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Warning on stealthy Windows virus

Tilo 2008. 1. 14. 14:54

- Expression -
(MS)Windows
: 아하! 고유 명사니까 첫 글자는 Uppercase..


- Words -
rack up

PHRASAL VERB : no passive
If a business racks up profits, losses, or sales, it makes a lot of them. If a sportsman, sportswoman, or team racks up wins, they win a lot of matches or races.
    Lower rates mean that firms are more likely to rack up profits in the coming months.


vulnerable  /vlnrbl/  (vulnerabilities)
1. ADJ
Someone who is vulnerable is weak and without protection, with the result that they are easily hurt physically or emotionally.
    Old people are particularly vulnerable members of our society.

vulnerability N-VAR
    David accepts his own vulnerability.


dub  /db/  (dubs, dubbing, dubbed)
1. VERB
If someone or something is dubbed a particular thing, they are given that description or name.[ JOURNALISM ]
    the man whom the Labour opposition dubbed as the `no change Prime Minister'.
    At the height of her career, Orson Welles dubbed her `the most exciting woman in the world'.


beachhead  /bithed/  (beachheads)  also beach-head
N-COUNT
A beachhead is an area of land next to the sea or a river where an attacking force has taken control and can prepare to advance further inland.(교두보, 발판, 거점)