- put up a good fight: 선전하다.
- deign /dein/ to V = condescend to V
- pony up = pay money
- Why not charge people to use these sites?
- bend oneself into a pretzel, bend themselves into pretzels (trying to V)
=try very hard to do something but end up being in a ridiculous (pitiful) situation.
Why not charge people to use these sites? If the service is so useful, surely people would pay. Nevertheless, the prevailing wisdom in Silicon Valley today is that everything on the Internet must be free. Enslaved by this dogma, tech companies keep bending themselves into pretzels trying to invent ways to "monetize their traffic," as they say in Valley-speak. Maybe they'll charge companies that monitor Facebook and Twitter to see what customers are saying about them.
- pillory=ridicule
- with one foot out the door=almost out
- a bevy of=a group of
- tableau=dramatic scene
- unwieldy=difficult to handle
- weatherize=make stg. (a house) dull to weather changes
- dust-bowl=dry
- Declaring the stimulus a failure five months after its passage is a little like calling the results of a marathon at the second-mile marker.
- unadulterated=pure, complete
the New Deal was an unadulterated failure
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