用法学习: 1. foster 扶持, 扶植 I. If you foster a child, you take it into your family for a period of time, without becoming its legal parent. foster home/family, foster parents, foster child, foster land, foster country = adopted country: Both children have been placed with foster families. She has since gone on to find happiness by fostering more than 100 children. II. To foster something such as an activity or idea means to help it to develop. Developed countries should foster global economic growth (stimulate) 扶植经济增长 to help new democracies. Its cash crisis has been fostered by declining property values. to help something to develop over a period of time. to encourage the development or growth of ideas or feelings: I'm trying to foster an interest in classical music in my children. They were discussing the best way to foster democracy and prosperity in the former communist countries. This approach will foster 促进理解 an understanding of environmental issues. Overuse of antibiotics may foster the spread of drug-resistant bacteria. 2. reckon without one's host (now rare) To calculate one's bill without checking with the host or landlord; hence, to come to false conclusions, to miscalculate. regulation 规范 I. Regulations are rules made by a government or other authority in order to control the way something is done or the way people behave. Employers are using the new regulations to force out people over 65. Under pressure from the American government, Fiat and other manufacturers obeyed the new safety regulations. ...a noisy cheerful group of people in regulation black parade tunics. II. Regulation is the controlling of an activity or process, usually by means of rules. Social services also have responsibility for the regulation of nurseries. Some in the market now want government regulation in order to reduce costs. The US held a 2-1 lead late in the third period, but a goal by Slovakia's Marek Hrivik tied the game with 43.7 seconds left in regulation. The game went to overtime, but no one scored 得分 in the extra period so it came down to a shootout.
PM accuses Labor MP of being a 'Manchurian candidate' in Question Time, before quickly withdrawing accusation: Senior ministers have spent the week attacking Labor's record on national security and arguing — without substantial evidence — that the Chinese Community Party would prefer Anthony Albanese and Labor win the federal election. Towards the end of an answer attacking Labor's record on national security in Question Time, Mr Morrison said, "We've got another Manchurian 傀儡 ( Manchuria [mænˈtʃʊərɪə] 满洲国 a region of NE China, historically the home of the Manchus, rulers of China from 1644 to 1912: includes part of Inner Mongolia and the provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin, and Liaoning. Area: about 1 300 000 sq km (502 000 sq miles). an insult used to describe someone as a puppet acting on behalf of an enemy power. ) Candidate", in reference to Mr Marles. Speaker Andrew Wallace said he did not hear the comment spoken into the microphone but, after condemnation from Labor MPs, the Prime Minister withdrew the remark. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been forced to withdraw a reference to Labor frontbencher Richard Marles as a "Manchurian candidate", an insult used to describe someone as a puppet acting on behalf of an enemy power. Mr Morrison had been referring to a speech given by Mr Marles at the Beijing Foreign Studies University in 2019, where he said Australia should embrace closer military cooperation with China. In response, Mr Marles accused the government of undermining the "dignity of the house", and said the idea of defence cooperation started with the Coalition. Some national security experts have expressed concern about the tone of the national security debate heading into the election, noting that, in reality, there is little difference between the two party's policies. "It's all pretty unfortunate, unedifying, and frankly not healthy for the Australian national interest and it risks undermining a lot of the bipartisanship that I think both sides have built up over the past five years or more," said the head of Australian National University's National Security College, Rory Medcalf. Mr Medcalf also encouraged people to ignore an opinion piece by former Australian diplomat and Coalition critic Bruce Haigh that endorsed Mr Albanese, which was published in the state-controlled Chinese newspaper The Global Times. "The very timing of a ridiculous article in a Chinese propaganda newspaper — that amplifies the idea that, somehow, the Labor Leader is China's preferred candidate [for Prime Minister] — suggests that discord is part of China's playbook 管用伎俩," Mr Medcalf told the ABC. "We absolutely should ignore it because, if you think about the value in 价值, 用处, 好处 advertising in propaganda terms, the Australian parliament and the Australian media amplifying a second-rate opinion piece in a Chinese propaganda newspaper, then that very small act has had a major effect." Labor frontbencher Ed Husic accused the Coalition of running a scare campaign 恫吓策略 to distract attention away from a difficult two weeks in parliament. "I think what we saw today was classic panic," Mr Husic told the ABC. "[Scott Morrison] is under huge pressure. We have a national crisis in aged care. He stuffed up the vaccine rollout, empty grocery shelves, all this leaking out of cabinet that is happening and even his own colleagues [undermining] him."
evoke VS revoke VS invoke: evoke [ɪˈvoʊk] 让人想起 to bring a particular emotion, idea, or memory into your mind. To evoke a particular memory, idea, emotion, or response means to cause it to occur. ...the scene evoking 激起回忆 memories of those old movies. A sense of period was evoked by complementing pictures with appropriate furniture. The recent flood evoked memories of the great flood of 1972. invoke I. 祭出. 抬出. 搬出. to use a law or rule in order to achieve something. If you invoke a law, you state that you are taking a particular action because that law allows or tells you to. The judge invoked an international law that protects refugees. The president invoked the Taft-Hartley law to force the strikers to return to work. In extreme situations, the police chief may invoke emergency powers. The Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, has invoked legislation that gives his government sweeping powers to fight a growing number of "illegal and dangerous" blockades across the country. The first prime minister to invoke the Emergencies Act, Trudeau said the measures would be time-limited 有时间限制的 and only apply to specific geographic regions. "We are not preventing the right of people to protest legally," he said, adding that the military would not be deployed. "The act is to be used sparingly and as a last resort." Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau listens to a question from a reporter after announcing the Emergencies Act will be invoked to deal with protests on Monday, February 14, 2022 in Ottawa. Trudeau says he has invoked the Emergencies Act to bring to an end antigovernment blockades he describes as illegal and not about peaceful protest. II. to mention a law, principle, or idea in order to support an argument or to explain an action. If you invoke something such as a principle, a saying, or a famous person, you refer to them in order to support your argument. He invoked memories of Britain's near-disastrous disarmament in the 1930s. They invoked principles of international law to claim ownership of the sunken ship. III. to mention the name of someone who is well known or well respected in order to support an argument. Jiang invoked 引用 Deng's name 58 times in his two-and-a-half-hour speech. IV. to make someone feel a particular emotion or see a particular image in their minds. If something such as a piece of music invokes a feeling or an image, it causes someone to have the feeling or to see the image. Many people consider this use to be incorrect. The music invoked the wide open spaces of the prairies. Popular art invoked the image of a happy and contented family. The situation was invoking 引起, 引发 fears of another Vietnam-type entanglement. V. 召唤. to ask for help from someone who is stronger or more powerful, especially a god. If someone invokes a god, they ask the god for help or forgiveness. The great magicians of old always invoked their gods with sacrifice. VI. 招魂. to make the spirits of dead people appear by using magic powers. revoke 废掉, 废黜, 废除, 作废 to officially say that something is no longer legal, for example a law or a document. When people in authority revoke something such as a licence, a law, or an agreement, they cancel it. The government revoked her license to operate migrant labor crews. The Montserrat government announced its revocation of 311 banking licences. After the third accident, her driver's license was revoked. The EU is demanding that Canada revoke the legislation.
Prince Charles and Camilla to be crowned 'side-by-side in scaled-back 缩小规模的 ( trimmed-down 删减了的, slimmed down 瘦身版的 ) coronation': Charles is said to be drawing up plans for a coronation at Westminster Abbey that would be significantly shorter and cheaper than his mother's was. The Duke of Rothesay's trimmed-down Royal service is planned to be much cheaper than his mother's coronation in 1953. A source told the Mail Online plans for Charles and Camilla's coronation, which is due to happen within a year of Charles's accession( accession [əkˈseʃ(ə)n] I. 继位. 承袭王位. Accession is the act of taking up a position as the ruler of a country. the occasion on which someone formally takes a position of authority, especially as a king, queen, or president. ...the 50th anniversary of the Queen's accession to the throne. II. A country's accession to a group of countries or to an association is the joining of that country to the group of countries or association. the occasion when a country formally joins a group of countries or accepts an agreement. China's accession to 正式加入 the World Trade Organization. ... the final stages of negotiating accession to the European Union. It is absolutely not right to speed up accession to Nato without public support. III. something that is added to a collection, especially a work of art. Recent accessions are in the north wing. IV. uncountable legal the legal principle by which a person is said to be an accessory to a crime. accede [əkˈsid] I. to do what someone wants or agree with what they say. If you accede to someone's request, you do what they ask. Britain would not accede to France's request. I never understood why he didn't just accede to our demands at the outset. accede to: They were forced to 答应要求 accede to all of the hijackers' demands. II. to formally take a position of authority, especially as a king, queen, or president. When a member of a royal family accedes to the throne, they become king or queen. ...when Henry VIII acceded to 承袭 the throne. secede [sɪˈsid] 脱离, 退出 to officially leave an organization. This word is used especially about a state or region that chooses to become independent and govern itself. If a region or group secedes from the country or larger group to which it belongs, it formally becomes a separate country or stops being a member of the larger group. Sectors of the Basque and Catalan populations would like to secede from Spain. On 20 August 1960 Senegal seceded. secession [sɪˈseʃ(ə)n] the act of seceding, especially from a country. The secession of a region or group from the country or larger group to which it belongs is the action of formally becoming separate. Quebecers voted against secession from Canada. ), are being discussed as part of 'Operation Golden Orb'. He said the ceremony will be "shorter, sooner, smaller, less expensive and more representative of different community groups and faiths". The number of guests will be limited to 2,000 and fewer members of the Royal family will be in attendance. Far fewer protectorates ( protectorate [prəˈtekt(ə)rət] 藩属国 (subordinate state), 保护国, 附属国, 附庸 (puppet state, puppet government, dummy government, puppy regime. puppeteer government 宗主国. A client state , in international relations, is a state that is economically, politically, and/or militarily subordinate to another more powerful state (called "controlling state 宗主国" in this article). A client state may variously be described as satellite state, associated state, dominion ( dominion [dəˈmɪnjən] I. uncountable formal control, or the right to rule over something. Dominion is control or authority. They truly believe they have dominion over us. At that time the island was under foreign dominion. II. countable formal an area that is ruled by one person or government. A dominion is an area of land that is controlled by a ruler. The Republic is a dominion of the Brazilian people. III. Dominion countable old-fashioned a country that belonged to the British Commonwealth in the past. ) , condominium ( condominium [ˌkɑndəˈmɪniəm] a building that contains several apartments, each of which is owned by the people who live there. go condominium if a building goes condominium, it changes from having rented apartments to having owned apartments. ), self-governing colony, neo-colony, protectorate, vassal state ( vassal ( [ˈvæs(ə)l] I. someone during the Middle Ages who was loyal to a king who gave them a home and protection. In feudal society, a vassal was a man who gave military service to a lord, in return for which he was protected by the lord and received land to live on. II. 附庸. a person or country that depends completely on, and is controlled by, another person or country. Our nation risked becoming a total economic vassal of the mother country 母国, 宗主国. If you say that one country is a vassal of another, you mean that it is controlled by it. The question is whether the country is destined to end up as a vassal of its larger northern neighbour. ), puppet state, and tributary state. A buffer state 缓冲国 is a country lying between two rival or potentially hostile great powers. Its existence can sometimes be thought to prevent conflict between them. A buffer state is sometimes a mutually agreed upon area lying between two greater powers, which is demilitarized in the sense of not hosting the military of either power (though it will usually have its own military forces). The invasion of a buffer state by one of the powers surrounding it will often result in war between the powers. In political science, the term banana republic describes a politically unstable country with an economy dependent upon the exportation of a limited-resource product, such as bananas or minerals. A puppet state, puppet régime or puppet government or dummy government is a state that is de jure independent ( de jure [di ˈdʒʊri] [deɪ ˈjʊˌreɪ] adj&adv. legally. legally accepted. a de jure citizen of the republic. ) but de facto ( [di ˈfæktoʊ] ) completely dependent upon an outside power and subject to its orders 听令于人. Puppet states have nominal sovereignty 名义上的 ( nominally [ˈnɑmɪnəli] officially described as being or doing something, even though this is not really true. John Robbins is nominally in charge of the investigation. nominal I. used about something that is officially described in a particular way when it is not really true or correct. areas under nominal government control. He is still the nominal leader of the organization. You use nominal to indicate that someone or something is supposed to have a particular identity or status, but in reality does not have it. As he was still not allowed to run a company, his partner became its nominal head. I was brought up a nominal Christian. The Sultan was still nominally the Chief of Staff. ...South Africa's nominally independent homeland of Transkei. Nominally she is the king's prisoner. II. a nominal amount of money is a very small amount which is much less than something is really worth. A nominal price or sum of money is very small in comparison with the real cost or value of the thing that is being bought or sold. I am prepared to sell my shares at a nominal price. All the ferries carry bicycles free or for a nominal charge. Transportation can be provided for a nominal sum. There will be a nominal shipping fee that must be paid online with a credit card. III. the nominal amount or value of something is its official amount or value and not the real one. In economics, the nominal value, rate, or level of something is the one expressed in terms of current prices or figures, without taking into account general changes in prices that take place over time. Inflation would be lower and so nominal rates would be rather more attractive in real terms. In 1990 personal incomes grew a nominal 6.8 per cent. shares with a nominal value of £1,000. IV. linguistics concerning a noun, or used as a noun. nominal damages a very small, symbolic amount of money given as compensation to someone who has won a legal case but did not suffer significant loss or damage. As a result, the claimants were only awarded nominal damages. ), but a foreign power effectively exercises control through means such as financial interests, economic, or military support. By leaving a local government in existence the outside Powers evade all responsibility, while at the same time successfully paralyzing the Government they tolerate. )a country that is defended and controlled by a more powerful country. A protectorate is a country that is controlled and protected by a more powerful country. In 1914 the country became a British protectorate. ) are also expected to be invited. A source said: 'It will be a slimmed-down Monarchy on display throughout.
