用法学习: 1. renegade ['reni,geid] n. I. 离经叛道的. a person who deserts his cause or faith for another; apostate; traitor. A disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause, religion, political party, friend, etc. a renegade priest. 同义词: apostate, defector, heretic, turncoat. 关于线程退出: You should specify a timeout, so you can abandon a renegade thread should it refuse to finish for some reason. This is your backup exit strategy: in the end, you want your application to close - without the user having to enlist help 寻求帮助 from the Task Manager! If a user uses the Task Manager to forcibly强制的 end a .NET process, all threads "drop dead" as though they were background threads. This is observed 被认为是 rather than documented behavior, and it could vary depending on the CLR and operating system version. Foreground threads don't require this treatment, but you must take care 必须多加小心 to avoid bugs that could cause the thread not to end. A common cause 常见原因 for applications failing to exit properly is the presence of active foregrounds threads. . II. any outlaw or rebel. apostate [ə'posteit -tit] 叛变者, 改变信仰的人 n. a person who abandons his religion, party, cause, etc. 2. cramp 抽筋. ( spasm 痉挛. ) I. A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled. A sudden, involuntary, spasmodic muscular contraction causing severe pain, often occurring in the leg or shoulder as the result of strain or chill. II. A temporary partial paralysis of habitually or excessively used muscles. temporary partial paralysis of a muscle group. writer's cramp. III. cramps Spasmodic contractions of the uterus, such as those occurring during menstruation or labor, usually causing pain in the abdomen that may radiate to the lower back and thighs. IV. (usually plural in the US and Canada) severe abdominal pain. v. To suffer from or experience cramps. My leg/muscles cramped up. cramp2. I. Also called cramp iron a strip of metal with its ends bent at right angles, used to bind masonry. II. a device for holding pieces of wood while they are glued; clamp. III. something that confines or restricts. vt. I. to secure or hold with a cramp. II. to confine, hamper, or restrict. cramp (someone's) style Informal to prevent (a person) from using his abilities or acting freely and confidently. to prevent someone from enjoying themselves as much as they would like, especially by going somewhere with them. to limit someone in some way. I hope this doesn't cramp your style, but could you please not hum while you work? To ask Bob to keep regular hours would really be cramping his style. Are you sure you don't mind your old mother coming along with you? I'd hate to cramp your style. writer's cramp 手腕酸疼. 手指酸疼 (idiomatic) An debilitating pain preventing easy movement of the wrist, hand, or fingers, resulting from prolonged use of a pen or pencil. Henry James, after he suffered an attack of writer's cramp, began to dictate to a typist. Christmas dividend checks and checks covering Christmas presents to his employees were always signed by him. . . . He had writer's cramp by the time he finished. brain cramp 大脑失忆, 大脑短路 A temporary mental lapse, such as an inability to remember something, to focus one's attention, to understand something, or to perform some other mental task of which one would ordinarily be capable. I had a brain-cramp there for a minute, the smile said, but now sanity has reasserted itself. Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry suffered through a cringe-inducing brain cramp during a recent prime-time television debate and was unable to name the third agency of government that he, as president, would eliminate. 2. bootleg n. I. To make, sell, or transport (alcoholic liquor) for sale illegally. II. 盗版的. an illegally made copy of a CD, tape, etc. To produce, distribute, or sell without permission or illegally: a clandestine outfit that bootlegs compact discs and tapes. v.intr. I. To engage in the bootlegging of alcoholic liquor or another product. II. To attach a transmitter to a dish antenna, creating an uplink via which a signal is sent to a satellite without the knowledge of the satellite's owner. III. Football To fake a hand-off, conceal the ball on the hip, and roll out in order to pass or especially to rush around the end. Used of a quarterback. adj. Produced, sold, or transported illegally. produced, distributed, or sold illicitly. bootleg whisky bootleg tapes. bootleg gin; bootleg tapes. I shouldn't trust the judgement of a woman who's off selling bootleg Metallica T-shirts at a monster truck rally. wiki: Bootlegging非法走私, or Rum-running, the illegal transport of alcoholic beverages. Bootlegging, the illegal operation of a speeder on a railway. Smuggling, the clandestine transportation of goods or persons. Bootleg recording, an otherwise unavailable audio or video recording of a live performance. Bootleg (radio), also known as pirate radio. jet lag 时差: A temporary disruption of bodily rhythms caused by high-speed travel across several time zones typically in a jet aircraft. A: Some people take herbal medicine, but there's really no solid proof that it works. Some people take sleeping pills and try to sleep for the whole flight. B: Yeah, everyone is different. But I believe there are a few things that can definitely make jet lag a little easier to deal with. For one, don't drink alcohol on flights. It dehydrates you and only makes jet lag worse. A: Oh, I usually have a few drinks when I fly. Maybe I'll stick to water next time. B: Water is best because you really need to stay hydrated, especially when you're breathing the dry air in an airplane. If you get there and it's dinner time, go eat... try to adapt 适应 as quickly as possible and sometimes you'll adjust quicker. If you get super tired in the afternoon, take a catnap, but don't sleep for hours. Your body will slowly accept a new sleep-wake cycle. sea legs pl.n. The ability to adjust one's balance to the motion of a ship, especially in rough seas. your sea legs the ability to keep your balance when walking on a moving ship and not feel ill. It took me a while to get my sea legs, but I feel fine now. Getting your sea legs in this rough water requires concentration. I felt seasick at first, but I soon got my sea legs. I would be airsick ( ship sick ) please give me some pills. What's the matter? losing your sea legs. 3. collapse 摔倒, 跌倒. 晕倒. 崩塌. 坍塌. I. (intr) to fall down or cave in suddenly. the whole building collapsed. II. (intr) to fail completely. his story collapsed on investigation. III. (intr) to break down or fall down from lack of strength. n. I. The act of falling down or inward, as from loss of supports. II. An abrupt failure of function, strength, or health; a breakdown. III. An abrupt loss of perceived value or of effect: the collapse of popular respect for the integrity of world leaders. A crêpe or crepe 法国软饼, 片片儿. ([kreɪp] or [krɛp]) is a type of very thin pancake, usually made from wheat flour or buckwheat flour (galettes). 4. 央行淡化房价泡沫理论: Australia's central bank downplayed talk record low interest rates are creating a nascent ( ['næsənt 'nei-] 正在形成的 Coming into existence; emerging: "the moral shock of our nascent imperialism".) housing bubble even as the rest of the economy sags from a slowing mining boom. Housing is the one bright spot 亮点 in the resource-rich资源密集型 economy, with house prices, auction clearance rates, and home loan approvals all rising in recent months. Some economists are concerned those gains have been driven disproportionately by interest in housing as an investment rather than broad-based demand for new homes. "We shouldn't be rushing to reach for the bubble terminology every time the rate of house price increases is higher than average," Mr. Edey said. "You are just going to be unrealistically alarmist by making that call." Mr. Edey said house prices were an area for the central bank to watch. Still, he said house prices in Australia in the last 10 years have risen roughly in line with household income growth. Central banks worldwide have been experimenting with targeting specific pockets of financial excess -- in particular the real estate sector, which was at the center of the global financial crisis. New Zealand's central bank last month announced it would impose new curbs on mortgage lending from Oct. 1 for home buyers able to make only small downpayments, aiming to keep house prices in check while maintaining low interest rates to shield the wider economy from global economic shocks. 5. Precision ([pri'siʒən]) 精度, 精确度, 精准. 如一个数字精确到小数点后多少位数 VS Accuracy (准确度, 准度, 指一个数字和真实数据间的差距. ): The DateTime struct represents dates as a 64 bit number that measures the number of "ticks" since a particular start date. Ten million ticks equals one second. That's a quite high degree of precision. You can represent dates and times to sub-microsecond accuracy with a DateTime, which is typically more precision than you need. Not always, of course; on modern hardware you can probably execute a couple hundred instructions in one tick, and therefore if you want timings that are at the level of precision needed to talk about individual instructions, the tick is too coarse 太糙了, 太不精确了 a measure. The problem that arises with having that much precision is of course that it is very easy to assume that a given value is as accurate as it is precise. But that's not warranted 不敢保证, 不敢打包票 at all! I can represent my height in a double-precision floating point number as 1.799992352094 metres; though precise to a trillionth of a metre, it's only accurate to about a hundredth of a metre because I do not have a device which can actually measure my height to a trillionth of a meter, or even a thousandth of a metre. There is way more precision than accuracy here. 6. meanie, meany ['mi:ni] social meanie指自娱自乐却惹人烦的人或事 n. Informal I. Chiefly Brit a miserly or stingy person. II. Chiefly US a nasty ill-tempered person. Web scraping (web harvesting or web data extraction) is a computer software technique of extracting information from websites. Usually, such software programs simulate human exploration of the World Wide Web by either implementing low-level Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), or embedding a fully-fledged web browser, such as Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox. Web scraping is closely related to web indexing, which indexes information on the web using a bot or web crawler and is a universal technique adopted by most search engines. In contrast, web scraping focuses more on the transformation of unstructured data on the web, typically in HTML format, into structured data that can be stored and analyzed in a central local database or spreadsheet. Web scraping is also related to web automation, which simulates human browsing using computer software. Uses of web scraping include online price comparison, contact scraping, weather data monitoring, website change detection, research, web mashup and web data integration. A mashup混搭, in web development, is a web page, or web application, that uses content from more than one source to create a single new service displayed in a single graphical interface. For example, you could combine the addresses and photographs of your library branches with a Google map to create a map mashup. The term implies easy, fast integration, frequently using open application programming interfaces (API) and data sources to produce enriched results that were not necessarily the original reason for producing the raw source data. The term mashup originally comes from pop music, where people seamlessly combine music from one song with the vocal track from another—thereby mashing them together to create something new. The main characteristics of a mashup are combination, visualization, and aggregation. It is important to make existing data more useful, for personal and professional use. To be able to permanently access the data of other services, mashups are generally client applications or hosted online. 7. Variations of cream buns exist all around the world. Typically they are made with an enriched dough bread roll that is split after baking and cooling and filled with cream. Among the numerous international variations are the splits of Devon and Cornwall in southwest England, which are yeasted buns filled with clotted cream, and the maritozzi of the Lazio region of Italy, which are enriched buns, made with dried fruit and filled with whipped cream. Another specific national version is the Hong Kong sweet bun. It is one of the most standard pastries in Hong Kong. It can also be found in most Chinatown bakery shops. The bun has either butter cream or whipped cream filling down the middle with coconut sprinkles on the outside. Cherry Ripe is a brand of chocolate bar manufactured by Cadbury Australia. It consists of cherries and coconut coated with dark chocolate. 8. get a word in edgewise/edgeways to find an opportunity to say something. Harold talked so much that nobody else could get a word in edgewise. If I'd been able to get a word in edgewise, I would have told him his pants were on fire. Can I get a word in on this subject? They wouldn't stop talking, I was unable to get a word in. Can I get a word in? 我可以插一句话吗? You know I appreciate Tim being the troublemaker. No, he is just a flob. He is a pest. flog I. To beat severely with a whip or rod. II. Informal To publicize aggressively: flogging a new book. flob n. (UK, slang) spittle唾液唾沫, especially a piece of spittle that has been spat out. v. To spit or to gob. Flob can indicate: An alive, peaceful pile of people resting together in a non-sexual manner on a bed, sofa, or cushioned area. It is a hybrid derivative of the words 'blob' + 'flop'. The shaky motion made by fish when removed from water and placed on a hard surface. flop n. I. (intr) 跌落. 掉落. to bend, fall, or collapse loosely or carelessly. To move about loosely or limply: The dog's ears flopped耷拉着 when it ran. his head flopped backwards. II. (when intr, often foll by into, onto, etc) to fall, cause to fall, or move with a sudden noise. the books flopped onto the floor. flopped the steak onto a platter. III. (intr) 惨败, 大败. Informal to fail; be unsuccessful. The Final Fantasy movie was the biggest flop since Battlefield Earth. The play flopped dismally. The scheme flopped. IV. (intr) to fall flat onto the surface of water, hitting it with the front of the body. V. (intr; often followed by out) Slang to go to sleep. VI. When someone bails on you at the last minute. to cancel plans with your friends, family, bf/gf at the last minute. We were supposed to go to see a movie, but he flopped on me. I can't believe she flopped on me. n. I. the act of flopping. II. Informal a complete failure. III. US and Canadian slang a place to sleep. 9. UN叙利亚报告出炉: "We are unhappy about this report," Mr. Ryabkov said in remarks broadcast by the state television network, RT. "We think that the report was distorted歪曲的. It was one-sided片面的. The basis of information upon which it is built is insufficient." He also said Russia needed "to learn and know more on what happened beyond and above that incident of Aug. 21." Mr. Nesirky also took issue with ( take issue with something to disagree with or argue about something. I have to take issue with that statement. I want to take issue with the last statement you made. I take issue with people who say it is unpatriotic to criticize our government. Thorogood took issue with the story that he had a drinking problem, calling it a nasty rumor.) the Russian portrayal of the report as biased. "The findings in that report are indisputable," he said at a midday briefing. "This was a thoroughly objective客观的 report on that specific incident." Russia, which like the other permanent Security Council members has veto power, is resisting coercive language in the draft offered by the Western members that could lead to military intervention in Syria. 10. 悉尼WestConnex got greenlighted: NSW Roads Minister Duncan Gay says the WestConnex toll will be distance based, similar to the M7. "If you did the full distance it would be capped 封顶 somewhere around about $7.60 for 33 kilometres," Mr Gay said. "We can only firm it up ( firm up I. Lit. 坚固起来. to make something more stable or firm. We need to firm this table up加固, 固定. It is very wobbly. You need to use a whisk to firm up the egg whites. 2. Fig. to make a monetary offer for something more appealing and attractive and therefore more "solid" and likely to be accepted. You will have to firm the offer up with cash today, if you really want the house. Please firm up this offer if you still want the house. III. 强壮起来. to develop better muscle tone; to become less flabby. I need to do some exercises so I can firm up. You really ought to firm up. IV. Fig. to become more stable or viable; to recover from or stop a decline. The economy will probably firm up soon. I hope that cattle prices firm up next spring.) once we've got the full costs in place but on today's costs it would be equal with the cheapest tolls in the city. 11. flake n. I. 屑. 脱皮. A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, paint, or fish. There were a few flakes of paint on the floor from when we were painting the walls. flakes of dandruff. II. (informal) 说一套做一套. 语言的巨人, 行动的矮子. (fluke侥幸成功) A person who is impractical, flighty轻浮的, 朝三暮四的, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living. An unreliable person; someone who agrees to do something, but never follows through. She makes pleasant conversation, but she's kind of a flake when it comes time for action. John called in sick to work again today. He's such a flake. Mary said she would do the research for our project, but it's been a week and she hasn't done a thing. She's such a flake.12. A headspin以脑袋为轴, 头朝下旋转 is an athletic move in which a person balances on their head while rotating along the vertical axis of their body, usually without any other form of support. An athletic or breakdancing move in which a person balances on the head while rotating along the vertical axis of the body. Head spinning(vertigo 天旋地转) is a common complaint in medicine. The main problem with head spinning is actually its definition: People often confuse it with dizziness头晕欲倒. When someone comes to the doctor complaining "I feel dizzy", it usually means one of two thing. Either they feel their head is spinning, or they feel they are about to faint. In this article we'll cover the first option – head spinning, or in medicine "vertigo". When you have vertigo you feel as if you are spinning or the world is spinning around you, when there is no actual movement. tragic flaw 致命缺点 (chiefly literary criticism) A personality trait or other characteristic of a real or fictional individual which is immoral, destructive, or otherwise faulty and which leads to the ruin or profound suffering of that individual. hamartia [hə'mɑ:tiə] The tragic flaw of the protagonist in a literary tragedy. Creon's main and foremost hamartia was his excessive pride过于骄傲. wiki: Hamartia is a word most famously used in Poetics, where it is usually translated as a mistake or error in judgment. In modern discussions of tragedy, hamartia has often been described as a hero's "tragic flaw." The word hamartia is rooted in the notion of missing the mark (hamartanein) and covers a broad spectrum that includes ignorant, mistaken, or accidental wrongdoing, as well as deliberate iniquity, error, or sin. 13. Any try/catch/finally blocks in scope when a thread is created are of no relevance to the thread when it starts executing.
public static void Main()
{
try
{
new Thread (Go).Start();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
// We'll never get here!
Console.WriteLine ("Exception!");
}
}
static void Go() { throw null; } // Throws a NullReferenceException
The try/catch statement in this example is ineffective无效的, and the newly created thread will be encumbered with ( encumber I. To put a heavy load on; burden: a hiker who was encumbered with a heavy pack; a life that has always been encumbered with responsibilities. II. 阻碍. 干扰. To hinder or impede the action or performance of. encumbered with parcels after going shopping at Christmas his stupidity encumbers his efforts to learn. restrictions that encumber police work. III. To burden with legal or financial obligations: an estate that is encumbered with debts.) an unhandled NullReferenceException. This behavior makes sense when you consider that each thread has an independent execution path. The remedy is to move the exception handler into the Go method.
Australians drugged, raped and robbed at Thai beach parties, diplomat warns: Young Australians partying on beaches in southern Thailand are drinking a potentially deadly drug cocktail made from a local leaf trafficked by criminals who prey on them when they are under its influence, Australia's official representative in the area warns. The drug, kratom, is often mixed with the insect repellent DEET as well as cough medicine, cola and ice, leaving users in a stupefied and vulnerable state(stupefy ['stju:piˌfai] vb I. 昏昏沉沉. 意识不清的. to render insensitive or lethargic. To dull the senses or faculties of. II. to confuse or astound. ), says Larry Cunningham, Australia's honorary consul based in Phuket. The victims of rapes, assaults and thefts committed at Thailand's beach rave parties狂欢派对 usually failed to report the crimes to police, he said, leaving the extent of the problem largely unknown. "What do you do if you are out of it from taking this stuff and you are dragged away in the night and raped by a pack of Thai guys?" Kratom is a tree in the coffee family that grows in abundance大量种植 in the jungles of south-east Asia. Its opiate-like effect and low cost has led to rampant trafficking 疯狂肆虐的走私 in tourist areas. Twenty leaves is enough to create a kratom cocktail for several people and costs the equivalent of $3. The drug has been banned in Thailand since 1943 but Justice Minister Chaikasem Nitisiri has proposed legalising it, saying its use may detract from people using drugs like methamphetamine and crystal-meth. "Kratom was used as a traditional medicine in the past," he told Thai journalists last week. In an interview on the eve of his retirement after eight years in the job, Mr Cunningham said Australian parents would be shocked to know how Thai criminals target young Australians and other foreigners at parties like those on Koh Phangan, an island where each full moon up to 30,000 ravers 狂欢者 cram into one kilometre of beach, sipping cocktails from buckets. "They are some of the worst criminals in Thailand ... rapists, murderers and thieves and some are corrupt police," he said. Mr Cunningham said one young distressed Australian woman turned up at the Australian embassy in Bangkok wearing only a T-shirt and bikini. She had been pack raped ( After the attacks the woman was hosed down with a fire hose. ) and had all her valuables stolen during a party and someone had put her on a bus to Bangkok. Mr Cunningham criticised the portrayal of the parties by Fairfax Media travel writer Ben Groundwater as "glorious debauchery( I. Indulgence in sensual pleasures; scandalous activities involving sex, alcohol, or drugs without inhibition. excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures; intemperance. II. debaucheries, acts or instances of such indulgence. )" and his strong advice was for people to stay away. "These are dangerous, dangerous places … even groups of revellers are targeted by these criminals," Mr Cunningham said. "Previously the buckets contained mixes like cheap Thai whiskey but now drinkers have no idea what is in there," he said. Dozens of revellers are usually ferried to mainland hospitals after each party on Koh Phangan, suffering a litany[ˈlitəni] of ailments and injuries. Ten foreigners have died in mysterious circumstances since 2009 at Thai holiday destinations. Mr Cunningham, 64, has led criticism of jet ski, taxi, motorbike and other scams targeting tourists on Phuket, which prompted a crackdown by an elite police unit, the Department of Special Investigation. But Mr Cunningham said many of the more than 20,000 Australians who visited Phuket each month came to Thailand thinking they could do here what they could not do at home, including breaking laws. "They get plastered ( plastered [ˈplɑ:stəd] adj Slang intoxicated; drunk. plaster I. to coat (a wall, ceiling, etc.) with plaster. II. (tr) to apply like plaster she plastered make-up on her face. III. (tr) to cause to lie flat or to adhere. IV. (Medicine) (tr) to apply a plaster cast to. V. (tr) Slang to strike or defeat with great force. ) and walk around with their shirts off and jump on motorcycles drunk," he said. Mr Cunningham said that about half of the average 50 deaths of Australians on Phuket each year were avoidable, including deaths from traffic accidents and falling from high-storey hotels. He said while the Department of Foreign Affairs website carried warnings for travellers, more ways should be found to publicise risks in places like Phuket. "We have got to get the message across that people shouldn't leave their brains behind when they come to Thailand." Mr Cunningham said he will live forever with the "wailing" of relatives who have come to Phuket to take home the bodies of their loved ones. "It's just heartbreaking to see." Australian travellers should take out medical insurance and be aware of what the policy covered, he said, recounting the story of an Australian who suffered a fractured skull while riding a motorbike on Phuket. As the hospital bills grew to $60,000, his insurance company in Australia refused to pay because he did not have a motorbike licence in Australia. The man's father, who was about to retire, had to take out a loan to pay the hospital. "Many travellers don't know these things ... stories like these should be on the front page," Mr Cunningham said.
汽车制造相关: 1. Badge engineering or rebadging 贴牌 is the application of a different brand or trademark to an existing product (e.g., an automobile) and subsequently marketing the variant as a distinct product. Due to the high cost of designing and engineering a new model or establishing a brand (which may take many years to gain acceptance), it is less expensive to rebadge a product once or multiple times than to create different models. The term is an oxymoron in that little actual engineering takes place. Proton was largely a manufacturer of badge engineered vehicles from Mitsubishi Motors between 1985 and the early 2000s. The company has since produced several indigenously designed vehicles and operates in at least 26 countries, of which the majority are in Asia. Proton, predominantly reliant on ( reliant Having or exhibiting reliance; dependent: reliant on medication. ) the local industry is currently undergoing major structural and internal changes, as evident in the appointment of a new owner, partner, Chairman and the launch of various new and upcoming models in an effort to gain an international presence and increase profitability. 2. A knock-down kit汽车零件组装(There have been at least eight overseas knock-down factories that produce Great Wall models from knock-down kits.) is a kit containing the parts needed to assemble a product. The parts are typically manufactured in one country or region, then exported to another country or region for final assembly. Variant names include knockdown kit, knocked-down kit, or simply knockdown, and the abbreviated KD or CKD. A common form of knock-down is a complete knock-down (CKD), which is a complete kit needed to assemble a product. It is also a method of supplying parts to a market, particularly in shipping to foreign nations, and serves as a way of counting or pricing. CKD is a common practice within the automotive industry, the bus and heavy truck industry, and the rail vehicle industry, as well as electronics, furniture, and in other products. Businesses sell knocked down kits to their foreign affiliates [ə'fili,eit] or licensees for various reasons, including to avoid import taxes, to receive tax preferences for providing local manufacturing jobs, or even to be considered as a bidder at all (for example, in public transit projects with "buy national" rules). An incompletely disassembled kit is known as SKD for semi-knocked-down. Both types of KDs, complete and incomplete, are collectively referred to within the auto industry as KDX (for knocked-down export), and cars assembled in the country of origin and exported whole to the destination market are known as BUX (for built-up export). 3. In the 2012 market beset ( I. to attack on all sides. To trouble persistently; harass: The foe beset them. II. to surround; hem in: a village beset by dense forest. III. to stud: a gold bracelet beset with jewels.) by lower demand and curbs on road-going city cars(road-going 上路的 (of a car) meeting legal requirements for use on ordinary roads.), Great Wall performed well. It rose two spots and ranked as the 8th largest Chinese automaker by making near 676,000 units. While it is possible to rank the company as the 6th largest producer by volume, this is a discrepancy ( discrepancy [di'skrɛpənsi] 细微但重要的差别 a conflict or variation, as between facts, figures, or claims. Usage: Discrepancy is sometimes wrongly used where disparity is meant. A discrepancy exists between things which ought to be the same; it can be small but is usually significant. A disparity is a large difference between measurable things such as age, rank, or wages. ) that occurs because some products are classified归类 as both passenger vehicles and heavy-duty vehicles.
新总理重组政府 - Tony Abbott takes charge, axes mandarins官员, 官僚: TONY Abbott has axed the public service chiefs who dismantled John Howard's Pacific Solution and implemented Julia Gillard's carbon tax, on a dramatic first day in office in which he ordered plans to be drawn up to stop asylum-seekers' boats and scrap the carbon regime. Former Immigration Department secretary Andrew Metcalfe and former Climate Change Department secretary Blair Comley were dumped, along with Industry Department secretary Don Russell, a former speechwriter and confidant [,konfi'dænt 'konfi,dænt] 密友, 心腹知己 to Labor prime minister Paul Keating. "We are determined to honour our commitments:
to scrap the carbon tax, to stop the boats, to get the budget under
control, and to build the roads of the 21st century," Mr Abbott said. The changes to the bureaucracy sparked outrage from the Community and Public Sector Union, with national secretary Nadine Flood saying the sacking of the three senior public servants had sent shock waves through the public service. Candidate for the Labor leadership Anthony Albanese attacked the sackings. "These jobs should not be political playthings玩物, 政治牺牲品( plaything I. Something to play with; a toy. II. One treated as a toy: a plaything of fate. )," Mr Albanese said. When the Howard government was first elected, there was a night of the long knives in which the contracts of six departmental secretaries who had been associated with the Keating government were terminated. "It's hard not to speculate that they get into trouble because of the jobs they were given, which were politically sensitive, but they were doing what the government asked of them," he said. "I'd be saddened if the message was that public servants should totally pull their heads in and not try to implement government policies." In September 2011, Mr Metcalfe was at the centre of a media briefing that Labor attempted to use to pressure 施压, 强迫 the Coalition to support its Malaysian people swap deal. In the briefing, Mr Metcalfe warned that if a High Court decision, which had torpedoed Labor's Malaysian Solution and placed a question mark over offshore processing, was allowed to stand it would pose a risk to Australia's social cohesion and could lead to the type of cultural problems afflicting England and France. He warned that without offshore processing a surge of boat arrivals would overwhelm detention facilities and force boatpeople into the community.
