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发信人: watergod (共工), 信区: English
标 题: A.Word.A.Day--abjure(转载)
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2000年10月09日08:27:00 星期一), 转信
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abjure (ab-JOOR) verb tr.
1. To renounce under oath; forswear.
2. To recant solemnly; repudiate.
3. To give up (an action or practice, for example); abstain from.
[Middle English abjuren, from Old French abjurer, from Latin abiurare : ab-,
away + iurare, to swear.]
"I abjured meat out of the purity of my desire not to lie to my parents,
but I didn't abjure the company of my friend."
M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments With Truth, 1927.
This week's theme: words from Gandhi's autobiography.
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We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction. -General
Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)
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