English Digest 40
www.metrohk.com.hk TUESDAY, 19 NOVEMBER 2013
Government urged to help ease the stress on working women
Prisoner of conscience
民建聯促政府 紓緩工作婦女壓力 T h e H o n g Ko n g p o l i t i c a l party, DAB, has called on the gover nment to make life easier for the territory’s working women. The DAB pointed out that many of them had to attend to home chores as well.
T h e DA B p r o p o s e d i m plementing measures (落實 措施) such as increasing tax allowances and providing a new childcare subsidy (託兒 津貼). In a survey the party carried out last month, more than 30 percent of women said they
faced huge pressure in their daily lives. Household expenditure and health problems were the biggest concerns. DAB legislator Elizabeth Q u a t s ay s m o r e a t te n t i o n should be paid to the needs of women. Metro and agencies AP
A Greenpeace International activist displays a poster during a court hearing in St. Petersburg that’s considering extending the detention of 30 Greenpeace members who were arrested following a Greenpeace protest at an Arctic oil rig.
Activists acquitted by top court The Court of Final Appeal has acquitted two activists of disorderly behaviour during a protest in April 2011. Chow Nok-hang and Wong Hin-wai rushed onto the stage of an MTR prize ceremony, scattered hell money and snatched the microphone of the then Transport Secretary, Eva
Cheng, in the middle of her speech. A panel of five judges said the pair’s conduct was disgraceful. But the court acquitted them of disorderly behaviour. It pointed out that the lower courts had failed to prove the two had intended to cause a breach of the peace. Metro and agencies
實用英語話你知
Array（ 許多 ） 對於只發出兩個免費 電視牌照，行政長官堅持 政府已遵守現行的程序及 法 律 。他 也 否 認 強 行 通 過 決 定 ，並 說 由 他 擔 任 主席的行政會議已考慮到 許 多 因 素 ，He also denied forcing through the decision, saying the Executive Council he chairs had considered an array of factors。 《紐約時報》報 道，在日本福島發生核發 電廠洩漏輻射之後，首相 安倍晉三答應進行大量微 觀經濟改革，由准許網上 出售藥品至增加婦女在勞 動力的數目，Mr. Abe has promised to deliver a vast
array of microeconomic reforms, from permitting online drug sales to increasing the number of women in the work force。 Array 是「許 多 、大 量」 的意思。其他例子：The museum has a vast array of Japanese art 是「博 物 館擁有許多日本藝術品」 ， They sat before an array of microphones and cameras是「他們坐在那兒面 對着大量的採訪話筒和攝 影機鏡頭 」 。
Lawrence Choi (Monday to Friday) 香港能仁書院 副校長(行政) culchoi@yahoo.com.hk