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标 题: Word-of-the-Day:sibilant
发信站: 紫 丁 香 (Thu Jan 20 20:54:07 2000), 转信
sibilant ("SIB-eh-lent") adj.
origin: from the Latin "sibilans", present participle of "sibilare"
meaning "to hiss" or "to whistle" (of imitative origin)
first published use: 1669
1. Of, characterized by, or producing a hissing sound like that
of (s) or (sh), as in the word "sash".
" ... in San Francisco
where the waves weep
They make a sibilant sound
a sibylline sound
Allen
they whisper
Allen "
--Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "Allen Ginsberg Dying"*
"... there is only a sharp, angry, sibilant hiss, like breath
drawn with the strength of the elements through shut teeth"
--The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson
commenting on the wind in Edinburgh (October 04, 1873)
--
' o ' \
/\ o \ o
>=)'> ' /\ '
\/ \ >=)'> ~
/ /\ \/
~ >=)'> / .
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