2024年4月7日 星期日

faeces, mart, nary, trigger law. Londoners were preparing to roam around Tufnell Park, which is not actually a park, in their role as part of a Ramblers group, who do not, by the most rigid definition, ramble. (That typically requires a roam through the countryside.)


Clustered outside a tube station, 20 or so Londoners were preparing to roam around Tufnell Park, which is not actually a park, in their role as part of a Ramblers group, who do not, by the most rigid definition, ramble. (That typically requires a roam through the countryside.) They huddled under street lamps for the customary introduction to the night’s event: a three-mile loop around a residential stretch of the city, culminating with a trip to the pub.




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For Lord Palmerston, Britain’s colonial possession of Hong Kong was bound to be fruitless. “A barren rock with nary a house upon it,” he wrote. “It will never be a mart for trade.”

But of course it did become a mart for trade, and Lim traces Hong Kong’s fortunes under 155 years of British control. 

A trigger law is a nickname for a law that is unenforceable but may achieve enforceability if a key change in circumstances occurs.





adjective
INFORMALDIALECT
  1. non-standard form of not.
    "there was nary a murmur or complaint"


mart
/mɑːt/
noun
  1. a trade centre or market.
    "a liquor mart"


faeces
/ˈfiːsiːz/
noun
plural nounfeces
  1. waste matter remaining after food has been digested, discharged from the bowels; excrement.


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