hearty organic menu of eggs and sandwiches, soups and salads that it serves on paper plates. The Lefebvres rent the room each weeknight, and transform it into a casual monument to fine dining, a bistro temple.

New ads for Merrick Purrfect Bistro feature a feline food critic. 
New ads for Merrick Purrfect Bistro feature a feline food critic.


Donald J. Trump tweeted that "crime in Germany is way up."
Meanwhile in Germany: Lowest crime rate in over 30 years.






way up  一路攀升

rearguard守舊派;後衛部隊

rearguard DEFENSE後衛防禦


rearguard action 撤退軍隊的防務,很可能無效......
noun
  1. a defensive action carried out by a retreating army.

    "the troops remaining in the islands fought a bitter rearguard action"



Bistro - Wikipedia

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

bistro or bistrot /ˈbiːstroʊ/, is, in its original Parisian incarnation, a small restaurant, serving moderately priced simple meals in a modest setting. Bistros are defined mostly by the foods they serve. French home-style cooking, and slow-cooked foods like cassoulet, a bean stew, are typical.
History · ‎Etymology

ビストロ【(フランス)bistro】気軽に利用できる小レストラン。居酒屋。



the vanguard noun [S] 1 the part of an army or navy that leads an attack on an enemy Compare rearguard.
2 a group of people who lead the development of new ideas, or a leading position in the development of something:
He is in the vanguard of economic reform. See also the forefront. (from Cambridge Advanced Learner's DictionaryRICHMOND, Va., Aug. 
5 (AP) — Oliver W. Hill, a civil rights lawyer who was at the forefront of the legal effort that desegregated public schools, died Sunday at his home here. He was 100.

Mr. Hill’s death was reported by a family friend, Joseph Morrissey.

In 1954, Mr. Hill was involved in the series of lawsuits against racially segregated public schools that became the Supreme Court’s landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision.

“He was among the vanguard in seeking equal opportunity for all individuals, and he was steadfast in his commitment to effect change. He will be missed,” said L. Douglas Wilder, who in 1989 became the nation’s first elected black governor and was a confidant of Mr. Hill’s. Mr. Wilder is now the mayor of Richmond.

In 1940, Mr. Hill won his first civil rights case in Virginia, one that required equal pay for black and white teachers. Eight years later, he was the first black elected to the Richmond City Council since Reconstruction.

A lawsuit argued by Mr. Hill in 1951 on behalf of students protesting deplorable conditions at their high school for blacks in Farmville became one of five cases decided under Brown.

Mr. Hill never lost sight of the importance of the 1954 ruling. Without it, he said this year in an interview in The Richmond Times-Dispatch, he doubted that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “would have gotten to first base.”

(這first base 既是必須上才能得分的"第一壘 老美日常幽默語( US INFORMAL HUMOROUS)中get to first base 指 to kiss someone in a sexual way)

Mr. Hill was born May 1, 1907, and his father left when Mr. Hill was an infant. His mother remarried, and Mr. Hill took the name of his stepfather. He moved with his family to Roanoke, Va., where he spent much of his childhood.

Later, his family moved to Washington, where he finished high school. He graduated second in his class from Howard University’s law school in 1933. The top law graduate that year was his friend Thurgood Marshall. 第一位黑人大法官

Mr. Marshall and Mr. Hill were part of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund team that fought the desegregation case to the Supreme Court. They remained close friends after Mr. Marshall became the court’s first black justice.

Though blind and in a wheelchair in recent years, Mr. Hill remained active in social and civil rights causes and in the operations of his law firm until 1998. The next year, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, from President Bill Clinton.


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