Mr Bundy has a slim chance of becoming Idaho’s next governor. Brad Little， the incumbent， easily beat his Trump-endorsed rival in the Republican primary in May. To skip the primary， which he almost certainly would have lost， Mr Bundy decided to run as an independent， despite his professed affinity for the Republican Party. His support among the fringe offers a warning of how quickly things are shifting. “Probably three years ago I wouldn’t have been a viable candidate，” Mr Bundy tells his audience in Sandpoint. “But I am now.”
Bankruptcy is fraught by nature: creditors are squeezing value from a limited pie and jostling over their share of it. Add big moral and social questions， and the result is satisfying for no one but lawyers. Even if Purdue’s deal goes through， payouts to individual victims are paltry. They will get between $3，500 and $48，000 each—while the Sacklers hold on to a fortune of several billion dollars.
昨儿个下午突然间狂风大作，天儿黑得跟夜里似的，不一会儿就下起了猫和狗（rain cats and dogs 倾盆大雨）。此刻我正走在回家的路上，抬头望着这不要钱似的瓢泼大雨，让本想拿卫衣罩一下脑袋的想法彻底打消了。
A manager affected by such a decision does not feel the helpless victim of spite， bias or stupidity.而受人事决策影响的主管在受到恶意、偏颇或愚蠢的对待时，不会再感到无依无靠。
they are not prepared even to admit the possibility that noise affects people. On the other hand， those who dislike noise will sometimes use most inadequate evidence to support their pleas for a quieter society. This is a pity， because noise abatement really is a good cause， and it is likely to be discredited if it gets to be associated with had science.
