Forthycause's List: News & Articles

• beaming regular
• airborne

  • carried through the air　ex) airborne pollutants
• With the cool cat away, the mendacious mouse would play
• ladled

  • 《구어》 〈돈·선물 등을〉 무차별로[무턱대고] 주다 《out》 《ladle+목+부》 ladle out praise 찬사를 마구 보내다 
• bonhomie

  • bon|ho|mie /b'ɒnəmi/[N-UNCOUNT]Bonhomie is happy, good-natured friendliness. (FORMAL)He was full of bonhomie.
    쾌활
• served up chestnuts
• if slightly patronizing,
• glided away from
• intransigence

  • If you talk about someone's intransigence, you mean that they refuse to behave differently or to change their attitude to something. (FORMAL)He often appeared angry and frustrated by the intransigence of both sides.≠ flexibility
• salience

  • the salient points or features of something are the most important or most noticeable parts of it　the salient points of the report
• malleable

  • mal|le|able /m'æliəbəl/1 [ADJ]If you say that someone is malleable, you mean that they are easily influenced or controlled by other people. (WRITTEN)She was young enough to be malleable.2 [ADJ]A substance that is malleable is soft and can easily be made into different shapes.Silver is the most malleable of all metals.≠ rigid

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• disbursements
• made astonishing progress over the past decade,
• the momentum can be maintained at a time when donations are falling
• thanks to a vigorous effort by
• antiretroviral drugs
• disbursement

  • 정산서
• disbursements
• A pivotal study
• upfront costs of treating everyone
• in the long run
• 

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• The battle to slow the global AIDS epidemic has made astonishing progress over the past decade
• whether the momentum can be maintained at a time when
• the epidemic could be stopped in its tracks.
• thanks to a vigorous effort by donor nations
• Most are likely to live near-normal lives.
• disbursements by donor nations declined.
• A pivotal study found that
• the United States and other far-sighted donors
• cut costs with common-sense reforms

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• we take you to new frontiers of heart research.
• After decades of trial and error, surgeons remain stymied in their quest for a machine that doesn't wear out, break down or cause clots or infections.
• If you hooked her up to an EKG, she'd be flat-lined.
• amyloidosis
• he dabbled in woodworking, metalsmithing and what Linda calls general piddling around.
• Linda says her husband appreciated how the doctors cobbled together the pulse-less heart from various materials.
• we machined that goes on here
• ventricular assist devices
• ventricles
• pulsatile circulation.
• Amyloidosis
• His doctors say the pumps themselves worked flawlessly.

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• With just half a year to go, it will be a stretch for the near-bankrupt dictatorship to overcome the misrule continuing under his son, Kim Jong Il.
• signal the start of a big change for the stricken country.
• Both are to be developed with Chinese support and then run along broadly market-driven lines
• Hopes that North Korea was about to change have been raised before, only to be dashed
• Then mismanagement and poor infrastructure put paid to early hopes
• gamble away public funds.
• It too came to naught, when
• badly burned by
• owever impoverished it renders ordinary folk.
• Mr Kim will resent greater Chinese influence.
• But should Chinese-style capitalism gain greater traction in North Korea,

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• We might have had to endure a future of press conferences dogged by the very loud heckler who, throughout the press conference in which the Congressman announced his resignation
• raunchier

• outflank

  • The government has outflanked the opposition by cutting taxes.

  • 측면을 포위하다..을 선수하다, 허를 찌르다
• raving mad
• blithe

  • blithe /bl'aɪð/[ADJ] usu ADJ nYou use blithe to indicate that something is done casually, without serious or careful thought.It does so with blithe disregard for best scientific practice.● blithely [ADV] ADV with v, ADV adjYour editorial blithely ignores the hard facts...

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• falling down a rabbit hole

• in tatters
• at odds with

• take a bite out of
• stand up for
• recoup
• overdraft
• price signaling
• collusion
• That will slow revenue growth, but it is the price of a more stable system
• feeds the air of skepticism.
• there is no substitute for transparency

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• a company on the rise
• plummeted 35 percent to $77 a share.
• angry outcry on the Internet
• be spun off
• rolled out
• its tank
• had to do with the fact that
• signaled a bigger lack of confidence
• ditching Netflix entirely.
• I live and breathe in that industry
• the market is so fragmented
• Maybe it will be companies actually that have their fingers and their toes in a lot of those spaces, like Apple and Amazon
• It's still the 800-pound gorilla in this space.
• So competition is
• encroaching in their space,

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• shuttered its factory
• offset the pain felt by laid-off workers

• galvanized attention
• indolent

  •  Wanting to avoid activity or exertion; lazy
• nobody pulls the teeth out of it

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• in passing
• in an effort to
• I had to laugh to myself:
• and a great battle ensued
• extract itself from Iraq and Afghanistan
• it is worth re-reading
• how utterly ungreat this game has been in retrospect.
• It is with this bias
• a decision that has been greeted with much huffing and puffing from hawkish Republicans

  • • informal disapproving to complain loudly and express disapprovalThey huffed and puffed about the price but eventually they paid up.

  • • informal disapproving to complain loudly and express disapprovalThey huffed and puffed about the price but eventually they paid up.
• shenanigans

  • Secret or dishonest activity or maneuvering
• puppeteer

  •  A person who works puppets
• lackey

  • A servant, esp. a liveried footman or manservant
• disenfranchised

  • Deprive (someone) of the right to vote
• hold off

  • hold off on producing the product (출처: 동아 프라임 영한사전)제품 생산을 미루다
• is at its lowest moment of influence in the region
• bottom-up blend of Islam and modernity.
• Just as I don’t buy the notion that we need to keep playing The Great Game in Iraq, I also don’t buy it for Afghanistan.
• tilt the balance

  • The conditions may tilt the balance in favour of the Kenyan runners.
• cost-efficient ways to influence
• We need to better leverage the natural competitions in this region to our ends.
• We need to better leverage the natural competitions in this region

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