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标 题: A.Word.A.Day--viperine(转载)
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2001年01月04日09:24:02 星期四), 转信
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viperine (VY-puhr-in, -puh-ryn) adjective
Of, pertaining to, or resembling a viper; venomous.
[Middle English vipere, from Old French, from Latin vipera, snake,
contraction of *vivipera : vivus, alive + parere, to give birth.]
"Within months, a national firestorm erupted over Anita Hill's treatment
by a Senate Judiciary Committee consisting of fourteen white men--viperine
Republicans and gutless Democrats."
Marie Shear, Wake-up caller, Women's Review of Books, May 2000.
This week's theme: animal-related words that are used metaphorically.
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