bits and bobs

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昨日の東京の陽性は50人を超えていた。

Retailer apologises to artists as branches turn books around to help browsers read blurb

Blurb 本の表紙の推薦文

“The reason people do judge a book by its cover is that it is that lovely first dip of the toe into a different world. I wouldn’t be excited about going in to a bookshop and reading the back blurb of 40 books, I would feel a bit bombarded.

Bombard 攻め立てる

Most of the book cover designers the Guardian spoke to were quite sanguine about the new, hopefully temporary, way of displaying their work.


sanguine 楽観的

https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2020/jun/24/flipping-hell-book-designers-lament-waterstones-back-to-front-displays?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_b-gdnnews&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter&__twitter_impression=true

Andrew Cuomo & Daughters Look Back at 3 Months in Center of COVID-19 Pandemic: A ‘Silver Lining’ in Heartache

Silver lining 希望の光

https://people.com/politics/andrew-cuomo-daughters-look-back-life-in-coronavirus-pandemic/?amp=true&__twitter_impression=true

Health Minister David Clark brutally throws Dr Ashley Bloomfield under the bus while standing right next to him

Throw under the bus 陥れる betray

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/06/health-minister-david-clark-brutally-throws-dr-ashley-bloomfield-under-the-bus-while-standing-right-next-to-him.amp.html?__twitter_impression=true