booty and call. booty call

Scientific American

Giraffes have their own version of “booty call”—males approach females and nudge their behinds to ask if they’re ready to mate.

Discover the unusual ways some creatures court their Valentines.

Cannibal Sex and Love Darts: Animal Libido Is Not for the Fainthearted [Slide Show]

The animal kingdom is filled with bizarre mating rituals

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booty call

NOUN

US 
informal 

• A sexual invitation or rendezvous.

  ‘guys don't have to make the booty calls these days’

Origin

1990s: from booty and call.

booty1

NOUNplural booties

mass noun

• 1Valuable stolen goods, especially those seized in war.

  1. 1.1informal Something gained or won.
     ‘the company has still got warehousefuls of money in the bank, thanks to the booty from earlier capital-raising exercises’

Origin

Late Middle English (originally denoting plunder acquired in common): from Middle Low German būte, buite ‘exchange, distribution’, of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

booty

/ˈbuːti/

Main definitions of booty in English

: booty1booty2

 
 
 

booty2

NOUNplural booties

North American 
informal 

• A person's bottom.

  ‘you're picky about the music you firm your booty to’

Phrases

• shake one's booty
• informal Dance energetically.
  ‘I was shaking my booty to a groove by the Larks’

Origin

1920s: probably an alteration of body or botty.

blooper, BLOPER

The New Yorker

15小時 · 

Today's daily cartoon by Brendan Loper.

翻譯年糕

Vice president's web bloopers.

I adhere firmly to the blooper snooper's code, taking only what I find and contriving nothing.

blooper
n.

1. Informal. A clumsy mistake, especially one made in public; a faux pas.
2. Baseball.
   1. A weakly hit ball that carries just beyond the infield.
   2. A high pitch that is lobbed to the batter.

[From BLOOP, a high-pitched howl on the radio caused by interference (of imitative origin), and imitative of the sound made by hitting a ball weakly.]

n. - 引起雜音的收音機, 大挫折 n. - 大失敗, テキサスヒット

blooper

NOUN

North American 
informal 

• 1An embarrassing error.

  ‘he poked fun at his own tendency to utter bloopers’

  as modifier ‘blooper shows consisting of out-takes from films’
• 2Baseball 
  A weakly hit fly ball landing just beyond the reach of the infielders.

  ‘Hunter's the only guy to get a hit, a blooper over the shortstop's head’

Origin

1926 (originally US, denoting a radio which caused others to bloop, i.e. emit a loud howling noise): from imitative bloop + -er.

bloop
n.
A blooper.
tr.v., blooped, bloop·ing, bloops.
To hit (a ball) into the air just beyond the infield.
adj.
Hit just beyond the infield.

Quorn

Quorn - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quorn

Quorn is a meat substitute product originating in the UK and available in 19 countries. It was launched in 1985 by Marlow Foods, a joint venture between Rank Hovis McDougall (RHM) and Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) and now owned by Monde Nissin Corporation. All Quorn foods contain mycoprotein as an ingredient, ...

‎Quorn, Leicestershire · ‎Fusarium venenatum · ‎Mycoprotein · ‎Egg white

The Guardian

What exactly is Quorn?

The Quorn revolution: the rise of ultra-processed fake meat

It was reported last week that Quorn is on course to become a billion-dollar business. It is part of a booming industry of meat alternatives – but many of…

THEGUARDIAN.COM

"infotainment" and "infotainer"

According to China, the future of refueling your car goes likes this: drive in, tap your car’s infotainment screen, and drive right off.

翻譯年糕

At China’s new smart gas stations, no cash, cards, or smartphone apps will be required

The future of refueling goes likes this: drive in, tap your car’s infotainment screen, and drive right off.

TECHNOLOGYREVIEW.COM

Infotainment (a portmanteau of information and entertainment),^[1] also called soft news, is a type of media, usually television, that provides a combination of information and entertainment.^[2] The term is usually used disapprovingly against more serious hard news.^[3][4] Many existing, self-described infotainment websites and social media apps provide a variety of functions and services.^[5]

Contents

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• 1Criticism
  • 1.1For women
• 2Journalism
• 3Entertainment and news crossovers
  • 3.1Infotainers
• 4Commodification
• 5Social media implications
• 6Origin
• 7See also
• 8Footnotes
• 9External links

Origin[edit]

The terms "infotainment" and "infotainer" were first used in September 1980 at the Joint Conference of Aslib, the Institute of Information Scientists and the Library Association in Sheffield, UK. The Infotainers were a group of British information scientists who put on comedy shows at their professional conferences between 1980 and 1990.^{[citation needed]} In 1983, infotainment began to see more popular usage ^[1] Around this time, infotainment gradually began to replace soft news with communications theorists.^[12]

An earlier, and slightly variant term, "infortainment" was coined in 1974 as the title of the 1974 convention of the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System (IBS), the association of college radio stations in the United States. It took place on April 5–7, 1974, at the Statler Hilton Hotel, now the Hotel Pennsylvania. It was defined as the "nexus between Information and Entertainment".^{[citation needed]}

“Peoplekind”; “PyeongChang”。 Phyŏngyang

NPR

Water bottles quickly turn to ice. Well-charged phones die within minutes of being pulled out. Some skis have reportedly been ruined by the unique qualities of very cold snow.


Just How Cold Is It At The Pyeongchang Winter Olympics?
"I think you can either laugh about it, or you can cry about it," American…
NPR.ORG


平壤- 维基百科，自由的百科全书
https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/平壤

平壤，正式名稱為平壤直轄市（朝鮮語：평양직할시／平壤直轄市 Phyŏngyang jikhalsi */?），是朝鲜民主主义人民共和国的首都和最大城市，位於朝鮮半島西北部，大同江横跨市区，東側是平安南道的大同郡、檜倉郡及南浦特别市的大安郡及龍岡郡、南側是黃海北道的黃州郡、延山郡及松林市、北側是平安南道的成川郡及平城市。





幕后故事

平昌和平壤：今年韩国冬奥会的举办点与朝鲜首都的名字太过相似，让人犯晕。 Felipe Dana/Associated Press

平昌和平壤：今年韩国冬奥会的举办地与朝鲜首都的名字太过相似，让人犯晕。

这些词里的共享音节似乎没有任何特殊意义，它来源于同一个中文词根，意思是“平定”或“平坦”。平壤的意思是“和平的土地”或“平地”，而平昌的意义是“和平昌盛”或“和平繁荣”。

在韩国，保守派批评文在寅总统的政府邀请朝鲜参加奥运会，把这届冬奥会嘲讽为“平壤奥运会”。

自由派和文在寅政府反驳称，这场赛事应该被称作“平和奥运会”(Pyeonghwa)。



我们的记者写道，为了把自己和朝鲜首都区分开，平昌市原本的英语拼写是“Pyongchang”，但在2000年添加了一个字母并且把字母C大写，变成“PyeongChang”。大多数新闻机构，包括时报在内，没有把字母c大写。



但重新包装并没有扫清困惑。2014年，一名肯尼亚男子本来去平昌参加一个联合国会议，却飞到了平壤。

Guardian US 分享了 1 條連結。

Justin Trudeau tells woman to say 'peoplekind' not 'mankind'

Candian prime minister draws ridicule for being too politically correct,…

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Justin Trudeau apologises for 'dumb joke' after 'peoplekind' quote goes viral
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• “Peoplekind”（人类）：感谢（或谴责）加拿大总理贾斯汀·特鲁多(Justin Trudeau)让这个词进入新闻标题。（《纽约时报》）

low-yield nuclear weapons

The Pentagon’s first “nuclear posture review” since 2010, published February 2nd, seeks to expand America’s arsenal of low-yield nuclear weapons

New threat, new weapons

ECONOMIST.COM

Tactical nuclear weapon - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactical_nuclear_weapon

The yield of tactical nuclear weapons is generally lower than that of strategic nuclear weapons, but larger ones are still very powerful, and some variable-yield warheads serve in both roles, for example the W89 200 kiloton warhead armed both the tactical Sea Lance anti-submarine rocket propelled depth charge and the ...

low-yield

adjective

1. producing little; giving a low return.

   "low-yield investment"

   • (of a nuclear weapon) having a relatively low explosive force.

     "a low-yield tactical nuclear weapon"