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发信人: watergod (共工), 信区: English
标 题: A.Word.A.Day--anschluss(转载)
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2000年11月17日20:54:35 星期五), 转信
【 以下文字转载自 watergod 的信箱 】
【 原文由 Wordsmith 所发表 】
Anschluss (AN-shloos) noun
A political union, especially the one unifying Nazi Germany and Austria
in 1938.
[German, annexation, from anschliessen, to enclose, annex : an, on (from
Middle High German ane, from Old High German ana.) + schliessen, to close,
from Middle High German sliezen, from Old High German sliozan.]
"I am hopeful that we can get beyond the divisiveness of the last year
without a return to the factionalism that made Reform such an easy target
for Buchanan's Anschluss."
Lenora Fulani, Will Reform Party Survive Splits?, Seattle Post -
Intelligencer, Aug 8, 2000.
This week's theme: words from the German language.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they
may start a winning game. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist,
novelist, and philosopher (1749-1832)
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