Healines:”Doctors warn of looming ketamine health crisis”
loom(v.)
Cambridge: the event seems likely to happen soon and causes worry
Cambridge example:
e.g.Here, too, the threat of unemployment has been looming on the horizon.
e.g.The threat of closure looms over the workforce.
My example: The consultation of Green Paper looms to have new determination.
Headlines:”Grieving fathers recall attacks that tore their families asunder”
Grieving(adj.)
Guess: feeling poor/upset
Cambridge: feeling very sad because someone has died
e.g. It is grieving that the innocent lives were taken away in Tsunami.
Asunder (adv.)
Guess: a member of a party/unit
Cambridge: into forcefully separated pieces; apart
Cambridge example:Their lives were torn asunder by the tragedy
e.g. Our friendship will not tear asunder forever.
Q:Is it necessary to add the word “tear” before the asunder?Do we have any word choice to replace “tear”?
“Insistence on one’s ideals is obviously legitimate and praiseworthy.”Joseph Cheung.
The sentence is from “Miracles can happen:hold on to the 2012 ideal”.From the tropic, the writer supports to 2012 universal suffrage.
Insistence on (ph.)
Guess: believe your point of view permanently
Cambridge Dictionary: when you demand something and refuse to accept opposition, or when you say firmly that something is true
e.g.Insistence on better working conditions by the union has resulted in fewer employee absences.
legitimate(adj.)
Cambridge Dictionary:reasonable and acceptable
e.g.He claimed that the restaurant bill was a legitimate business expense.
Newsline: Child Abuse
Review:
Child Abuse in Hong Kong is very common. Yearly, we have huge numbers of cases that are related to child abuse. What is the main cause of the child abuse? How do we solve them?
The major reason is the problem of resource allocation. There are insufficient amount of the social facilities inside most of the estates. Some of the estates is far away form the facilities so that parents need to take a long journey before the children are sent to day care centre. Therefore, due to the inconvenience of taking the children back and forth, many parents choose to lock the children at home instead of sending them to the centre. This problem stimulates the trend of child abuse.
Second problem is that parents have no full budget so that they feel stress to maintain the finance steadily. This leads the financial hardship of the family. Needy parents take turn to take care of children while they seek for jobs to earn money. This financial problem will hence impact the daily activities of the children and enhances the possibility of child abuse.
What parents should do is to seek for any day care centres or social facilities when necessary. Resources are around the society and any public sectors are welcome any parents using the service. If the parents find difficulties in sending to day care centre, they may invite their relatives or neighbours to look after the children. Also, the poor family can ask for any funds when they are trouble in financial management. Society sympathizes with them and provides considerable amount of resources when they ask for help.
On the other hand, the government should treat child abuse seriously since the media and the public are now getting concerns of the growing trends of child abuse. Government should monitor the use of resources to ensure that in every estate, there is enough supply of social services. Also, according to the speech of Priscilla, there are only 1300-1400 social workers or stuff in Hong Kong. Government should attempt to introduce more manpower to the public sectors. It can enhance the efficiency in handling problems and the quality of the service.
If the government and parents confront the problem together and face it actively and positively, any cases about child abuse will no longer happen in the future.
The phrase is that:
“No wonder political scientists and pundits have lamented the failure of major political parties to identify candidates from within their own ranks”from “Te by-election: it’s a party affair”
We seldom use this phrase “no wonder”.
“No wonder” has similar meaning to “it is not surprising that”
e.g. No wonder the students are exam-oriented because the exam emphasizes greatly within the existence of syllabus.
pundit (n)
possible guess: expert
Cambridge Dictionary: a person who knows a lot about a particular subject and is therefore often asked to give an opinion about it
e.g.Economic pundits will interpret the social phenomenons and explain with evidences.
lamented (v)
Cambridge Dictionary: to express sadness and regret about
e.g.I lamented the decision for choosing Biology.
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