2022年7月5日 星期二

backfill, stickup, ''his Catholicism colors everything he writes.''

Endo novel ''Scandal'' (Random House, 1988), ''his Catholicism colors everything he writes.''


MAY 30, 2022

For NATO, Turkey is a disruptive ally
BY MICHAEL CROWLEY AND STEVEN ERLANGER

Within an alliance that operates by consensus, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has come to be seen as something of a stickup artist.




MAY 30, 2022

Having shipped artillery shells to Ukraine, Canada asks South Korea for more

The move is apparently to "backfill" supplies that Ottawa has sent to Kyiv, upping pressure on Seoul to provide — at least indirectly — lethal aid in the Ukraine war.



backfill翻譯:回填,重新填上(坑、溝等), 用新員工填補職位空缺, 回填土;回填料。了解更多。

stick-up
/ˈstɪkʌp/
noun
INFORMALUS
nounstickup
  1. an armed robbery in which a gun is used to threaten people.
    "I had strolled into a genuine stick-up"



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