2023年3月17日 星期五

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A man who admitted wooing, swindling and trying to blackmail Germany’s richest woman was sentenced to six years in prison.

he argues, has less to do with language than with the advantages that come with size. As Kenneally puts it, “If you hear a competitor wooing the female you are interested in, and you can tell from his voice alone that he is much bigger than you, slinking away without direct confrontation makes the most evolutionary sense.” 


Theresa May has only one way out of the Brexit impasse. To go over the heads of MPs and call a second referendum. Our cover in Britain this week https://econ.st/2RShu0R




時報文章《向庫什納“求愛”:沙特阿拉伯如何在白宮獲得朋友》 (The Wooing of Jared Kushner: How the Saudis Got a Friend in the White House)分析:兩人私下交好或為沙特政權蓄意謀劃的產物,在卡舒吉之死動搖美沙關係的時間節點,這段友誼可能會損害國家安全。
Woo指的是“求愛,博得好感、支持” ,這一詞語在形容國際關係時頗為常見。例如時報去年發表的《 習近平的“大國”願景尋求特朗普支持 》 (Wooing Trump, Xi Jinping Seeks Great Power Status for China),標題中也用到了“woo”。

rocky

ADJECTIVE


  • 1Consisting or full of rock or rocks.
    ‘a rocky crag above the village’
    ‘hillsides of dry, rocky soil’
  • ‘older types of sash windows are a bit rocky’
  • 3Difficult and full of problems.
    ‘the marriage seemingly got off to a rocky start’
    ‘the rocky road to success’
  • 4Relating to or characteristic of rock music.
    ‘rocky and acoustic folk bands’


English[edit]. Noun[edit]. triple bill (plural triple bills). A triple feature. The consecutive presentation of three episodes of a television series.

triple bill (plural triple bills)
  1. triple feature.
  2. The consecutive presentation of three episodes of a television series.

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