repay, mortgage repayments, coverage, chancellor, pin (PREVENT MOVEMENT), understandably

The pain of rising mortgage repayments will be harder to bear in some places than in others


DealBook's full coverage of A.I.G.'s plan to eventually repay its government bailout.

The chart shows our predictions for when China will overtake America on several other measures. Official figures show that China’s consumer spending is currently only one-fifth of that in America (although that may be understated because of China’s poor statistical coverage of services). Based on relative growth rates over the past five years it will remain smaller until 2023. Retail sales are catching up much faster, and could exceed America’s by 2014. In that same year China also looks set to become the world’s biggest importer—a huge turnaround from 2000, when America’s imports were six times those of China.


EU Pins Hopes on Obama to Intensify Trans-Atlantic Ties

The European Union has urged new US President Barack Obama to help
strengthen trans-Atlantic relations while confronting the economic crisis
and unrest in the Middle East.

The DW-WORLD Article
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=ew02khI44va89pI4

The corporate junk-bond market took a global vacation in November, and understandably so: Investors are demanding huge yields to hold speculative debt these days.

understandable 

adjective

1 easy to understand:

You've got to put the facts into a form that's understandable to everyone.

2 You say that something, for example someone's behaviour, is understandable, if you feel that it is usual and not strange or difficult to understand:

Their refusal to cooperate is perfectly/completely understandable, considering the circumstances.

understandably 

adverb

pin (PREVENT MOVEMENT)
verb [T + adverb or preposition] -nn-
to force someone or something to stay in a particular place by putting weight on them:
She was pinned (down) under a pile of rubble.
A huge guy leapt out at Chris and pinned him (up) against the wall.

pin
noun [C] SPECIALIZED
In the game of chess, a pin is a special move which stops the other player from moving one of their pieces, because to move it will put another more valuable piece in danger:
That nasty pin stopped me from moving my knight.



chancellor 
noun [C]
a person in a position of the highest or high rank, especially in a government or university:

Helmut Kohl became the first Chancellor of a united Germany in 1990.
A former politician has been appointed Chancellor of the university.

Dr. Watson’s remarks created a huge stir because they implied that blacks were genetically inferior to whites, and the controversy resulted in his resignation as chancellor of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. But was he right? Is there a genetic difference between blacks and whites that condemns blacks in perpetuity to be less intelligent?
這美國著名的生物研究機關也採用它

chancellorship
noun [S]

chancellery
noun [C]a building or room where a chancellor works or lives, or the people who work in a chancellor's offices




repay
v., -paid (-pād'), -pay·ing, -pays. v.tr.

1. To pay back: repaid a debt.
2. To give back, either in return or in compensation: repay kindness with kindness.
3. To make a return or compensation for: a company that repays hard work with bonuses.
4. To make or do in return: repay a call.

v.intr.
To make repayment or requital.

repayable re·pay'a·ble adj.
repayment re·pay'ment n.

coverage[cov・er・age]

• 発音記号[kʌ'vəridʒ]
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[名][U][C]

1 （ニュースの）取材範囲；報道, 放送；放送時間；紙面；（ラジオ・テレビの）サービスエリア, 視聴圏（放送電波の届く区域）

This press gave him adequate coverage.
彼は（読者として）この新聞の報道に満足していた.

2 《保険》保険担保, 保険保護；担保範囲, 担保事項；補償範囲.

3 適用［通用, 保護, 保障］範囲

building coverage
（建物の）建坪(けんぺい)率.

4 《金融》正貨準備（金）.

5 （新聞・雑誌などの）普及率.

take seriously, slime for serious business, despicable, The Slime Machine

Ann Johansson for The New York Times
Stars and Slime at Kids’ Awards Show

By JACQUES STEINBERG 8:37 PM ET
Workers are preparing neon-green slime for the “Kids’ Choice Awards” Saturday on Nickelodeon. Millions of viewers are expected, making the show serious business.

The Bush Administration's Most Despicable Act

By Joe Klein
Bush's sanctioning of torture was his most callous, despicable act. It should be his lasting legacy

“There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.” 
―from "Giovanni's Room" by James Baldwin

A Reporter at Large The Slime Machine Targeting Dozens of Biden Nominees In an escalation of partisan warfare, a little-known dark-money group is trying to thwart the President’s entire slate.

How seriouly should we take Putin's threats？

despicable

dɪˈspɪkəb(ə)l,ˈdɛspɪk-/

adjective

1. deserving hatred and contempt.

   "a despicable crime"

slime
n.

1. A thick sticky slippery substance.
2. Biology. A mucous substance secreted by certain animals, such as catfishes and slugs.
3. Soft moist earth; mud.
4. A slurry containing very fine particulate matter.
5. Vile or disgusting matter.
6. Slang. A despicable or repulsive person.

tr.v., slimed, slim·ing, slimes.

1. To smear with slime.
2. To remove slime from (fish to be canned, for example).

[Middle English, from Old English slīm.]

━━ n. ねば土; （魚などの）粘液, ぬめり; 嫌な物.
━━ vt. ねば土［粘液］を塗る［除く，で覆う］.
slime・ball　〔俗〕 いやなやつ, げす野郎.
slime mold　【生物】粘菌類, 変形菌類.
slim・y　━━ a. ぬるぬるの; 汚い; 〔話〕 卑屈な.

viewership

serious (NOT JOKING) Show phonetics
adjective
1 not joking or intended to amuse:
Please don't laugh - I'm being serious.
He was wearing a very serious expression and I knew something was wrong.
On the surface it's a very funny novel but it does have a more serious underlying theme.

2 A serious person is quiet, thinks carefully about things and does not laugh a lot:
I remember her as a very serious child.

seriously
adverb
Seriously now, did he really say that or are you just being silly?
You're not seriously thinking of leaving, are you?

seriousness
noun [U]
In all seriousness now - joking aside - I do think there's a problem here that we've got to get sorted.


despise 
verb [T not continuous]
to feel a strong dislike for someone or something because you think they are bad or worthless:
The two groups despise each other.
She despised him for the way he treated her sister.
[R] He despised himself for being such a coward.

despicable Show phonetics
adjective
very unpleasant or bad, causing strong feelings of dislike:
despicable behaviour
He's a despicable human being!
It was despicable of her to lie about her friend.

despicably Show phonetics
adverb
I think you behaved despicably.

sham, shameful, shameless hussy, put sb to shame, mask of shame, Land Grab

World News

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Putin Pushes Ahead With Land Grab in Ukraine After Sham Votes

Obama Calls Wall Street Bonuses ‘Shameful’

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and STEPHEN LABATON

The president criticized bankers for giving themselves $18.4 billion in bonuses as the government was rescuing firms.

歐巴馬總統29日重話批評華爾街，怒責華爾街與銀行的高級主管在經濟發生嚴重危機、政府斥資數千億元挽救金融市場之際，竟領取多達184億元的巨額紅利。他說，此種行徑「可恥」(shameful)、「駭人聽聞」、「極不負責」，大金融公司的老闆必須與

Madoff: I am painfully aware that I have deeply hurt many, many people, including the members of my family, my closest friends, business associates and the thousands of clients who gave me their money.

Translation: I am painfully aware that my name will serve as a metaphor for financial crime for decades after my death. Of course, I did put Charles Ponzi to shame with the size of my scheme.

A medieval 'schandmaske', or mask of shame. These masks were a type of embarrassing punishment device used in Europe during the middle ages until 18th century. They were usually made of cold, unyielding metal, and were created in various mortifying designs.

sham

/ʃam/

學習發音

noun

1. 1.

   a thing that is not what it is purported to be.

   "our current free health service is a sham"

   相似詞：

   pretence

   fake

   act

   fiction

   simulation

   imposture

   fraud

   feint

   lie

   counterfeit

   putting on an act

   faking

   feigning

   play-acting

   dissembling

   humbug

   a put-up job

   相反詞：

   the real McCoy

   the genuine article
2. 2.

   NORTH AMERICAN

   short for pillow sham.

adjective

1. bogus; false.

   "a clergyman who arranged a sham marriage"

put sb to shame

to make someone feel ashamed:

It puts me to shame that I still haven't replied to David's letter.

shame (BAD FEELING)
noun [U]
1 an uncomfortable feeling of guilt or of being ashamed because of your own or someone else's bad behaviour:
He said he felt no shame for what he had done.
The children hung/bowed their heads in shame.
The shame of the scandal was so great that he shot himself a few weeks later.
You can't go out dressed like that - have you no shame (= don't you feel ashamed about being dressed like that)?

2 loss of honour and respect:
He thinks there's great shame in being out of work and unable to provide for his family.
In some societies, if a woman leaves her husband, it brings shame on her and her family.

shame 
exclamation
used to express disapproval of something that a public speaker is saying:
To cries of 'Shame!', the minister announced that taxes were being increased.

shame
verb [T]
1 to make someone feel ashamed, or to make someone or something lose honour and respect:
It shames me that I treated her so badly.
The behaviour of a few children has shamed the whole school.

2 shame sb into/out of sth to cause someone to do or not to do something by making them feel ashamed:
[+ ing form of verb] The number of people out of work has shamed the government into taking action to prevent further job losses.

shameful 
adjective DISAPPROVING
deserving blame, or being a reason for feeling ashamed:
I couldn't see anything shameful in what I had done.
The crime figures are shameful.
The family kept their shameful secret for years.

shamefully
adverb DISAPPROVING
Both of you have behaved shamefully.
The children had been shamefully neglected.

shamefulness 
noun [U] DISAPPROVING

shameless 
adjective DISAPPROVING
1 not ashamed, especially about something generally considered unacceptable:
She is quite shameless about her ambition.
They seem to have a shameless disregard for truth.

2 behaving in a way intended to attract sexual interest, without feeling ashamed about it:
She's a shameless hussy.

shamelessly
adverb DISAPPROVING
The government has shamelessly abandoned its principles.
She's shamelessly having an affair with her friend's husband.

shamelessness 
noun [U] DISAPPROVING

hussy
noun [C] HUMOROUS
a woman or girl who is sexually immoral:
"You asked him out? Oh, you brazen/shameless hussy, you!"