This Town Made Tina Turner. She Made It Famous.
The singer immortalized her hometown in a song. Its residents remember how she sprinkled her glitter onto Nutbush, Tenn., opening it to the world.
Google wants to sprinkle generative AI ‘magic’ over as many of its businesses as possible. Also up for a dusting of machine learning fairy dust: Google’s advertising business.
In thirty-one American states, those convicted of especially heinous crimes can still face
the death penalty, but it's becoming increasingly difficult to carry out
Executing America’s death-row prisoners is becoming harder
Practising states generally prefer to execute convicts by lethal…
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The destruction of ancient statues (some replicas) at the Mosul museum in Iraq, a video of which was released on February 26th, is far from the most heinous crime committed by Islamic State. But the group’s sacking of holy sites and libraries are elements of a broader attack, perpetrated in the name of Islam, on the Middle East’s rich cultural and religious heritage http://econ.st/1wXvVVJ
Destroying history’s treasures
The jihadists are attacking more than the region’s people
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Throwing the ball is considered a heinous cricketing crime. Bowlers through the ages have demonstrated a dizzying array of ways to propel a leather sphere 22 yards.
By ANJLI PARRIN
The Model United Nations is a full-fledged sport with rankings and rowdiness, but some object to the trend.
The appeals for the party to respect the constitution’s provisions are
part of what appears to be a new tactic by Chinese liberals to push for
faster political change. On November 16th, a day after the party’s new
leadership was installed, Yanhuang Chunqiu and academics from
Peking University jointly organised a meeting in Beijing of around 100
intellectuals as well as a sprinkling of retired officials to discuss
the constitution and the importance of upholding it
(see this account on Yanhuang Chunqiu’s website,
What do you think of the so-called "student revolution
"?
Rowdies are never revolutionary, they are always reac'
tionary. It is among the young that the greatest conformists
and Philistines are found, e.g., the hippies with their group
beards and group protests. Demonstrators at American
universities care as little about education as football fans
who smash up subway stations in England care about soccer. All
belong to the same family of goofy hoodlums-- with a sprinkling
of clever rogues among them.
From there the roster of notorious clients grew. There were the union
militants Eugene Debs, Big Bill Haywood and John J. McNamara; a
sprinkling of Communists and anarchists; a handful of corrupt
politicians; some homicidal socialites; a host of mobsters; one
world-famous architect; and a few people accused of trul
y heinous
crimes: charming young Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, who had killed a
child just to see if they could get away with it.
a battery of heinous crimes
Origin
late Middle English: from Old French haineus, from hair'to hate', of Germanic origin.
[形]
2 ((俗))悪い, ひどい, 劣った(crappy).
hei・nous・ly
[副]
Derivatives heinously ADVERB
sprinkle
v.,
-kled,
-kling,
-kles.
v.tr.
- To scatter in drops or particles: sprinkled sugar on the cereal.
- To scatter drops or particles on.
- To intersperse with something as if by scattering: sprinkled his speech with quotations.
- To distribute or intersperse at random.
v.intr.
- To scatter something in drops or particles.
- To fall or rain in small or infrequent drops.
n.
- The act of sprinkling.
- A light rainfall.
- A small amount; a sprinkling.
- sprinkles Small particles of candy sprinkled on ice cream as a topping.
[Middle English sprenklen, perhaps of Middle Dutch or Middle Low German origin.]
[動](他)［III[名]（[副]）］
1 〈液体・粉などを〉（…に）まく, まき散らす, 振りかける((on, over ...))；〈場所・物に〉（…を）まく((with ...)). ⇒STREW
sprinkle water over the flower bed
花壇に水をまく
sprinkle the lawn with fertilizers ［＝sprinkle fertilizers on the lawn］
芝生に肥料をまく.
2 ((受身))（…に）点在する((on, over ...))；（…が）散りばめられている((with ...))
temples sprinkled over the city
市のそこかしこに点在する寺院
Her speech was sprinkled with jokes.
彼女のスピーチには随所にジョークが散りばめられていた.
━━(自)
1 〈液体・粉末などが〉振り掛けられる, ばらまかれる；散在［点在］している.
2 ((itを主語として))((ふつう進行形))((米))小雨がぱらつく（((英))spit）.
━━[名]
1 振りまくこと；振りまかれたもの；((〜s))（チョコレート・砂糖などの）振り掛け.
2 ((米))雨のぱらつき, 小雨.
3 ((a 〜))少量［少数］（の…）((of ...)).
［中英語. 古英語sprengan（とび出させる）と同系. △SPRING］
sprinkling
━━
n. まき散らし, 水まき; ぱらぱら, ちらほら, 少量［数］ (a sprinkling of gray hairs 白髪まじり）.
⇒
sprinklesprinklingn.- A small amount or quantity; a modicum.
- A small quantity scattered or sparsely distributed.
sprinkling
(sprĭng'klĭng) 
n.
- A small amount or quantity; a modicum.
- A small quantity scattered or sparsely distributed.
請問Osaka's new subway line found springing【似乎是sprinkling】 leaks
The Yomiuri Shimbun
All 11 stations on the Osaka
municipal subway's Imazatosuji Line, which opened in December, have
water leaks in about 60 locations in total, according to the Osaka
Municipal Transportation Bureau.
The
bureau said the problem is due to the line being the deepest of the
eight municipal subway lines, resulting in higher groundwater pressure.
Although the problem has not affected operations, the bureau has yet to
find suitable solutions
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PR:
spring a leak = spring a hole = spring a crack
leak (noun) = crack = hole
spring a leak/crack/hole = leak (verb)
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日本昭和12年製之Japanese Sandman 為"炸彈"
sandman
n.
A character in fairy tales and folklore who makes children go to sleep by sprinkling sand in their eyes.
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 眠りの精, 睡魔
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hoodlum
n.
- A gangster; a thug.
- A tough, often aggressive or violent youth.
[Origin unknown.]
hoodlumism hood'lum·ism n.
row·dy (rou'dē)
n.,
pl.,
-dies.
A rough, disorderly person.
adj.,
-di·er,
-di·est.
Disorderly; rough:
rowdy teenagers; a rowdy beer party.
rowdily row'di·ly adv.
rowdiness row'di·ness n.
rowdyism row'dy·ism n.
adj. Informal,
-i·er,
-i·est.
Silly; ridiculous:
a goofy hat.
adjective (rowdier, rowdiest)
noisy and disorderly:it was a rowdy but good-natured crowd
'
noun (plural rowdies)
a noisy and disorderly person: we are accused of being rowdies in the pub
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