2020年6月29日 星期一

peddle, assay, radioimmunoassay, Home Raided in Chinese Influence Inquiry


Australian Politician’s Home Raided in Chinese Influence Inquiry

By Damien Cave
The case is the first high-profile criminal investigation of Chinese influence peddling to be made public since Australia passed foreign interference laws two years ago.


The marvelous 17th-century artist-poet Shitao, who has an album of small paintings in the show, was luckier. He too made the journey to town, hoping for advancement in the Buddhist church. But after years of striving and failing, he gave up and headed home to take sylvan walks, think Daoist thoughts and peddle his paintings for what they would bring. Failure gave him some peace.

 It is big, bulky, you can't snort it, and it doesn't get you high. By any reckoning, iron ore would seem like a daft thing to peddle if you were in the drugs trade. Yet on March 3rd Mexican authorities seized nearly 120,000 tonnes of it near the port of Lázaro Cárdenas on the Pacific coast. The Economist explains why Mexican drug-traffickers started smuggling iron ore to China http://econ.st/1kb5rWb


Rosalyn Yalow became a physicist at a time when being a woman was a serious impediment to success. But succeed she did. With her research partner Solomon Berson, she made a transformative contribution to medical research: the radioimmunoassay.


The science of religion supports the ongoing reformation of Christianity, by giving believers the ability to know how far present forms have fallen from Jesus' pure intentions. But crucially for Müller, the selfsame tests that separate Christian gold from Christian dross could be used to assay Christianity's superiority over other religions.



peddle
verb T ]
   mainly disapproving
UK 
 
/ˈped.əl/
 US 
 
/ˈped.əl/
to sell things, especially by taking them to different places:
These products are generally peddled (from) door to door.
He travels around, peddling his wares.



放射免疫測定 (Radioimmunoassay)



assay
verb T ]
   CHEMISTRY   specialized
UK 
 /əˈseɪ/ /æsˈeɪ/ US 
 
/əˈseɪ/
 /æsˈeɪ/

to perform an examination on a chemical in order to test how pure it is

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