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标 题: "Word-of-the-Day":garrulous
发信站: 紫 丁 香 (Thu Oct 14 09:22:31 1999), 转信
garrulous ("GAR-uh-les" also "GAR-yeh-les") adj.
origin: from Latin "garrulus", from "garrire", meaning "to chatter".
1. Given to prosy, rambling, or tedious loquacity; pointlessly or
annoyingly talkative
"When the Whitewater matter became an issue in the 1992 Presidential
race, Clinton campaign aides urged the garrulous Mr. [James]
McDougal not to talk to reporters. Still it is far from clear that
he has anything damaging to say about the Clintons or that he would
be a credible witness if he did."
--Jerry Gray in the New York Times, August 20, 1996,
(page one) "Sentencing Delay Could Help Thaw Whitewater Case"
"Many people prowl round Mount Sinai. Their speech is blurred,
either they are garrulous or they shout or they are taciturn. But
none of them comes down a broad, newly made, smooth road that does
its own part in making one's strides long and swifter."
--Franz Kafka, "Mount Sinai"
"In compliance with the request of a friend of mine, who wrote me
from the East, I called on good-natured, garrulous old Simon
Wheeler, and inquired after my friend's friend, Leonidas W. Smiley,
as requested to do, and I hereunto append the result."
--Mark Twain, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
(1865) (opening line)
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