Taylor Swift has charted with 231 songs, 49 Top 10 hits and 11 No. 1 smashes. In anticipation of her 11th album, we ranked her 11 No. 1s.
The leading figures on the world stage today practice a brutal, smashmouth politics, a personalized authoritarianism. In our September/October 2019 issue, now available online, read profiles of old-school strongmen who grasped power in Russia, China, Turkey, the Philippines, and Hungary.
【為警方辯護】林鄭月娥：不要將香港推向深淵
香港特首林鄭月娥週二在新聞會上語帶哽咽地警告，香港恐怕會出現「五勞七傷」。她呼籲大眾放下歧見，安定情緒，「看一看這個城市，這個家，大家是否忍心將它推向粉身碎骨的深淵？」但她繼續迴避政府如何應對數周來動盪局勢的關鍵問題。當她離開時，記者還在大聲提問。人群中有人問她是否還有良心。
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the abyss 有時意思不清楚，所以尤瑟納爾Marguerite Yourcenar 的小說 L'Œuvre au noir (novel, 1968, Prix Femina 1968) ，英譯本2種，書名不同：
- translated as The Abyss, or Zeno of Bruges by Grace Frick (1976)
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point of no return 〔航空機などの〕帰還［復帰］不能［限界］点
【略】PNR 〔行動の過程の〕引き返せな... -
The point of no return (PNR or PONR) is the point beyond which one must continue on one's current course of action because turning back is dangerous, physically impossible or difficult, or prohibitively expensive. The point of no return can be ...
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Origins and spread of the expression[edit]
The phrase "point of no return" originated as a technical term in air navigation to refer to the point on a flight at which a plane is no longer capable of returning to the airfield from which it took off.(V1 speed)
It can also mean the instance in which an aircraft taxis down a runway, gaining a certain speed, and must become airborne in lieu of a crash or explosion on the runway—for example, Charles Lindbergh's takeoff in The Spirit of St. Louis in 1927 in which there was uncertainty about the plane's ability to take off from a 5,000 foot mud soaked runway while fully loaded with aviation fuel.
The first major metaphorical use of the term in popular culture was in the 1947 novel Point of No Return by John P. Marquand. It inspired a 1951 Broadway play of the same name by Paul Osborn. The novel and play concern a pivotal period in the life of a New York City banker. In the course of the story, the character faces two "point of no return" realities: first, that his quest for a big promotion will mean either triumph or a dead end to his career, and second, that he can never go back to the small-town life he abandoned as a young man.
Another “point of no return” is when crossing the event horizon of a black hole. This is the point when not even light can escape the black hole’s gravity.
smash-mouth
adjective & adverb
INFORMAL•NORTH AMERICAN
- (of a style of play in sport) aggressive and confrontational."we're coming into this game ready to play smash-mouth because we know that's the type of game it's going to be"
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