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发信人: watergod (共工), 信区: English
标 题: A.Word.A.Day--bovarism(转载)
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2000年12月10日11:34:48 星期天), 转信
【 以下文字转载自 watergod 的信箱 】
【 原文由 Wordsmith 所发表 】
bovarism (BO-vuh-riz-em) noun
An exaggerated, especially glamorized, estimate of oneself; conceit.
[From French bovaryisme, after Emma Bovary, a character in Flaubert's
novel Madame Bovary.]
"The public property is not so much her as Bovarism. She is part of the
collective unconscious. She is, and can be, everyone."
Alan Franks, France's best-kept secret, The Times of London,
Aug 12, 1995.
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