2022年2月14日 星期一

時事英文：Your blood group is......血型C型？:...she's just had a white wine and says you are on red." hip-hop headlined the Super Bowl halftime show, invoked a racial justice protest by taking a knee on music's biggest stage. Thinking Without Banisters.Yet in following her train of thought, we experience the illuminating force of her insights.


一尾活龍
七點半，搭輪椅出病房，先到護理站，再去三樓開刀房。排我前面的歐巴桑答錯題，護理師問她血型，她答曰ㄒ一型。護理人員驚到，交頭接耳，C型？妳確定嗎？歐巴桑說自己的血型「圓圓的，有一個缺口。」陪病者也不知道。
可病歷註明B啊。護理長堅持先下樓去急診室抽血驗血確定。後來我們在開刀室又相遇，是B型。「阿嬤記錯了」護理師說。她們會教阿嬤畫吧，以後可少挨一針。
There are 4 main blood groups (types of blood) – A, B, AB and O. Your blood group is determined by the genes you inherit from your parents. Each group can be either RhD positive or RhD negative, which means in total there are 8 blood groups.


"My mum think she's sat next to you on a train from Edinburgh right now so if you could confirm that would be amazing. Her name is Jane and she's just had a white wine and says you are on red."
Greg James makes friend on train after her daughter gets in touch on Twitter




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California Love.
For the first time hip-hop headlined the Super Bowl halftime show, starring Dr. Dre and proteges Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige and Eminem, who invoked a racial justice protest by taking a knee on music's biggest stage.
The Los Angeles Rams win Super Bowl 56, defeating the Cincinnati Bengals 23-20 in the NFL championship spectacle playing in their home stadium. The Rams took their only prior Super Bowl victory in 2000 when the club was based in St. Louis.
Full story: http://u.afp.com/wgBQ














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 Hannah Arendt’s reflections on judgment, thinking, moral action, and political courage show that she was not a system builder and was not interested in offering axioms by which to rearrange the world. Yet in following her train of thought, we experience the illuminating force of her insights.

Thinking Without Banisters
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Thinking Without Banisters
The proliferating crises of the American republic have prompted a reviva

Taking the knee (or taking a knee) is a symbolic gesture against racism whereby an individual kneels upon one knee in place of standing to attention for an anthem or other such occasion.

banister
ˈbanɪstə/
noun
noun: bannister
  1. the structure formed by the uprights and handrail at the side of a staircase.
    "he vaulted the banister"
    synonyms:handrail, railing, rail, balustrade, banisters;
    balusters
    • a single upright at the side of a staircase.
      "I stuck my head between the banisters"

banister


 音節
ban • is • ter
発音
bǽnəstər
banisterの変化形
banisters (複数形)
[名]
1 手すり子(baluster).
2 ((時に〜s))（階段の）手すり, 欄干.

［BALUSTERの変化形］


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