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标 题: Word-of-the-Day:clerihew
发信站: 紫 丁 香 (Tue Jan 25 09:44:25 2000), 转信
clerihew ("KLER-ih-hyoo'") noun
origin: after Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956), a journalist
and novelist born in London and chiefly remembered as
the author of 'Trent's Last Case' (1913), regarded as a
milestone in the development of the detective novel, and
as the originator of the "clerihew" (see definition 1)
1. A humorous pseudo-biographical quatrain, rhymed as two couplets,
with lines of uneven length more or less in the rhythm of prose.
It is short and pithy, and often contains or implies a moral
reflection of some kind. The name of the individual who is the
subject of the quatrain usually supplies the first line. *
"His was a behemoth of a task, an abysmal tangle of roots
sunk deep in the vicissitude of Mother Earth, teasing the
id with a clerihew from his Cajun heart, conjuring up a
plethora of words for his verbose treatise and making him
master of Faulkner write-alikes."
--Associated Press Reporter Gina Holland on Lance Martin,
winner of the 1997 William Faulkner imitation contest.
see <http://www.sunherald.com/living/docs/faulkex.htm>
*Editors' note:
One of the original clerihews from young Bentley:
"Sir Humphry Davy
Detested gravy.
He lived in the odium
Of having discovered Sodium."
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