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2017.11.08

• flout the rules 无视规则
  Campaigners fear the rules are sometimes flouted.

2017.11.16

• To get this wrong—to misdiagnose insolvency as illiquidity—risks pumping resources (liquidity) into a black hole. It’s bailing out a boat with a hole much bigger than your buckets.
• Neither am I saying that the plan will work—skeptics abound.

2017.11.17

• leading five health risks
• It contributed to nearly 8% of all deaths worldwide.
• pulmonary /ˈpʌlmənərɪ/ 肺的 ...respiratory and pulmonary disease.
• It is justifiably called ... 名副其实

2017.11.18

• supremacist /sʊˈprɛməsɪst/ ...a white supremacist group.
• They complain that Twitter is subjecting them to political discrimination.

2017.11.19
特朗普早就宣布美国退出《巴黎气候协议》。这次波恩气候大会上，美国出现了“分裂”的代表团：一个是美国政府派出的一支小队伍；另一个是阵容强大的“民间代表团”，仅商界代表就有630余人，这让不到50人的美国政府代表团相形见绌。

• But the large coalition of US cities and states backing climate action – which as a group represents the third-largest economy in the world – stole the American show, with the California governor, Jerry Brown, popping up everywhere, pumping up the crowds.

2017.11.22

• close the EPA’s office
• This plan now appears to have been shelved. 搁置

2017.11.23
least affected by

2017.11.24

• Some in civil society fear they will negotiate harder for political positions than for commitments to the structural measures.
• overhaul of the register of voters
• reform of the repressive cyber-security regime

2017.11.26

• drug deals
• ransom payments

2017.11.27

• No one is proposing mainlining it in the manner of Honoré de Balzac; the novelist boasted that he drank up to 50 cups a day. Nor, as spoilsport researchers remind us, will an accompanying cake improve our health. 扫兴者
• mainline

2017.12.29

• Better quality products cost more upfront but often save you money in the long run.
• Legal aid cuts have led to increased spending in the long run because court disputes take months to resolve.
• The unintended consequence of the government’s austerity programme has been to drive up demand for [child protection] services.

2017.12.2

• combine employment and motherhood
• we can find succour in women’s history, which reminds us that in the 19th century ...

2017.12.3

• policymakers could still claim that global temperatures will be brought back within acceptable limits eventually.

2017.12.4

• a uniform migration system with no regional flexibility will fail to meet the different labour and demographic needs around the country after Brexit.

2017.12.5

• Nearly two decades later, the Scottish Green MSP Alison Johnstone is seeking to introduce a bill to tighten the ban on fox hunting in Scotland. That’s right; at the end of a year in which food bank usage reached record levels, the educational attainment gap was as wide as ever教育程度依然天差地别 and Scotland’s largest city was yet again revealed to be the UK’s unhealthiest, the Scottish Greens kept their crown as the nation’s most irrelevant political party.

2017.12.6

• more pressing issues
• A quarter of the world’s land is used for grazing them.
• eructation 打嗝喷出
• convincing people to put different things on their plates
• Human consumption of fish has now overtaken that of beef, and aquaculture accounts for half of all the fish people eat.
• But almost 90% of wild stocks are fished either at or beyond their sustainable limits.
• Efforts to reduce the amount of fish meal used in aquaculture have already paid dividends.
• The idea of chomping on more bugs and eating lab-grown meat may capture the imagination. But the path to food sustainability also runs through animals’ stomachs.