📖The Economist: The mother of all messes 20190119期封面文章, 《经济学人》看英国脱欧危机。💡地道表达🔻一败涂地:be soundly thrashed / defeated / beaten 🔻商定:hammer out sth≈ decide on sth 🔻苦撑,...
The mother of parliaments is suffering the mother of all constitutional crises (see Britain section).Three years ago, in the biggest poll in the country’s history, Britons voted in a referendum to leave the eu. Yet Parliament, freshly elected a year later by those same voters, has judged ...
The mother of all messes…这期经济学人大标题有点亮眼～ 投反对票并不意味着没有协议会达成,议会还有时间可以再讨论。不过Plan B看看没什么实质变化。从经济角度看,3/29很可能会出现经济停滞。最后一句竟然是...the only practical and principled way out of the mess is to go back to the people, and...
正如这期的封面文章《The mother of all messes》提到的,三年前英国的选民投票决定脱欧,而今天,同样是这些选民选出来的议员们却不同意脱欧协议。 其次,当年脱欧派的最主要理由是欧盟要求英国允许欧盟成员国国民自由流动(free movement of people),但傲娇的英国人不同意,认为移民会侵犯自己的公共福利。(感兴趣的可以看...
The Bad Mother's Handbook: Directed by Robin Sheppard. With Catherine Tate, Anne Reid, Holliday Grainger, Steve John Shepherd. Karen Cooper wants to domineer her family and believes she's its pillar. In fact she does everything wrong. Thus she messes up
They pretend to be, respectively, a chest or a large pot, hiding in a pocket dimension within, but any man who messes with it is promptly "attacked". The Mimic pops out and uses magic to get the man to have sex with her, taking him back into the chest if she really likes him, ...
“No, I don’t think so, dear. We should get rid of that stick. It’s what we agreed. Besides, he’s 21 now, an adult. We can’t start whacking him now. He never messes up anyway.” But he did mess up. Bigly. The Beach Buggy wasn’t a total write-off, but it was batt...
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And we can’t very well point fingers at other peoples’ messes when we don’t clean up our own.Molly Ivors writes, I have no problem adding my voice to the cacophony of those calling the original Saudi ruling appalling. I also decry the treatment of gang-rape and corporate-imprisonment...
of grabbing a cloth, or towel to wipe up spills instead of grabbing paper towels. Since we have a dog that makes some pretty gross messes, I do purchase a small number of paper towel rolls. I get paper made from bamboo and packaged in paper, not plastic. This feels like small change...