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标 题: Word-of-the-Day:embonpoint
发信站: 紫 丁 香 (Thu Feb 17 16:02:37 2000), 转信
embonpoint ("ohn-bahn-pwan") noun.
origin: from the French "en bon point", meaning "in good condition"
1. the condition of being plump; stoutness
"It was not really a light; it made this light by flashing about
so quickly, ... It was a girl called Tinker Bell exquisitely
gowned in a skeleton leaf, cut low and square, through which
her figure could be seen to the best advantage. She was
slightly inclined to embonpoint."
--J. M. Barrie, "Peter Pan"
"You must picture Mr. Thomas Marvel as a person of copious,
flexible visage, a nose of cylindrical protrusion, a liquorish,
ample, fluctuating mouth, and a beard of bristling eccentricity.
His figure inclined to embonpoint; his short limbs accentuated
this inclination."
--H.G. Wells, "The Invisible Man"
"Nevertheless, he sat tight, just viewing the slightly soiled
photo creased by opulent curves, none the worse for wear,
however, and looked away thoughtfully with the intention of not
further increasing the other's possible embarrassment while
gauging her symmetry of heaving embonpoint."
--James Joyce, "Ulysses"
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