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标 题: A.Word.A.Day--acedia(转载)
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2000年08月13日17:41:34 星期天), 转信
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acedia (uh-SEE-dee-uh) noun
Spiritual torpor and apathy; ennui.
[Late Latin, from Greek akedeia, indifference : a- + kedos, care.]
"[T]hose who love the play as Coleridge did, for its mood of acedia and
self-corroding scepticism, may find themselves wondering if they actually
have been mad about the Dane for all these years."
Kevin Jackson, Four hours, and a star every minute, Independent on Sunday,
16 Feb 1997.
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