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标 题: A.Word.A.Day--oxymoron(转载)
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2001年01月04日09:24:10 星期四), 转信
【 以下文字转载自 watergod 的信箱 】
【 原文由 Wordsmith 所发表 】
oxymoron (ok-see-MOR-on, -mor-) noun, plural oxymora or oxymorons
A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are
combined, as in a deafening silence and a mournful optimist.
[Greek oxumoron, from neuter of oxumoros, pointedly foolish : oxus, sharp +
moros, foolish, dull.]
"Myron Krueger, the man who coined the oxymoron `artificial reality' for
the title of a 1983 book, has created an installation called Video Place
at Connecticut's State Museum of Natural History, in Storrs."
D. Stewart & P. Menzel, Through the looking glass into an artificial
world--via computer, Smithsonian, Jan 1991.
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