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什麼是「 a heavy hand」?
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1. America’s Friends Express Horror and Shock as Capitol Attack ‘Shakes the World’
美國大廈暴動事件,美國盟友深感震驚
•express horror 表達恐懼;驚恐
•shock 令人震驚的事件(或經歷);驚愕,震驚
•attack on the Capitol 對美國國會大廈襲擊
•shake the world 震動世界
英文報導: http://nyti.ms/3bgPC3d
中文報導: http://bit.ly/2MB3OJX
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2. With Mass Arrests, Beijing Exerts an Increasingly Heavy Hand in Hong Kong
香港大規模逮捕後,北京政府強硬施壓
•mass arrests 大規模逮捕
•exert 運用;行使(權威、權力等);施加(影響等)
•a heavy hand (n.) 高壓手段,強硬措施 ; heavy-handed (adj.) 嚴厲的,粗暴的,高壓的*
中英報導: http://nyti.ms/35gYfqJ
*a heavy hand: http://bit.ly/38lQ921
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3. A Quarantine Nightmare: Three Weeks in a Hotel, if You Can Find One
隔離夢魘:住在旅館三個禮拜,如果找得到的話
•quarantine (n./v.) 隔離
•nightmare 惡夢
英文報導: http://nyti.ms/3oomf2y
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4. After Quick Vaccine Success, Israel Faces New Virus Woes
疫苗的快速成功之後,以色列卻迎來新病毒困境
•a quick success (n.) 迅速的成功
•face (v.) 面對,面臨,必須對付(難題)
•woes [ plural ] 困難;災難;不幸
英文報導: http://nyti.ms/3bkzBt1
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📣 In times of crisis, we must come together. Rather than succumb to cynicism and mistrust, let us maintain faith and embrace reason, truth, and love.
📣 我們應該要團結,讓我們維持信心、保持理性、真理並且用愛克服當前危機,而非被自私、相互不信任所屈服!
•in times of crisis 在危機時期
•come together 團結; 一起來; 合作完成*
•rather than 而不是**
•succumb to 屈服於
•cynicism and mistrust 憤世嫉俗和不信任
•maintain faith 維持信心
•embrace (v.) 欣然接受; 抱,擁抱
*come together: http://bit.ly/35iXfCj
**rather than: http://bit.ly/3qwPsd4
圖片出處: https://www.nytimes.com/section/world
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Here are some interesting words: "infection", "bacteria", "virus", "microbe", "antibiotics" and "antibiotic resistance".
If anything destroys the human race before climate change, it might well be antibiotic resistance. This is in the UK news at the moment, because when we leave the European Union we will probably have to make a new trade deal with the US, where standards for food production are much lower. One of the problems, besides chlorinated chickens and hormone-injected cows, is the use of antibiotics. So I thought we could look at some relevant vocabulary.
Here we go...
Infections (illnesses caused by the body being invaded by organisms) are mainly caused by two types of microbe (tiny organism): bacteria and viruses.
"Bacteria" is the plural, by the way; the singular is "bacterium" but it's almost never used.
Viral infections range from AIDS to flu and the common cold. Bacterial infections include tuberculosis and tetanus, as well as most types of food poisoning. On the other hand, many bacteria cause no harm, and some are essential. In fact we need lots of bacteria in our gut to help us digest food.
Just to confuse matters, some infections can be caused by either bacteria or viruses, including pneumonia and diarrhoea.
Antibiotics are medicines designed to kill bacteria. As the name suggests, they don't work on viruses. Antibiotics changed the world, saving us from many diseases that once would have killed us. Like pretty much all medicines, they can have negative side effects. One of these is that they can damage the good bacteria in your gut, often causing diarrhoea.
But that's not the scary thing. Bacteria can evolve* quickly and learn how not to be killed by an antibiotic. This is called antibiotic resistance. It means that, unless there's a major advance in science, at some point in the near future, antibiotics will probably stop working.
One of the things that encourages antibiotic resistance is the misuse of antibiotics. Giving them to animals or people that don't actually need them gives the bacteria lots of opportunities to evolve and develop their antibiotic resistance. And that's really scary.
*"Evolve": develop over successive generations. For example, humans evolved from apes. Can also be used to mean "develop" in a more general sense.
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It should be left out of the regexp (line 50, starting with '/(alumn|bacill|cact' etc) since the correct English plural of virus is viruses, so ... ... <看更多>
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