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发信人: watergod (共工), 信区: English
标 题: A.Word.A.Day--goody two-shoes (转载)
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2000年08月13日17:41:52 星期天), 转信
【 以下文字转载自 watergod 的信箱 】
【 原文由 Wordsmith 所发表 】
goody two-shoes (GOOD-ee TOO-shooz) noun
A goody-goody; affectedly sweet, good, or virtuous.
[After the title character in The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes,
a nursery tale perhaps by Oliver Goldsmith.]
"Before anybody else, Falk realized this: `In the age of TV sports, if
you were to create a media athlete and star for the '90s -- spectacular
talent, midsized, well-spoken, attractive, accessible, old-time values,
wholesome, clean, natural, not too Goody Two-shoes, with a little bit
of deviltry in him -- you'd invent Michael."
Curry Kirkpatrick, NBA Preview: In an Orbit All His, Sports Illustrated,
Nov 9, 1987.
This week's theme: eponyms derived from fact and fiction.
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