#Old Stimson's

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He’s an Australian Stimson's Python, a boy, a two years old! He’s a bit special. He tried to eat the glass the other day 😔 But he likes his mice and he’s very long… 🐍

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Rare 350 Million-Year-Old Tree Fossils Has Scientists ‘Gobsmacked’

Rare tree fossils preserved with their leaves have an architecture unlike any plant known today and represent the earliest evidence of smaller trees growing beneath the forest canopy.

Trees are believed to have originated hundreds of millions of years ago. Ever since, evidence of these ancient plant sentinels has been in short supply.

Now, a new discovery of uniquely 3D tree fossils has opened a window into what the world was like when the planet’s early forests were beginning to evolve, expanding our understanding of the architecture of trees throughout Earth’s history.

Five tree fossils buried alive by an earthquake 350 million years ago were found in a quarry in the Canadian province of New Brunswick, according to a study published Friday in the journal Current Biology. The authors said these new and unusual fossil trees not only bear a surprising shape reminiscent of a Dr. Seuss illustration, they reveal clues about a period of life on Earth of which we know little.

“They are time capsules,” said Robert Gastaldo, a paleontologist and sedimentologist who led the study, “literally little windows into deep-time landscapes and ecosystems.”

Coauthors Olivia King and Matthew Stimson unearthed the first of the ancient trees in 2017 while doing fieldwork in a rock quarry in New Brunswick. One of the specimens they discovered is among a handful of cases in the entire plant fossil record — spanning more than 400 million years — in which a tree’s branches and crown leaves are still attached to its trunk.

Few tree fossils that date back to Earth’s earliest forests have ever been found, according to Gastaldo. Their discovery helps fill in some missing pieces of an incomplete fossil record.

“There are only five or six trees that we can document, at least in the Paleozoic, that were preserved with its crown intact,” said Gastaldo, a professor of geology at Colby College in Waterville, Maine.

Most ancient tree specimens are relatively small, he noted, and often discovered in the form of a fossilized trunk with a stump or root system attached. For his colleagues to find a preserved tree that could have been 15 feet tall in its maturity with an 18-foot diameter crown left the paleontologist “gobsmacked.”

Ancient earthquake burial

The researchers excavated the first fossil tree about seven years ago, but it took another few years before four more specimens of the same plant were found in close proximity to one another. Dubbed “Sanfordiacaulis,” the newly identified species was named in honor of Laurie Sanford, the owner of the quarry where the trees were unearthed.

The forms taken by these previously unknown 350 million-year-old plants look somewhat like a modern-day fern or palm, per the study, despite the fact that those tree species didn’t appear until 300 million years later. But while the tops of ferns or palms as we know them boast few leaves, the most complete specimen of the newly discovered fossils has more than 250 leaves preserved around its trunk, with each partially preserved leaf extending around 5.7 feet (1.7 meters).

That fossil is encased in a sandstone boulder and roughly the size of a small car, according to Stimson, an assistant curator of geology and paleontology at the New Brunswick Museum.

The unique fossilization of the cluster of trees is likely due to a “catastrophic” earthquake-induced landslide that took place in an ancient rift lake, he said.

“These trees were alive when the earthquake happened. They were buried very quickly, very rapidly after that, at the bottom of the lake, and then the lake (went) back to normal,” Stimson said.

Finding complete fossil trees is rare and much less common than finding a complete dinosaur, according to Peter Wilf, a professor of geosciences and paleobotanist at Pennsylvania State University who was not involved with the study. Wilf noted via email that the “unusual” new fossil tree was a relic of a time period from which there are almost no tree fossils.

“The new fossils are a milestone in our understanding of how early forest structure evolved, eventually leading to the complex rainforest architectures that support most of Earth’s living biodiversity,” Wilf added.

‘Very Dr. Seuss’

To King, a research associate at the New Brunswick Museum who found the group of fossils, the Sanfordiacaulis would have looked like something plucked straight out of Dr. Seuss’ most popular works.

“You know in ‘The Lorax,’ the trees have these big pom-poms at the top and narrow trunks? These probably have a similar structure. You have this massive crown at the top, and then it does narrow and paper into this very small trunk,” King said. “It’s a very Dr. Seuss-looking tree. It’s a weird and wonderful idea of what this thing could look like.”

But the reign of the Sanfordiacaulis was short-lived, the researchers said. “We do not see this architecture of plant again,” Stimson said. He noted that it grew in the early Carboniferous, a time period at the end of the Paleozoic Era when plants and animals were diversifying as they started to make their way from water to land.

Much of evolution is experimental, with success often measured by a species’ versatility, or ability to adapt to many different places and conditions. The peculiar set of tree fossils presents proof of a “failed experiment of science and evolution,” Stimson added. “We’re really starting to paint that picture as to what life was like 350 million years ago.”

Looking forward

Fossils such as the Sanfordiacaulis are not just useful in helping humans understand how life changed in the past, they can help scientists figure out where life on our planet might be headed next.

The existence of this particular species suggests that trees of the period were starting to occupy different ecological niches beyond what was previously understood, according to the researchers behind its discovery.

Gastaldo sees this as an indication that plants — much like early invertebrates — were experimenting with how they adapted to the environment. The earthquake that likely led to the trees’ fossilization also offers new geological evidence of what may have been occurring in Earth’s systems at the same moment in time.

“This is really the first evidence we have of (a tree) that would be between what grows on the ground and what would tower way above the ground,” Gastaldo said. “What else was there?”

By Ayurella Horn-Muller.

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New Elite, Chapter 2

Was this supposed to be out last week? Yes. So... sorry. Mental health decided to be a bitch. So, I won't waste any more of your time and let you get on with the chapter.

The following week passed by in a blur, and before you knew it, Nellie was waking you up on the morning of your debutante. You take in a deep, shuddering breath and she draws the curtains back, letting in streams of sunlight. You didn’t feel ready, but that did not matter. Ready or not, you had to do this.

“What perfume would you like for today, miss?” Nellie asks as she bustles about. “I know it’s not something we usually use, but seeing as it’s such a special occasion, I don’t think your mother would object.”

“Rose,” you decide after little consideration. It was a comforting scent to you, and in no way scandalous, so your mother had no reason to disapprove. “But Nellie, isn’t it a little early to apply a scent? It’s only morning.”

“I’m going to iron your dress with it, miss,” she explains. “It’s mostly already finished, it won’t take long now, but we really want that scent to stick with you all night. You best be getting along to breakfast now, you know your mother doesn’t like it when you dawdle.” She tweaks your nose affectionately before dressing you for the morning. You don’t pay much attention to the attire she selects. You’ll be changed out soon enough anyway.

All throughout your meal, your mother prattles on and on about what you’re to do and how you’re to behave yet again, nearly causing you a headache.

“Remember, the first thing you’re to do is speak with Mr. and Mrs. Dix, and congratulate him on his election as governor,” she’s saying for the umpteenth time that week. As if you could forget. This whole part happened to the celebration for Mr. Dix being elected as governor, and it also happened to be the first major event for New York society after you turned eighteen. In old times, your family would have had to have hosted your debutante themselves, but such customs weren’t standard anymore. And according to your mother, you couldn’t have asked for a better event to come out at. All of New York society was sure to be there.

As far as you were concerned, however, you would have taken any other event. Even though this was a political outing, it would largely be attended bipartisan; it would be considered an insult to not come. Even Mr. Stimson, Mr. Dix’s opponent, was invited as a sign of good faith.

So in addition to everyone being there, half of the attendees would be unhappy. Unbeknownst to your mother, you had followed the election closely, being a secret champion of women’s suffrage. The election had been a tight one, from what you could gather from under your mother’s ever-watchful nose.

“After breakfast, I want you to practice the newest dance,” your mother says with a meaningful stare when you’re very nearly done.

“Oh, Mother… I’ve rehearsed it until my feet have bled,” you protest. You’re not exaggerating either; Nellie has had to take special care with the blisters that have formed on your feet from the endless dance lessons. “Can’t I have the morning to myself?”

She raises an eyebrow, and you know before she starts speaking that this simple gesture means all hope is lost for you. “Certainly not,” she sniffs. “Have I not impressed that this is the most important night of your life? You can never be too prepared. How would it look if nerves betrayed you and you forgot the steps? You must have them mastered beyond any chance of fault.”

You sigh, but say nothing further. It seemed that you were to be doomed to both a morning and an evening of pained feet. At this rate, you’d have arthritis before you reached thirty.

Thankfully, you manage to get through the morning without reopening any of your blisters, though the arches of your feet are throbbing. You rub them the entire time Nellie is putting the finishing touches on your dress, before your mother can come in.

But far too quickly, the sun starts to set, and that can only mean one thing. It’s time to start getting ready. You’d take a thousand days of sore feet to put this off, but that’s not an option. All you can do is take one last breath for strength before Nellie puts on the accursed corset.

Since making the finishing touches on your dress the previous week, getting dressed goes quickly enough, and then mercifully, you can sit while Nellie pins up your hair. This process does take some time, since you simply have so much hair to pin.

At least you didn’t have to wear one of the increasingly large hats your mother favored. Being unmarried, you could still show some of your hair. Nellie decorates it with a few pretty, and most importantly, not ostentatious, feathers.

You hardly recognize yourself when you’re finished being made up. You don’t appear quite so young as the first time you put on the dress, but instead you’re caught somewhere between youth and being grown. You don’t love it, but your mother is fawning over it, and of course it’s far too late to change.

“Milady, the buggy has arrived!” Nellie calls, spurring you into action. You pull your gloves and shawl on, then follow your mother to the foyer. “Tell me how it goes,” Nellie whispers just before you cross the threshold, and she closes the door, and your old life, behind you.

You take the footman’s offered hand as he helps you into the buggy, then he sits at the reins and you’re off. You’d told your mother that most people would be arriving in automobiles, but, ever the traditionalist, she’d insisted on doing it this way. Probably because it was cheaper.

However, it’s not a far distance. You only have to brave the New York winter for a matter of minutes. And when you do arrive, you’re far from the first ones, and true to your prediction, most of the transportation you see are indeed automobiles. Focusing on details like these helps keep your mind off of what’s about to take place.

But of course, the buggy stops, and the footman comes back around to help first you and then your mother down the steps. Ready or not, it’s time.

“Chin up,” your mother hisses as a final form of instructions before you follow her inside.

It’s not so much a different world; you’ve grown up with the elite of New York since birth, but always on the fringes due to your age. The room is a glittering white, only a few shades darker than your own gown. An orchestra is playing soft music in one corner, though it’s obvious that the dancing has not quite begun just yet. Supper was to happen first, and there are tables lined with gleaming plates, silverware, and stemware.

For the moment, however, the attendees are milling around, greeting each other. Mr. and Mrs. Dix are easy to spot in the center of the crowd as everyone is expected to make their way to them as soon as possible, and sure enough, it’s towards the two of them your mother steers you towards.

She finagles your way through the crowd expertly, managing to seem casual while constantly moving the both of you closer to her target. As soon as an opening presents itself, she plants you right in front of the Dixes, and she and Mrs. Dix greet each other like old friends, although to your knowledge they were merely acquaintances at best.

And then came the dreaded words out of her mouth. “I don’t believe you’ve met my daughter before?” she says as she gestures you forward.

You dip into a quick curtsey. “It’s lovely to meet the both of you. Congratulations on the results of your election, Mr. Dix,” you say with the quiet confidence that’s been drilled into you. Both of the Dixes regard you politely.

“Is this your first event of the season, dear?” Mrs. Dix asks you. You hope it’s only because she noticed the color of your dress and not because of any social ineptitude.

“Yes. I only turned eighteen a couple of weeks ago,” you explain, willing your cheeks not to become pink.

“Well, we’re honored to host your debutante,” Mrs. Dix says, and you hope she isn’t faking the warm smile on her face. It can be so difficult to tell in high society what is fake and what isn’t.

“Well, we won’t take up any more of your time at present; I’m sure you’re quite in demand this evening,” your mother laughs. “But I do hope we’ll have further opportunity to speak later.” You smile your own farewell-for-now to the Dixes before following your mother into the rest of the throng.

“Well done,” she whispers, and you feel an enormous sense of relief wash over you. “Now come. There’s several families I wish to speak to before supper is served–”

“Dot!” a voice calls out, making your mother stop in her tracks and also causing her to wince; you know she hates the nickname because of how informal it is. Nevertheless, she turns, only to find Mrs. Ryan, a woman who Mother thought scandalous for a number of reasons. She had originally been from a middle-class family when she married an Irish immigrant, and though they weren’t divorced, they were amicably separated and living different lives. You were quite sure her husband was not at the event tonight. He might not even be in the same country.

But the worst thing about Mrs. Ryan, at least according to your mother, is though she’d grown up middle-class, she was unbelievably rich now because her husband had discovered a wealth of oil a few years back. And that made the Ryans ‘New Money,’ a blight your mother could never forgive.

But, loathe as your mother was to admit it, Mrs. Ryan was part of society now, which meant your mother had to put on her best manners. She smiles at Mrs. Ryan, though you can tell the smile is far from genuine. “Matilda. How are you this evening?” she asks, her voice strained.

“Oh, just the same as always,” Mrs. Ryan laughs before she notices you. “This your daughter, Dot? My, you’ve grown up from the last time I saw you. You look a vision, dear. In fact, I’ve got someone who you should meet.”

She shouts again across the room, though you don’t quite catch the name. Your mother seems to, however, and judging by her reaction, she’s not at all pleased. Her face goes stark white, and she can’t keep up the fake smile any longer; it slides from her face like quicksilver.

But before you can do more than shoot her a covert questioning look, an extremely tall man makes his way over to the three of you. “This is Mr. Onceler,” Mrs. Ryan introduces, and suddenly your mother’s reaction makes sense. You knew who Mr. Onceler was. All of New York knew who he was. He had come from nothing until inventing and selling a fashion item, the thneed, which half the attendees, Mrs. Ryan included, were wearing.

But coming from nothing meant one thing, and it was the only thing that mattered to your mother. He was New Money, and your mother was terrified of New Money monopolizing your time and scaring other, ‘better’ prospects away.

Mr. Onceler, however, doesn’t look like he’s interested in taking up all of your time. Studying his face, he looks quite disinterested in being here at all. When Mrs. Ryan finishes her introductions and you give your hand to him as courtesy demanded, he only just barely brushes the back of your gloved hand with his lips, not looking at you once.

“Mr. Onceler’s just gotten back from upstate, where he’s built a new factory,” Mrs. Ryan says proudly, as if she’s listing off the achievements of a son instead of a mere acquaintance.

“I can’t take all of the credit for that, Matilda. Your husband was one of the people who convinced me to do it,��� Mr. Onceler says, and you can tell, despite his slightly dismissive tone, that he and Mrs. Ryan have genuine affection for each other. It could very well have been the case that she introduced him into the world of society. “And as much as I would love to stay and chat–”

“Yes, yes, go and talk about important things with important men, don’t stay here and gossip with us ladies,” Mrs. Ryan says with a wave of her hand. Needing no further invitation, Mr. Onceler leaves, barely inclining his head towards you and your mother as a farewell.

Mrs. Ryan turns to you. “What do you think, eh? Handsome, isn’t he? And he’s young too, only twenty. He’s the most eligible bachelor in the state right now.”

“But his manners!” your mother blurts out, though she can’t bring herself to raise her voice any higher than a whisper. It seems she couldn’t hold back any longer, even in the company of one she considered inferior like Mrs. Ryan. “I don’t think I’ve ever met a man so rude!”

Mrs. Ryan waves her hand impatiently again. “Come off it, Dot. He’s had all the cards stacked against him. He hasn’t had his money for a year yet, and he’s not even used to northern society as an outsider; he’s from Atlanta. It’s a wonder he’s doing this well at all. And manners matter less and less these days. Cash is the only thing that speaks, and trust me, he’s got plenty of that.” She gives the both of you a meaningful look. “I’d keep that in mind before immediately writing him off.” She gives you an extra look, one that you can’t quite read before saying, “Well, I expect I’ll see both of you later.” She grabs your hand. “You look effervescent, dear. You’re only young once. Enjoy your night.” With that, she takes her leave.

As soon as she’s out of earshot, your mother starts hissing in your ear. “The nerve of that awful woman!” she bemoans. “How dare she imply that my daughter can’t do any better than him? His manners were worse than hers! He barely acknowledged you at all–”

“I think that means he’s not interested in me, Mother,” you remind her as gently as you can. “We have nothing to worry about if he doesn’t like me. As you said, there are much better options.”

Miraculously, your mother actually manages to calm down. “Of course,” she murmurs, collecting herself again. “Of course. There’s no use worrying about his opinion of you. He’s new money. He’s not worth expending energy over.” You can’t help but wince as she says that. You very much hope no one else heard her. You’d never admit it to her, but there was nothing wrong in your eyes with New Money. Mrs. Ryan, for example, you actually liked very much for her bluntness. Your mother was just so old-fashioned, and had an inability to understand differing viewpoints. You’d learned this long ago, and didn’t bother arguing with her much over it. It was easier to pretend you agreed with her most of the time.

“Well, let’s get moving. There’s still people we need to speak with before supper,” Mother decides before whisking you back into the room. The next half-hour or so is filled with conversation much more suited to your mother’s preference–polite and removed. To you, it’s empty. Just vain people speaking of the same things over and over again.

You also can’t help but notice that everyone your mother speaks with is an old New York family, and that they either are or have a son that is an heir to a large family fortune. She pushes you in front of these single men, and to your slight dismay, you can tell that some are indeed interested in you, specifically in your last name. Several of these people felt the same way as your mother–that a family name was far more important than being a decent person.

Finally, after you don’t think you could stand another stiff introduction, you’re called to dinner. You know it will be more awful, forced conversation, but at least you won’t be shown around like a prized animal at a fair. You find your seats, and discover Mrs. Ryan is also at your table, which clearly displeases your mother.

You didn’t think she had too much reason to complain though. Also seated with you is the Hunte family, one of the most respected in New York. Their son and heir to the fortune, Thomas, was seated right across from you. He was quite a bit older than you, being nearly thirty, but at least he wasn’t a widower in his fifties. Your mother seemed almost hungry when she looked at him, and you would practically feel her willing the two of you together.

And for the moment, you think you’ve managed to make a good first impression. Though conversation flowed quite easily (to your slight shock) between all at the table, Thomas Hunte did make a point of speaking directly to you on a few occasions. And you were on your best behavior, not bringing up topics your mother forbade and directing the conversation back towards him, so that he could feel important. Men did like to feel important.

Just as the dessert course is beginning to come to an end, the orchestra starts playing tunes you’re familiar with; the dancing has clearly begun. You look up at Thomas, sure that he’ll invite you to dance, but his immediate attention has been captured by Mrs. Ryan, who has asked him a question. Before he’s free to speak with you, you feel a hand on your shoulder.

You turn, and, with no small amount of surprise, you find Mr. Onceler there. You're sure the shock must register on your face, and you can't even find any words to say, but he doesn't comment on that. “I was wondering if you would join me for the next dance?” he asks instead, without any sort of preamble.

To say you're flummoxed is an understatement, but the drilling of your manners mean they're able to return to you, even through your confusion. “Oh… yes, of course,” you murmur. Mother won't be happy, and sure enough, she's stone-faced when you glance at her. But what else can you do? It would be beyond rude, practically unthinkable, to refuse. One dance meant nothing. Everything would be fine.

So, you stand, take Mr. Onceler's proffered hand, and allow him to lead you to the other side of the ballroom.

A note on some of the characters:

The Hunte's are purely my invention. Mrs. Ryan, while fictional, is based on Molly Brown, who wasn't born into society but her husband became rich, and was always considered uncouth. John Dix, however, was real and was elected governor of New York in 1910.

Also, apparently Americans used the word buggy instead of carriage. I hate that very much.

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https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-moral-legacy-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki/20533

The Moral Legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

By Prof Rodrigue Tremblay

Global Research, August 08, 2024

The New American Empire and Global Research 8 August 2010

[We repost this article by Prof. Rodrigue Tremblay in commemoration of the 79th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima  and Nagasaki. First published by GR on August 8, 2010]

“We have discovered the most terrible bomb in the history of the world. It may be the fire destruction prophesied in the Euphrates Valley Era, after Noah and his fabulous Ark…. This weapon is to be used against Japan … [We] will use it so that military objectives and soldiers and sailors are the target and not women and children. Even if the Japs are savages, ruthless, merciless and fanatic, we as the leader of the world for the common welfare cannot drop that terrible bomb on the old capital or the new. …  The target will be a purely military one… It seems to be the most terrible thing ever discovered, but it can be made the most useful.” (Harry S. Truman (1884-1972), 33rd U.S. President, (Diary, July 25, 1945) 

“The World will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima a military base. That was because we wished in this first attack to avoid, insofar  as possible, the killing of civilians.” (Harry S. Truman (1884-1972), 33rd U.S. President, (radio speech to the Nation, August 9, 1945) 

“.. In [July] 1945… Secretary of War [Henry L.] Stimson, visiting my headquarters in Germany, informed me that our government was preparing to drop an atomic bomb on Japan. I was one of those who felt that there were a number of cogent reasons to question the wisdom of such an act. …The Secretary, upon giving me the news of the successful bomb test in New Mexico, and of the plan for using it, asked for my reaction, apparently expecting a vigorous assent. …During his recitation of the relevant facts, I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to him my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives.

It was my belief that Japan was, at that very moment, seeking some way to surrender with a minimum loss of ‘face’. The Secretary was deeply perturbed by my attitude.” (General Dwight Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe and 34th U.S. President from 1952 to 1960, (Mandate For Change, p. 380) 

“Mechanized civilization has just reached the ultimate stage of barbarism. In a near future, we will have to choose between mass suicide and intelligent use of scientific conquests […] This can no longer be simply a prayer; it must become an order which goes upward from the peoples to the governments, an order to make a definitive choice between hell and reason.” (Albert Camus (1913-1960), French philosopher and author, August 8, 1945)

 “As American Christians, we are deeply penitent for the irresponsible use already made of the atomic bomb. We are agreed that, whatever be one’s judgment of the war in principle, the surprise bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are morally indefensible.”(The American Federal Council of Churches‘ Report on Atomic Warfare and the Christian Faith, 1946)

“It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. ” – “The lethal possibilities of atomic warfare in the future are frightening. My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages.” (William Leahy, Chief of Staff to Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman (“I Was There”, p. 441)

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F-16 fighters will bring better weapons and radar to the Ukrainian Air Force

There are negative points of the F-16 for Ukraine, but the positive points are greater.

Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 12/20/2023 - 17:00 in Military, War Zones

The F-16s will make Russian pilots think twice before entering Ukrainian airspace, say experts interviewed by Reuters for a detailed assessment of their impact on the war.

The F-16s from several European countries are now in training centers in Romania, Denmark and the USA and the first Ukrainian pilots, those who speak English fluently, will soon be in training. Much has been said about used fighters, which have become surplus as their previous owners re-equipmed with the F-35. They will help, but the military officers are apparently trying to explain the expectations.

Although it is faster and more agile than the 40-year-old MiG 29 and Su-27 now piloted by Ukrainians, the main benefit of the F-16 is in its nose. Its radar systems are much better than the old Russian hardware, giving pilots a much longer and clearer picture of the threat environment. The Russians, who pilot the newer Su-35 and MiG-31, are aware that they will be more visible to the Ukrainian F-16s and that this should keep them closer to home. Ukraine has been using ground-to-air missiles to keep fighters away, and the arrival of the F-16 will free them to go after cruise missiles and drones.

To keep up with the sophisticated radar, the F-16 uses air-to-air sho-fir and forget missiles, where Ukraine's current equipment requires guidance from the aircraft to take the missiles to their target. This makes the aircraft vulnerable and greatly increases the number of wasted shots. The F-16 has also evolved into a multifunctional fighter air defense platform that can be used for air superiority and ground attack. Lockheed Martin has refused to detail how the Vipers bound for Ukraine will be configured.

There are some deficiencies that may limit the implementation of F-16. The planes are relatively fragile and are not suitable for the pavement destroyed in the unimproved fields on which Ukraine depends heavily. With this large intake of debris, they are also vulnerable to FOD.

Russian aircraft have secondary air intakes above the wings so that the main entrances can be closed for ground operations. "The F-16 is a precious aircraft, it is fragile," Kelly Grieco, a senior researcher at the Stimson Center, told Reuters. "It's an aircraft that needs a long runway and the runway is very flat. But they are in an environment where (Ukrainian pilots) have been performing distributed operations. ... This is not an aircraft that can do that."

Perhaps the most important thing that the F-16 offers Ukraine is hope for the future. Although it can still get spare parts from other countries of the former Soviet Union, support for the old Russian planes will end and Western equipment is the only option for Ukraine, both in the short and long term. It is expected that as Ukrainian pilots get used to the simplified controls, ergonomic layouts and operations of the F-16 logical system, they will quickly adop the new ways of doing things.

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连词相接的并列短语，可用一个a统领，例如Knowing whether you need an overview or conclusion can make all the difference to your results.，又如We noticed a login from a new device or location and want to make sure it was you.，又如Not long ago it was fashionable to brag about that you hardly slept at all, and the mark of a successful businessperson or politician was their ability to get by on very little shut-eye.。此点在the条目下亦有。

人名前加a的例子，如There is a Miss Hayden, my uncle’s secretary, who lived in his house.，犹言“有个叫…的”，又如

人名前加a+形容词，例如An angry Mikel Arteta has dismissed speculation that he could take over at Barcelona at the end of the season and insisted he has unfinished business at Arsenal.，又如A disappointed Van Dijk apologised for his role in the decisive 67th‑minute misunderstanding with Alisson.。

数量前加a+形容词，例如Every year an estimated 50,000 visitors explore some 910m of tunnel in these dank catacombs to look at 6 million ghoulishly arranged skull-and-crossbones skeletons.，

about

just about犹言差不大多，例如I can just about pronounce millefeuille. It’s a classic French dessert.，又如He’s just about the best golfer in the world.，又如The good news for Arsenal is that they will start 2024 only two points off the league leaders Liverpool. The bad news is, well, just about everything else.。

表示某方面的事，例如I want to tell you about last night.，较to tell you what happened last night简练地道，又如Last month I was in trouble with the police and that old woman wrote to my office and she told them about the police.。

accuse

accused sb. of sth./v-ing.，例如She accused him of a murder.，又如His young wife was sick, and he was accused of stealing money from the bank.。

action

take action on sth.，例如CleanBC is helping people in British Columbia take action on climate change.。

advertisement

可数，介词用for，例如He had seen it so often in old prints on Christmas cards and in advertisements for whisky.。

against

可以表示有力量的接触，用法需把握，例如‘What’s that against my left foot?’Ma said.，又如The rain beat against the windows.。

ageing

名词，注意拼法。北美亦有拼成aging者。

ahead

ahead of time谓提前，例如It would all be finished months ahead of time.。

aircraft

飞行器的统称，复数不变形，例如Drones could ground aircraft involved in crucial firefighting missions, Ma said.。

alike

形容词谓相像（不可总用similiar），例如You may not agree with me, but I think we’re very much alike.。

all

all-+adj.表示程度极高，例如In our age of high surveillance and anxieties about all-powerful AIs, the idea that a machine could read our most personal thoughts feels more plausible than ever to us as individuals.。

any

any置于形容词前，表示程度之微，例如On Wednesday night, officials told the city’s 20,000 residents they had to be out by Friday at noon before a massive wildfire gets any closer.

anything

If anything, …强调事实恰恰相反，出乎常人意料，略可译成“真要说起来，反倒是云云”，例如He's still not the type Arteta wants to use there, so no. If anything, he'll put Rice there if really needed.，此句中有两个if，前一个只是语气词。又如If anything, you have to work harder when your dad’s the boss.。

anyway

非正式场合有作anyways者。

are

数的照应从前不从后，例如Voice notes are a more efficient way of journalling and getting things off my chest.。

arm

under one’s arm谓腋下夹着东西，例如He carried his three-cornered hat under his arm and in his hand a gold-headed cane.。

arm in arm谓手勾着手，例如The two walked arm in arm down the empty streets until they found a restaurant. 。

around

get around后面直接地区，谓在该地区内转来转去，例如You need a car to get around town.，犹言在城里出行，又如Vehicles are usable items in Adopt Me!. They are designed to make getting around the Adoption Island and the Neighborhood easier.。

articulate

谓清楚言明（而非遮掩曲晦），及物，例如For a people-pleasing good-girl sort, learning to be direct and articulate my needs has been life-changing.。

as

as of/from谓由某时起生效，例如Our phone number is changing as from May 12.，又如The notice is effective as of 8 a.m. PT Wednesday.。

as to谓关于至若，可以独立前置，相当于as for，例如As to tax, that will be deducted from your salary.，也可以在句中后置，此时略等于about，例如When I asked Dutch friends to comment on the meaning of niksen, they said they knew the word but didn’t feel they had any explanation as to what was Dutch about it.。

as可替代when sb. is/are使用，更简洁，如We learn to lie as children, between ages of two and five.

as if后可接介词短语，例如Mrs Jerebohm, stupefied by sheer size and acreage of panelling, heard three pairs of footsteps echo about her as if in a cave.，又如Mr Jerebohm, staring hard at the lake as if in hope of seeing a fish rise, resisted with great difficulty a powerful and insidious temptation to ask how Ma dealt with trout.，

as adj. as后亦可接介词短语，例如Arsenal were as pallid as against West Ham.，此句言本场比赛和上场对西汉姆之比赛同样苍白乏力。

ass

my ass接在名词后，犹言个屁，例如You think your job is tough work? Tough work, my ass! My job is the tough one.，又如- Give Spurs a late boost of confidence to carry into the City game; 5D chess from Arteta. - 5D Chess my ass; that's just Arsenal bottle job loading.。

at

在某方面擅长与否用at，例如Even so, we are hopeless at spotting deception. … People are bad at it because the differences between truth-tellers and liars are particularly small and unreliable.，甚至如But I am going to give you 20 of the most important tips that will improve you at boxing.。

在说明问题时标出重要数字，用法须把握，例如At 6ft 7in, Crouch was no one’s idea of a footballer – and even his own fans liked to tell him so.，又如

auction

at auction是固定泛指说法，如A letter written by Ernest Hemingway recounting his harrowing injuries after surviving two successive plane crashes in two days has sold at auction for $237,055 (£187,751)，又如A classic Rolls-Royce fetched £25 000 at auction.

audience

谓受众的整体，可数，例如an audience of 10 000，又如Many sidemen in the big bands became famous in their own right, and audiences idolised them.。

back

back out (of + np./v.-ing)谓反悔退出，例如The London Review of Books has expressed its disappointment after the Barbican backed out of hosting a lecture series which included a talk about the Holocaust and allegations that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.，又如You agreed to come. You can’t back out now!。

back in + 时间点，此为常见表达习惯，例如Lawro first started the weekly feature way back in 2000.，

backstory

即background story，例如The film spends too long establishing the characters' backstories.，注意此例用复数，又如Everybody knew the backstory, how Arsenal had won their previous Premier League title almost 20 years ago to the day at White Hart Lane.。

bank

bank on犹言rely on，例如Finally, it's not something to bank on, but if you've been working as a SWE for a year you could also apply for PR (through FSW or CEC (if you've been working in Canada)) and hope you get it whilst you're in the program or before you start the program.，又如I’m banking on you to help me.。

bank holiday即是public holiday，此为英国人说法。

baggy

谓衣裳宽松，例如The baggier the trousers, the more it puffs out. It looks much better than wearing a skirt over tights.

basis

on a adj./n. basis用于描述行为方式，例如And in the absence of Gabriel Jesus, that is precisely what Arsenal need to see on a regular basis from his stand-in Eddie Nketiah.，又如Most people work on a part-time/voluntary basis.

bedroom

-bedroom和-bedroomed都可以，如a three-bedroomed house或four-bedroom houses.

before

谈过去的过去可用before替代ago之功能，如One morning in the mid-90s, the art historian Patricia Albers and her husband drove out to a farm in Oregon, looking for clues that would bring her closer to a woman she had encountered a decade before.。

believer

谓信教之人，例如The magi we know best first appear in the Gospel of Matthew—those three wise men, long thought to be Persian astrologers, following a star from the East to find, and crown, the new King. One need not be a believer to find it a stirring tale of the entanglements of wisdom and revelation.。

betray

透示，例如His stiff movements betray his age.，

between

可直接在数量定语中表示范围，例如The 30-year-old defender is set to miss between seven and nine months of action after undergoing surgery.

big

go big，成语，谓玩一票大的云云，如Chelsea have gone big on a 90s theme and it’s mostly a sartorial win, because the new kit bangs like OK Computer.此外俗语有Go big or go home.一语，犹饿死胆小的撑死胆大的云，例如In this industry, it’s go big or go home. There’s no room for those who want to play it safe.

bite

have a bite犹言少吃上点，例如’Oh! Come in and have a bite,’ Pop said, ‘Ma’ll be pleased to death.’，又如You’ll feel better once you’ve had a bite to eat.

blame

be to blame谓得负责，例如Which driver was to blame for the accident?。only have oneself to blame为成语，谓只能怪自己，例如If you lose your job, you'll only have yourself to blame.，又如As for Leeds, they have only themselves to blame.，注意有only的位置有微调。

blow

deliver a/the blow为固定表达，谓重击，例如Late goals from substitute Leon Bailey and Ollie Watkins delivered a hammer blow to Arsenal’s chances of ending a 20-year wait to be crowned champions.

born

后直接姓名谓本名，例如Kate Chopin (1851-1904) was born Katherine O’Flaherty in St. Louis, Missouri.。

borrow

借用某人的说法，例如To borrow a line from Mikel Arteta, it was about making their own history here.，又��

box

box fresh谓商品刚刚拆封，言其状态新而好，例如They are dressed in fluorescent hoodies and box-fresh trainers.，又如By that point in May, Arsenal were cooked by their season’s exertions, while Brighton looked box fresh.，此例为比喻性用法。

bozo

/ˈbəʊzəʊ/.俗语谓蠢逼，例如The reason you don’t want stuff, bozo, I remind myself, is that you bought everything in your 20s.，且往往侧重不顾及他人一点，例如Some bozo on a motorcycle almost ran me over.。

brace

猎获的一双禽鸟，单复同形，例如Pop presently disappeared into the pantry and came out holding a brace of pheasants.。

brief

谓短暂，常用，例如As an adult, he briefly tried living and writing in Paris, and later he moved permanently to London.，又如He briefly attended college and then moved to New York City.。

bring

谓导致使得，意义较虚，用法灵活，其例如Now we are free and perhaps, we can deal openly with each other. Knowledge may be dangerous, but it can bring us closer.，又如

buckle

[phrasal verbs]buckle up谓系好安全带，如Everyone buckle up and get ready to do some exploring.，此语英国说belt up。

budget

on a tight budget谓预算不多，例如But eating healthily is going to be much more expensive, and therefore not an option for people on a tight budget.。

burnout

过劳引起不适，不可数的例子如My job glorified overworking, despite its obvious negative impact, with numerous colleagues experiencing burnout.。

拆开为burn out的及物动词例子，如If he doesn’t stopping working so hard, he will burn himself out.。

business

like nobody’s business，言程度之快之剧，例如Captain Perigo drank like nobody’s business, starting an hour after breakfast.

be business as usual，谓一切如常有序，例如There'll be no more nonsense around here. It will be business as usual.，又如Much of the town lost electricity in the storm, but for people with generators it was business as usual.。

busy

作动词，busy sb. with sth./v.-ing，例如His aim was to teach his students to think for themselves and he did not like it when they busied themselves with their quills to write down his every words.，此句的叙事用了一种特殊的信息序列，把quills作为主要宾语，真正的动词反而再用to的连动式接上。又当后为v.-ing，则with可省，如While we talked, John busied himself fixing lunch.。

butter

butter up谓奉承拍马，如I don’t really know if he was trying to butter me up.

by

有经过之意，例如They drove by in the horse and carriage a few minutes ago so Lizzie could say goodbye.，又如Just drive by. Don't stop.，注意一停一不停。停之类又如I'll come by this evening and pick up the books.，又In the evening, an old miner dropped by for a visit.；不停之类又如

call

call out谓大声叫，例如But just then the driver called out, "The wheel is fixed. The carriage is ready to leave."，又如In a week voice he called out, "Lizzie."，注意此例谓轻声地叫。

candle

burn the candle at both ends谓早起晚睡，焚膏继晷工作，例如Like most teenagers, I was keen to burn the candle at both ends. As a medical student, I often stayed up partying, then went straight into some feverish last-minute cramming.。

catch

be caught up in谓受某事波及影响，多为负面，如The altoist returned to Blue Note in 1967 and soon became caught up in the increasingly commercial leanings of the label.，又如Try not to get too caught up in the moment.，后一例是就情绪上说的，并且以too修饰，说明有情绪形容词的价值。

catwalk

即T台，介词为on，北美亦用runway，例如From the nightclub to the runway, dress and skirt-trouser combinations (aka skousers) are “officially back”, says Vogue. It was a key trend on the autumn/winter 2023 catwalks.。

cave

妥协同意照办，例如I also made a choice to go without a smartphone for a whole decade, from 2010 to 2020. In 2020, my final year of university, I caved and bought one, a choice encouraged by my mum.，常用格式为cave in to sth.（注意in to分词），例如The president is unlikely to cave in to demands for a public inquiry.。

charge

后接罪名用with，例如Lai, 75, is charged with colluding with foreign forces under the city’s national security law.。

cheap

有抠门一义，例如Buying secondhand clothes. Not because I’m particularly sustainability-minded, but because I’m cheap.。

cherry

the cherry on top of the cake谓锦上添花，实际出现多以略式，如That late goal might just be the cherry on top.，又如The garden is not our main reason for buying the house, but it’s the cherry on the cake.

chess

play 4D/5D chess犹言下一盘大棋，例如Give Spurs a late boost of confidence to carry into the City game; 5D chess from Arteta.。

choice

It is your choice.谓你要如此也行、你自己看着办，例如However, if you choose to start with writing task 2, it is your choice.

clock

[phrasal verbs]clock up谓积攒、总计、达到，例如The centre-back was only a real first-team regular during the turbulent 2020-21 season, but still clocked up more than 150 appearances as a reliable squad player.，又如The Australians have clocked up three medals and two silvers in the swimming events.

close

up close强调近距离，例如I am fitter and happier – and it gets me up close to nature.，又如I like those silver earrings in the window. Can I see them up close?。

come

用于静态描述，口语中较自然，例如There is one terrific family of Pascal matrices, and they come in all sizes, and above all they have real meaning.，又如Returning multiple values from a function can be very useful at time, but it also comes with some dangers from a program design perspective. 。

come in handy/useful谓到时候派上用场，例如Arsenal always knew Kai Havertz’s versatility would come in handy.，又如The money will come in handy when I want to travel.

be coming up谓即将发生，例如We’ve got three hours of hiking coming up.，又如Plan your activities so that you are rested and refreshed when something important is coming up.。

company

keep sb. company谓陪着某人（而非由某人陪着），例如We'll sing some songs and keep him company until he falls asleep.。

confide

confide in sb.谓把秘密告诉信任者，例如Confiding in ChatGPT about work gripes or political preferences could come back to bite users, according to an artificial intelligence expert.，又如It is important to have someone you can confide in.。

consider

可以接双宾语（或当理解为发生省略），例如We all lose lung function over time, which is considered normal ageing.。

contention

be in contention谓参与竞争，例如Recalling a failed audition for the musical Annie when she was a child, Kidman said those in contention were being measured before being allowed into the audition room.。

cook

俗语动词，言效果出色，例如Arsenal are blowing away the other teams by destroying them and being clinical in front of goal. This team is slowly starting to cook.，又如The party cooked right through the night.。

copious

大量，例如I started eating copious amounts of vegetables only when I found dishes I loved.，又如She supports her theory with copious evidence.。

cow

cash cow谓摇钱树、印钞机，例如The story goes that Lavigne was plunged into a deep depression after the death of her grandfather and, her stresses compounded by the pressures of fame, killed herself in 2002. But the cynical, money-grubbing record executives who controlled her career couldn’t let go of this cash cow, so they drafted in a lookalike named Melissa to play Lavigne.。

crack

crack up谓狂笑不止，例如He walked in and everyone just cracked up.。也有使动用法，例如Gill’s so funny - She just cracked me up.，又如"And the referee....has still given it!" got me cracked up.。

cross

cross out/through谓划掉，如Each line will cross out a letter.；与之不同，cross off特指除名，如We can cross his name off; he's not coming.。

curtain

curtain call谓返场谢幕，常用动词为take，例如He later took a curtain call and tossed his batting gloves into the stands.。

custom

表习俗可数，例如a local/brutal custom，又如As an American living in Europe, James wrote about the conflict between American and European manners and customs.，

cut-off

裁断之界线，例如She was 5ft 4in at the time, two inches above the 5ft 2in cut-off.，又如Is there a cut-off point between childhood and adulthood?。

day

星期中的一日可数，例如I saw 27 films, mostly on a Sunday!。参看evening下一条。

deal

a deal is a deal，说话要算话。

death

v. to death，例如“The wigs in Guys and Dolls are all human hair,” Smyth says, “but the wigs a panto dame would wear tend to be more like helmets – you can beat someone to death with them.”，又如He’s drinking himself to death.谓喝酒过多已经有危险。另有sentence to death，例如He was sentenced to death.。

dial

变形的英式拼法为dialled及dialling，美式为dialed及dialing。

后接电话号码，例如He went to the telephone and dialled her number.，又如Dial 0033 for France.

did

叙述小说电影的内容，用一般现在时，其中的倒退则用一般过去时，例如In the second season of the Netflix documentary Making a Murderer, Steven Avery, who is serving a life sentence for a brutal killing he says he did not commit, undergoes a “brain fingerprinting” exam.

die

would die for谓极其想要，例如I’d die for some ice-cream right now.，又如’Think the kids were pleased about the swimming pool,’ he said, ‘don’t you? I thought the twins would die.’，此例中省去for。

difference

可数，例如Even if it’s only for five minutes, it makes a huge difference to my circadian rhythms and overall mood.。

different

北美英语有用different than而非from者，例如These instruments performed differently during the swing era than they had before.。

dinner

不一定指晚餐，有一义为一日中最盛大之一餐，例如At nine’o clock Kant returned to his room, once more put on his dressing-gown, his night-cap, his three-cornered hat, and his slippers and studied till exactly a quarter to one. Then he called down to his cook, told her the hour, dressed and went back to his study to await the guests he expected to dinner.，毛姆这段中的dinner显然是午餐。又英国英语的school dinners谓学校提供的中饭。

disappointment

a disappointment to sb.，注意介词，例如I'm a terrible artist, Peter. I realise that now. It's a big disappointment to me.，

dish

dish up，装盘上菜，例如Ma’ll be dishing up in ten minutes and she won’t have it spoiled.。

do

后面跟动词原形的例子，如Scientists are investigating whether large language models, which underpin modern chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard, can do more than repackage information learned in training.，又如

domino

/ˈdɒmɪnəʊ/ a domino effect即多米诺效应，注意冠词为a而非the，例如I find it hugely beneficial for my mental and physical health, which has had a domino effect on my whole life.，又如This exposure triggered a domino effect, creating a customer base eager to experience what Blu Atlas had to offer.。

double

double down (on something)略谓变本加厉，更其做某事（多为危险挑战之事），例如The military government decided to double down and escalate the war.，又如“Just get down the tunnel,” Carragher fumed. “You’ve won a game, three points, you’ve been brilliant. Back in the title race, get down the tunnel. I’m serious, honestly.” Carragher would double down on the opinion in a social media post. “By all means enjoy it but enjoy it by being disciplined,” he wrote.，此例谓一言既出，再造波澜。

down

walk down the street与walk up the street基本可以换用，参看up下一条。

draw

谓吸水或吸气，例如His ribs ached every time he drew breath.。

drawing

谓素描或素描画，和painting相对。通常诸如小孩绘画之类，均称drawing，如Before we an leave on vacation you’ll need to complete this drawing of our vehicle.常用格式为do/make a drawing of sth./sb.

drift

drift off谓睡着，例如Despite the disruption to my sleep pattern caused by the irregular hours I had to work, I never had any problem drifting off.。

drink

drink to sb.谓举酒为某人寿，例如Everybody rose and drank to Ma.。

drip

滴水，主语可以是水，如Hearts race, sweat drips and micro-expressions leak from small muscles in the face.，亦可是滴水物，如The tap is dripping with water.

duck

谓小心翼翼移步，以免撞到之类，如She'd duck in and out of the kitchen to stir whatever she had on the stove.

dumb

dumb down谓简单化弱智化，例如The BBC denies that its broadcasting has been dumbed down.。愚民亦用此语，例如We don’t need Karl Marx’s conception of a grand warfare between the classes to see that it is in the interest of complex management, economic or political, to dumb people down, to demoralise them, to divide them from one another, and to discard them if they don’t conform.。

education

可数的例子如His parents were wealthy and encouraged their children to get a good education.，

effectively

实质上，例如He sparked the move for Martin Ødegaard’s opening goal and it was his pull-back that led to the own goal from Daiki Hashioka just before half-time that effectively ended the contest.

element

the elements谓天气，多偏于恶劣侵害之一面，例如The A5 format became cumbersome, so I shifted to tiny reporters’ notebooks with spiral binding at the top. Sadly, these have lines and provide little-to-no protection from the elements.，又如Are we going to brave the elements and go for a walk?，其中brave the elements为习语，犹言冒犯风雨。

engorgement

医学术语，谓充血。例如Penile plethysmography tests arousal levels in sex offenders by measuring the engorgement of the penis using a special cuff.

enliven

/ɪnˈlaɪvn/，使生动有趣，例如He enlivened his discourse with humour and abundant illustrations.。

-er

表示较如何的一部分，例如Ben White is one of the older members of the Arsenal side at the age of 26.，又如Beethoven composed his greatest works in the latter part of his life.，又如"The Pace of Youth" takes place in the 1890s and is one of Crane's lighter stories.。

equate

to equate sth. with sth.，视如等同，例如More recently, lie detection has largely been equated with the juddering styluses of the polygraph machine.，又如I don't see how you can equate the two things.，后一例固无须with。

-esque

/esk/. 犹言某某式的，例如The Skandar series by AF Steadman is good for kids because it’s got bloodthirsty unicorns and Harry Potter-esque magic but with a more contemporary twist.。

eve

前夜，介词用on，例如On the eve of her 27th birthday this month, Agnes Chow updated her Instagram feed for the first time in two and half years.。

evening

可数，例如In the evenings, Pan took Mark up to her little apartment above her father's shop.。参看day下一条。

ever

ever + adj.-er谓愈发如何，例如As my medical training progressed, sleep became ever more precious.。

expert

an expert on sth.，如Jeff Hancock, an expert on digital communication at Stanford, has found that people who are lying in their online dating profiles tend to use the words “I”, “me” and “my” more often, for instance.

eye

make eyes at谓深情或性感地注视，例如Stimson stood in the corner of hi office staring at the young man. "He must stop making eyes at Lizzie. If he doesn't stop, I'll take away his job."。

eyelash

睫毛，可数。例如Pop stared hard at Ma as he spoke, but Ma didn’t move an eyelash in reply.

fail

without fail谓雷打不动，从无例外，例如“My big life hack is to read every single day,” says Morrish. “I read every night without fail, even if it’s just for five minutes or a page.”，

fair

用于表达有一说一，例如He’s done the job badly but, to be fair, I gave him very little time to do it.，又如Let’s be fair: technology has improved my life in ways that still surprise and delight me on a daily basis.。

far

a n. too far谓有些过头，实际例子如Arteta’s chasing of the game by loading up on forwards to leave Rice fighting alone in midfield against the excellent, superior João Palhinha and Tom Cairney was a risk too far.，又如AI is amazing but a 300+ piece of literature might be a quest too far.，又如Relying on FDI may be a gamble too far.。由于具体的语义含在名词中，故表达轻巧，很有用。

feature

施事可以是参与项目，例如The story is known to be Alcott’s – it features in the lists the writer made of her works – but had not yet been found.，又如Several local musicians featured on the album.；也可以是参与活动内容，例如The film features Cary Grant as a professor.，又如The actress was featured on the cover of Time magazine last month.。

feed

feed on/off谓动物以某为食，例如Three fatalities occurred in 2023 off South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula, a remote area with a high population of white sharks and the seals they feed on.，又有比喻的用法例如He feeds off the work and reputation of others.。

feel

feel like + v.ing，表示想做某事，而且预设义为事实上没做，例如The effect of this outburst was so touching that the nurse suddenly felt like weeping too and hastily remembered she had something to do in another ward.。另有一种feel like + v.ing/n.的用法，只表示当下所想往，没有预设义，例如I feel like (having) a nice cool glass of lemonade.。

fingertip

at your fingertips谓需要时就在手头，例如VPL's entire collection is at your fingertips - you can also access thousands of online resources through vpl.ca.，但不一定关乎电子设备，例如I made sure I had all the facts at my fingertips before attending the meeting.。

first

vp. + first thing谓一早上首先干某事，例如Now, I write first thing, before listening to the news, looking at screens or even talking to anyone.，又如He said he’d call back first thing tomorrow.。

fix

谓整理仪容，例如Soon a pretty young girl walked along and stopped to fix her skirt.，又如I've got to fix my hair,' I said and retreated to my bedroom.。

flame

an old flame谓旧情人，例如’And who’s the tall blonde piece? Haven’t seen her before.’’Old flame.’ 。

fold

谓企业不景气倒闭，例如Finally he got tenure and then his college folded.。

follow

follow suit谓照样学样，例如When one airline reduces its ticket prices, the rest usually follow suit.，又如But Spotify’s success with these one-way broadcasts of individual taste has inspired other companies to follow suit – not just cinemas and banks, but those with even less to show on their users’ preferences and behaviours.。

footstep

follow in sb.'s footsteps多谓继承家业，例如Lance grew up thinking he would be an artist like his father, and Mrs. Mallow encouraged Lance to follow in his father's footsteps。

for

时间前的for省略之例，如He had been at Harvard only a month.，又如

forget

谓落下东西，例如He was hot and tired and his head felt cool. He touched his head and realised that he forgot his hat.。

fortune

make a fortune谓发财，例如But, rather, Samira and her older brother gradually stopped speaking after he made a fortune from his tech start-up.，亦可make someone’s fortune，例如Her father made his fortune selling electronics.。类似表达如I was mining in California, and I hoped to find gold. The weeks and months passes, and I never found my fortune.。

franchise

系列电影，例如The average Redditor is a 25 year-old male weaned on the Harry Potter franchise.，

free

go n.-free，例如On weekends, I go social-media-free. I’ve started reading books instead.。

freedom

可数的例子如It takes getting used to, but this small, simple change has had a big impact and given me a newfound freedom.。

friend

make friends with谓交朋友，复数无冠词，例如I wish Tommie would make friends with him.。

front

可指身体正面，与back相对，例如Sleeping on your front is discouraged due to the pressure it can exert on the stomach.谓人朝下睡，又如I spilled coffee down my front.谓咖啡洒得胸前都是，其中down sb’s front为成语。

fuel

动词谓加强增多，例如Simply doing what you can, when you can, fuels your own happiness and preserves the gas you have in the tank to be of service to others.，又如Whether it’s a simple smile from my son or a big award at work, acknowledging three things I’m thankful for each morning ignites curiosity, amplifies appreciation and fuels productivity.，亦可是负面的如The rapid promotion of the director’s son has itself fuelled the resentment within the company.。

fun

make fun of谓取笑，例如He made fun of Chinese customs and beliefs.。

get

get away with谓行某事而不受追究，通常宾语谓形式的it，如We lie to promote ourselves, protect ourselves and to hurt or avoid hurting others. The mystery is how we keep getting away with it.，又如If I thought I could get away with it, I wouldn’t pay my taxes at all.。但此语感上终究为带宾短语，另有例如She’s determined that her students will not get away with plagiarism.。

get by谓过活，支撑，例如Not long ago it was fashionable to brag about that you hardly slept at all, and the mark of a successful businessperson or politician was their ability to get by on very little shut-eye.。

gill

鱼鳃。

注意读音为hard g。但是女性人名的Gill为soft g，也写作Jill。

green around the gills谓不适应、不舒服，例如Some of the passengers looked kind of green around the gills after the trip.，又如He is now 24 and no longer green around the gills.谓球员已经成熟，习于比赛环境。

go

Still a minute to go.用以说离结束还剩多少时间（此例句出于足球解说）。

As the n. goes, 谓xx有之曰，例如As the old adage goes, money can’t buy you friends.。类似例子如，The story goes that Lavigne was plunged into a deep depression after the death of her grandfather and, her stresses compounded by the pressures of fame, killed herself in 2002.，犹该故事如是说，

on the go谓忙来忙去，例如Download and access VPL anywhere, anytime and on-the-go.，这里语义似偏于“不安定地在路上”，又如I got a new job this year where I am on the go all the time.，这里仅仅言其忙碌。

good

有时意义偏于量，兼言质。多为固定说法，须记忆，例如There is a good chance that I won’t be here next year.，又如There is good evidence that being physically active has an impact on lung health.。

grease

grease the wheels of sth.犹言促进，如The majority of the lies we tell are “white”, the inconsequential niceties – “I love your dress!” – that grease the wheels of human interaction.，又如They hope that the text cuts would grease the wheels of the economy.

had

过去完成时可以带时间点，例如The detectives were expecting a valuable parcel of diamonds from South Africa. A few hours earlier, someone had told the police that thieves would try to steal the diamonds.，又如

hand

谓一局牌，例如‘Play crib?’ Pop said with great cheerfulness. ‘What about a couple of hands at crib?’，或如‘Who wants to play a hand of poker?’，又如’I’ll have to leave after this hand.’

go hand in hand，谓密不可分，例如R&B and the art of studio-craft go hand-in-hand.。

hang

hang-hung-hung，除吊死一义为hang-hanged-hanged。

hang on谓抓紧（防摔），例如Please hang on to the handrail while using the stairs.。

hang on亦用于要对方停停先别继续，例如Hang on - I’m not quite ready. 以上两义比较hold on。

hang on亦可表挺到底，例如O’Neil hoped his side might be given a penalty in stoppage time, but, this time, he could have no complaints as a relieved Arsenal hung on.

get the hang of sth.，把握要领，宾语多为it，语感上可能趋于形式宾语，例如It takes a bit of practice but is pretty easy once you get the hang of it.。亦有接v-ing.的例子如The kids are beginning to get the hang of marching in formation.。

have

生小孩用have，例如We had a daughter last year and I’ve put on about 30 pounds.，又如She married Oscar Chopin, moved to New Orleans, and had six children.，这些have都是强动性的。

主句用现在完成时，小句的时态不必随主句倒退（因为主句的时还是现在），如The musician Noel Gallagher has admitted he struggles to remember the words to some of the hits he created with his younger brother Liam in their band Oasis.

have to虽然语义约当must，但仍富有一般动词的价值，因此可以接在动词或模态动词后面，注意就例句体会口气，如Other traffic shouldn’t have to change direction or slow down for you.（有“全然不必”之意味，口气较强），又如I have gone into the arrangements of the house rather fully here because I don’t want to have to go over them again later.

决定一类动作，发生于过去，影响现在，讨论时常常用完成时（而非过去时），例如Why are you living in the UK? Why have you chosen to be here?，注意体会运用。

head

come to a head谓坏到无法敷衍，必须了断，例如On December 23, 1948, Davis's irritation with what he considered Parker's lack of professionalism came to a head.。又有bring sth. to a head，例如The chairman's resignation finally brought matters to a head.。

hearty

hale and hearty，俗语，谓老人健硕，例如She was as hale and hearty in her seventies as she was on the day that Nehemiah jilted her at the altar.，其中hale现代不单用，语源为whole，仅用于该成语押头韵。

heat

有压力一义，（偏指令人须使劲不放松）。例如We need to put the heat on those guys so that they finally pay the debts to us.，又如 Victory for Arsenal at Sheffield United this evening is therefore non-negotiable if they want to keep some heat on the top two.，又如Can he take the heat of this level of competition?。

hefty

形容数量巨大，例如Trying some hefty exponentiation, we can see that we can compute with some pretty big numbers such as 2^1000 as illustrated below.。

hell

as/like hell用在形容词后面加强语气，如Phil Foden looked hungry as hell when he came on against us.，又如They were mad as hell.。亦有as adv. as hell一式，如We’ve been working as hard as hell to finish on schedule.。亦可用在动词后，如If you asked me I believed she cared like hell for Richard Carey.

hilarious

极其搞笑。

hold

hold up the line谓排队（如排队结账）时一个人太慢，把后面的人拖住，Just try to go when it's less busy so you don't hold up the line.。

home

介词常用from，如The 40-year-old from North Carolina works from home running her family business, Big Al’s Pub & Grubberia.，又如I'll call you from home later.。

be/feel at home with谓习于某物，人的例子如She was at home with her father's people. With her mother's, she felt strange.，物的例子如I've never really feel completely at home with all these new-fangled machines.，

hope

in hopes of doing/that，无冠词，例如Many Canadians, however, wait for years on provincial family doctor waitlists. Others have to call around town in hopes of finding someone willing to accept them.。另式为in (the) hope of/that，希望某事发生，冠词可有可无，例如He waited in the hope that she would show up.。

horseplay

推搡打闹，不可数，例如工地标语有云No horseplay or any kind will be tolerated.，又如In the factories, workers repeatedly defied safety rules and practices, dismantled machine guards, and engaged in horseplay.

host

a host of谓许许多多，可以是人，如Billie Eilish, Peter Gabriel, Sheryl Crow and a host of other artists have joined forced for a new coalition against gun violence.，可以是物，如Lavender oil can relieve a whole host of ailments.

human/human being

human和human being可视作相等。

指人类可数，例如Humans have been trying to overcome this problem for millennia.，又如That is no way to treat another human being.

hunt

hunt down谓捉拿，例如Ecuador’s president, Daniel Noboa, has denied that his government is embarking on an indiscriminate campaign to hunt down and kill gang members.，又如The tellers know my face, and the transaction is linked to my bank account. My mom banks there. I used to go to school with one of their tellers, too. They could hunt me down by crossing the street.。

hustle

side-hustle谓副业，例如John works in accounting but the gym, counting his protein and maintaining his build, is his side-hustle.。

in

机器设在某个档位，用in，例如When you wash laundry in cold, few harmful microfibres end up in the ocean.

树木枝叶一类，介词可用in，例如I went from nodding, smiling, talking too loudly and saying: “Eh?” all the time to speaking more softly, hearing the wind in the leaves, the birds in the trees.，又如I quickly climbed up a nearby tree and hid in the branches.。

inordinately

程度副词，言出奇地，例如That day was inordinately hot.，又如It makes me inordinately happy.。

inside

口语以insides谓肠子和胃，例如He complained of a pain in his insides.，又如Ashton Wilcox, 8, points to a dead hedgehog snagged in the rocks of a stream at Battle Hill. “Look, its insides are moving”, he says with alarm.。

ironing

熨的衣服（犹laundry谓洗的衣服），例如On a morning in April the Brigadier’s sister, going upstairs with a small pile of ironing and suddenly lacking strength to reach the top, had simply sat down on the middle steps and quietly died.。

熨衣的工作，通常言to do the ironing。

jail/gaol

表抽象概念，无冠词，例如There's a threshold of handsomeness. If you're over it, you're a photographer; if you're below it, you're in jail.，又如His lawyer worked hard to keep him out of jail.，又如Maybe I should let him know I’m going to have you arrested and put in jail.。

job

on the job谓在工作场合中，例如More than a dozen officers have shot multiple civilians on the job without facing consequences.，又如You’ll get on-the-job training.。

keep

作make sure之类用，更自然，例如The best way to do this, says Dulak, is to “keep your books visible – not under the bed – and in the same place so you always know where they are”.，

keep to oneself谓不喜与人交接，例如It's hard with the Sakkaros. They keep to themselves. I don't even know what Mr. Sakkaro does for a living.

key

the key to sth./doing sth.，例如the key to success等，或者The key to eating a Meddiet cheaply is to go for canned and frozen foods, which are just as nutritious.。

know

谓初识，瞬间动词，例如A long time ago, you knew Tom Briggs.，又如I’ve known David for 20 years.。

knowing

意谓心领神会，例如The surviving members of the band, now in their 70s and 80s, chose London’s Hackney Gazette to reveal details of the new record to their knowing fans.，又Stones aficionados have been enjoying sharing the many knowing references in the advert to the band’s history, lyrics and iconography.，或如a knowing smile/look**.

knowledge

in the knowledge that作状语，相当于knowing that而更地道轻巧，例如I do recognise the same essential impulse: to grab at life, tug at the details and hold on to them in the knowledge that although each moment, each thought may be fleeting and tenuous, together they make up the substance of our lives, day by day, year by year until we reach the final page.。注意此前可再连表肯定的形容词，例如I went to sleep secure in the knowledge that I was not alone in the house.，再如They could relax safe in the knowledge that they had the funding for the project.。

lace

动词谓投毒，结构为lace sth. with sth.例如Another EEG-based test was used in 2008 to convict a 24-year-old Indian woman named Aditi Sharma of murdering her fiancé by lacing his food with arsenic.

last

see the last of，谓见最后一次，例如Fans of thriller writer David Cornwell – better known by his pen name John le Carré – may have thought they had seen the last of recurring protagonist George Smiley when the author died in 2020.。

laundry

指洗的衣物，例如When you wash laundry in cold, few harmful microfibres end up in the ocean.。

lead

lead to sb. doing sth.，例如The literary scandal led to Corrain posting an apology, being dropped by her agent and having her book deal cancelled.。

least

the least bit谓一丁点，例如She's always looking at the sky, and she's never been out when it's the least bit cloudy.，又如Alice was not the least bit frightened.。

left

pick up where sb. left off谓从中断处重新开始。注意此为成语，left off无须退为过去完成时，例如Once he returned, though, he picked up where he left off and continued to score at a blistering pace, averaging more than a goal per game in the league.。

lesser

副词谓程度低，语义上仍带有比较，例如Following the stress of the 0-0 draw against City, this was an easier ride, Arsenal moving back above ­Liverpool to the top of the table, Arteta able to enjoy the impact of some of his lesser used players.，

let

著述中let the reader + vp.字样，犹言请读者如何，例如Let the reader state carefully the interpretation of these definitions, and establish the following propositions.。

life

There is more to life than doing sth.谓人生之意义远为丰富深奥，例如There is more to life than watching millionaires exercise.

light

come to light谓事实一类公开（原先隐秘），例如All these secrets we kept from each other have finally come to light.，

long

可做副词，犹for a long time，例如After 9/11, the US government – long an enthusiastic sponsor of deception science – started funding other kinds of brain-based lie-detection work.，又如These reforms are long overdue.

loom

loom large谓问题渐趋严重，例如But another standoff with the club looms large, and Mbappé’s potential involvement in the Olympics is increasingly likely to be his send-off from his home city.，又如The prospect of war loomed large.。

low

on a low note谓气氛不愉悦，例如Our vacation ended on a low note when our flight was delayed.，亦有省为on a low者，例如When I hated doing the dishes, even delicious meals ended on a low.。

lucrative

/ˈluːkrətɪv/. 油水丰厚能生财，例如Holmes was lucrative for Conan Doyle, but the author decided to kill him off once he had earned him enough money, sending him over a Swiss waterfall in 1893.。

lunge

扑向，介词不一，例如She landed on her feet and let out one long screech. Then she lunged for Nehemiah.，又如He took out a knife and lunged at her.，又如She lunged forward and snatched the letter from me.。

luxury

谓享受可数，例如There was still money in her wallet. Her next luxury was going to see a play.，又如A comfortable bed to sleep in is a luxury that we take for granted.。

make

有弄饮食一义，不必等于制作，例如Diane made some milk and took it to mother.，又如

犹reach，且用法较灵活，例如He followed her on light springy steps, hoping she might possibly slip and fall in a harmless sort of way so that he could have the pleasure of picking her up but to his disappointment she made the boat without a trip or stumble.，意义实在，至于I’m sorry I couldn’t make your party last night.，则略为虚化，至于The story made the front pages.，或He’ll never make the team.，或We just managed to make the deadline.，虽皆可释以reach，但意思相当虚化，近于固定表达，须记忆。

make for谓去往某处，例如They made for the centre of town.，又如The midfielder’s shot from outside the area curled away from Alphonse Areola to find the far corner and that sound you heard were of seats clicking back and people making for the exits.

make off谓匆匆逃离，例如The thieves reportedly made off with £1m worth of jewellery and watches.。

make do with谓把某物先将就着用，例如Arsenal will have to make do with their existing squad.，又如Can you make do with $5 for now and I will give you the rest tomorrow?。

manage

manage可以替代及物动词用，后接数量，例如I read 51 books. In 2023, I managed 56.。

manner

manners复数，礼貌，多以good/bad修饰，例如If one cannot avoid yawning, good manners require that the hand should be placed before the mouth.。

matter

no matter what谓无论如何，例如He had decided to publish the manuscript no matter what.，又如We have to win all our matches no matter what. Win all our matches to prove to everyone and to ourselves that we can handle the pressure and not “choke”.。

mean

物言be meant for sb.，谓为某人所设，例如The chair was clearly meant for a child.，又如God please protect Declan Rice; transfer any injury meant for him to my Ex.。

means

By all means.犹言当然行，口语常用，例如”May I borrow this book.” “By all means.”，又如Want to read something into her lyrics? By all means. Want to scrutinise the moles on Lavigne’s body in detail? Go ahead, creep.。

merry-go-round

旋转木马，或类似转盘但不具有马形的。

复数为merry-go-rounds。

middle-aged

形容词，前置，例如One middle-aged woman looked at him and thought he looked charming in his sleep.。

money

moneys或monies为法律用法，表示款项，例如Mr Holmes used monies obtained by the loan agreements to fund a property development venture in or around Vancouver, Canada.

more

more or less犹言差不多，后接the same常见，例如The next moment he was sitting on the stairs, at more or less the same place where his sister had sat herself down.。

morning

all morning谓一早上，例如It was a very hot day, and after walking all morning in the sun, he became tired and sleepy.。

most

most of all作为插入语提出重点，如We lie to our employers, our partners and, most of all, one study has found, to our mothers.，又如I do hope you enjoy this book and, most of all, I hope it puts you to sleep. Fast.。

most置于动词后，一般现在时，犹言最能如何，注意没有the，例如Offering myself a few moments to pause helps me orient my attention and heart to what matters most.，又如The people it helps most, though, are people who are not able to get as great access to other ways to get fluoride.。

nail

the final nail in the coffin谓最后的致命一击，例如Watkins put the final nail in Arsenal’s coffin with a dinked finish deflected into the top corner late on to send Emery and the Villa supporters into dreamland and leave Arsenal’s expecting the worst.，又如The latest evidence could be the final nail in the coffin for Jackson's case.。

name

name after谓以某命名，例如His most famous composition was the hit "Lullaby of Birdland", written in 1952 and titled after the New York jazz club named after Charlie Parker.，注意此句中连用两处。

nifty

精妙炫技，例如You'll want to go through a more extensive introduction to programming to learn the full extent of what you can do with Python, but you can still do some pretty nifty stuff by just playing around.，又如There’s some nifty guitar work on his latest album.。

nightstand

床头柜，例如I keep my gua sha – a smooth, flat crystal for massaging my face – on my nightstand so it’s easy to remember to use it.

no

口语习惯，可在否定句最后重复no，例如I would not describe their style as particularly formal, no.

后面可以跟复数，例如No two days are the same.，又如The book contains no startling new discoveries.。

nod

nod off，俗语谓坐着打磕冲，例如When I get back to work, I’m energised, rather than nodding off at my desk.。

nose

under one’s nose，在眼皮子底下，例如’Had a fox fetch a goose the other night,’ Ma said. ‘Right under our noses.’

not

not that犹言并不是说，例如’Good for your figure,’ Pop said, with some enthusiasm and several more rapid glances at it. ‘Not that it’s not good now.’

[kagtobio]

I realised that I said I would be posting all my pets but i only really post half of them so let me introduce them all :D in order:

The Butt: he is 8 and my baby, his mum (my mums old cat) had him and rejected him so I raised him

Latte: she is 7, me and my housemate adopted her in 2020 and she is a bit of bitch but we love her anyway

Gabriel (Agreste): my grumpy old man! He is 10, and he sounds like he has been smoking for the last 40 years. Me and my housemate adopted him in 2021 and he is a sweet boy that is scared of his own shadow but is also a grump at the same time

Frankfurt (aka Frank): he is a northern blue tongue lizard, my sweet grumpy boy. my first reptile i had gotten. I rescued him from a terrible home in 2021 and he is a lot happier now even if he hates me lmao.

Ramen: she is a wheatbelt stimsons and about 6-7. I got her in 2021 also, she is an ex breeder so because of that she associates humans only with food (previous home only interacted with her to feed and clean. so if i take her out she is 100% likely to have a food response to some part of my body, so to avoid stressing her out i only get her out if i have to.

Fettuccine: he is a patternless childrens python, my mum tells me its obvious he is my favourite child and i think she is very wrong but anyway fettuccine is my sweet baby boy, i got him in 2022 but his hatch day is 18/12/21, the day after my birthday 🥰 so he is nearly two omg

Carbonara: she is a marble childrens python. I got her this year, she hatched last year on 24/12/22 so she is almost a year old, she is also super sweet but it takes her a moment to get out of food mode when i pull her out she gets super excited looking around for her food she is adorable

bonus latte at the end to even it out

anyway those are all my babies

[denimbex1986]

'This weekend’s anniversary of the end of World War II, coming at a time when we continue to talk heatedly about the film “Oppenheimer,” reminds me of how long I showed images of the Hiroshima mushroom cloud to introduce class lectures on wartime Japan. They were dramatic; they evoked power; they were horrific. And students loved them.

I could have used other images. I might have shown a photo of a man I met in 1979 at the Hiroshima bomb memorial. Standing with his daughter in front of thousands of peace cranes, he told me she was 34 but had the mind of an 8-year-old — because she was born on the day the bomb was dropped. Her mother died, and she survived.

Or I could have talked about Dr. Michihiko Hachiya, who saw a flash on the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, after a night’s work in a Hiroshima hospital. He jumped up to go outside and find what caused the flash. When he looked down, he saw that his clothes had vanished; he was naked.

But I preferred the cloud image because it attracted students.

In later years, my attraction to that image waned, however, as I saw how it over-simplified the bomb, capturing its power but not its tragedy. I largely stopped showing it.

After seeing “Oppenheimer,” I have become more certain than ever that we must begin looking at the bomb — at all nuclear weapons — in a more nuanced and honest way if our world is to remain livable.

When we hear the father of the atomic bomb say, “All war becomes unthinkable,” when we see him grapple with what he produced, we should be warned about the danger of accepting the easy-to-chew narratives that still shape our understanding of Hiroshima — and of nuclear weapons today.

The decision to drop the bomb was not, as President Harry Truman suggested, a simple one. Nor did it represent any consensus that 1 million American GIs would die if an invasion of Japan were necessary. Estimates of how many Americans would be killed in fighting on Japan’s mainland varied greatly in discussions about whether to use nuclear weapons, but most military experts then put the losses in the tens of thousands. The million figure became “truth” only when Secretary of War Henry Stimson introduced it in a 1947 Harper’s magazine article.

There also were disagreements about whether the bomb should be used at all. The debates were fierce, with Stimson expressing doubts and Secretary of State George Marshall opposing the use of nuclear weapons against civilians. Fleet Admiral William Leahy called them barbaric.

And there was sharp disagreement about whether atom bombs even were needed to make Japan surrender. Today’s historical consensus is that Japan would have surrendered by the end of 1945, regardless. After the war, President Dwight Eisenhower said he had argued against dropping atom bombs because Japan’s defeat already was assured. We already had killed enough Japanese with regular bombs — nearly 90,000 on a single March night in Tokyo, for example — to make continuation of the war next to impossible.

The decision to open the nuclear age was understandable. Wartime invites costs-be-damned thinking. But such thinking in this case unnecessarily opened the door to the possibilities that frightened Oppenheimer — possibilities that could quite literally end human civilization.

That being the case, we must look at the war-driven language that saturates our discussions of Europe and Asia today.

We continue to be told that Ukraine has no choice but to fight until the Russians are driven out yet hear almost nothing about the more honest and complicated truth: That the only way to avoid endlessly continuing deaths and destruction is through negotiations.

On the other side of the globe, our officials toss around confrontational language about China, labeling Xi Jinping a “dictator” and threatening to employ “all” military options, with no discussion of the devastation that would result if we stumbled into war with nuclear-armed China.

People are right to condemn Vladimir Putin’s aggression and Xi Jinping’s threats against Taiwan. But the short-sighted, war-fogged thinking that brought us Hiroshima still dominates our discussions of Ukraine and eastern Asia. This time, however, it is a world stocked not with two small bombs but 10,000 massive nuclear weapons.

One only wishes Oppenheimer had been right when he pronounced war unthinkable in a nuclear-armed world, a world that could be destroyed before climate change even gets its own chance to do so.'

[oldmke]

The old Cross Keys hotel on the northeast corner of N. Water and E. Detroit Sts. is a simple, unassuming looking building. One would not readily believe it to be the oldest building on the oldest street in Milwaukee. The curved limestone slab over the second floor window puts the date of construction at 1853. No one would believe the Cross Keys' violent life either - several times it was nearly destroyed by fire; it has lost one of its original four stories, and it has sunk five feet into the marsh over which it was built. The Cross Keys has undergone a number of name changes - Stimson's Hotel, American House, Juneau House, Russell House to mention a few - but remains most familiar by its first name. The only original thing about the historic building, however, is the remains of its brick exterior. Photograph and information provided by the Milwaukee Public Library local history collection.

[curiousskelekitty]

Hey, I'm sleep deprived and blasted on weed, let's see the reasons why I think I'm autistic

I'm awakemd super from a super high nap. And it's by the smoke and smell of incenst and can't get back to sleep until incest was out and fan on

Eye contact? Either really focused on making it and not listening or focused on conversation and eyes Drifting away

Say exact same way of hello at job

And other things

Sensitive to wet and cold so much that made it part of her image

Staying awake to make this list

Even though I'm supe r high and running on 3 hors sleep, latte, and pizza and 4 hb eggs

Adhd 

Special interest in pokemon most of 26 year life

Creative

And loves child things like video game sand toys, special plush toys

And weird sex too

Like even when child me MASTURBAGED WITHOUT KNOW WHAT IT WAS

sorry tmi 

Holy ahky I discovered something abot me that I didn't know

Wow

Anyways

Loves reading

And loud music during loud lunch during hs

Sensitive to loud noises like toilet as child

An dlole sonic

Oh shit

It late

Waited blanket for win! Special as adult

Fighting slep to write this once again

Super shy

Talked in labg with sister when 

Adhd

Goes to speech therapy 

Because I don't talk

Or maybe lisp

Idk

Imaginary friends until second grade

First friend grade younger 

No friends in my grade until MIDLE SCHOOL

I think

Sorry no remember 

This list loooooong

Writing still very clean

Nose so dry

Oh shkt Don her 

He didn't say anything about me being up

I'm supposed to be asleep

Sh

lol

Argue with my self 

Like all the time

I even fight with my ocs

lol

Autism brain go

Special cartoon likeys 

Just explained idea for video for YouTube to boo and we might collaborate

My mouth so drunk 

Suuuuuper sensitive to socks on feet at night! Even in winter

But can't walk out iputaide without shoes 

Can feel EVERYTHKNG 

Loves swimming

BUT NOT RAIN

RAIN MAKE USBWEY

sinuses dry as hell  I can feel the air coming in my nose and down my throat

Hereditary 

Also likes anime and furries

Has phases of certain likes or Dislikes

Like love reading but then don't love reading

Hating spicy for most of life

But finding a love from some as long as there's flavors 

Mexico is so pretty

Making list like this

All the time

Will hypet focus on certain things for maybe a week

And it goes in curses 

Ow though hurt for typing 

Do stretches kids

Never admitted to watching porn whe her life insists of romances 

Daydreamer

Ever since litter

First lover

Cucumber Larry

When he gets suck on by giat alien ad hero

That turned me on

AS A KID IN CHURCH

not even four years old

wft

This might be really revealing about me and my life

…

Okay

This Is where I add more to the title of this video

To warn me of the dangers

Of whatever the fuck I'm on

Could probably make this list over 200 points 

Listn3s to music at night 

Might be slightly dyslexic 

Swimming

Vocal Stimson

When found out about stimming

Showed more stimming

So mad

Just took like 1 min to fix stimmong to swimming 

Make little songs whole life

Wow hide in DC bathroom. And sing sad songs to my self

Don't really to that anymore

Ah shit it's late

I need to pee

Sleeps with toys still

Like stuffed animals

Once could not fall sleep until Carla into toybox

Only woke up because got hot

BISEXUAL AD FUCK

when I was little I was looking g in the mirror and ask if I was more otm boy or girly Gil and decided I was in the middle

If that not nonbinary as FUCK than what is

Thinking g about if the video went famous and FIL saw and reacted

Whole family know

Please be warned 

Really sensitive about certain flavores in certain tempt

Those might go on Tumblr though

Incous make a lookout of people laugh 

And no one would know

Damn thos list loomg

STRETCH TIME

often godb what if whole world kno

I could go on and on

But I think I will conclude here 

Thank you everyone for reading

Good night

LoL

You wish

I'm very empathic

I forget words all the time

Especially with age

Always had bad memory

Selective hearing

Forms who they are around eho they with

But my baby let me be me❤️

Sinsirve tk sounds

I'm probably going to talk to my therapist about this list next week

Realized made horrible ablist joke in my head and realized it and was like tf why

Intrusive thoughts

Holly fuck

I can do this

And this

And

This 

So easily 

I love animals 

Dep3ndent and independent at the same time

Anxiety 

Depression 

I'm still making the list dumbadd

My bad

Too much of a topical thing like lotion makes me feel icky 

Hated mosquitoe spray because of sticky residue and smell

Hayes perfume

Sensitive to some smells, like perfume

Body pray okay tho

And candles

Loves sweets

LOVES TO READ

Can't focus on reading

Super aware of body

Hates being touched unexpected or by stranger

Said loved all colors and didn't have official favorite color until like first grade because didn't want to hurt other colors favorite

Still doesn't have least favorite color

"Lazy"

But I'm not suppsoes to coll me that

Realistic

Made day dreams befo3e bed every night

Had one going on for about a month

Googles everything 

Okay I'll go to 200

Then I'll go to sleep

Lover of computers when little

Still love them

Have several unwritten stories to tell, including like three books and three or more wannabe books

Wrote toriko slitty fanfiction church

Drew a the time

Sonic the hedged hog fan

Loves pun so much

Made up "Copper later" for funny goodbye

Lives all her sisters

And all bet peanut

Hates pumpkin guts and still hate the feeling of them

Picky eater

May13b first 2023

Special interest in music

Went into band for school ad a trumpet and played for most of life until high school graduates but was never good at it.

That sucks

I could've learned how to song better

Now that I realize my voice is good and can be better

Hates needles 

Squeamish 

Spiritual 

Loves crystals Spiritually

Believes in a carefree, unknowing god

Two more to go

AUTISM BLAST

Weird obsession with sex since really little

Oh shkt

Just remembered something

That I never told anyone! Fucm 

I won't tell you guys

Never

Okay 

Good night

I love you

[youremyonlyhope]

I listen to the Newsies soundtrack once and suddenly I’m back to being 18 year old Newsies trash again.

[by-soleil]

hard to say goodbye

Pairing: Kim Jungwoo x Female Reader

Word Count: 1.1K

Genre: fluff

Warning: kissing, fluffy puppy jungwoo

This fic was inspired by “Hard to Say Goodbye - Johnny Stimson”

A Jungwoo birthday special<3

Preview: Jungwoo help you realize that some things are worth the struggle.

•••

There are many things in life that you absolutely believe is a waste of time. For example, brewing your own coffee instead of getting it from your local starbucks, or laying in bed for more than five minutes after waking up when you could’ve been out and about. You value efficiency.

The same principle applies to your relationship matter, so you often—if not always—would drop everything and just bolt right out of it to save your ass the time and heartbreak at the first sign of things not working out. But upon meeting Jungwoo you’ve come to the realization that maybe you were just being skeptical. About a lot of things.

Jungwoo taught you that the extra 10 minutes it would take to grind your own coffee beans then pouring the hot water slowly in circular motion is worth it. Or the extra 15 minutes spent having a pillow talk in the morning would resulting you to be in a good mood for the better part of the day.

In other words, Jungwoo help you realize that some things are worth the struggle.

So, here you are. Laying down fully dressed in you pantsuit—all ready to go—next to your sleeping boyfriend. Your hands running through his hair, giving his scalp gentle scratch that make him smile in his sleep. Looking like a peaceful sleeping puppy. Making it hard to say goodbye.

The old you would’ve ended the relationship the minute you receive the email about your big promotion to New York. Knowing fully well that long distance relationship never worked. That it is a waste of time and energy, for both parties.

But thanks to Jungwoo, the first thing you did when you got the email was searching how long does the flight from your city to New York would take. Considering you’d be on it a few times a month. Gasping when the realization of how much you have and willing to change for Jungwoo hits.

You thought the goodbye would get easier the more times you had it. It doesn’t. Jungwoo makes it harder every time, making it feel like you die a little every single time.

Glancing at the alarm clock on his bedside table, you pull out your phone from your now wrinkled pantsuit, making a mental note to stop by your place for a quick change before going to the meeting as you order an uber.

Not wanting to waste anymore time, you lean in to kiss him. Waking him up.

“Good morning, love.” You breathe on his jaw.

Jungwoo starts to squirm, stretching his whole body before throwing his arms around you, pulling you into his embrace. “Good morning.” he sleepily grunts, kissing your temple. “Why do you have to be so great at everything you do and got placed in some big ass office so far away from me?” he whines.

You laugh, trying to shimmy yourself out of his grasp before your pantsuit look even more unpresentable.

It took you a good few minutes to finally free yourself from Jungwoo’s attack of affection. And when you finally stand beside his bed, his hands are reaching out to you, an attempt to pull you back in. Only to fall back into the mattress when you’re not budging. He closes his eyes and pretends to be asleep. Making you laugh.

Seeing your boyfriend laying shirtless on the bed, hair’s all messed up courtesy of you, your smile grow. You take a mental picture of the breathtaking view that is your boyfriend, knowing you will need it later.

Sensing your admiring gaze, Jungwoo chuckles. “Take a picture, won’t you? It’ll last longer.” handing you your phone from the bed.

You took the phone from his hand and slide the home screen to take a picture of Jungwoo. “Don’t mind if I do.” you say as the snapping sound of your camera fills the room.

Jungwoo suddenly sits up, grabbing his phone from the bedside table he smiles at you. “Okay, my turn.” he says pointing the camera at you.

You quickly throw your hands to cover his phone, “Babe, no. My clothes all ruined because of you.”

“Well, then take it off.” he throws you a suggestive smile. Making you whine even more. Definitely don’t need the mental picture of you both shirtless on the bed and everything that would follow after, when your uber is probably around the corner.

Missing a flight because of a prolonged goodbye is nothing new to you. But this time you really couldn’t afford it. The meeting this afternoon is something you’ve been preparing for for weeks. And nothing, not even your love for this puppy-eyed boyfriend of yours could keep you from that.

“Believe me, if I could stay, I would.” you reach for his hands to pull him out of bed. “My ubers gonna be here any minute now.”

When you finally manage to get your boyfriend dressed and out of the bedroom, he pulls you into a hug. “I don’t like this.” he murmurs to your hair.

“Do you think I do? The worst part of loving you is leaving.” you mumble to his chest. And he tightens his hug even more.

“I don’t want you to leave.” he mumbles.

“I don’t want to, but I have to. I already feel so lonely.” you sigh loudly. Burying you face even deeper on his chest.

“I wish I could be at two places at once. So the other one of me could just follow you around like a lost puppy.” he squeezes you, lifting you off the ground. Making you laugh for god knows how many times this morning.

The two of you stay glued to each other until your phone vibrates. “My uber’s here. Unfortunately.”

He helps you carry the small carry on filled with two days worth of clothes. Placing it on the trunk of the uber and say nonchalantly to the driver, “Please be careful. You’re carrying my whole world right here.” that resulting in unison scoff from both you and the uber driver.

“Don’t worry man, I gotchu, I gotchu.” the driver said, st-ill chuckling.

Embarrassed, you quickly kiss Jungwoo and climb inside the uber. “See you Friday.” you tell him quickly. Before waving at him as the car starts moving.

When Jungwoo’s finally out of sight, you can’t help but laugh at how sappy the goodbye was when the two of you will be reuniting in less than a week. But then again, Jungwoo seemed to keep pulling the best—or maybe the worst—in you.

Either way, you love it. You’d love everything the world has to offer as long as Jungwoo is in it.

•••

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my taglist are open<3

[fireinmywoods]

not made for sorrow: a McKirk playlist

[listen on Spotify]

Playlist details under the cut, along with YouTube links if you prefer to avoid Spotify.

1. infinite space / young mister

I am a stranger on this planet / People nod their heads when I speak

2. hello my old heart / the oh hellos

Are you still there inside my chest? / I’ve been so worried - you’ve been so still / Barely beating at all

3. hiding / florence + the machine

I know there’s a part of you that I just cannot reach / You don’t have to let me in

4. flaws / bastille

You have always worn your flaws upon your sleeve / And I have always buried them deep beneath the ground

5. pride (won’t get us where we’re going) / thad cockrell

And oh, we’re finally free to know the gravity / That we can overcome, we can overcome

6. wild world / johnny stimson

Everybody’s got a hurt that’s healing / It’s you and I in the same place

7. someone to you / banners

I never had nobody and no road home / I wanna be somebody to someone

8. in the meantime / randall kent

When you don’t belong anywhere you go / In the meantime I’ll be your home

9. safe place to land / christian burghardt

You’re circling the atmosphere, unsure if I’ll disappear / I’m not going nowhere / Open your eyes

10. painting roses / dresses

‘Cause if home is where the heart is then I feel pretty stupid / My heart lies in your bones

11. mother tongue / joshua moss

No word in my mother tongue could explain now what you have done to me

12. paper planes / east of avenue

Me, I’ve been running round / Tired of moving all around when where you stand is where I should’ve been

13. roses / lunatic wolf

Our love became a rhythm / That I could not help but find

14. my heart is home / upstate

When I stopped running for my life / And all the pieces found their places

15. carry on  / young rising sons

I believe that life is worth it even if it’s scarred or frayed / You don’t have to be whole or perfect / No one is

16. no need for dreaming / misterwives

You overflowed my soul and made all good things grow / And now I know we’re not made for sorrow

[theculturedmarxist]

Schuman's propaganda piece on China's covid policies is even more sinister than I thought. It's less about the effectiveness of the policies (which it begrudgingly admits), and more about maligning Xi Jinping. It goes to pains to paint Xi as Mao, and not in a good way.

Much like Mao, Xi’s mere comments can send officials scrambling. Last August, he gave a talk about “common prosperity,” or narrowing income disparities, and the term instantaneously became all the rage, plastered across newspapers while executives rushed to open corporate wallets for poor farmers and other charitable causes. But the slogan has yet to evolve into a thought-out policy framework, creating yet more uncertainty. Bert Hofman, the director of the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore, told me in an email that “common prosperity” remained an “aspirational goal,” whereas “concrete measures are mostly still to be developed.”

In this way, Xi’s approach has taken on aspects of old, Maoist mass campaigns. Mao conceived the disastrous Great Leap Forward based on his conviction that China could catapult into the ranks of the advanced economies by sheer public effort alone. Workers and farmers just had to labor harder and longer, and keep the Communist faith. So, too, does Xi seem to believe that COVID can be overcome by national willpower. Having declared the battle with the virus a “people’s war,” Xi and his administration have characterized pandemic measures as an almost militaristic movement against an “invisible enemy,” which has required “tremendous sacrifice” and “solidarity and resilience” to achieve “victory.”

The aim seems to be painting him as dangerously unconstrained by the "pragmatic power sharing mechanisms" which are portrayed as responsible for China's rise. The article paints the governing body of the CCP as being sidelined in favor of unilateral control centralized in Xi, and that this is making China "unpredictable," a la hateful enemy of everything good, Russia.

“Xi has established a new model of the foreign-policy decision-making process that is focused on his sole authority,” Yun Sun, a senior fellow at the Stimson Center, recently explained. “Xi, his strategic personality, and his foreign-policy vision are the fundamental origin of China’s foreign-policy behavior today,” and thus “the assertiveness and coerciveness manifested are the direct result of Xi’s political beliefs and the system he has designed to enforce his vision.” That means security analysts will now have to factor Xi’s personal ambitions and political calculations into their projections of Chinese global policy. For instance, claiming Taiwan has long been a top priority for Beijing. Now a case can be made that having one man holding the levers of Chinese power, not properly constrained by an administration packed with cronies, makes war over the island more likely—akin to Vladimir Putin’s grab for Ukraine.

The punchline is the best part though.

Yet from an American perspective, Xi’s concentration of power isn’t all downside. By marginalizing the technocrats and constraining policy debates, Xi may be undercutting China’s competitive edge in its contest with Washington. His insistence on zero COVID, erratic attitude toward the private sector, and hostile foreign policy are combining to sap the economy’s vitality, depress investor sentiment, alienate more countries, and isolate the Chinese from the world. None of that bodes well for China’s future as a great-power competitor.

Pure cope. In reality, the opposite is true. Washington's refusal to deal with the covid crisis not only undermines its own credibility, but is degrading its "competitive edge" in all sectors. I can't speak to what sort of real, material effect the covid shutdowns and policies are having on China's economy, but even if they are negatively impacting China negatively, those impacts are going to be much less than millions of dead people, and millions more adversely effected or outright crippled by the disease, not to mention the economic fallout that will come as the disease continues to mutate and evolve. US capital has decided that the economy must stay open no matter what, and if it holds to that course, then at this rate it will inevitably collapse when infections and reinfections produce so many dead and disabled people that doing so is physically impossible. The irony is that this outcome is made even more likely by Schuman's bullshit. By painting completely sensible policies like travel restrictions to states with unchecked viral pandemics as insane dictatorial fiats, he undermines the ability of other countries to make similarly rational decisions.

The whole thing is just sickening propaganda aimed at justifying regime change in China and US's suicidal covid policies. Schuman should be dragged out into the street and shot.

[spectrewavesllp]

 Spectrewaves Paranormal on a Paranormal Investigation at Stimson Hospital Xcam Captures 

Spectrewaves Paranormal were at the Stimson Hospital, in Eaton Rapids, Michigan USA conducting a paranormal Investigation on the second floor in an area that used to be an elevator shaft, which has no longer has access to the top tower. We captured multiple figures on the Xcam, when suddenly our video capture stopped working. The last figure we captured on our POV cameras was a figure walking up stairs where stairs used to exist. We believe these entities use this area as some type of a portal.

Spectrewavesllp Paranormal Spectrewaves Paranormal

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