<FONT size=3>“</FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><STRONG>Frogs in slowly boiling water”</STRONG> #11 of <FONT color=#ff0066>Collection of Interesting words and phrases</FONT>. Part 3 </FONT>第<FONT face="Times New Roman"> 18 </FONT>楼 雨巷宝岛英语园<FONT size=3>地 </FONT><a href="http://www.rainlane.com/dispbbs.asp?boardid=11&id=9224&star=2#9224" target="_blank" ><FONT size=3>http://www.rainlane.com/dispbbs.asp?boardid=11&id=9224&star=2#9224</FONT></A> (So far, there is a total of <STRONG>104</STRONG> entries in Part 3 of "Collection of Interesting Words and Phrases.")
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<FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">(Source:</FONT>作者：<FONT face="Times New Roman">S.H - 2000/10/28 09:11:25 at </FONT>汉英</FONT><br><FONT size=3>水慢慢煮沸，青蛙丝毫不觉危机将至，如果快速煮沸的话，它一早就跳出来了。人类也一样，某些潜在危机不易觉察，知道时为时已晚，就像被煮熟的青蛙。<FONT face="Times New Roman">
From Time Magazine, Jan 30th, 2006<o:p></o:p>
<FONT size=3>(With a picture of Rice and the caption"Rice and E.U. allies have crafted what is informally called<STRONG> the frog strategy</STRONG>.)<o:p></o:p></FONT>
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<FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B>A Slow Iran Squeeze</B> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT>
<FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">As Iran shows no sign of giving in to global calls to cease its nuclear-research activities, Western nations have been mapping out a careful, incremental plan to stop Tehran. The West’s plan is informally known to diplomats as the frog strategy—with no disrespect to the French (i) , who are among its key tacticians.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT>
<FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> The name refers to the old saw(ii) that if you want to boil a frog, you put the unsuspecting amphibian in a pot of cold water. “This time it will be an Iranian frog,” says a European diplomat. “The strategy is to heat slowly but steadily and try to keep the frog inside.”
<FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">(i) Derogatory nickname of a Frenchman is a <I>frog</I>. That, apparently, has to do with the frog legs being a favourite food of the French.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>(ii) Old saw=an adage or a maxim</FONT>
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