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20201126 Thursday

Sonnet 56

Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said
Thy edge should blunter be than appetite,
Which but to-day by feeding is allay’d,
To-morrow sharpened in his former might:
So, love, be thou, although to-day thou fill
Thy hungry eyes, even till they wink with fulness,
To-morrow see again, and do not kill
The spirit of love, with a perpetual dulness.
Let this sad interim like the ocean be
Which parts the shore, where two contracted new
Come daily to the banks, that when they see
Return of love, more blest may be the view;
As call it winter, which being full of care,
Makes summer’s welcome, thrice more wished, more rare.
https://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/sonnets/56/

He said her social skills were limited and on one occasion she had tried to squirt him with water. 

squirt with 濡らす / skwˈɚːt / (米国英語)/ skwˈəːt / (英国英語)

The family were brought to the UK as part of the vulnerable persons resettlement scheme in which refugees are vetted by the UN.

Vet 審査する

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/nov/25/girl-tells-inquest-she-accidentally-pushed-shukri-abdi-into-deeper-water

Big corporate rivalries, Coca-Cola and Pepsi, Boeing and Airbus, McDonald’s and Burger King, tend to have one thing in common – competition for the same business. That’s why Facebook and Apple’s feud is so intriguing.

Feud 反目 確執 feud/ fjúːd / (米国英語)/ fju:d / (英国英語)

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55079454