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标 题: Word-of-the-Day:mote
发信站: 紫 丁 香 (Sun Oct 10 11:47:20 1999), 转信
mote ("MOWT") n.
origin: Old English, mot; corresponding to Dutch, mot =
dust.
1. Speck of dust.
"Some followers of Pythagoras, the ancient Greek
philosopher, thought that each mote had an immaterial
soul that told it what to do, just as they thought
that each human has a soul that gives us direction and
tells us what to do."
-- Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan "Shadows of Forgotten
Ancestors"
"One hot afternoon, the preacher sees -- what? 'Perhaps
a trick of the sun....Perhaps a mote of dust in my eye
or a drop of sweat glued to my lashes.' The apparition
assumes the voluptuous shape of an African woman
cradling a package. She appears to the wanderer in
fragments."
-- Gene Seymour reviewing "The Cattle Killing" by John
Edgar Wideman
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