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发信人: watergod (共工), 信区: English
标 题: A.Word.A.Day--pervious(转载)
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2001年01月04日09:24:14 星期四), 转信
【 以下文字转载自 watergod 的信箱 】
【 原文由 Wordsmith 所发表 】
pervious (PUR-vee-uhs) adjective
1. Open to passage or entrance; permeable.
2. Open to arguments, ideas, or change; approachable.
[From Latin pervius : per-, through + via, way.]
"There is some sense in this: architecture is more pervious to consensual
norms than any other area of human endeavour - which is why it is much
easier to date a building than a page of prose."
Meades, Jonathan, From Po-Mo to so-so, New Statesman, 20 Dec 1996.
This week's theme: words better known in their negative forms.
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similar situation he might not have done the same. -Viktor Frankl, author,
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