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标 题: Word-of-the-Day:jocoserious
发信站: 紫 丁 香 (Tue Feb 15 13:54:19 2000), 转信
jocoserious ("ja-ka-SEER-ee-us") noun.
origin: from the Latin "jocus", joke, combined with "serious".
1. Half jocular, half serious; blending jokes and serious matters.
"Was the guest conscious of and did he acknowledge these marks of
hospitality?
His attention was directed to them by his host jocosely, and he
accepted them seriously as they drank in jocoserious silence
Epps's massproduct, the creature cocoa."
Were there marks of hospitality which he contemplated but
suppressed, reserving them for another and for himself on future
occasions to complete the act begun?"
--James Joyce "Ulysses"
"They dine each night by tallow light
near sheltered nook, oblivious
in North Carolina on a still dark night.
Ghosts that dine by tallow light
to skeptics remain jocoserious,
Brown Mountain Legend of haunting light
in North Carolina on a still dark night"
--Rosemary Bowery
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