Five Moments That Defined a Historic Congress
The 116th Congress has lurched through a government shutdown, the impeachment and trial of a president, and the deadliest pandemic in a century.
受疫情影響，德國馬戲團暫停表演多時，頓時沒有收入，但一個馬戲團找到幫補收入的方法：售賣獅子老虎的糞便，每瓶5歐元。
顧客向馬戲團表示，在花園、泊在室外的汽車附近等地點放了這些糞便，其他動物立即不敢前來搗亂。
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Mark Twain
FUN FACT: A young Samuel Clemens' first date with his future wife Olivia Langdon involved going to see Charles Dickens read in New York. Twain's review:
"His pictures are hardly handsome, and he, like everybody else, is less handsome than his pictures. That fashion he has of brushing his hair and goatee so resolutely forward gives him a comical Scotch-terrier look about the face, which is rather heightened than otherwise by his portentous dignity and gravity. But that queer old head took on a sort of beauty, bye and bye, and a fascinating interest, as I thought of the wonderful mechanism within it, the complex but exquisitely adjusted machinery that could create men and women, and put the breath of life into them and alter all their ways and actions, elevate them, degrade them, murder them, marry them, conduct them through good and evil, through joy and sorrow, on their long march from the cradle to the grave, and never lose its godship over them, never make a mistake! I almost imagined I could see the wheels and pulleys work. This was Dickens--Dickens. There was no question about that, and yet it was not right easy to realize it. Somehow this puissant god seemed to be only a man, after all. How the great do tumble from their high pedestals when we see them in common human flesh, and know that they eat pork and cabbage and act like other men."
- Letter to the San Francisco Alta California, February 5, 1868
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An explosion in Beirut is the latest crisis to rock Lebanon. Our story from earlier this year examines the country's existing political and economic troubles
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From May 2020
【蓬佩奥：北京通缉境外人士是共产党“威权主义的长臂管辖”】
美国特朗普政府批评中国当局对包括一名美国公民在内的六名香港民主活动人士发出通缉令的做法是“威权主义的长臂管辖”。
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A baby-faced 31-year-old with a goatee, Mr. Fan, who lectures in mix of Cantonese and English, enthralled students with his rapid-fire delivery over a headset microphone.
goatee は何か: 1. a small, usually pointed beard grown only on the chin, not the cheeks 2. a small, usually….
A baby-faced 31-year-old with a goatee, Mr. Fan, who lectures in mix of Cantonese and English, enthralled students with his rapid-fire delivery over a headset microphone.
goatee は何か: 1. a small, usually pointed beard grown only on the chin, not the cheeks 2. a small, usually….
Seem to lurch or heave convulsively, as in The plane hit an air pocket and my stomach turned over. [Second half of 1800s]
To stagger, lurch, or sway, as from drunkenness: reeled down the alley.
To stagger, lurch, or sway, as from drunkenness: reeled down the alley.
- 2 [no object] lose one’s balance and stagger or lurch violently:he punched Connolly in the ear, sending him reeling she reeled back against the van
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| 主な意味 | (船・車などが)急に傾くこと、よろめき |
long arm
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- 長い腕［棒］
- 〈比喩〉遠くまで及ぶ（影響）力
- 《the ～》〈米俗〉警官
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