廣告

2019年11月3日 星期日

蔡崇信的NBA 採到中國地雷說等,引發買國不滿 New Nets Owner Joe Tsai’s Views on China Bring U.S. Backlash




After Joe Tsai bought the Brooklyn Nets, his focus was on unseating the Knicks as New York’s favorite team. Instead, the billionaire co-founder of Alibaba quickly found himself embroiled in the NBA’s showdown with China.




HCTRANSLATIONS.BLOGSPOT.COM
NBA老闆 蔡崇信一封信道出「莫雷挺港」風波原因 Brooklyn Nets owner, Alibaba co-founder Tsai decries Houston Rockets GM's Hong Kong…



Third rail of politics

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to navigationJump to search

This third rail, used to power trains, would likely result in the death by electrocution of anyone who comes into direct contact with it.
The third rail of a nation's politics is a metaphor for any issue so controversial that it is "charged" and "untouchable" to the extent that any politician or public official who dares to broach the subject will invariably suffer politically. The metaphor comes from the high-voltage third rail in some electric railway systems.
Touching a third rail can result in electrocution, so usage of the metaphor in political situations relates to the risk of "political suicide" that a person would face by associating with a certain cause, topic, or subject having a highly controversial or offensive nature.
It is most commonly used in North America. Though commonly attributed to Tip O'Neill,[1] Speaker of the United States House of Representatives during the Reagan presidency, it seems to have been coined by O'Neill aide Kirk O'Donnell in 1982 in reference to Social Security.[2]

沒有留言:

網誌存檔