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标 题: Word-of-the-Day:palpitant
发信站: 紫 丁 香 (Sun Oct 10 11:49:21 1999), 转信
palpitant ("PALL-pih-tent'") adj.
origin: from the Latin "palpare", meaning "to touch gently"
1. Shaking; trembling.
"Since young brides have hearts that can be persuaded
easily, light things, palpitant to passion
as am I, remembering Anaktoria
who has gone from me."
--Sappho, "Remembering Anactoria" (c. 630 b.c.)
[translated by James Powell]
2. Undergoing pulsation; pulsating.
"And there, when day was breaking,
I knelt and looked around:
The light was near, the silence
Was palpitant with sound;
I drew my hate from out my breast
And thrust it in the ground."
--Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Blight" (1917)
*Editors' note:
Yesterday's Word-of-the-day had two errors which many of
you were kind enough to point out. The first is that
"senescent" is an adjective but we used the infinitive
form of a verb "to grow old" for the definition. The
definition, in its proper form, should have read,
"Growing old". Also, and this was horrifying beyond any
fictitious work, Edgar Allen Poe is, of course, spelled
Edgar Allan Poe. Our faces are crimson.
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