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标 题: "Word-of-the-Day":desuetude
发信站: 紫 丁 香 (Sun Oct 17 15:13:32 1999), 转信
desuetude (DES-wi-tood) n.
origin: from the Latin "desuescere," meaning to lay aside a habit,
from the Latin "suescere," meaning to grow accustomed to
1. The condition of not being in use or practice.
"In practice, however, the functions of the Republic have almost
entirely lapsed into desuetude. No army or police exist because
no one will join them... Taxes are not collected; moral laws are
not enforced; the Legislature passes no new laws...; schools exist
but attendance is voluntary."
--Christopher R. Dagdigian, "Description of the Pacific island
of Sonsorol"
"While the Turk was the Sick Man of Europe, maintained in desuetude,
while the powers were interested in the Balkan States merely to
keep them out of one another's hands, Balkan independence was very
real, and the rule of Turkey over their brethren in the Turkish
Empire was too inefficient to be burdensome."
--Roland G. Usher, "The Balkan Crisis"
"It is entirely probable that these traits have come down from an
earlier method of life, and have survived through the interval of
predatory and quasi-peaceable culture in a condition of incipient,
or at least imminent, desuetude, rather than that they have been
brought out and fixed by this later culture."
--Thorstein Veblen, "The Theory of the Leisure Class"
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