久久亚洲国产成人影院-久久亚洲国产的中文-久久亚洲国产高清-久久亚洲国产精品-亚洲图片偷拍自拍-亚洲图色视频

 
 
 

Going back to the drawing board?

中國日報網 2015-12-11 12:09

 

Going back to the drawing board?

Reader question:

Please explain “going back to the drawing board” in this sentence: “The Department of Education and four nonprofit partners are going back to the drawing board in search of ways to keep rural children from going hungry.”

My comments:

The old plans no longer work. Hence, the Department of Education and their nonprofit partners are going to come up with new schemes to keep rural children from going hungry.

That’s what “going back to the drawing board” is about, literally meaning they’ll have to draw up something new on their drawing board or table as if they were architects or painters.

In our example, we can infer that the old plans are failing, perhaps due to bureaucracy (meetings and delays due to complicated procedural work) or corruption (schools and officials may spend the money on something else instead of paying for, say, a free lunch for pupils). Therefore, the Department of Education have to abandon the old plans and create new mechanisms along with the help of its four nonprofit partners, who are in this not for money making, but because they feel it’s the right thing to do.

Anyways, according to KnowYourPhrase.com, the expression “going back to the drawing board” is American in origin:

It’s believed that the origins for this phrase come from an American artist named Peter Arno, who wrote a cartoon for the New Yorker in 1941. The cartoon consists of a crashed plane in the background, and there’s a man dressed in a fancy suit walking away from the crash site, saying:

“Well, back to the drawing board.”

The man in the suit is noted for carrying what appears to be some kind of blueprints that are rolled up under his arm, suggesting that he perhaps worked on the plane.

Two points in sum-up. One, if you’re going back to the drawing board, it implies failure or at least some degree of imperfection. Two, by going back to the drawing board, you don’t mind going back to square one, i.e. the very beginning and perhaps making a clean break with the past and trying something completely new.

Here are recent media examples of people going back to the drawing board in order to improve their work:

1. Sky News has unveiled a new-look website following a redesign of skynews.com.

The website’s new homepage is more user friendly and allows users detailed access to stories by exploring galleries, graphs, timelines and images. Navigation has been simplified and analysis and specialist comment has been made more prominent.

A weather section has also been launched, giving users a detailed three-hourly local forecast for their postcode, as well as a broader look at the national and international picture.

Andrew Hawken, Head of Editorial, Sky News Digital, said: “The new site is real progress for us, and completes our world-class multi-platform offering. Viewers will find the site easier to navigate, with all the top stories in one place and with much more detail, as well as additional benefits like a broader range of comment and analysis pieces and more detailed weather service.”

John Jelley, Executive Producer, Sky News Online added: “We went back to the drawing board to give video and rich interactive media a more central role in the site. We wanted to make the most of a new content management system to produce some of the web’s best story experiences – where any type of content can take the lead, and where users can explore a full range of relevant context, all on the same page.”

- Refresh for Sky News website, FeaturesExec.com, June 27, 2012.

2. Carmakers are going back to the drawing board in the hunt for fuel-saving technologies as hopes that electric vehicles will be the silver bullet for CO2 emissions look increasingly forlorn. There is a growing awareness that conventional hybrids and slow-selling battery cars simply won't be enough to meet rigid EU emissions limits.

Among those showing off new ideas at the Geneva car show this week, Volkswagen presented its diesel-electric XL1 - a low-slung two-seater that burns less than a litre of fuel per 100 kilometres (62 miles) - while PSA Peugeot Citroen rolled out a compressed-air hybrid.

Automakers are broadly on track to meet the interim goal of trimming vehicles' average CO2 output to 130 grams (4.6 ounces) per kilometre by 2015. But drastic steps are needed to meet the 95 gram target set for 2020 and the potential for tougher standards after that.

“We can’t get the necessary gains we need with traditional technology any more. We’re seeing a real break with the past,” Peugeot innovation chief Jean-Marc Finot said in an interview.

- Carmakers think outside the box as electric dreams shatter, Reuters, March 8, 2013.

3. Ambitious plans to redevelop the former Ravenscraig steelworks site and create Scotland’s first new town in 50 years have been put on hold.

Extensive proposals for a retail and leisure complex have been shelved amid concerns about online shopping and the global economic downturn.

A source close to the project confirmed that planners are going back to the drawing board and proposals, which can still be viewed online, are “on hold” indefinitely.

- Ravenscraig new town plans are “on hold”, HeraldScotland.com, November 8, 2015.

本文僅代表作者本人觀點,與本網立場無關。歡迎大家討論學術問題,尊重他人,禁止人身攻擊和發布一切違反國家現行法律法規的內容。

About the author:

Zhang Xin is Trainer at chinadaily.com.cn. He has been with China Daily since 1988, when he graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University. Write him at: zhangxin@chinadaily.com.cn, or raise a question for potential use in a future column.

(作者:張欣 編輯:丹妮)

上一篇 : Earn your keep?
下一篇 :

 
中國日報網英語點津版權說明:凡注明來源為“中國日報網英語點津:XXX(署名)”的原創作品,除與中國日報網簽署英語點津內容授權協議的網站外,其他任何網站或單位未經允許不得非法盜鏈、轉載和使用,違者必究。如需使用,請與010-84883561聯系;凡本網注明“來源:XXX(非英語點津)”的作品,均轉載自其它媒體,目的在于傳播更多信息,其他媒體如需轉載,請與稿件來源方聯系,如產生任何問題與本網無關;本網所發布的歌曲、電影片段,版權歸原作者所有,僅供學習與研究,如果侵權,請提供版權證明,以便盡快刪除。

中國日報網雙語新聞

掃描左側二維碼

添加Chinadaily_Mobile
你想看的我們這兒都有!

中國日報雙語手機報

點擊左側圖標查看訂閱方式

中國首份雙語手機報
學英語看資訊一個都不能少!

關注和訂閱

本文相關閱讀
人氣排行
熱搜詞
 
 
精華欄目
 

閱讀

詞匯

視聽

翻譯

口語

合作

 

關于我們 | 聯系方式 | 招聘信息

Copyright by chinadaily.com.cn. All rights reserved. None of this material may be used for any commercial or public use. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited. 版權聲明:本網站所刊登的中國日報網英語點津內容,版權屬中國日報網所有,未經協議授權,禁止下載使用。 歡迎愿意與本網站合作的單位或個人與我們聯系。

電話:8610-84883645

傳真:8610-84883500

Email: languagetips@chinadaily.com.cn

主站蜘蛛池模板: 欧美一级特黄做 | 成人免费在线播放 | 碰碰久久| 国产成人综合91精品 | 亚洲欧美日韩精品在线 | 99爱在线视频这里只有精品 | 国产成人aaa在线视频免费观看 | 玖玖在线免费视频 | 男人和女人在床做黄的网站 | 香港三级88久久经典 | 三级午夜三级三点在看 | 一级毛片免费不卡在线 | 黄片毛片在线观看 | 美女又黄又www | 成年免费大片黄在线观看一 | 亚洲成人综合在线 | 亚洲欧美激情视频 | 国产精品天天爽夜夜欢张柏芝 | 免费一区二区三区在线视频 | 久草3| 伊人狠狠丁香婷婷综合色 | 毛片一级| 高清毛片免费看 | 成年人毛片视频 | 一级黄网站 | 亚洲第一区精品日韩在线播放 | 九九热视频在线播放 | 综合 91在线精品 | 日韩中文在线 | 精品国产成人三级在线观看 | 97影院在线午夜 | 国产高清在线精品二区一 | 成人在线视频免费观看 | 亚洲一区二区三区欧美 | 国内精品线在线观看 | 欧美亚洲激情视频 | 日韩一级欧美一级毛片在线 | 伊人久热这里只有精品视频99 | 老头做爰xxxx视频 | 成人a毛片一级 | 久久www免费人成精品 |