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标 题: "Word-of-the-Day":excoriate
发信站: 紫 丁 香 (Fri Sep 17 08:12:11 1999), 转信
excoriate ("ik-SKOR-e-ate") tr.v.
origin: Latin, "corium": skin.
1. To tear or wear off the skin.
"On September 2nd, The San Francisco Chronicle, led
with a lengthy 'special report' excoriating
prosecutor Terrence Hallinan for what they consider
a paltry conviction rate."
-- A. Clay Thompson, "Defending the D.A." San
Francisco Bay Guardian, September 8, 1999
"But this is not to say that we must have writers who
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