Kina, irreconcilable, vendetta

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Trump Accuses Mueller of a Personal Vendetta as Calls for Impeachment Grow

President Trump appeared determined to undermine Robert S. Mueller III’s credibility a day after the special counsel’s public statement.

Donald Trump interpreted the special counsel’s pro-reading message as a thinly veiled attack on him

American universities have long struggled to meet almost irreconcilable demands: to be practical as well as transcendent; to assist immediate national needs and to pursue knowledge for its own sake; to both add value and question values.




Financial Times

That's irreconcilable with democracy.

(Picture by Getty)

FT.COM
The FT View: Donald Trump is blurring the lines between personal vendettas and his public duties

• Kina, the name of the People's Republic of China in Albanian, Greek, Danish, Norwegian, Serbo-Croatian, Icelandic, and Swedish languages.

vendetta復讐


irreconcilableの意味や使い方 【形容詞】1〈人など〉和解できない，妥協できない.2〈思想・意見など〉調和[両立]しない; 〔…と〕矛盾して 〔with〕.用例irreconcilable opinions 相いれない意見.The ... - 約1080万語ある英和辞典・和英辞典。発音・イディオムも分かる ...

frazzled, crook, crooked/askew/tilt, outmaneuvered, by hook or by crook, tilting viewing platform leans viewers out over a 94-storey drop

Smithsonian Institution names Lonnie G. Bunch III—the historian who launched the National Museum of African American History and Culture—its next chief, marking a tilt to the humanities for the 175-year-old organization.

BBC Culture

This tilting viewing platform leans viewers out over a 94-storey drop.

Is this the world’s most terrifying view?

The observatory of the John Hancock Centre in Chicago features a vertigo-inducing attraction.

BBC.COM

Here's Why You Won't Finish This Article

Distraction at the office is hardly new, but as screens multiply and managers push frazzled workers to do more with less, businesses say the problem is worsening.

 Betaworks has agreed to buy news-sharing website Digg, in an attempt to revive a company that was early to social media but outmaneuvered by rivals.

On Nov. 17, 1973, President Nixon told an Associated Press managing editors meeting in Orlando, Fla., that "people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook.''



News Trends Tilt Toward Niche Sites
By DAVID CARR

As news surges on the Web, news giants are being outmaneuvered by smaller sites that have passionate audiences and sharply focused information.

by hook or by crook

by any possible means:the government intends, by hook or by crook, to hold on to the land

  frazzle
frǽzl

frazzleの変化形

frazzles (複数形) • frazzled (過去形) • frazzled (過去分詞) • frazzling (現在分詞) • frazzles (三人称単数現在)

frazzleの慣用句

to a frazzle, （全1件）

[動](自)(他)((略式))

1 すり切れる［切らす］；すり減る［減らす］.

2 へとへとに疲れる［疲れさせる］.

━━[名]((次の句で))

to a frazzle

((英略式))ぼろぼろ［くたくた, めちゃくちゃ］になるまで

be worn to a frazzle
へとへとである

burnt to a frazzle
完全に焼けて.

Definition of frazzle

verb

[with object] (usually as adjective frazzled)

• cause to feel completely exhausted; wear out:a frazzled parent
• fray:change the skirt if it gets frazzled figurativeit’s enough to frazzle the nerves

noun

(a frazzle)

• the state of being completely exhausted or worn out:I’m tired, worn to a frazzle

Origin:

early 19th century (originally dialect): perhaps a blend of fray¹ and obsolete fazle 'ravel out', of Germanic origin

òutmanéuver, ((英))-manóeuvre[òut・manéuver, ((英))-manóeuvre]
[動](他)…に策略で勝つ；〈相手の〉裏をかく, …を出し抜く.



tilt

(tĭlt)

v., tilt·ed, tilt·ing, tilts. v.tr.

1. To cause to slope, as by raising one end; incline: tilt a soup bowl; tilt a chair backward.
2. 1. To aim or thrust (a lance) in a joust.
   2. To charge (an opponent); attack.
3. To forge with a tilt hammer.

v.intr.

1. To slope; incline. See synonyms at slant.
2. To favor one side over another in a dispute; lean: "His views tilt unmistakably to the Arab position" (William Safire).
3. 1. To fight with lances; joust.
   2. To engage in a combat or struggle; fight: tilting at injustices.
   3. 
      

      秘密咒語，輸入「傾斜」Google 就歪～了！（圖／擷取自Google網站）

記者湯蕙如／綜合報導

真的很妙，只要在智慧型手機上的 Google 輸入「傾斜」除了秀出相關資訊，網頁還會真的「傾斜」歪給你看！而且 iOS 和 Android 手機都能用，不過 iPad 會沒反應。

這是一個約半年前 Google 暗藏在網頁裡的小祕密，除了中文的「傾斜」，還有英文的「tilt」、「askew」、「crooked」，或是日文的「斜め」內含傾斜意思的詞句都能有相同效果。

可愛的小撇步，什麼時候要停止提供不清楚，總之，有興趣的人可以試試看，能不能出現更多對應字眼或更多語言吧！（簡單測試一下發現，中文介面除中文外還對應英日文，但英日文介面卻不理中文內容，嘗試前請注意。）

Just a Twist (and Tilt) of the Wrist--acceleromete...

frazzled, askew , bleary

 On Nov. 17, 1973, President Nixon told an Associated Press managing editors meeting in Orlando, Fla., that "people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook.''

crook

発音

krúk

crookの変化形

crooks (複数形) • crooked (過去形) • crooked (過去分詞) • crooking (現在分詞) • crooks (三人称単数現在)

crookの慣用句

on the crook, （全1件）

[名]

1 ((略式))不正直な人, 詐欺師, どろぼう, 悪漢

I am not a crook.
私は悪者ではありません（▼ウォーターゲート事件のときのニクソン大統領の言葉）.

2 曲がったもの, かぎ状のもの［部分］, かぎ(hook).

3 （羊飼いの）柄の曲がった杖；（司教などの）笏杖(しゃくじょう).

4 屈曲, ねじれ；（川・道などの）湾曲（部）；（ひじ・膝の）内側.

5 《音楽》替管(かえくだ)：吹奏楽器の歌口の管にさし込む変調管.

on the crook

((俗))不正な手段で, 不正直に.

━━[形]((豪・NZ))((略式))

1 病気の；けがをした.

2 ひどい, いやな, 不正な, いんちきな.

3 〈人が〉（…に）おこった, 不機嫌な((at, on ...))

go crook at ［on］ a person
人をおこる.

━━[動](他)

1 〈腕・指などを〉曲げる.

2 ((俗))〈物を〉盗む, だまし取る.

━━(自)〈川などが〉曲がる, 湾曲する.
crooked

(krʊk'ĭd)
adj.

1. Having or marked by bends, curves, or angles.
2. Informal. Dishonest or unscrupulous; fraudulent.

crookedly crook'ed·ly adv.
crookedness crook'ed·ness n.

whitewash, daub, splodge, skinful, pit latrine, whitewashed wattles, bushvelt, calligraffiti

Our US policy correspondent Idrees Kahloon visits Montgomery, Alabama. He finds it surreal that the city commemorates the civil-rights movement while also preserving Confederate memorials that whitewash the underlying cause of the conflict




In a run-down part of Cairo, a group of buildings have been daubed with seemingly random splodges of paint. From the right viewpoint, the patterns become a poem that celebrates the neighbourhood. The Economist’s 1843 magazine meets the street artists of the Middle East



Arabic calligraphy + western graffiti = calligraffiti
A new art form is born
1843MAGAZINE.COM


An economics lecturer at Cambridge University showed up to a faculty meeting unclothed with "Brexit leaves Britain naked" daubed across her torso. But if the form of protest was unusual, the feeling it expressed was not

First, dig pit latrines. Then persuade people to use them

Simple solutions to hygiene problems are saving lives in Bangladesh

Levels of disease have declined hugely in recent years

ECONOMIST.COM

T. S. Eliot daubed his face green; Ernest Hemingway stood on the worn skin of a lesser kudu, while F. Scott Fitzgerald insisted that a skinful made his prose flow beautifully

The Economist

Winston Churchill, Britain's wartime leader, first picked up a paintbrush in 1915 to distract himself after the disasters of Gallipoli. Over the next half-century he painted more than 500 daubs, as he called them. Now the largest exhibition of them in America since 1965, according to Churchill's great-grandson, has opened at the Millennium Gate Museum in Atlanta http://econ.st/1w0HhTt

The death of Lazard's head Bruce Wasserstein has sparked speculation inside and outside the investment bank over whether the family trusts that control Mr. Wasserstein's ownership stake in Lazard will now consider selling the holdings, The Financial Times reported.

That, in turn, has prompted chatter that such a move could prompt Natixis, another stakeholder, to consider the same, the newspaper said. Together, the Wasserstein trusts and Natixis own about roughly 20 percent of Lazard, according to The Financial Times.

These considerations come a day after Lazard reported a $52.5 million profit for its third quarter, a 4 percent drop from the same time last year, as its mergers advisory business remained a drag on strong results from its restructuring advisory unit.



Then there were her questions: as many as 200 of them a year, asked in Parliament and recorded in Hansard, on any subject that might embarrass South Africa’s white rulers. How many people were being held without trial? How many blacks were arrested each day for violating the Pass Laws? Why were they being forcibly removed to areas with nothing but rows of tin latrines, where only wattles grew in the sand? Why did the police turn up to remove them at four in the morning? Why did they use rubber bullets to disperse protesting crowds? Was it true that prisoners were kept in solitary confinement, beaten with straps, made to sleep on the floor? On, on, on. One National Party MP said she reminded him of “a cricket in a tree when it is very dry in the bushvelt. His chirping makes you deaf but the tune remains the same.” Botha said her “chattering” was like water dripping on a tin roof. Mrs Suzman was delighted to annoy them in the cause of justice.

 skinful

音節

 

skín • fùl[名]

1. 1 ((a ～))（…の）革袋1杯（の量）((of ...))；((略式))腹いっぱい（の量）.
2. 2 ((英話))人を十分酔わせる酒（の量）
   • have a ［one's］ skinful
   • 大酒を飲む.

daub

Line breaks: daub

Pronunciation: /dɔːb /

VERB

[WITH OBJECT]

1Carelessly coat or smear (a surface) with a thick or sticky substance:the walls were daubed with splashes of paint

1.1Spread (a thick or sticky substance) on a surfacein a careless or clumsy way:a canvas with paint daubed on it

1.2Paint (words or drawings) on a surface in a careless or clumsy way:they daubed graffiti on the walls

NOUN

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1A patch or smear of a thick or sticky substance:a daub of paint

1.1 A painting executed without much skill:

she stuck the painting up alongside the daubs made by her children

2 [MASS NOUN] Plaster, clay, or another substance used for coating a surface, especially when mixed withstraw and applied to laths or wattles to form a wall:

wattle and daub

Origin

late middle english: from Old French dauber, from Latindealbare 'whiten, whitewash', based on albus 'white'.

splodge

splɒdʒ/

noun & verb

BRITISH

1. another term for splotch.

splotch

splɒtʃ/

informal

noun

noun: splotch; plural noun: splotches

1. 1.

   a daub, blot, or smear of something, typically a liquid.

   
   

   "a splotch of red in a larger area of yellow"

verb

verb: splotch; 3rd person present: splotches; past tense: splotched; past participle: splotched; gerund or present participle: splotching

1. 1.

   make a daub, blot, or smear on.

   
   

   "a rag splotched with grease"

Origin

early 17th century: perhaps a blend of spot and obsolete plotch ‘blotch’.

latrine 
noun [C]
a toilet, especially a simple one such as a hole in the ground, used in a military area or when camping

Latrine - Wikipedia

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

A latrine is a toilet or an even simpler facility which is used as a toilet within a sanitation system. For example, it can be a communal trench in the earth in a camp to be used as emergency sanitation, a hole in the ground (pit latrine), or more advanced designs, including pour-flush systems.

whitewash

/ˈwʌɪtwɒʃ/

noun

1. 1.

   a solution of lime and water or of whiting, size, and water, used for painting walls white.
2. 2.

   INFORMAL

   a victory by the same side in every game of a series.

   "the Lions went downhill to a 4–0 whitewash"

verb

1. 1.

   paint (a wall, building, or room) with whitewash.

   "a suntrap surrounded by trees and whitewashed walls"
2. 2.

   INFORMAL

   defeat (an opponent) in every game of a series.

   "Ireland were whitewashed 5-0"

whitewashed wattle

wat・tle



--> ━━ n. 編み枝（細工）, 編み垣; （鶏・七面鳥などの）肉垂(にくすい); 【植】アカシアの類.━━ vt. （かき根・屋根などを）編み枝で作る; 編み合わせる.
wattle and daub　【建】荒打ちしっくい, 荒壁.

wattle and daub 
noun [U]
a mixture of sticks, earth and clay, which is used in some parts of the world as a building material:
The walls of timber-framed houses were often made of wattle and daub.
a wattle-and-daub hut

wat・tled　━━ a. 編み枝作りの; 肉垂のある.


chatter 
verb [I]
1 to talk for a long time about things that are not important:
She spent the morning chattering away to her friends.
He chattered on about nothing in particular.

2 If animals chatter, they make quick repeated noises:
The gun shot made the monkeys chatter in alarm.

3 If your teeth chatter, they knock together repeatedly because you are very cold or frightened:
I could hardly talk, my teeth were chattering so much.

chatter 
noun [U]
1 conversation about things that are not important:
I can't concentrate with Ann's constant chatter.

2 the quick repeated noises that some animals make:
He could hear the chatter of birds in the trees overhead.