"I think they were entitled to take action against a budding dictator. But even if they weren't, it seems to me that it is not so clear that he is in the right that the United States should be meddling in Honduras' affairs."

VOA: standard.2009.07.03

And germinal means "The budding," it's a reference to a calendar of the French Revolution.

erminal这个词的意思是发芽

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