| Lockheed Martin Awarded $32.9 Million Pentagon Contract for Taiwan's F-16 Upgrade Program
“This modification provides for contractor logistics support, repair and return and diminishing manufacturing source management services for Taiwan ...
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2008年9月2日 星期二
downgrade, prowess, upgrade
The Los Angeles Times, New York Times, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal's world-wide newsbox lead with the sighs of relief coming out of New Orleans as the city appears to have been spared much of the devastation that many feared was going to be a replay of Hurricane Katrina. By the time Hurricane Gustav hit Louisiana's Gulf Coast early yesterday it had been downgraded to a Category 2 hurricane and had weakened to a tropical storm by Monday night. Rural areas were the most affected by Gustav, which flooded large areas of southern Louisiana. But the levees in New Orleans mostly held and seemed to have helped the city avoid any major flooding, although officials warned that continuing rainfall could still cause some damage.
應用例:Downgraded Storm Hits Southeast China
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Typhoon Wipha slammed into the coast south of Shanghai Wednesday as authorities evacuated 2 million people.
The earnings downgrade reflects a series of troubles that have plagued Sony, and called into question its manufacturing prowess and reputation for quality.
As a consultant, a student of W. Edwards Deming, and a long-timer observer of Japanese manufacturing prowess, I am always on the lookout for ways to boost productivity and lower costs.
prowess
━━ n. 勇気, 勇敢な行為, あっぱれな腕前 ((at, in)).
New Zealand wants to upgrade Japan, South Korea trade links in ...
International Herald Tribune - France
AP WELLINGTON, New Zealand: New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark will visit Japan and South Korea this week seeking to upgrade trade relations with both ...
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downgrade Show phonetics
upgrade
verb [T]
to improve the quality or usefulness of something, such as a machine or a computer program, or give a person a more important job or state that their job is more important than it was in the past:
It's quite simple to upgrade the indexing software.
Congratulations, I hear you've been upgraded to divisional manager.
NOTE: The opposite is downgrade.
upgrade
noun [C]
a hardware upgrade
The upgrade to version 5.0 costs $395.
應用例:Downgraded Storm Hits Southeast China
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Typhoon Wipha slammed into the coast south of Shanghai Wednesday as authorities evacuated 2 million people.
The earnings downgrade reflects a series of troubles that have plagued Sony, and called into question its manufacturing prowess and reputation for quality.
As a consultant, a student of W. Edwards Deming, and a long-timer observer of Japanese manufacturing prowess, I am always on the lookout for ways to boost productivity and lower costs.
prowess
- Superior skill or ability.
- Superior strength, courage, or daring, especially in battle.
prow・ess
New Zealand wants to upgrade Japan, South Korea trade links in ...
International Herald Tribune - France
AP WELLINGTON, New Zealand: New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark will visit Japan and South Korea this week seeking to upgrade trade relations with both ...
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downgrade Show phonetics
verb [T]
to reduce someone or something to a lower rank or position, or to make something less important or less valued:
My job's been downgraded to that of ordinary editor.
We mustn't let management downgrade the importance of safety at work.
Compare upgrade.
verb [T]
to improve the quality or usefulness of something, such as a machine or a computer program, or give a person a more important job or state that their job is more important than it was in the past:
It's quite simple to upgrade the indexing software.
Congratulations, I hear you've been upgraded to divisional manager.
NOTE: The opposite is downgrade.
downgrade
upgrade
noun [C]
a hardware upgrade
The upgrade to version 5.0 costs $395.
2016年8月25日 星期四
modicum, masterclass, absurd, absurdity, ad absurdum, upgrade, downgrade
Fitch Ratings downgraded Nokia, saying it couldn't find any signs that the Finnish handset can stabilize its declining revenue and profit margins, and warned it might cut its rating further.
Downgrades by Ratings Agency Deal Blow to 15 Big Banks
By PETER EAVIS and SUSANNE CRAIG
Moody’s Investors Service, which had warned banks that a downgrade was possible, cut credit scores to new lows to reflect changes in the industry since the financial crisis.
Oxford English Dictionary gets online upgrade
December 16, 2010 08:27 AM
The dictionary is published by Oxford University Press, and the new online edition is built on the iFactory publishing platform, PubFactory, which allows for "dynamic search capabilities" such as having search results displayed as a time-line that shows when a word came into usage, iFactory said.
A press release on the new edition included a statement from Robert Faber, editorial director of scholarly and general reference at Oxford University Press. Faber references the Oxford English Dictionary as OED.
"With the new OED website, we were able to unlock fresh insights into how the English language has been used across the centuries, by adding new ways to browse, search, and visualize the information." Faber said.
Taiwan to Stay as Emerging Market in MSCI Annual Market ...
Wall Street Journal
By Aries Poon. TAIPEI--Taiwan won't be upgraded to "developed market" status from "emerging market" in MSCI Inc.'s (MSCI) annual market classification ...
Upgraded Pearls of Low Price Flow From China
By KEITH BRADSHER
Chinese companies are using new techniques that help make pearls cheaper, throwing the industry into turmoil.
Some modicum of understanding of the preceding paragraphs would help.
Strength in Internet stocks, along with a handful of upgrades on some wireless phone companies, brought a modicum of relief to the tech sector Tuesday following the Nasdaq's recent pummeling.
Stinting on Mercy
PRESIDENT BUSH showed a modicum of courage and compassion last month when he commuted the sentence of Maryland resident Michael Dwayne Short. Mr. Short had no prior record when he was arrested in 1989 and charged as a relatively minor player in a D.C. crack cocaine ring. Because of the absurdity ...
(The Washington Post)
chester and suburbia real ale pubs (last updated 16/11/2007)
Chester might not, as yet, be in the same league as real ale meccas such as Norwich, Derby and York but it's certainly upwardly mobile for cask. Twenty years ago you had to be grateful for the odd place selling a decent drop of Burtonwood, Marstons and especially Greenalls but that's all changed thanks, in part, to the emergence of the likes of the Mill Hotel and Old Harkers Arms which bristle with hand pumps serving a myriad of micros. Elsewhere the city boasts tied houses belonging to Hydes, Sam Smith's, Lees and Okells. Throw in a few other pubs who have adopted an enlightened guest beer policy and basically, the visitor, with a modicum of research, shouldn't go wrong.
(ŭp'grād')
v., -grad·ed, -grad·ing, -grades.
v.tr.
- To raise to a higher grade or standard: upgrading their military defenses.
- To improve the quality of (livestock) by selective breeding for desired characteristics.
- Computer Science.
- To replace (a software program) with a more recently released, enhanced version.
- To replace (a hardware device) with one that provides better performance.
- To exchange a possession for one of greater value or quality; trade up.
- Computer Science. To replace software or hardware with an upgrade.
- The act or an instance of upgrading.
- Computer Science.
- A software program that provides added enhancements over an earlier version.
- A hardware device that provides greater performance than an earlier model.
- An upward incline.
Uphill.
idiom:on the upgrade
- Improving or progressing.
2019年12月18日 星期三
【#逐字學英文國際日報】15： cheapen, weakened, UPGRADE. get over, weakness/inadequacy, go through sth
昨天在等紅綠燈處，看到某樹女的提包上寫 UPGRADE YOUR LIFE
我們"退休的人，總難免感到人生的品質很難維持，遑論"生活品質升級"。
2017/02/17 - It hasn't even been a full month yet, but many of us who pay close attention to Washington feel like the Trump administration has aged us a full decade. Every day begins with a fearful peek at President Donald Trump's latest ...
Trump turned it down. “What would I ... It tends to cheapen life when you see quality like that going for no reason. It's truly a horrible experience.
As the economy grows ever more complex, the inadequacies of the institutions that underpin it will become more glaring
A Weakened Irene Sweeps Northward
In India, Dynamism Wrestles With Dysfunction By JIM YARDLEY
In Gurgaon and elsewhere in India, economic growth is often the product of a private sector’s improvising to overcome government inadequacies.
The worst financial crisis since the Depression isn't over, yet it's time to put the best brains to work at reconstructing the financial regulatory structure so we don't go through this again.
go through sth (EXPERIENCE) phrasal verb
to experience a difficult or unpleasant situation:
I've been going through a bad patch recently.
You'd think his children would be more sympathetic towards him after all he's gone through (= the many bad things he has experienced).
go through sth (PRACTISE) phrasal verb
to do something in order to practise or as a test:
I'd like you to go through that manoeuvre again and then bring the car to a halt next to the kerb.
inadequacy (ĭn-ăd'ĭ-kwə-sē)
n., pl., -cies.
- The quality or condition of being inadequate.
- An instance of being inadequate; a failing or lack.
Taxpayers on hook as some bailed-out firms prove frail
With CIT in bankruptcy, U.S. is faulted for investing in weakened companies
(By Tomoeh Murakami Tse, The Washington Post)
weak
adj., weak·er, weak·est.
- Lacking physical strength, energy, or vigor; feeble.
- Likely to fail under pressure, stress, or strain; lacking resistance: a weak link in a chain.
- Lacking firmness of character or strength of will.
- Lacking the proper strength or amount of ingredients: weak coffee.
- Lacking the ability to function normally or fully: a weak heart.
- Lacking aptitude or skill: a weak student; weak in math.
- Lacking or resulting from a lack of intelligence.
- Lacking persuasiveness; unconvincing: a weak argument.
- Lacking authority or the power to govern.
- Lacking potency or intensity: weak sunlight.
- Linguistics.
- Of, relating to, or being those verbs in Germanic languages that form a past tense and past participle by means of a dental suffix, as start, started; have, had; bring, brought.
- Of, relating to, or being the inflection of nouns or adjectives in Germanic languages with a declensional suffix that historically contained an n.
- Unstressed or unaccented in pronunciation or poetic meter. Used of a word or syllable.
- Designating a verse ending in which the metrical stress falls on a word or syllable that is unstressed in normal speech, such as a preposition.
- Tending downward in price: a weak market for oil stocks.
[Middle English weike, from Old Norse veikr, pliant.]
SYNONYMS weak, feeble, frail, fragile, infirm, decrepit, debilitated. These adjectives mean lacking or showing a lack of strength. Weak is the most widely applicable: “These poor wretches … were so weak they could hardly sit to their oars” (Daniel Defoe). Feeble suggests pathetic or grievous physical or mental weakness or hopeless inadequacy: a feeble intellect; a feeble effort. Frail implies delicacy and inability to endure or withstand: “an aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small“ (Thomas Hardy.). What is fragile is easily broken, damaged, or destroyed: a fragile, expensive vase; a fragile state of mind after the accident. Infirm implies enfeeblement: “a poor, infirm, weak, and despis'd old man” (Shakespeare). Decrepit describes what is weakened, worn out, or broken down by hard use or the passage of time: a decrepit building slated for demolition. Debilitated suggests a gradual impairment of energy or strength: a debilitated constitution further weakened by overwork.
weaken
tr. & intr.v., -ened, -en·ing, -ens.
To make or become weak or weaker.
weakener weak'en·er n.
羅彥傑
"For management to just say go and have a cup of coffee and get over tiredness, it cheapens the whole issue," Australian Medical Association Vice President Steven Hambleton told Reuters.
「管理階層只是喊著去喝杯咖啡來克服疲倦，貶低了整個議題。」澳洲醫學會副會長史蒂芬．漢貝登說。
"We are talking about serious issues here, and this is not just a serious suggestion at all. It can’t be a weakness to say you’re dog tired," he said.
「我們討論的是嚴肅議題，這卻完全不是一個嚴肅的建議。說自己累到動彈不得，不能算是個缺點，」他說。
get over：片語，度過、克服。例句：You will soon get over your shyness.（你會很快克服害羞的。）
dog tired（dog-tired ）：形容詞，指累到動彈不得、筋疲力盡的。例句：I am so dog tired each time I get back home. （每次我回到家，都累到動彈不得。）
cheapen
ˈtʃiːp(ə)n/
verb
- reduce the price of."the depreciation of the dollar would cheapen US exports"
- degrade."the mass media cheapen the experience of art"
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