【#逐字學英文國際日報】65： ‘Forceful Revenge’ "vigorous vengeance", avenge, revenge, with a vengeance, route to salvation/heaven

  Iran Vows ‘Forceful Revenge’ After U.S. Kills General

Pres. Trump defends his order to kill a top Iranian general, accusing him of "plotting imminent and sinister attacks" on Americans. Iran has warned of "vigorous vengeance" in response.

Watch the president's full remarks: https://abcn.ws/2QHNF42

Emily Dickinson

Mine enemy is growing old,—
I have at last revenge.
The palate of the hate departs;
If any would avenge,—

Let him be quick, the viand flits,
It is a faded meat.
Anger as soon as fed is dead;
’T is starving makes it fat.

Diffen › English Language

Avenge is a verb. To avenge is to punish a wrongdoing with the intent of seeing justice done. Revenge can be used as a noun or a verb. It is more personal, less concerned with justice and more about retaliation by inflicting harm.

According to Dictionary.com,

Avenge and revenge both imply to inflict pain or harm in return for pain or harm inflicted on oneself or those persons or causes to which one feels loyalty. The two words were formerly interchangeable, but have been differentiated until they now convey widely diverse ideas. Avenge is now restricted to inflicting punishment as an act of retributive justice or as a vindication of propriety: to avenge a murder by bringing the criminal to trial. Revenge implies inflicting pain or harm to retaliate for real or fancied wrongs; a reflexive pronoun is often used with this verb: Iago wished to revenge himself upon Othello.

The Unknown Start-up That Built Google's First Self-Driving Car

IEEE Spectrum

Google has embraced this trend with a vengeance, buying more than 170 companies over the past 13 years. Voice over Internet Protocol, video ...

Umberto Eco once wrote a memorable essay arguing that the Apple Mac was a Catholic device, while the IBM PC was a Protestant one. His reasoning was that, like the Roman church, Apple offered a guaranteed route to salvation – the Apple Way – provided one stuck to it. PC users, on the other hand, had to take personal responsibility for working out their own routes to heaven.
Eco's metaphor applies with a vengeance to the new generations of Apple iDevices, which are rigidly controlled appliances. You may think you own your lovely, shiny new iPhone or iPad, but in reality an invisible virtual string links it back to Apple HQ at One Infinite Loop, Cupertino.該公司總部 地址

Revenge is a dish best served cold

Meaning

Vengeance is more satisfying when exacted in cold blood.

Origin

This proverbial saying certainly gets about a bit - in time and space. It sounds as though it ought to be old, from Shakespeare or the like. Vengeance was a frequent theme of Tudor drama and several authors wrote about it. Francis Bacon coined at least three 'revenge' proverbs:

- Revenge is a kind of wild justice.
- A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
- Revenge triumphs over death

 vengeance
sin that cry to Heaven for vengeance ：呼籲上天懲罰的罪；招天怒之罪：如任意殺人、欺壓孤兒寡婦、剝削勞工等不義之罪，有時會招致天主立即的懲罰。
[名][U][C]（人；事に対する）あだ討ち, 復讐(ふくしゅう)（の機会）, 仕返し((on, upon ...；for ...))

wreak ［inflict］

vengeance
恨みを晴らす

Heaven's vengeance is slow but sure.
((ことわざ)) 天網恢々(かいかい)疎にして漏らさず

He took vengeance on the enemy for killing his family.
彼は敵が家族を殺したのに対し復讐した.

with a vengeance

(1) 強く, 激しく, ひどく

The storm struck with a vengeance.
あらしが激しく吹き荒れた.

(2) 大いに, 非常に, 極度に, 本格的に

The population has increased with a vengeance.
人口が激増した

He had gone native with a vengeance.
すっかり土地の人になりきっていた.

Definition of vengeance in English:

NOUN

[MASS NOUN]

Punishment inflicted or retribution exacted for an injury or wrong:voters are ready to wreak vengeance on all politicians

Origin

Middle English: from Old French, from venger, vengier'avenge', from Latin vindicare 'vindicate'.

Phrases

with a vengeance

1

Used to emphasize the degree to which something occurs or is true:her headache was back with a vengeance

'Revenge spending', appease, pity, permeate, vengeful, with a vengeance, As Trump Returns to Power, Allies and Adversaries Expect a Wave of RevengeWHO poses a global health risk that's more important than appeasing a major donor to the agency

As Trump Returns to Power, Allies and Adversaries Expect a Wave of Revenge

President-elect Trump’s momentary talk of unity may underestimate his resentment after multiple impeachments, investigations, indictments and lawsuits.

'Revenge spending' in China is giving luxury brands some hope

WHO should demand more of China

The coronavirus poses a global health risk that's more important than appeasing a major donor to the agency.

Politics Permeates Anti-Corruption Drive in China
By DAVID BARBOZA
Some critics have wondered if Beijing’s crackdown on executives was an excuse by the Communist Party to eliminate rivals.


The Washington Post leads with a look at how the United States, along with other countries in the Northern Hemisphere are preparing for a second wave of swine flu, which could start hitting with a vengeance in the next few weeks.


Harry Potter and the Vengeful Malware
By BRAD STONE
Spammers are touting free viewings of the new Harry Potter movie online -- and delivering malware instead.

Emma saw his anxiety, and wishing to appease it, at least for the present, said, and with a sincerity which no one could question --
"She is a sort of elegant creature that one cannot keep one's eyes from. I am always watching her to admire; and I do pity her from my heart."


The sale of the appliance business is bound to be emotional for many GE executives and for people in Louisville, Ky., where the business is located. But a sale would fit with Chief Executive Jeffrey Immelt's strategy of shedding slower-growing industrial businesses and focusing on higher-growth technology operations. A sale could also help appease critics who are calling for a more dramatic restructuring of the 120-year-old company, a chorus that grew noisier after GE's surprise first-quarter earnings disappointment and forecast reduction last month.

appease
verb [T] FORMAL DISAPPROVING
to prevent further disagreement in arguments or war by giving to the other side an advantage that they have demanded:
She claimed that the government had only changed the law in order to appease their critics.

appeasement
noun [U]
Appeasement of dictators, said the president, led to wide scale bloodshed.

shed

pity
n., pl. -ies.

1. Sympathy and sorrow aroused by the misfortune or suffering of another.
2. A matter of regret: It's a pity she can't attend the reception.

v., -ied, -y·ing, -ies. v.tr.
To feel pity for.
v.intr.
To feel pity.


vengeful
adj.
Desiring vengeance; vindictive.
Indicating or proceeding from a desire for revenge.
Serving to exact vengeance.
vengefully venge'ful·ly
adv.vengefulness venge'ful·ness n.

vengeance

発音

━━ n. 復讐(ふくしゅう), 仕返し.
take [inflict] vengeance on [upon]　…に復讐する.
with a vengeance　猛烈に, 極端に, 徹底的に.

per·me·ate (pûr'mē-āt')

v., -at·ed, -at·ing, -ates. v.tr.

1. To spread or flow throughout; pervade: “Our thinking is permeated by our historical myths” (Freeman J. Dyson). See synonyms at charge.
2. To pass through the openings or interstices of: liquid permeating a membrane.

v.intr.
To spread through or penetrate something.

[Latin permeāre, permeāt-, to penetrate : per-, through; see per– + meāre, to pass.]

permeant per'me·ant (-ənt) or per'me·a'tive (-ā'tĭv) adj.
permeation per'me·a'tion n.


━━ v. 浸透する, しみ込む; しみ透る; 普及する.
per・me・a・ble
　━━ a. 浸透性の, 浸透される ((by)).
per・me・a・bil・i・ty　n. 浸透性; 【物】導磁性, 透磁率.
per・me・a・tion　━━ n.

clamor, holler, crematorium, cravat, bow-wow, pooch, shortly

Ending of One-Child Policy Sets Off Clamor on Chinese Social Media

The Paris Review


Eeny, meeny, miny, mo

Catch a tiger by the toe

If he hollers, let him go

Eeny meeny miny mo


Losing Count
How do nonsensical counting-out rhymes like these enter the lexicon?
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He hangs in the hall by his black cravat,
The ladies faint, and the children holler:
Only my Daddy could look like that,
And I love my Daddy like he loves his Dollar.

Social-Media Stock Frenzy Fizzles


Investors who six months ago clamored for shares of social-media firms have turned against them with a vengeance as concerns about the sector mount.







The cravat is a neckband, the forerunner of the modern tailored necktie and bow tie, originating from 17th-century Croatia.[2]


bow-wow ,pooch, clamor, shortly


Last week, I sent an e-mail to a friend who had just lost his job. “I'm so sorry,” I wrote. “Your bosses are morons to have got rid of such a genius as you. I can only suppose a queue will shortly stretch round the block as less brain-dead employers clamour to take you on. Hope you are OK.”
The e-mail was heartfelt except for one word, and that was “shortly”.

clamour UK, US clamor
verb [I]
to make a loud complaint or demand:
The children were all clamouring for attention.
[+ to infinitive] She clamours to go home as soon as she gets to school.

clamour UK, US clamor
noun [S or U]
1 a loud complaint about something or a demand for something:
After the bombing, there was a public clamour for vengeance.

2 FORMAL loud noise, especially made by people's voices:
the clamour of the city
a clamour of voices



shortly
adverb
1 soon:
We will shortly be arriving in King's Cross Station.

2 shortly after/before sth a short time after or before something:
Shortly after you left, a man came into the office looking for you.
The noun bow-wow has 2 meanings:
Meaning #1: the bark of a dog
Meaning #2: informal terms for dogs
Synonyms: pooch, doggie, doggy, barker
n.

1. 1. The bark of a dog.
   2. Informal. A dog.
2. Outcry; clamor.
3. An overbearing manner.

adj.
Commanding, especially in an arrogant manner; overbearing.

[Imitative.]

pooch
noun [C] INFORMAL MAINLY HUMOROUS
a dog:
a pampered pooch
a big cuddly/cute little pooch

Spa puts the wow in bow-wow
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BY NANCY NGO. Like their children, Belinda and Raymond Salden of Burnsville want only the best for their pooch, Nike. So they were ...

cre·ma·to·ri·um (krē'mə-tôr'ē-əm, -tōr'-) n., pl., -to·ri·ums, or -to·ri·a (-tôr'ē-ə, -tōr'-).
A furnace or establishment for the incineration of corpses.

holler

verb
To speak or say very loudly or with a shout: bawl, bellow, bluster, call, clamor, cry, halloo, roar, shout, vociferate, whoop, yawp, yell.


clamor[clam・or]

• レベル：社会人必須
• 発音記号[klǽmər]

[名][U]((またa 〜))

1 （要求・抗議・不満などの）熱烈な叫び, わめき, 怒号

the clamor against foreign intervention
外国からの干渉に反対する声.

2 （群衆などの）大きな叫び, どよめき.

3 （楽器・瀑布(ばくふ)・あらし・交通などの）大きな騒音, 騒々しい音；（鳥獣の）騒がしい鳴き声

a clamor of bells
ベルのけたたましい音.

━━[動](自)（賛否を）叫ぶ, 騒ぎ立てる((for, against ...))；［II to do］（…するよう）やかましく要求する

clamor for higher wages
賃上げを叫ぶ

clamor against the government's policy
政府の政策にやかましく反対する

The soldiers were clamoring to go home.
兵士たちは帰還させろと騒ぎ立てていた.

━━(他)

1 〈人に〉やかましく言って（…）させる((into ...))；うるさく騒いで〈人を〉（…から）追い出す((out of ...))

The conservatives clamored the radicals out of office.
保守派は騒ぎ立てて急進派を退陣させた.

2 ［III[名]/that節］〈演説者に〉どなる；…をやかましく言い立てる, 〈…と〉うるさく言う

clamor one's demands
要求をがなり立てる

The audience clamored that he should stop speaking.
聴衆は彼に話をやめろとわめき立てた.

［ラテン語clāmāre（叫ぶ）＋-OR¹＝叫んでいる状態. △CLAIM］

premised, premises, nuanced, FTTP. As the former President continues a 2024 campaign premised mostly on vengeance, it will become increasingly difficult, Kirkpatrick notes, for Johnson “to square his decorous Christian persona with his support for Trump.”

The two men could hardly appear more different, yet Johnson has found ways of praising the former President while gesturing vaguely toward a kind of distance between them. (Contrasting his views on immigration slightly with Trump’s, he says, “We build walls because we love the people on the inside.”) As the former President continues a 2024 campaign premised mostly on vengeance, it will become increasingly difficult, Kirkpatrick notes, for Johnson “to square his decorous Christian persona with his support for Trump.” For now, Johnson is emphasizing their shared political goals. But, as Kirkpatrick points out, “Saying that you admire Trump for his policies . . . recalls the way men used to say that they read Playboy for the articles.”

Kraft Heinz is a supersized version of much of corporate America's recent strategy—a mania for deals in mature industries, premised on debt and austerity


When Management by Objectives was first introduced by Peter Drucker, the premise was to have employees establish their own goals and then discuss ...

During what Dikotter calls “The Black Years” from 1968 to 1971, the Cultural Revolution moved to the countryside, as former Red Guards were rusticated by the millions to “learn from” the peasants and prepare for war with the Soviet Union along the border. Dikotter describes the experience as an unremittingly terrible time of suffering, hunger, rape and abuse. Yet the rustification movement has produced hundreds of Chinese-language memoirs, many of which testify that for some young people, the time in the country­side was more nuanced or even bittersweet than he indicates. The rusticated youth, arguably, helped China to break with its Maoist past, for they later became known as the “awakened generation” and the “thoughtful generation” as they gradually inherited the leadership of the country. Their experiences in the countryside gave them the chance to re-evaluate the very premises of the revolution.

在馮客稱之為「黑色年代」的1968年至1971年間，隨着數百萬原紅衛兵上山下鄉接受農民的「再教育」，同時為在邊境與蘇聯打仗做好準備，文革轉移到了鄉下。馮客把這個階段描述為，經歷了持續不斷的痛苦、飢餓、強姦和虐待。不過，上山下鄉運動產生了數百部中文的回憶錄，其中有許多表明，對於一些年輕人來說，那段農村經歷比馮客的描述要複雜得多，甚至是苦樂參半的。可以說，參加過上山下鄉的青年人幫助中國與過去的毛澤東時代決裂，因為隨着他們逐漸繼承了國家的領導權，這些人後來被稱為「覺醒的一代」和「思考的一代」。他們在農村的經歷，為重新評估文革前提這個根本問題提供了機會。

--書評
馮客(Frank Dikötter)著《文化大革命：一部人民的歷史，1962-1976》(The Cultural Revolution: A People』s History, 1962-1976)。
http://cn.nytimes.com/china/20160509/c09shapiro/zh-hant/

HC譯評：黑體字
more nuanced 更微妙，非"更複雜"
the very premises of the revolution 文革的理論基礎 ，非"前提這個根本問題"。

premise Show phonetics
noun [C]
an idea or theory on which a statement or action is based:
[+ that] They had started with the premise that all men are created equal.
The research project is based on the premise stated earlier.

premise Show phonetics
verb [T] FORMAL
to base a theory, argument, etc. on an idea, thought, or belief:
He premised his argument on several incorrect assumptions.



E Corporation offers a broad portfolio of compound semiconductor- based products for the broadband, fiber optic, satellite and solar power markets. E's Fiber Optic segment offers optical components, subsystems and systems for high speed data and telecommunications networks, cable television (CATV) and fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP).

Whispering Pines Bed and Breakfast in Dellroy, Ohio, where rooms are outfitted in antique furnishings, recently started offering a Guys Getaway package that includes $10 coupons for a nearby clay pigeon shooting range, boat rentals and dinner at a local restaurant. And the six-room Forty Putney Road in Brattleboro, Vt., has its own pub on the premises.

prem·ise (prĕm'ĭs) 

n. also prem·iss (prĕm'ĭs)

1. A proposition upon which an argument is based or from which a conclusion is drawn.
2. Logic.
   1. One of the propositions in a deductive argument.
   2. Either the major or the minor proposition of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is drawn.
3. premises Law. The preliminary or explanatory statements or facts of a document, as in a deed.
4. premises
   1. Land and the buildings on it.
   2. A building or part of a building.

v., -ised, -is·ing, -is·es. v.tr.

1. To state in advance as an introduction or explanation.
2. To state or assume as a proposition in an argument.

v.intr.
To make a premise.

[Middle English premisse, from Old French, from Medieval Latin praemissa (propositiō), (the proposition) put before, premise, from Latin, feminine past participle of praemittere, to set in front : prae-, pre- + mittere, to send.]

WORD HISTORY Why do we call a single building the premises? To answer this question, we must go back to the Middle Ages. But first, let it be noted that premises comes from the past participle praemissa, which is both a feminine singular and a neuter plural form of the Latin verb praemittere, "to send in advance, utter by way of preface, place in front, prefix." In Medieval Latin the feminine form praemissa was used as a term in logic, for which we still use the term premise descended from the Medieval Latin word (first recorded in a work composed before 1380). Medieval Latin praemissa in the plural meant "things mentioned before" and was used in legal documents, almost always in the plural, a use that was followed in Old French and Middle English, both of which borrowed the word from Latin. A more specific legal sense in Middle English, "that property, collectively, which is specified in the beginning of a legal document and which is conveyed, as by grant," was also always in the plural in Middle English and later Modern English. And so it remained when this sense was extended to mean "a house or building with its grounds or appurtenances," a usage first recorded before 1730.

premises 
plural noun
the land and buildings owned by someone, especially by a company or organization:
The company is relocating to new premises.
There is no smoking allowed anywhere on school premises.
The ice cream is made on the premises (= in the building where it is sold).
The security guards escorted the protesters off (= away from) the premises.

scourge, afflict, mobilization, immobilize, overstretched, malnutrition, Medieval 'Black Death' mass grave uncovered

The Moscow Patriarch had repeatedly bestowed blessings on the Russian military, giving a historical golden icon of the Virgin Mary to a senior commander, for example, and casting the war as a holy struggle to protect Russia from what he called Western scourges like gay pride parades. He has been a vocal supporter of President Vladimir V. Putin, with the church receiving vast financial resources in return.

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Omicron Mobilization

The U.S. is behind on the variant. President Biden offers his plan today.

By DAVID LEONHARDT

A newly discovered mass grave for victims of the Medieval illness sheds light on the scourge that killed nearly half of England



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Medieval 'Black Death' mass grave uncovered in the English countryside

On this day 1849 Anne Brontë dies of the family scourge, tuberculosis, in Scarborough, Yorkshire. She is just 29 years old.

After Surviving Opioids, She Went After the Makers

By COLIN MOYNIHAN

Nan Goldin, a photographer who kicked her OxyContin addiction, fights on the front lines against the scourge that recalls H.I.V. And she has begun to draw a response.

Taiwan Mobilizes Army to Search Rubble After Earthquake


The first editorial on the front page of the The New York Times since 1920 has angrily attacked the 'moral outrage and national disgrace' that is the country's 'scourge of guns': "America’s elected leaders offer prayers for gun victims and then, callously and without fear of consequence, reject the most basic restrictions on weapons of mass killing."


Gun control: New York Times runs front page editorial for first time since 1920
Newspaper runs its first page-one editorial since 1920 in wake of San…
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Karl Marx would have seen Cromwell as a classic example of the new bourgeoisie. Mantel draws a contrast between the fanatically devout Thomas More and the worldly wise Cromwell: the one settling in for a day’s scourging, the other off to get the day’s exchange rate in the City’s Lombard Street, where all the big banking houses had their home.

The scourge of high unemployment is often put down to workers' inadequate skills or overgenerous welfare states. But what if geography dictates that people simply can't get to new jobs?

The geography of joblessness

IN THE OECD, a club mostly of rich countries, nearly 45m people are unemployed. Of these, 16m have been seeking work for over a year. Many put this apparently...

ECON.ST

Today's #Dailychart is The Economist's interactive guide to the world's housing markets. Buoyed by government schemes the British market is picking up even though its fundamentals, unlike America's, suggest continued overvaluation. House prices are falling in Japan and much of the euro area. Outside Europe, Canada's market looks particularly vulnerable to a housing bust owing to particularly overstretched valuations http://econ.st/17oiQVu

Profiles in Science

Another Scourge in His Sights

By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.

Dr. Donald R. Hopkins helped eradicate smallpox, and as vice president for health programs at the Carter Center, he is targeting Guinea worm disease in Africa.

F.D.A. Approves Drug to Treat Hospital Scourge


In IQ: A Smart History of a Failed Idea, the first popular history of the intelligence test, Stephen Murdoch reveals how universal education, mass immigration into the U.S. in the early 20th century and the demands of mobilization in the First World War created the need to rank populations by intelligence. In the following decades, the tests were used to decide whether people could settle in a new country, whether they could reproduce, even whether they lived or died. What has only ever been a rough guide to ability has, through the seductive power of a single, all-explaining number, come to be seen as an objective and infallible measure of intelligence, even of human merit. One of the most startling aspects of the story is just how often the exams are still used today. IQ is published by John Wiley and Sons in the US and Duckworth in the UK.



As Indian Growth Soars, Child Hunger Persists
By SOMINI SENGUPTA
Malnutrition is worse in India than in many sub-Saharan African countries, a paradox in a proud democracy.


Reserve units are meant to be sent overseas, although only for limited periods in national emergencies or as part of full-scale wartime mobilizations. Most reservists, like Guard members, have civilian jobs and family economic responsibilities. Their units are generally the last in line for getting new equipment and maintaining combat readiness.

These prolonged deployments have dealt another blow to communities. In civilian life, many Guard and Reserve members serve as police officers, firefighters and emergency medics. When they are mobilized to help out the overstretched active-duty Army, they are not available to respond to emergencies at home.

Woes Afflicting Mortgage Giants Raise Loan Rates
By VIKAS BAJAJ The troubles at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could deal another blow to the housing market, as higher interest rates make it harder to refinance existing debts.


He mobilized the young enthusiasts who helped nominate Mr. Goldwater in 1964 and saw his dreams fulfilled when Mr. Reagan and the Bushes captured the Oval Office.
President Bush said Wednesday that Mr. Buckley “brought conservative thought into the political mainstream, and helped lay the intellectual foundation for America’s victory in the Cold War.”
To Mr. Buckley’s enormous delight, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., the historian, termed him “the scourge of liberalism.”

to scourge the universe

scourge (skûrj)  

NOUN1

historical A whip used as an instrument of punishment.

Example sentencesSynonyms

2A person or thing that causes great trouble or suffering:the scourge of mass unemployment

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VERB [WITH OBJECT]

1historical Whip (someone) as a punishment:our people did scourge him severely

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2Cause great suffering to:political methods used to scourge and oppress workers

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Derivatives

scourger

Pronunciation: /ˈskəːdʒə/ 

NOUN ( historical)

Example sentences

Origin

Middle English: shortening of Old French escorge (noun), escorgier (verb), from Latin ex-'thoroughly' + corrigia 'thong, whip'.

n.

1. A source of widespread dreadful affliction and devastation such as that caused by pestilence or war.
2. A means of inflicting severe suffering, vengeance, or punishment.
3. A whip used to inflict punishment.

tr.v., scourged, scourg·ing, scourg·es.

1. To afflict with severe or widespread suffering and devastation; ravage.
2. To chastise severely; excoriate.
3. To flog.

[Middle English, from Anglo-Norman escorge, from Old French escorgier, to whip, from Vulgar Latin *excorrigiāre : Latin ex-, intensive pref.; see ex- + Latin corrigia, thong (probably of Celtic origin).]

scourger scourg'er n.

scourge

(skûrj) 

━━ n. むち; 天罰, 災害; 悩みの種.
━━ vt. むち打つ; 罰する; ひどく苦しめる.
n.

1. A source of widespread dreadful affliction and devastation such as that caused by pestilence or war.
2. A means of inflicting severe suffering, vengeance, or punishment.
3. A whip used to inflict punishment.

tr.v., scourged, scourg·ing, scourg·es.

1. To afflict with severe or widespread suffering and devastation; ravage.
2. To chastise severely; excoriate.
3. To flog.

[Middle English, from Anglo-Norman escorge, from Old French escorgier, to whip, from Vulgar Latin *excorrigiāre : Latin ex-, intensive pref.; see ex– + Latin corrigia, thong (probably of Celtic origin).]

[名]

1 ((ふつう単数形))苦しみをもたらすもの［人］, 不幸のもと, 社会悪

the scourge of war
戦 争という悪

Rats are not always a scourge.
ネズミは悪いことばかりしているわけではない.

2 むち；((比喩))天罰, たたり.

━━[動](他)((し ばしば受身))

1 …をむちで打つ.

2 ((文))…をきびしく罰する.

3 …を苦しめる, 悩ませる

She was scourgeed by her past follies.
過去の愚行に苦しんだ.

afflict

verb [T]
If a problem or illness afflicts a person or thing, they suffer from it:
It is an illness which afflicts women more than men.
a country afflicted by civil war

affliction
noun [C or U] FORMAL
something that makes you suffer:
Malnutrition is one of the common afflictions of the poor.

mobilize, UK ALSO mobilise
verb
1 [T] to organize or prepare something, such as a group of people, for a purpose:
Representatives for all the main candidates are trying to mobilize voter support.

2 [I or T] to prepare to fight, especially in a war:
The government has mobilized several of the army's top combat units.
Troops have been mobilising for the past three weeks.

mobilization, UK ALSO mobilisation Show phonetics
noun [U]

immobilize	(verb) To hold fast or prevent from moving.
Synonyms:	pin, trap
Usage:	The police officer was able to immobilize the violent suspect and hold him in place long enough for another cop to assist in handcuffing him.

overstretch

v., -stretched, -stretch·ing, -stretch·es. v.tr.

1. To stretch excessively; overstrain.
2. To stretch or extend over.

v.intr.
To stretch one's body or muscles to the point of strain or injury.

overstretch

Syllabification: (o·ver·stretch)

Pronunciation: /ˌōvərˈstreCH/

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verb

[with object] (often as adjective overstretched)

• 1stretch too much:the aches and pains of overstretched muscles

2make excessive demands on:classes are very large and facilities are overstretched

malnutrition Show phonetics
noun [U]
physical weakness and bad health caused by a lack of food, or by a lack of the types of food necessary for good health:營養不良
Many of the refugees are suffering from severe malnutrition.