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标 题: "Word-of-the-Day" :bauble
发信站: 紫 丁 香 (Sat Dec 11 09:05:08 1999), 转信
bauble (BAW-bul) n.
origin: from the Old French "ba(u)bel", meaning a child's
plaything, a trinket
1. A showy plaything, a trinket.
"It is true, the old adage which says that the finer things
in life are invariably the simplest. Yet no one ever thinks
to give me a shawl, not even my near-destitute servants, who
often spend as much as half their yearly wages to purchase
for me some gaudy bauble that, more often than not, goes
into the refuse heap."
--T. Herman Zweibel "Dropping a Hint"
from "The Onion"
2. A fool's scepter.
3. A trifle, a small matter.
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