bise

1 “When I do my show I ask the audience by way of applause who’s done la bise since covid, the whole room applauds.”

2 But when the pandemic gripped the nation, it instilled a fear that the bise could pose a threat.

3 When Macron, at the news conference, praised Trump and the “sincere friendship” shared by the two men, Trump shook his hand and then pulled Macron in for another “bise.”

4 Mr. Thureau-Dangin chuckled when the middle-aged outgoing director of the French company greets Emily with a warm “bise” — kiss on each cheek.

5 In France, the bise is a long-standing tradition for greeting loved ones, or even strangers, that was upended by the coronavirus.

6 During the last century the Faculty sent its incurables to Lisbon and Montpellier despite the mistral and the fatal vent de bise.

7 The bise blew tempestuously, killing the early almond blossom.

8 On the surface, it will be smiles and "bises" – kisses – but even before their hastily arranged meeting in Berlin, the two leaders were clearly not singing from the same songsheet.

9 The welcoming kiss, “la bise,” is suddenly dangerous, as is the hug of happiness or condolence.

10 “The pandemic made us realize that we had the choice to do the bise or not,” said Karine Boutin, a psychoanalyst based in the western French city of Poitiers.

11 There was not a breath of wind, even to leeward, for the bise had blown itself out of breath.

12 I went to faire la bise and he greeted with a hug so I sort of kissed his neck.

13 Twice a year, Louise al-Hakkak would sit on her front porch in Burgundy, waiting for her sister Flora and dreading the moment of “la bise.”

14 The steady decline in infections in Belgium has led some people to feel comfortable enough to say hello with “la bise” — a kiss on the cheek.

15 French TV news reports showed white-suited forensic teams in Tours, and broadcast archive images of Germain giving the traditional French "bise" cheek-kiss to one bride in an ornate ballroom filled with dozens of Asian couples.

16 The French cheek kiss — “la bise” — is more difficult to spot on the red carpet than in typical years.

17 French Health Minister Olivier Veran advised on Friday against shaking hands because of the coronavirus outbreak, though he stopped short of saying the same of la bise.

18 He drove over the Jura in the old style, revisited Savoy, and after weeks of bitter bise and dark weather, a splendid sunset cleared the hills.

19 He had noticed since 1871 a prevalence of chilly, dark bise, as it would be called in France; but different in its phenomena from anything of his earlier days.

20 Smollett's spelling of bise—the cutting N.N.E. wind which makes Geneva so beautiful, but intolerable in the winter.

1 干冷北风

tramontana tramontane

2 不幸

evil-starred cross poor evil adverse unfortunate unhappy miserable disastrous unlucky wretched ill hapless abject woeful accursed untoward calamitous luckless distressful infelicitous unblessed accurst miserably unhappily unluckily mishanter wanion bad blow accident reverse teen knock disaster rubber distress grief sorrow misery bale adversity misfortune affliction calamity misadventure deuce mischance infelicity fardel sordor ill-being

3 灾害

wanion accident disaster suffering plague bale mischief calamity scourge ravage maelstrom