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标 题: Word-of-the-Day:venal
发信站: 紫 丁 香 (Sun Oct 10 11:48:43 1999), 转信
venal ("VE-nul") adj.
origin: Latin, venalis from venum = thing for sale.
1. (Of a person) willing to act dishonestly or immorally,
or to sacrifice principles, for money.
"Or, if pressures from political, social and economic
change are mismanaged, China could someday implode,
much as the Soviet Union did and Russia may now be
doing, with venal barons fighting over the spoils."
-- The Economist, "The Fireworks to Come"
October 2, 1999
"In evil hour did Pope's declining age,
Deceived and dazzled by the tinsel show
Of wordy science and the nauseous flow
Of mean, officious flatteries, engage
Thy venal quill to deck his laboured page
With ribald nonsense, and permit to strew
Amidst his flowers, the baleful weeds that grow
In the unblessed soil of rude and rancorous rage."
-- Thomas Edwards on the Edition of Alexander Pope's
Works
"But our most formidable opponent has not been
opposing counsel nor any political party. It's been
the cynicism -- the widespread conviction that all
politics and all politicians are by definition corrupt
and venal. That cynicism is an acid eating away at the
vital organs of American public life."
-- Henry Hyde, Closing Remarks in Senate Trial of
William Jefferson Clinton
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