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20210506 Thursday

Baron Von Ripper-off ぼったくり男爵

rip off 法外な金を取る

Plunder 略奪 pillage

If the Tokyo Summer Games have become a threat to the national interest, Japan’s leaders should tell the IOC to go find another duchy to plunder.

stubble 切り株

Von Ripper-off, a.k.a. IOC President Thomas Bach, and his attendants have a bad habit of ruining their hosts, like royals on tour who consume all the wheat sheaves in the province and leave stubble behind

Be incensed at 激怒

Small wonder the head of Japan’s medical workers’ union, Susumu Morita, is incensed at the prospect of draining mass medical resources.

https://www.google.co.jp/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/05/05/japan-ioc-olympic-contract/%3foutputType=amp

Inoculated 接種

soberly 地道に 生真面目に