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标 题: "Word-of-the-Day" :otiose
发信站: 紫 丁 香 (Wed Nov 10 12:12:27 1999), 转信
otiose ("OH-she-ows'" or "OH-tee-ows'") adj.
origin: from the Latin "otiosus", meaning "idle"
from the Latin "otium", meaning "leisure"
1. Lacking use or effect, functionless.
"...they kept me in Apia till past ten, disputing, and
consulting about brick and stone and native and hydraulic
lime, and cement and sand, and all sorts of otiose details
about the chimney."
--Robert Louis Stevenson, "Vailima Letters"
"...it's smooth and cool and hygienic enough for mass consumption.
Reservoir Dogs , for example, with its comically banal lunch
chatter, creepily otiose code names, and intrusive soundtrack
of campy pop from decades past, is a Lynch-movie made commercial."
--Premiere Magazine, September 1996
2. Being at leisure, idle.
3. Sterile, futile.
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