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标 题: [转载] A.Word.A.Day--cloud-cuckoo-land
发信站: 紫 丁 香 (Tue May 9 17:58:18 2000), 转信
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cloud-cuckoo-land (KLOUD-koo-koo-land) noun
An idealized, illusory domain of imagination; cloudland.
[Translation of Greek Nephelokokkygia, the realm which separates the gods
from mankind in Aristophanes' The Birds.]
"South African President Thabo Mbeki's New Year message to Africans to aim
for the stars in the new millennium, in line with his vision of an African
renaissance, also castigated the West for largely ignoring Africa's
problems of debts, disease and wars. But his vision, unless backed up by
the essential nitty-gritty from the United Nations and other countries, is
somewhere off in cloud-cuckoo-land. The explosion of Acquired Immune
Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is systematically wiping out Africa's best
doctors, lawyers, lecturers, economists and businesspeople."
Michael Kibaara Muchiri, Will Annan finally put out Africa's fires?,
Jakarta Post, Mar 6, 2000.
This week's theme: words and phrases from classical mythology.
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Let this be an example for the acquisition of all knowledge, virtue, and
riches. By the fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is filled. -The
Hitopadesa
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