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标 题: "Word-of-the-Day":garrulous
发信站: 紫 丁 香 (Thu Oct 14 09:22:31 1999), 转信
garrulous ("GAR-uh-les" also "GAR-yeh-les") adj.
origin: from Latin "garrulus", from "garrire", meaning "to chatter".
1. Given to prosy, rambling, or tedious loquacity; pointlessly or
annoyingly talkative
"When the Whitewater matter became an issue in the 1992 Presidential
race, Clinton campaign aides urged the garrulous Mr. [James]
McDougal not to talk to reporters. Still it is far from clear that
he has anything damaging to say about the Clintons or that he would
be a credible witness if he did."
--Jerry Gray in the New York Times, August 20, 1996,
(page one) "Sentencing Delay Could Help Thaw Whitewater Case"
"Many people prowl round Mount Sinai. Their speech is blurred,
either they are garrulous or they shout or they are taciturn. But
none of them comes down a broad, newly made, smooth road that does
its own part in making one's strides long and swifter."
--Franz Kafka, "Mount Sinai"
"In compliance with the request of a friend of mine, who wrote me
from the East, I called on good-natured, garrulous old Simon
Wheeler, and inquired after my friend's friend, Leonidas W. Smiley,
as requested to do, and I hereunto append the result."
--Mark Twain, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
(1865) (opening line)
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发信人: nova (晃来晃去的鱼儿), 信区: English
标 题: "Word-of-the-Day" : apotheosis
发信站: 紫 丁 香 (Tue Oct 19 08:47:06 1999), 转信
apotheosis ("uh-POTH-ee-oh-sis) n.
origin: from the Greek "apotheoun", meaning to deify.
1. exaltation to divine rank or stature, deification.
"Curious to see, how we veer and whirl, yet must ever whirl round
again, and scud before the wind. If, on the one hand, we re-admit
the
Protesting Seventy-three, we, on the other hand, agree to consummate
the
Apotheosis of Marat; lift his body from the Cordeliers Church, and
transport it to the Pantheon of Great Men..."
--Thomas Carlyle, "The French Revolution: A History"
"Now we're in the Great Rotunda of the Capitol of the United States.
The dome weighs 9 million pounds, so let's hope it doesn't fall on
us
[laughs]. Rimini* did this painting up in the ceiling, which is
George Washington in heaven. It's officially called `The Apotheosis
of
George Washington.' I must say, as a child, I just thought this was
about
the funniest thing on Earth. First of all, he's in a dress.
He's in a purple dress. You see him?"
--Cokie Roberts, "Capitol Building Tour" on National Public Radio.
2. An exalted or glorified example.
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发信人: nova (晃来晃去的鱼儿), 信区: English
标 题: "Word-of-the-Day" :sanative
发信站: 紫 丁 香 (Wed Oct 20 08:16:02 1999), 转信
sanative ("SAN-eh-tiv") adj.
origin: Middle English "sanatif" (from Old French)
from Late Latin "sanare" meaning "to cure",
from "sanus", meaning "healthy".
First published use in English: 15th century.
1. Having the power to cure; healing or restorative.
"The land, with its tranquilizing, sanative influences, is to
repair the errors of a scholastic and traditional education
and bring us into just relations with men and things."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"God also enabled him [Solomon] to learn that skill which expels
demons, which is a science useful and sanative to men. He com-
posed such incantations also by which distempers are alleviated.
And he left behind him the manner of using exorcisms, by which
they drive away demons, so that they never return."
--Flavius Josephus, "Antiquities of the Jews", Book VIII*
[Translated by William Whiston]
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标 题: "Word-of-the-Day":stigmata
发信站: 紫 丁 香 (Wed Oct 20 20:13:07 1999), 转信
stigmata ("stig-MAH-ta") n.
origin: from the Greek "stigma", meaning "tattoo mark",
from the Greek "stizein", meaning "to prick"
1. Marks or sores corresponding to and resembling any of the the five
crucifixion wounds of Jesus, said to appear spontaneously. *
" Scully: Well then how do you explain the cuts on her own chest?
Mulder: I can't explain everything. Maybe she carved them on
herself or maybe it's some kind of weird stigmata.
Whatever it is, BJ's not herself. "
--The X Files, Season 2, episode 36: "Aubrey"
(written by Sara B. Charno)
2. An identifying mark or characteristic; often: a specific
diagnostic sign of a disease.
"Some judged her to be cold and hard; but such a thought was
treason. That delicately bronzed skin, almost oriental in its
coloring, that raven hair, the large liquid eyes, the full but
exquisite lips, -- all the stigmata of passion were there."
--Arthur Conan Doyle, " The Lost World"
3. (rare) plural of "stigma": a mark or token of infamy or disgrace.
"Party affiliation has never been more casual ... the stigmata of
decay are everywhere."
--Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
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