Word of the Day for Saturday, March 31, 2012
boon \boon\, noun:
1. Something to be thankful for; blessing; benefit.
2. Something that is asked; a favor sought.
China has simultaneously become the greatest boon and the biggest disappointment.
-- Adam Davidson, "Come On, China, Buy Our Stuff!," The New York Times, Jan. 29, 2012
A boon to scholars and to those surreptitiously in search of esoteric knowledge. The reader in the shadowy, out-of-the-way carrel stifled a whoop of delight.
-- Carolyn G. Hart, A Little Class on Murder
Boon comes from the Old Norse word bōn meaning "a prayer."
福音\實惠\，名詞：
1。東西感謝祝福;效益。
2。東西是問;尋求一種恩惠。
中國同時也成為了最大的實惠和最令人失望的。
亞當 - 戴維森，“加油，中國，買我們的東西！”紐約時報“，1月29日，2012年
學者和暗中尋找深奧的知識的一個福音。讀者在陰暗，偏僻的卡雷爾扼殺了喜悅的吶喊。
- 卡羅琳G.哈特，一類小謀殺
皇家來自古諾爾斯詞義碳“祈禱”。
2012年3月31日 星期六
2012年3月30日 星期五
2012_03_30 Fugitive adj. 逃犯 Fleeting, transitory, elusive.
Word of the Day for Friday, March 30, 2012
fugitive \FYOO-ji-tiv\, adjective:
1. Fleeting, transitory, elusive.
2. Having taken flight, or run away.
3. Changing color as a result of exposure to light and chemical substances present in the atmosphere, in other pigments, or in the medium.
4. Dealing with subjects of passing interest, as writings; ephemeral.
5. Wandering, roving, or vagabond.
I started to write about Sean, and the writing, like a searchlight sweeping wildly, almost caught my fugitive feelings.
-- Edmund White, The Beautiful Room Is Empty
I fill my own glass now, and raise it, unspeaking: to her? to us? to the spirit of fugitive love? Whatever it is I mean, she nods as if to say she understands.
-- Vikram Seth, An Equal Music
First used by Shakespeare in Antony & Cleopatra, fugitive stems from the Latin word fugere meaning "to flee."
逃犯\ FYOO繼TIV\，形容詞：
1。轉瞬即逝，短暫的，難以捉摸。
2。考慮飛行，或逃跑。
3。改變顏色作為光與化學物質接觸到的結果提出在大氣中，在其他顏料，或在中期。
4。處理傳遞興趣的科目，如著作;短暫的。
5。徘徊，粗紗，或流浪漢。
我開始寫關於肖恩，寫作，像一個瘋狂席捲的探照燈，幾乎引起了我的逃犯的感情。
- 埃德蒙·懷特，美麗的房間是空的
我現在填寫自己的玻璃，並提高它的嘲諷：她呢？給我們嗎？逃犯的愛的精神？不管它是我的意思是，她點點頭，彷彿在說她明白。
- 維克拉姆·塞思，平等的音樂
首先用在莎士比亞安東尼和克婁巴特拉，從拉丁詞fugere意義逃犯莖“逃離”。
fugitive \FYOO-ji-tiv\, adjective:
1. Fleeting, transitory, elusive.
2. Having taken flight, or run away.
3. Changing color as a result of exposure to light and chemical substances present in the atmosphere, in other pigments, or in the medium.
4. Dealing with subjects of passing interest, as writings; ephemeral.
5. Wandering, roving, or vagabond.
I started to write about Sean, and the writing, like a searchlight sweeping wildly, almost caught my fugitive feelings.
-- Edmund White, The Beautiful Room Is Empty
I fill my own glass now, and raise it, unspeaking: to her? to us? to the spirit of fugitive love? Whatever it is I mean, she nods as if to say she understands.
-- Vikram Seth, An Equal Music
First used by Shakespeare in Antony & Cleopatra, fugitive stems from the Latin word fugere meaning "to flee."
逃犯\ FYOO繼TIV\，形容詞：
1。轉瞬即逝，短暫的，難以捉摸。
2。考慮飛行，或逃跑。
3。改變顏色作為光與化學物質接觸到的結果提出在大氣中，在其他顏料，或在中期。
4。處理傳遞興趣的科目，如著作;短暫的。
5。徘徊，粗紗，或流浪漢。
我開始寫關於肖恩，寫作，像一個瘋狂席捲的探照燈，幾乎引起了我的逃犯的感情。
- 埃德蒙·懷特，美麗的房間是空的
我現在填寫自己的玻璃，並提高它的嘲諷：她呢？給我們嗎？逃犯的愛的精神？不管它是我的意思是，她點點頭，彷彿在說她明白。
- 維克拉姆·塞思，平等的音樂
首先用在莎士比亞安東尼和克婁巴特拉，從拉丁詞fugere意義逃犯莖“逃離”。
2012年3月29日 星期四
2012_03_29 Eudemonia n.Happiness; 幸福;福祉。
Word of the Day for Thursday, March 29, 2012
eudemonia \yoo-di-MOH-nee-uh\, noun:
1. Happiness; well-being.
2. Aristotelianism. Happiness as the result of an active life governed by reason.
We all seek eudemonia, but he thinks that it takes a great deal of reflection and education to get a clear enough conception of it really to aim at it in our practice.
-- Robert Campbell Roberts, Intellectual Virtues
They may have believed that we already do value duty, utility, and eudemonia, but it is debatable whether they need to make such descriptive claims.
-- Jesse J. Prinz, The Emotional Construction of Morals
From Aristotle, eudemonia comes from the Greek word eudaímōn which meant "a good or benevolent spirit."
eudemonia\ YOO-DI-衛生部-NEE-UH\，名詞：
1。幸福;福祉。
2。亞里士多德。作為結果的原因管轄的一個積極的生活幸福。
我們所有尋求eudemonia，但他認為，它需要很大的反思和教育真正得到足夠明確的概念，在它的目標在我們的實踐。
- 羅伯特·坎貝爾·羅伯茨，智慧的美德
他們可能認為，我們已經這樣做值稅，實用，eudemonia，但他們是否需要做出這樣的描述索賠，這是值得商榷的。
- 傑西·普林茨，情感道德建設
從亞里士多德，eudemonia來。“一個好的或王道精神”這意味著，從希臘字eudaímōn的
eudemonia \yoo-di-MOH-nee-uh\, noun:
1. Happiness; well-being.
2. Aristotelianism. Happiness as the result of an active life governed by reason.
We all seek eudemonia, but he thinks that it takes a great deal of reflection and education to get a clear enough conception of it really to aim at it in our practice.
-- Robert Campbell Roberts, Intellectual Virtues
They may have believed that we already do value duty, utility, and eudemonia, but it is debatable whether they need to make such descriptive claims.
-- Jesse J. Prinz, The Emotional Construction of Morals
From Aristotle, eudemonia comes from the Greek word eudaímōn which meant "a good or benevolent spirit."
eudemonia\ YOO-DI-衛生部-NEE-UH\，名詞：
1。幸福;福祉。
2。亞里士多德。作為結果的原因管轄的一個積極的生活幸福。
我們所有尋求eudemonia，但他認為，它需要很大的反思和教育真正得到足夠明確的概念，在它的目標在我們的實踐。
- 羅伯特·坎貝爾·羅伯茨，智慧的美德
他們可能認為，我們已經這樣做值稅，實用，eudemonia，但他們是否需要做出這樣的描述索賠，這是值得商榷的。
- 傑西·普林茨，情感道德建設
從亞里士多德，eudemonia來。“一個好的或王道精神”這意味著，從希臘字eudaímōn的
2012年3月28日 星期三
2012_03_28 Luxate v. dislocate.脫臼
Word of the Day for Wednesday, March 28, 2012
luxate \LUHK-seyt\, verb:
To put out of joint; dislocate.
When I began to luxate the tooth I heard a crack.
-- Nathan Jorgenson, A Crooked Number
But at the same time he thinks, that the reduced bone will not remain in it's [sic] place, but luxate itself again, and fall back into the new-formed articulation, which it has formed to itself.
-- Royal Society of London, The Philosophical Transactions and Collections
Luxate is not related to any word for "light." Rather, it is from the Greek word for "oblique," which was loxós.
luxate\ LUHK seyt\，動詞：
把聯合;脫臼。
當我開始luxate牙齒，我聽到了一條縫。
- 彌敦道喬根森，一歪號
但同時他認為，減少骨不會留在它的[原文]地方，但本身再次luxate，並陷入了新成立的銜接，它已形成了自身的回來。
- 倫敦，英國皇家學會的哲學交易和集合
luxate不涉及任何字的“光。”相反，它是從希臘字“斜”，這是loxós。
luxate \LUHK-seyt\, verb:
To put out of joint; dislocate.
When I began to luxate the tooth I heard a crack.
-- Nathan Jorgenson, A Crooked Number
But at the same time he thinks, that the reduced bone will not remain in it's [sic] place, but luxate itself again, and fall back into the new-formed articulation, which it has formed to itself.
-- Royal Society of London, The Philosophical Transactions and Collections
Luxate is not related to any word for "light." Rather, it is from the Greek word for "oblique," which was loxós.
luxate\ LUHK seyt\，動詞：
把聯合;脫臼。
當我開始luxate牙齒，我聽到了一條縫。
- 彌敦道喬根森，一歪號
但同時他認為，減少骨不會留在它的[原文]地方，但本身再次luxate，並陷入了新成立的銜接，它已形成了自身的回來。
- 倫敦，英國皇家學會的哲學交易和集合
luxate不涉及任何字的“光。”相反，它是從希臘字“斜”，這是loxós。
2012年3月27日 星期二
2012_03_27 Chelonian adj. 乌龟。
Word of the Day for Tuesday, March 27, 2012
chelonian \ki-LOH-nee-uhn\, adjective:
1. Belonging or pertaining to the order Chelonia, comprising the turtles.
noun:
1. A turtle.
At the truly chelonian pace of somewhat under two miles per hour, the passengers and crew onboard would cover the twenty-seven hundred miles in just over two months.
-- Caleb H. Johnson, The Mayflower and Her Passengers
The study door crashed back and a seventy-year-old politician stood there, top hat firmly on his head, collar awry around his scrawny, chelonian neck.
-- M. J. Trow, Lestrade and the Sawdust Ring
What pair of messiahs could differ more harshly than Hiram and Magnus, the one a pedantic little fellow with a chelonian paunch and gold eye-glasses and the other a rough, shaggy, carnivorous revivalist from the dreadful steppes?
-- H. L. Mencken, "Editorial," American Mercury Magazine, Jan. to Apr. 1924
Chelonian comes from the Greek word for turtle, chelṓn.
龟\文蕙-NEE-UHN\，形容词：
1。属于或有关的顺序龟，包括海龟。
名词：
1。乌龟。
在真正的龟步伐有所下两英里每小时，船上的乘客和机组人员将覆盖在短短两个多月的二十七个几百英里。
- 迦勒H.约翰逊，“五月花号和她的乘客
书房门坠毁和一个七八岁的政治家站在那里，顶帽坚定地在他的头上，领他骨瘦如柴，龟的颈部周围出差错。
- M·特罗，Lestrade和木屑环
什么救世主对可能与更严厉的西贡和Magnus，一个迂腐与龟大肚子和黄金眼，眼镜和其他粗糙，毛茸茸的，可怕的草原食肉复兴的小家伙呢？
- HL门肯“编委，”美国水星杂志“，1月至1924年年4月
龟来自希腊字为龟，chelṓn。
chelonian \ki-LOH-nee-uhn\, adjective:
1. Belonging or pertaining to the order Chelonia, comprising the turtles.
noun:
1. A turtle.
At the truly chelonian pace of somewhat under two miles per hour, the passengers and crew onboard would cover the twenty-seven hundred miles in just over two months.
-- Caleb H. Johnson, The Mayflower and Her Passengers
The study door crashed back and a seventy-year-old politician stood there, top hat firmly on his head, collar awry around his scrawny, chelonian neck.
-- M. J. Trow, Lestrade and the Sawdust Ring
What pair of messiahs could differ more harshly than Hiram and Magnus, the one a pedantic little fellow with a chelonian paunch and gold eye-glasses and the other a rough, shaggy, carnivorous revivalist from the dreadful steppes?
-- H. L. Mencken, "Editorial," American Mercury Magazine, Jan. to Apr. 1924
Chelonian comes from the Greek word for turtle, chelṓn.
龟\文蕙-NEE-UHN\，形容词：
1。属于或有关的顺序龟，包括海龟。
名词：
1。乌龟。
在真正的龟步伐有所下两英里每小时，船上的乘客和机组人员将覆盖在短短两个多月的二十七个几百英里。
- 迦勒H.约翰逊，“五月花号和她的乘客
书房门坠毁和一个七八岁的政治家站在那里，顶帽坚定地在他的头上，领他骨瘦如柴，龟的颈部周围出差错。
- M·特罗，Lestrade和木屑环
什么救世主对可能与更严厉的西贡和Magnus，一个迂腐与龟大肚子和黄金眼，眼镜和其他粗糙，毛茸茸的，可怕的草原食肉复兴的小家伙呢？
- HL门肯“编委，”美国水星杂志“，1月至1924年年4月
龟来自希腊字为龟，chelṓn。
2012年3月26日 星期一
2012_03_26 Catechize v. 追問。To question closely.
Word of the Day for Monday, March 26, 2012
catechize \KAT-i-kahyz\, verb:
1. To question closely.
2. To instruct orally by means of questions and answers, especially in Christian doctrine.
3. To question with reference to belief.
He sent her off when the dial made it five o'clock every fourth Sunday—for we had service only once a month, the parson having a church at Brampton, where he lived, and another as well, which made it the more wicked of us to play truant—but whether she got there early or late, or got there at all, he'd never ask, let alone catechize her about the sermon.
-- Mary Webb, Precious Bane
Aunt Bessie tried to catechize her about Erik's disappearance, and it was Kennicott who silenced the woman…
-- Sinclair Lewis, Main Street
Catechize stems from the Greek word katēchízein meaning "to teach orally." It was first used in the sense of "to question" by Shakespeare in Othello.
邂逅; Encounter; 遭遇
1。追問。
2。口頭指示的問題和答案，尤其是在基督教的教義。
3。懷疑與信仰。
他送給她時錶盤，五點鐘每第四個星期日為我們服務，每月只有一次，牧師在教堂Brampton的，他住的地方，另一個，這使得它更邪惡我們逃學，但她是否到了那裡早或遲，或到了那裡所有，他從來不問，更不用說catechize她講道。
- 瑪麗·韋布，珍貴的詛咒
貝西姨媽試圖，catechize Erik的失踪她，這是的肯尼科特誰沉默女人......
- 辛克萊·劉易斯，大街
catechize源於“。口頭傳授”從希臘字katēchízein的意義這是第一次使用在“質疑”的意識，莎士比亞在“奧賽羅”。
catechize \KAT-i-kahyz\, verb:
1. To question closely.
2. To instruct orally by means of questions and answers, especially in Christian doctrine.
3. To question with reference to belief.
He sent her off when the dial made it five o'clock every fourth Sunday—for we had service only once a month, the parson having a church at Brampton, where he lived, and another as well, which made it the more wicked of us to play truant—but whether she got there early or late, or got there at all, he'd never ask, let alone catechize her about the sermon.
-- Mary Webb, Precious Bane
Aunt Bessie tried to catechize her about Erik's disappearance, and it was Kennicott who silenced the woman…
-- Sinclair Lewis, Main Street
Catechize stems from the Greek word katēchízein meaning "to teach orally." It was first used in the sense of "to question" by Shakespeare in Othello.
邂逅; Encounter; 遭遇
1。追問。
2。口頭指示的問題和答案，尤其是在基督教的教義。
3。懷疑與信仰。
他送給她時錶盤，五點鐘每第四個星期日為我們服務，每月只有一次，牧師在教堂Brampton的，他住的地方，另一個，這使得它更邪惡我們逃學，但她是否到了那裡早或遲，或到了那裡所有，他從來不問，更不用說catechize她講道。
- 瑪麗·韋布，珍貴的詛咒
貝西姨媽試圖，catechize Erik的失踪她，這是的肯尼科特誰沉默女人......
- 辛克萊·劉易斯，大街
catechize源於“。口頭傳授”從希臘字katēchízein的意義這是第一次使用在“質疑”的意識，莎士比亞在“奧賽羅”。
2012年3月25日 星期日
2012_03_25 Tellurian adj.居民的特徵 n. An inhabitant of the earth.
Word of the Day for Sunday, March 25, 2012
Tellurian \te-LOOR-ee-uhn\, adjective:
1. Of or characteristic of the earth or its inhabitants.
noun:
1. An inhabitant of the earth.
We must keep in mind that we are, or should I say have become, hybrid personae, part tellurian, and part extraterrestrial.
-- Robert Silverberg and Karen Haber, Universe 3
What special affinities appeared to him to exist between the moon and woman? Her antiquity in preceding and surviving successive tellurian generations…
-- James Joyce, Ulysses
Tellurian was first used by Thomas DeQuincy in 1846, even though it has classical Latin roots literally meaning "one of the earth."
地球上的\ TE-LOOR-EE-UHN\，形容詞：
1。或地球或其居民的特徵。
名詞：
1。一個地球居民。
我們必須牢記，我們是，或者我應該說已經成為混合對人，地球上的部分，及部分外星。
- 羅伯特·西爾弗伯格和Karen哈伯宇宙3
什麼特殊的親和力出現在他面前，月亮和女人之間存在嗎？她前，倖存的地球上的連續幾代人的古代...
- 詹姆斯·喬伊斯，“尤利西斯”
地球上的第一次托馬斯DeQuincy使用於1846年，儘管它有經典的字面意思是拉丁詞根“一個地球。”
Tellurian \te-LOOR-ee-uhn\, adjective:
1. Of or characteristic of the earth or its inhabitants.
noun:
1. An inhabitant of the earth.
We must keep in mind that we are, or should I say have become, hybrid personae, part tellurian, and part extraterrestrial.
-- Robert Silverberg and Karen Haber, Universe 3
What special affinities appeared to him to exist between the moon and woman? Her antiquity in preceding and surviving successive tellurian generations…
-- James Joyce, Ulysses
Tellurian was first used by Thomas DeQuincy in 1846, even though it has classical Latin roots literally meaning "one of the earth."
地球上的\ TE-LOOR-EE-UHN\，形容詞：
1。或地球或其居民的特徵。
名詞：
1。一個地球居民。
我們必須牢記，我們是，或者我應該說已經成為混合對人，地球上的部分，及部分外星。
- 羅伯特·西爾弗伯格和Karen哈伯宇宙3
什麼特殊的親和力出現在他面前，月亮和女人之間存在嗎？她前，倖存的地球上的連續幾代人的古代...
- 詹姆斯·喬伊斯，“尤利西斯”
地球上的第一次托馬斯DeQuincy使用於1846年，儘管它有經典的字面意思是拉丁詞根“一個地球。”
2012年3月24日 星期六
2012_03_24 Adroit adj. 巧妙嫻熟，機智，或巧妙 Cleverly skillful, resourceful, or ingenious.
Word of the Day for Saturday, March 24, 2012
adroit \uh-DROIT\, adjective:
1. Cleverly skillful, resourceful, or ingenious.
2. Expert or nimble in the use of the hands or body.
He knows that Jory is handsome, talented, and most of all, adroit. Bart is not adroit at anything but pretending.
-- V.C. Andrews, If There Be Thorns
It requires finesse. She was very adroit — oh, very adroit — but Hercule Poirot, my good George, is of a cleverness quite exceptional.
-- Agatha Christie, The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
Adroit is from the Old French meaning "elegant, skillful" from the roots a- meaning "increase" and droit meaning "correct."
熟練\ UH-DROIT\，形容詞：
1。巧妙嫻熟，機智，或巧妙。
2。專家或使用手或身體靈活。
他知道，喬瑞是英俊，有才華，最重要的，熟練的。巴特是不是在任何事情，但假裝熟練。
- V.C.安德魯斯，如果有荊棘
這需要技巧。她很熟練 - 哦，非常熟練的 - 但是，我的好喬治，赫爾克里·波洛是一個十分特殊的聰明。
- 阿加莎·克里斯蒂，聖誕布丁歷險記
機敏是“正確的”。古法語，意思是“優雅，嫻熟的”從根，意思是“增長”和所有權的含義
adroit \uh-DROIT\, adjective:
1. Cleverly skillful, resourceful, or ingenious.
2. Expert or nimble in the use of the hands or body.
He knows that Jory is handsome, talented, and most of all, adroit. Bart is not adroit at anything but pretending.
-- V.C. Andrews, If There Be Thorns
It requires finesse. She was very adroit — oh, very adroit — but Hercule Poirot, my good George, is of a cleverness quite exceptional.
-- Agatha Christie, The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
Adroit is from the Old French meaning "elegant, skillful" from the roots a- meaning "increase" and droit meaning "correct."
熟練\ UH-DROIT\，形容詞：
1。巧妙嫻熟，機智，或巧妙。
2。專家或使用手或身體靈活。
他知道，喬瑞是英俊，有才華，最重要的，熟練的。巴特是不是在任何事情，但假裝熟練。
- V.C.安德魯斯，如果有荊棘
這需要技巧。她很熟練 - 哦，非常熟練的 - 但是，我的好喬治，赫爾克里·波洛是一個十分特殊的聰明。
- 阿加莎·克里斯蒂，聖誕布丁歷險記
機敏是“正確的”。古法語，意思是“優雅，嫻熟的”從根，意思是“增長”和所有權的含義
2012年3月23日 星期五
2012_03_23 Ruck n 起皺, 平凡或低劣的人或事物的質量
Word of the Day for Friday, March 23, 2012
ruck \ruhk\, noun:
1. A large number or quantity; mass.
2. The great mass of undistinguished or inferior persons or things.
Innis steered Jessica through a ruck of large, bearded men in dungarees and greasy sweaters who looked at her like she might be the floor show.
-- Paul Bryers, The Prayer of the Bone
A ruck of charts, clipboards, cuttlefish-flavored peanut snacks, containers of the barley water and orange pop the enlisted brought on watch, binoculars, and struggling men stirred at the base of the cliff.
-- David Poyer, Korea Strait
The ruck of the men were lower down than our two heroes, and there were others far away to the left, and others, again, who had been at the end of the gorse, and were now behind.
-- Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn
Ruck comes from an early Icelandic word ruka or ruke which meant "a heap or a stack."
起皺\ ruhk\，名詞：
1。一個大數目或數量;質量。
2。平凡或低劣的人或事物的質量。
英尼斯渡過一個大鬍子的男人，工作服和油膩的毛衣看著她，像她可能是地板展起皺傑西卡。
保羅 - Bryers，骨的祈禱
一個起皺的圖表，剪貼板，墨魚味花生小吃，薏米水的容器和橙色彈出入伍手錶，望遠鏡，和掙扎在懸崖的基礎上激起男性帶來。
- 大衛Poyer，朝鮮海峽
男子起皺低於我們的兩位英雄，還有其他很遠的左側，和其他人，又曾在金雀花結束，現在落後。
- 特羅洛普，菲尼亞斯芬蘭人
RUCK來從早期冰島字RUKA或ruke這意味著“堆或棧”。
ruck \ruhk\, noun:
1. A large number or quantity; mass.
2. The great mass of undistinguished or inferior persons or things.
Innis steered Jessica through a ruck of large, bearded men in dungarees and greasy sweaters who looked at her like she might be the floor show.
-- Paul Bryers, The Prayer of the Bone
A ruck of charts, clipboards, cuttlefish-flavored peanut snacks, containers of the barley water and orange pop the enlisted brought on watch, binoculars, and struggling men stirred at the base of the cliff.
-- David Poyer, Korea Strait
The ruck of the men were lower down than our two heroes, and there were others far away to the left, and others, again, who had been at the end of the gorse, and were now behind.
-- Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn
Ruck comes from an early Icelandic word ruka or ruke which meant "a heap or a stack."
起皺\ ruhk\，名詞：
1。一個大數目或數量;質量。
2。平凡或低劣的人或事物的質量。
英尼斯渡過一個大鬍子的男人，工作服和油膩的毛衣看著她，像她可能是地板展起皺傑西卡。
保羅 - Bryers，骨的祈禱
一個起皺的圖表，剪貼板，墨魚味花生小吃，薏米水的容器和橙色彈出入伍手錶，望遠鏡，和掙扎在懸崖的基礎上激起男性帶來。
- 大衛Poyer，朝鮮海峽
男子起皺低於我們的兩位英雄，還有其他很遠的左側，和其他人，又曾在金雀花結束，現在落後。
- 特羅洛普，菲尼亞斯芬蘭人
RUCK來從早期冰島字RUKA或ruke這意味著“堆或棧”。
2012年3月22日 星期四
2012_03_12 Moschate adj. 有麝香味
Word of the Day for Thursday, March 22, 2012
moschate \MOS-keyt\, adjective:
Having a musky smell.
Her familiar perfume and moschate odor was overwhelming within the confines of the car, especially with the windows rolled up.
-- Charles Ray Willeford, New Hope for the Dead
The plant of the Rio Grande is said by Mr. Schott to exhale a moschate odor.
-- William Hemsley Emory, Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, Volume 2, Part 1
Though moschate has Latin roots, it was not used widely in English until the early 1800s. The word mosch meant "musky" in Latin and was used to describe the wine commonly known today at "muscat."
有麝香味。
她熟悉的香水和moschate的氣味，絕大多數汽車的範圍內，尤其是與Windows捲起。
- 查爾斯·雷Willeford，為死者的新希望
格蘭德河的工廠是肖特先生所說的到吐出moschate氣味。
- 威廉Hemsley埃默里，美國和墨西哥邊界調查報告，第2卷，第1部分
雖然moschate有拉丁詞根，它不使用中英文廣泛，直到19世紀初。字mosch意味著在拉美的“麝香”，被用來描述在今天通常被稱為“麝香葡萄酒。”
moschate \MOS-keyt\, adjective:
Having a musky smell.
Her familiar perfume and moschate odor was overwhelming within the confines of the car, especially with the windows rolled up.
-- Charles Ray Willeford, New Hope for the Dead
The plant of the Rio Grande is said by Mr. Schott to exhale a moschate odor.
-- William Hemsley Emory, Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, Volume 2, Part 1
Though moschate has Latin roots, it was not used widely in English until the early 1800s. The word mosch meant "musky" in Latin and was used to describe the wine commonly known today at "muscat."
有麝香味。
她熟悉的香水和moschate的氣味，絕大多數汽車的範圍內，尤其是與Windows捲起。
- 查爾斯·雷Willeford，為死者的新希望
格蘭德河的工廠是肖特先生所說的到吐出moschate氣味。
- 威廉Hemsley埃默里，美國和墨西哥邊界調查報告，第2卷，第1部分
雖然moschate有拉丁詞根，它不使用中英文廣泛，直到19世紀初。字mosch意味著在拉美的“麝香”，被用來描述在今天通常被稱為“麝香葡萄酒。”
2012年3月21日 星期三
2012_03_21 Conniption n. Anger 憤怒 A fit of hysterical excitement or anger.
Word of the Day for Wednesday, March 21, 2012
conniption \kuh-NIP-shuhn\, noun:
A fit of hysterical excitement or anger.
"Wah!" says Stella-Rondo. I knew she'd cry. She had a conniption fit right there in the kitchen.
-- Eudora Welty, "Why I Live at the P.O." The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
When they came home, everybody was having a conniption about a big giant fight in the village over who got whose share of their horrid meat.
-- Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
A day or two later I was going about my business when a voice from above bellowed, ALL HAPPY FAMILIES RESEMBLE ONE ANOTHER, nearly giving me a conniption.
-- Nicole Krauss, The History of Love: A Novel
Conniption is actually an invented word. It first appeared in America in 1833 and may be related to the word corruption which was use in the sense of "anger" in the early 1800s.
一個合適的歇斯底里的興奮或憤怒。
“哇！”斯特拉 - 朗多說。我知道她哭了。她在那裡有一個歇斯底里適合在廚房裡。
- 韋爾蒂，“為什麼我住在P.O.”韋爾蒂收集的故事
當他們來到家裡，大家有一個在村里誰得到的份額，其可怕的肉大巨頭鬥爭的歇斯底里。
- 芭芭拉Kingsolver，Poisonwood的聖經
一兩天後，我對我的生意時，一個聲音從上面吼叫，所有幸福的家庭彼此都很相似，幾乎讓我1歇斯底里。
- 妮可，愛的歷史克勞斯：一種新型的
歇斯底里實際上是一個新創字。它最早出現於1833年，在美國可能會在19世紀初的“憤怒”的感覺，這是在使用的單詞腐敗。
conniption \kuh-NIP-shuhn\, noun:
A fit of hysterical excitement or anger.
"Wah!" says Stella-Rondo. I knew she'd cry. She had a conniption fit right there in the kitchen.
-- Eudora Welty, "Why I Live at the P.O." The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
When they came home, everybody was having a conniption about a big giant fight in the village over who got whose share of their horrid meat.
-- Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
A day or two later I was going about my business when a voice from above bellowed, ALL HAPPY FAMILIES RESEMBLE ONE ANOTHER, nearly giving me a conniption.
-- Nicole Krauss, The History of Love: A Novel
Conniption is actually an invented word. It first appeared in America in 1833 and may be related to the word corruption which was use in the sense of "anger" in the early 1800s.
一個合適的歇斯底里的興奮或憤怒。
“哇！”斯特拉 - 朗多說。我知道她哭了。她在那裡有一個歇斯底里適合在廚房裡。
- 韋爾蒂，“為什麼我住在P.O.”韋爾蒂收集的故事
當他們來到家裡，大家有一個在村里誰得到的份額，其可怕的肉大巨頭鬥爭的歇斯底里。
- 芭芭拉Kingsolver，Poisonwood的聖經
一兩天後，我對我的生意時，一個聲音從上面吼叫，所有幸福的家庭彼此都很相似，幾乎讓我1歇斯底里。
- 妮可，愛的歷史克勞斯：一種新型的
歇斯底里實際上是一個新創字。它最早出現於1833年，在美國可能會在19世紀初的“憤怒”的感覺，這是在使用的單詞腐敗。
2012年3月20日 星期二
2012_03_20 vernal \VUR-nl\, adjective:春分
Word of the Day for Tuesday, March 20, 2012
vernal \VUR-nl\, adjective:
1. Appearing or occurring in spring.
2. Of or pertaining to spring.
3. Appropriate to or suggesting spring; springlike.
4. Belonging to or characteristic of youth.
By and by a bird piped in the garden; the shriek of a swallow made itself heard from a distance; the vernal day was beginning to stir from the light…
-- William Dean Howells, A Foregone Conclusion
Where are you trampling vernal blooms?
-- Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
Vernal stems from the Latin word vernus meaning "pertaining to spring." It is related to the word "verdant."
春分\ VUR的-NL\，形容詞：
1。出現或發生在春天。
2。或有關春天。
3。適當或暗示的春天; springlike。
4。屬於青年的特點。
鳥管道在花園裡，燕子的尖叫聲使自己聽到從遠處;春分日從光開始騷動......
- 威廉·迪安·豪厄爾斯，已成定局
你在哪裡踐踏春天開花？
- 亞歷山大·普希金，尤金
春分莖從拉丁詞vernus的意義“有關的春天。”它涉及到的單詞“蔥蘢”。
vernal \VUR-nl\, adjective:
1. Appearing or occurring in spring.
2. Of or pertaining to spring.
3. Appropriate to or suggesting spring; springlike.
4. Belonging to or characteristic of youth.
By and by a bird piped in the garden; the shriek of a swallow made itself heard from a distance; the vernal day was beginning to stir from the light…
-- William Dean Howells, A Foregone Conclusion
Where are you trampling vernal blooms?
-- Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
Vernal stems from the Latin word vernus meaning "pertaining to spring." It is related to the word "verdant."
春分\ VUR的-NL\，形容詞：
1。出現或發生在春天。
2。或有關春天。
3。適當或暗示的春天; springlike。
4。屬於青年的特點。
鳥管道在花園裡，燕子的尖叫聲使自己聽到從遠處;春分日從光開始騷動......
- 威廉·迪安·豪厄爾斯，已成定局
你在哪裡踐踏春天開花？
- 亞歷山大·普希金，尤金
春分莖從拉丁詞vernus的意義“有關的春天。”它涉及到的單詞“蔥蘢”。
2012年3月19日 星期一
2012_03_19 Carp v. 鯉魚, 抱怨 complain querulously
Word of the Day for Monday, March 19, 2012
carp \kahrp\, verb:
1. To find fault or complain querulously or unreasonably.
noun:
1. A peevish complaint.
She'd been carping about money lately – or not carping, but she'd inserted a few pointed remarks about pulling your own weight into the prolonged and intent silences that were her specialty – so he thought she'd be pleased.
-- Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
And knowing he could not touch her by persuasion, he carped at her and teased her like a schoolboy.
-- Anton Chekhov, "Excellent People," Chekhov's Doctors: A Collection of Chekhov's Medical Tales
Carp comes from the Old Norse word karpa which meant "to brag or haggle."
鯉魚\ kahrp\，動詞：
1。來查找故障或抱怨抱怨地或不合理。
名詞：
1。一個乖戾投訴。
她被吹毛求疵最近關於金錢 - 或者不吹毛求疵，但她插入一些尖銳的言論 - 關於長期和意圖的沉默，是她的專業拉入自己的體重讓他以為她會很高興。
- 瑪格麗特·阿特伍德，羚羊與秧雞
知道他不能碰她的勸說，他傾訴對象，她嘲笑她像個小學生一樣。
- 契訶夫，“優秀的人，”契訶夫的醫生：契訶夫的醫療故事集“
鯉魚“。吹噓自己或討價還價”從古諾爾斯的字karpa這意味著
carp \kahrp\, verb:
1. To find fault or complain querulously or unreasonably.
noun:
1. A peevish complaint.
She'd been carping about money lately – or not carping, but she'd inserted a few pointed remarks about pulling your own weight into the prolonged and intent silences that were her specialty – so he thought she'd be pleased.
-- Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
And knowing he could not touch her by persuasion, he carped at her and teased her like a schoolboy.
-- Anton Chekhov, "Excellent People," Chekhov's Doctors: A Collection of Chekhov's Medical Tales
Carp comes from the Old Norse word karpa which meant "to brag or haggle."
鯉魚\ kahrp\，動詞：
1。來查找故障或抱怨抱怨地或不合理。
名詞：
1。一個乖戾投訴。
她被吹毛求疵最近關於金錢 - 或者不吹毛求疵，但她插入一些尖銳的言論 - 關於長期和意圖的沉默，是她的專業拉入自己的體重讓他以為她會很高興。
- 瑪格麗特·阿特伍德，羚羊與秧雞
知道他不能碰她的勸說，他傾訴對象，她嘲笑她像個小學生一樣。
- 契訶夫，“優秀的人，”契訶夫的醫生：契訶夫的醫療故事集“
鯉魚“。吹噓自己或討價還價”從古諾爾斯的字karpa這意味著
2012年3月18日 星期日
2012_03_18 Brisance n. 爆炸威力The shattering effect of a high explosive.
Word of the Day for Sunday, March 18, 2012
brisance \bri-ZAHNS\, noun:
The shattering effect of a high explosive.
The 'There' turned out to be crucial for the sense of brisance and closure and resolving issues of impotent rage and powerless fear that like accrued in Lenz all day being trapped in the northeastern portions of a squalid halfway house all day fearing for his life, Lenz felt.
-- David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
But this was sustained explosion, reaching now and then a quite unendurable brisance. Yet he endured it, not so much because it was her will as, unbelievably, what had become her need.
-- Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day
Brisance is a relatively new English word. It started being used commonly in the 1910s, but it can be traced to the Celtic word brissim meaning "to break."
爆炸威力\ BRI-ZAHNS\，名詞：
驚天動地的高爆炸藥的效果。
“”原來是無能的憤怒和無能為力的恐懼像楞累計整天被困在一個骯髒的中途之家的東北部分，整天擔心他的生命的爆炸威力和封閉感和解決問題的關鍵，倫茨感覺。
- 大衛·福斯特·華萊士，無限開玩笑
但是，這是持續的爆炸，達到了一個相當難熬的爆炸威力，現在，然後。然而，他忍受了它，沒有那麼多，因為這是她的，令人難以置信的，什麼已成為她的需要。
- 托馬斯品欽，反對日
猛度是一個相對較新的英文單詞。它在1910年代開始被使用普遍，但它可以追溯到凱爾特人字brissim，意思是“打破。”
brisance \bri-ZAHNS\, noun:
The shattering effect of a high explosive.
The 'There' turned out to be crucial for the sense of brisance and closure and resolving issues of impotent rage and powerless fear that like accrued in Lenz all day being trapped in the northeastern portions of a squalid halfway house all day fearing for his life, Lenz felt.
-- David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
But this was sustained explosion, reaching now and then a quite unendurable brisance. Yet he endured it, not so much because it was her will as, unbelievably, what had become her need.
-- Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day
Brisance is a relatively new English word. It started being used commonly in the 1910s, but it can be traced to the Celtic word brissim meaning "to break."
爆炸威力\ BRI-ZAHNS\，名詞：
驚天動地的高爆炸藥的效果。
“”原來是無能的憤怒和無能為力的恐懼像楞累計整天被困在一個骯髒的中途之家的東北部分，整天擔心他的生命的爆炸威力和封閉感和解決問題的關鍵，倫茨感覺。
- 大衛·福斯特·華萊士，無限開玩笑
但是，這是持續的爆炸，達到了一個相當難熬的爆炸威力，現在，然後。然而，他忍受了它，沒有那麼多，因為這是她的，令人難以置信的，什麼已成為她的需要。
- 托馬斯品欽，反對日
猛度是一個相對較新的英文單詞。它在1910年代開始被使用普遍，但它可以追溯到凱爾特人字brissim，意思是“打破。”
2012年3月17日 星期六
2012_03_15 iniquitous 不公正 \ih-NIK-wi-tuhs\, adjective:
Word of the Day for Thursday, March 15, 2012
iniquitous \ih-NIK-wi-tuhs\, adjective:
Characterized by injustice or wickedness; wicked; sinful.
The commission was charged now with the task of discovering the iniquitous conspiracy against the Citizen-Saviour of his country.
-- Joseph Conrad, Nostromo
Anything else would be iniquitous - iniquitous is the only word. You know as well as I do that there is not the remotest chance of her ever being able to earn any money for herself out here.
-- Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark
Iniquitous literally meant "unfair" in Latin, as its clear roots betray.
不公正\ IH-聶-WI-tuhs\，形容詞：
特點是不公正或邪惡;惡人有罪。
該委員會負責現在發現對他的國家的公民，救主的罪惡陰謀的任務。
- 約瑟夫·康拉德，諾斯托羅莫
什麼都將是不公正的 - 不公正的，是只有一個字。你知道，以及像我一樣，沒有偏遠的機會，她以往任何時候都能夠為自己賺取任何金錢。
- 讓·里斯，在黑暗的航程
不公正的字面意思在拉美的“不公平”，因為其明確的根背叛。
iniquitous \ih-NIK-wi-tuhs\, adjective:
Characterized by injustice or wickedness; wicked; sinful.
The commission was charged now with the task of discovering the iniquitous conspiracy against the Citizen-Saviour of his country.
-- Joseph Conrad, Nostromo
Anything else would be iniquitous - iniquitous is the only word. You know as well as I do that there is not the remotest chance of her ever being able to earn any money for herself out here.
-- Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark
Iniquitous literally meant "unfair" in Latin, as its clear roots betray.
不公正\ IH-聶-WI-tuhs\，形容詞：
特點是不公正或邪惡;惡人有罪。
該委員會負責現在發現對他的國家的公民，救主的罪惡陰謀的任務。
- 約瑟夫·康拉德，諾斯托羅莫
什麼都將是不公正的 - 不公正的，是只有一個字。你知道，以及像我一樣，沒有偏遠的機會，她以往任何時候都能夠為自己賺取任何金錢。
- 讓·里斯，在黑暗的航程
不公正的字面意思在拉美的“不公平”，因為其明確的根背叛。
2012_03_17 selcouth 奇怪 \SEL-kooth\, adjective: Strange; uncommon.
Word of the Day for Saturday, March 17, 2012
selcouth \SEL-kooth\, adjective:
Strange; uncommon.
Its English is not more quaint than that of De Brunne himself; it contains no names more selcouth than he himself is in the custom of introducing…
-- Sir Walter Scott, The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott
To whom there's hardly any selcouth thing, but seems a juggling trick, that would delude their fancies with an empty wondering; therefore against it they with thundering words do ring.
-- George Starkey, An Exposition Upon the Preface of Sir George Ripley
Selcouth has odd Old English roots. It is related to the word seldom and the Old English word couth meaning "to know."
selcouth\ SEL-kooth\，形容詞：
奇怪;少見。
它的英文是不超過德Brunne自己，古樸;它包含沒有名字更selcouth比他自己是在引進的自定義...
- 沃爾特·斯科特爵士，沃爾特·斯科特爵士的詩歌創作
誰還有幾乎沒有任何selcouth的事情，但似乎是一個雜耍伎倆，空琢磨，會欺騙自己的幻想，因此對他們的雷鳴般的話，做響。
- 喬治·斯塔基，一個博覽會後，喬治·里普利先生序“
selcouth有奇古英語根。它涉及到很少的字和舊英文單詞couth意義“就知道了。”
selcouth \SEL-kooth\, adjective:
Strange; uncommon.
Its English is not more quaint than that of De Brunne himself; it contains no names more selcouth than he himself is in the custom of introducing…
-- Sir Walter Scott, The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott
To whom there's hardly any selcouth thing, but seems a juggling trick, that would delude their fancies with an empty wondering; therefore against it they with thundering words do ring.
-- George Starkey, An Exposition Upon the Preface of Sir George Ripley
Selcouth has odd Old English roots. It is related to the word seldom and the Old English word couth meaning "to know."
selcouth\ SEL-kooth\，形容詞：
奇怪;少見。
它的英文是不超過德Brunne自己，古樸;它包含沒有名字更selcouth比他自己是在引進的自定義...
- 沃爾特·斯科特爵士，沃爾特·斯科特爵士的詩歌創作
誰還有幾乎沒有任何selcouth的事情，但似乎是一個雜耍伎倆，空琢磨，會欺騙自己的幻想，因此對他們的雷鳴般的話，做響。
- 喬治·斯塔基，一個博覽會後，喬治·里普利先生序“
selcouth有奇古英語根。它涉及到很少的字和舊英文單詞couth意義“就知道了。”
2012年3月16日 星期五
2012_03_16 gasser \GAS-er\, noun: 非常有趣的笑話
Word of the Day for Friday, March 16, 2012
gasser \GAS-er\, noun:
1. Something that is extraordinarily pleasing or successful, especially a very funny joke.
2. A person or thing that gasses.
“You're gonna whiff like Reggie Jackson today, pal,” I said. By the third hole, Blind Bob led by seventeen shots. It was a laugher, a gasser. If it were a fight, Big Al would've been counted out, taken to the hospital, and killed by Clint Eastwood by now.
-- Rick Reilly, Shanks for Nothing
This was very funny indeed, the gasser of all time. When Max announced the name at the briss those thirty-seven years ago, perhaps all the guests, including Dave Raskin, had split a gut or two laughing.
-- Ed McBain, The Heckler
Gasser is an Americanism that arose in the late 1800s.
的加塞\氣兒\，名詞：
1。東西是非常令人高興或成功，尤其是一個非常有趣的笑話。
2。一個人或事物的氣體。
，“我說：”你要像雷吉 - 傑克遜今天，PAL味兒。盲鮑勃率領的第三洞，17桿。這是一個笑聲，1加塞。如果它是一個鬥爭，大鋁已經算出來，送到了醫院，現在由克林特·伊斯特伍德死亡。
- 里克·賴利，沒有柄
這確實是非常有趣的，加塞的所有時間。當最大宣布Briss的名稱，這些三十年前，也許所有的客人，包括戴維·拉斯金，分割腸道或2笑。
，“黑克勒 - ED McBain
加塞是在19世紀後期出現的美國主義。
gasser \GAS-er\, noun:
1. Something that is extraordinarily pleasing or successful, especially a very funny joke.
2. A person or thing that gasses.
“You're gonna whiff like Reggie Jackson today, pal,” I said. By the third hole, Blind Bob led by seventeen shots. It was a laugher, a gasser. If it were a fight, Big Al would've been counted out, taken to the hospital, and killed by Clint Eastwood by now.
-- Rick Reilly, Shanks for Nothing
This was very funny indeed, the gasser of all time. When Max announced the name at the briss those thirty-seven years ago, perhaps all the guests, including Dave Raskin, had split a gut or two laughing.
-- Ed McBain, The Heckler
Gasser is an Americanism that arose in the late 1800s.
的加塞\氣兒\，名詞：
1。東西是非常令人高興或成功，尤其是一個非常有趣的笑話。
2。一個人或事物的氣體。
，“我說：”你要像雷吉 - 傑克遜今天，PAL味兒。盲鮑勃率領的第三洞，17桿。這是一個笑聲，1加塞。如果它是一個鬥爭，大鋁已經算出來，送到了醫院，現在由克林特·伊斯特伍德死亡。
- 里克·賴利，沒有柄
這確實是非常有趣的，加塞的所有時間。當最大宣布Briss的名稱，這些三十年前，也許所有的客人，包括戴維·拉斯金，分割腸道或2笑。
，“黑克勒 - ED McBain
加塞是在19世紀後期出現的美國主義。
2012年3月14日 星期三
2012_03_14 dowager n. 皇太后 one of elevated social position
Word of the Day for Wednesday, March 14, 2012
dowager \DOU-uh-jer\, noun:
1. An elderly woman of stately dignity, especially one of elevated social position.
2. A woman who holds some title or property from her deceased husband, especially the widow of a king, duke, etc.
adjective:
1. Noting, pertaining to, or characteristic of a dowager:
Deeda Blair rhapsodized about the exquisite atmosphere of La Grenouille and La Caravelle, two of the leading temples of fine French cuisine, where she’d lunch with the dowager philanthropist Mary Lasker or the ubiquitous Nan Kempner in the early 1960s, when her husband, William McCormick Blair Jr., was J.F.K.’s ambassador to Denmark and they’d stop in New York on their way home to Washington.
-- Bob Colacello, "Here's to the Ladies Who Lunched!," Vanity Fair, Feb. 2012
She trusted the dowager, and respected her deeply. But that wasn't the issue. Which world was she living in? For the time being, that was the point.
-- Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
Dowager stems from the Latin word dotare meaning "to endow." In the middle French, it came to mean "pertaining to a dower," or the gift/payment that a wife's family gives her husband when they are married.
1。一個莊嚴的尊嚴的老年婦女，尤其是提升社會地位。
2。一個女人誰擁有從她已故的丈夫，尤其是國王的遺孀，公爵等一些標題或財產
形容詞：
1。注意到有關的，或皇太后的特性：
布萊爾rhapsodized deeda精緻的La Grenouille和香格里拉帆船，兩個精緻的法國美食，她的遺孀慈善家瑪麗·拉斯克或無處不在南肯普納吃午飯，在20世紀60年代初的領導寺廟的氣氛中時，她的丈夫，威廉麥考密克布萊爾小肯尼迪的駐丹麥大使，他們會停止在紐約，華盛頓在回家的路上。
鮑勃 - Colacello，“這裡是女士們共進午餐！”名利場“，2012年2月
她信任皇太后，她深深的尊重。不過，這不是問題。這世界，她住在？為暫時的，這是一點。
- 村上春樹，1Q84
太后源於“賦予”從拉丁詞dotare的意義在中間的法國，它意味著“有關嫁妝”或妻子的家人給她的丈夫，他們結婚時的禮物/付款。
dowager \DOU-uh-jer\, noun:
1. An elderly woman of stately dignity, especially one of elevated social position.
2. A woman who holds some title or property from her deceased husband, especially the widow of a king, duke, etc.
adjective:
1. Noting, pertaining to, or characteristic of a dowager:
Deeda Blair rhapsodized about the exquisite atmosphere of La Grenouille and La Caravelle, two of the leading temples of fine French cuisine, where she’d lunch with the dowager philanthropist Mary Lasker or the ubiquitous Nan Kempner in the early 1960s, when her husband, William McCormick Blair Jr., was J.F.K.’s ambassador to Denmark and they’d stop in New York on their way home to Washington.
-- Bob Colacello, "Here's to the Ladies Who Lunched!," Vanity Fair, Feb. 2012
She trusted the dowager, and respected her deeply. But that wasn't the issue. Which world was she living in? For the time being, that was the point.
-- Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
Dowager stems from the Latin word dotare meaning "to endow." In the middle French, it came to mean "pertaining to a dower," or the gift/payment that a wife's family gives her husband when they are married.
1。一個莊嚴的尊嚴的老年婦女，尤其是提升社會地位。
2。一個女人誰擁有從她已故的丈夫，尤其是國王的遺孀，公爵等一些標題或財產
形容詞：
1。注意到有關的，或皇太后的特性：
布萊爾rhapsodized deeda精緻的La Grenouille和香格里拉帆船，兩個精緻的法國美食，她的遺孀慈善家瑪麗·拉斯克或無處不在南肯普納吃午飯，在20世紀60年代初的領導寺廟的氣氛中時，她的丈夫，威廉麥考密克布萊爾小肯尼迪的駐丹麥大使，他們會停止在紐約，華盛頓在回家的路上。
鮑勃 - Colacello，“這裡是女士們共進午餐！”名利場“，2012年2月
她信任皇太后，她深深的尊重。不過，這不是問題。這世界，她住在？為暫時的，這是一點。
- 村上春樹，1Q84
太后源於“賦予”從拉丁詞dotare的意義在中間的法國，它意味著“有關嫁妝”或妻子的家人給她的丈夫，他們結婚時的禮物/付款。
2012年3月13日 星期二
2012_03_13 astringent adj. pungent 急劇尖銳;刺鼻。
Word of the Day for Tuesday, March 13, 2012
astringent \uh-STRIN-juhnt\, adjective:
1. Sharply incisive; pungent.
2. Medicine/Medical. Contracting; constrictive; styptic.
3. Harshly biting; caustic: his astringent criticism.
4. Stern or severe; austere.
noun:
1. Medicine/Medical. A substance that contracts the tissues or canals of the body, thereby diminishing discharges, as of mucus or blood.
2. A cosmetic that cleans the skin and constricts the pores.
One endeavors to correct, flushing out error and misconception with the astringent power of historical detail; the other treats the myth as meaningful cultural phenomenon in its own right, accounting for its emergence and tracing its development across time.
-- Beth Newman, Emily Brontë, "Introduction," Wuthering Heights
But here too she was thinner, and going unripe, astringent.
-- D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
Related to the words strain and string, astringent comes from the Latin root stringere which meant "to draw tight."
1。急劇尖銳;刺鼻。
2。醫藥/醫療。締約;縮窄;止血。
3。嚴厲咬;燒鹼他的的澀批評。
4。斯特恩的或嚴重的;嚴峻。
名詞：
1。醫藥/醫療。的合約，人體組織或運河的物質，從而減少排放，為粘液或血液。
2。一個化妝品，清潔皮膚和收縮毛孔。
一個努力改正，沖洗出來的錯誤和誤解的歷史細節澀電源;其他當作有意義的文化現象，在自己的權利的神話，佔它的出現和跟踪其發展，跨越時間。
- 貝絲·紐曼，艾米莉·勃朗特，“導言”，“呼嘯山莊”
但這裡也她更薄，去生，澀。
- D.H.勞倫斯，查泰萊夫人的情人“
有關應變和字符串的話，澀來。“畫緊”的這意味著拉丁根stringere的
astringent \uh-STRIN-juhnt\, adjective:
1. Sharply incisive; pungent.
2. Medicine/Medical. Contracting; constrictive; styptic.
3. Harshly biting; caustic: his astringent criticism.
4. Stern or severe; austere.
noun:
1. Medicine/Medical. A substance that contracts the tissues or canals of the body, thereby diminishing discharges, as of mucus or blood.
2. A cosmetic that cleans the skin and constricts the pores.
One endeavors to correct, flushing out error and misconception with the astringent power of historical detail; the other treats the myth as meaningful cultural phenomenon in its own right, accounting for its emergence and tracing its development across time.
-- Beth Newman, Emily Brontë, "Introduction," Wuthering Heights
But here too she was thinner, and going unripe, astringent.
-- D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
Related to the words strain and string, astringent comes from the Latin root stringere which meant "to draw tight."
1。急劇尖銳;刺鼻。
2。醫藥/醫療。締約;縮窄;止血。
3。嚴厲咬;燒鹼他的的澀批評。
4。斯特恩的或嚴重的;嚴峻。
名詞：
1。醫藥/醫療。的合約，人體組織或運河的物質，從而減少排放，為粘液或血液。
2。一個化妝品，清潔皮膚和收縮毛孔。
一個努力改正，沖洗出來的錯誤和誤解的歷史細節澀電源;其他當作有意義的文化現象，在自己的權利的神話，佔它的出現和跟踪其發展，跨越時間。
- 貝絲·紐曼，艾米莉·勃朗特，“導言”，“呼嘯山莊”
但這裡也她更薄，去生，澀。
- D.H.勞倫斯，查泰萊夫人的情人“
有關應變和字符串的話，澀來。“畫緊”的這意味著拉丁根stringere的
2012年3月12日 星期一
2012_03_12 remit \ri-MIT\, verb:懈怠或放鬆，支票等付款
Word of the Day for Monday, March 12, 2012
remit \ri-MIT\, verb:
1. To slacken or relax.
2. To transmit money, a check, etc., as in payment.
3. To abate for a time or at intervals, as a fever.
4. To refrain from exacting, as a payment or service.
5. To pardon or forgive a sin, offense, etc.
It matters not that we remit our attention, at times, to the pain or the pleasure; these are always in the background; and the strength of the appetite is their strength.
-- Alexander Bain, Practical Essays
If I were satisfied that you were not intending to make an exhibition of yourself I might be prepared to remit the fines.
-- Henry Cecil, Independent Witness
Remit is derived from the Latin roots re- meaning "back" and mit meaning "send," so it literally meant "to send back."
匯出\裡，麻省理工學院\，動詞：
1。懈怠或放鬆。
2。要傳送的錢，支票等付款。
3。一段時間或時間間隔，以減輕，發燒。
4。作為付款或服務，從嚴格避免。
5。赦免或原諒一種罪過，罪行等
它並不重要，我們關注我們的職權範圍，有時疼痛或快感，這些都是在後台總是和食慾的力量是他們的實力。
- 亞歷山大·貝恩，實用的散文
如果我滿意，你不打算使自己的展覽，我可能會準備匯款罰款。
- 亨利·塞西爾，獨立證人
職責是來自拉丁詞根的意義，意思是“送”，所以它字面意思“後退”和麻省理工學院的“送回去。”
remit \ri-MIT\, verb:
1. To slacken or relax.
2. To transmit money, a check, etc., as in payment.
3. To abate for a time or at intervals, as a fever.
4. To refrain from exacting, as a payment or service.
5. To pardon or forgive a sin, offense, etc.
It matters not that we remit our attention, at times, to the pain or the pleasure; these are always in the background; and the strength of the appetite is their strength.
-- Alexander Bain, Practical Essays
If I were satisfied that you were not intending to make an exhibition of yourself I might be prepared to remit the fines.
-- Henry Cecil, Independent Witness
Remit is derived from the Latin roots re- meaning "back" and mit meaning "send," so it literally meant "to send back."
匯出\裡，麻省理工學院\，動詞：
1。懈怠或放鬆。
2。要傳送的錢，支票等付款。
3。一段時間或時間間隔，以減輕，發燒。
4。作為付款或服務，從嚴格避免。
5。赦免或原諒一種罪過，罪行等
它並不重要，我們關注我們的職權範圍，有時疼痛或快感，這些都是在後台總是和食慾的力量是他們的實力。
- 亞歷山大·貝恩，實用的散文
如果我滿意，你不打算使自己的展覽，我可能會準備匯款罰款。
- 亨利·塞西爾，獨立證人
職責是來自拉丁詞根的意義，意思是“送”，所以它字面意思“後退”和麻省理工學院的“送回去。”
2012年3月11日 星期日
2012_03_11 antipode 對極 noun A direct or exact opposite.直接或正好相反。
Word of the Day for Sunday, March 11, 2012
antipode \AN-ti-pohd\, noun:
A direct or exact opposite.
It seemed that this enthusiast was just as cautious, just as much alive to judgments in other minds as if he had been that antipode of all enthusiasm called "a man of the world."
-- George Eliot, Daniel Deronda
I look for the furthest spot on earth away from Lancaster — Lancaster's antipode— the middle of the Indian Ocean.
-- Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet
Here we are, thrust to the opposite and absurd antipode of what we think is good. And tomorrow we'll be out of bed at three o'clock in the pitch-black morning.
-- Tim O'Brien, If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home
Antipode is actually a clipping, or back-formation, of the word Greek word antipodes. It lost its s in the mid-1500s. The original word literally meant "opposite feet," as in "the place on the exact opposite point on the globe."
對極\安鈦pohd\，名詞：
直接或正好相反。
看來，這愛好者一樣謹慎，同樣多的活在其他的頭腦來判斷，如果他一直呼籲所有熱情的對極“的世界男子。”
- 喬治·艾略特，丹尼爾Deronda
我期待為地球上的最遠點距離蘭卡斯特 - 蘭開斯特的對極了印度洋中。
- 道格拉斯Coupland，洗髮水行星
我們在這裡，推到對面的和荒謬的對極了我們認為是好的。和明天，我們會下床在漆黑的早晨三點鐘。
- 蒂姆·奧布萊恩，如果我死在戰鬥區，盒給我，船上將我首頁
對極實際上是這個詞的希臘字映，裁剪，或背面形成。在16世紀中期，它失去了其S。原詞的字面意思“對面的腳”，在“地球上的確切點對面的地方。”
antipode \AN-ti-pohd\, noun:
A direct or exact opposite.
It seemed that this enthusiast was just as cautious, just as much alive to judgments in other minds as if he had been that antipode of all enthusiasm called "a man of the world."
-- George Eliot, Daniel Deronda
I look for the furthest spot on earth away from Lancaster — Lancaster's antipode— the middle of the Indian Ocean.
-- Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet
Here we are, thrust to the opposite and absurd antipode of what we think is good. And tomorrow we'll be out of bed at three o'clock in the pitch-black morning.
-- Tim O'Brien, If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home
Antipode is actually a clipping, or back-formation, of the word Greek word antipodes. It lost its s in the mid-1500s. The original word literally meant "opposite feet," as in "the place on the exact opposite point on the globe."
對極\安鈦pohd\，名詞：
直接或正好相反。
看來，這愛好者一樣謹慎，同樣多的活在其他的頭腦來判斷，如果他一直呼籲所有熱情的對極“的世界男子。”
- 喬治·艾略特，丹尼爾Deronda
我期待為地球上的最遠點距離蘭卡斯特 - 蘭開斯特的對極了印度洋中。
- 道格拉斯Coupland，洗髮水行星
我們在這裡，推到對面的和荒謬的對極了我們認為是好的。和明天，我們會下床在漆黑的早晨三點鐘。
- 蒂姆·奧布萊恩，如果我死在戰鬥區，盒給我，船上將我首頁
對極實際上是這個詞的希臘字映，裁剪，或背面形成。在16世紀中期，它失去了其S。原詞的字面意思“對面的腳”，在“地球上的確切點對面的地方。”
2012年3月10日 星期六
2012_03_10 esculent : edible.食品，尤其是蔬菜。\ES-kyuh-luhnt\, noun
Word of the Day for Saturday, March 10, 2012
esculent \ES-kyuh-luhnt\, noun:
1. Something edible, especially a vegetable.
adjective:
1. Suitable for use as food; edible.
The remainder of the garden presented a well-selected assortment of esculent vegetables, in a praiseworthy state of advancement.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
There are many varieties of mushrooms, some of which are very poisonous; therefore you should be careful in selecting them, that you do not mistake the poisonous for the esculent ones.
-- Lettice Bryan, The Kentucky Housewife
Related to the word eat, esculent comes from the Latin word for food, esca.
可食\ ES-kyuh luhnt\，名詞：
1。食用的東西，尤其是蔬菜。
形容詞：
1。適合作為食品食用。
花園的剩餘部分提出了精心挑選的可食蔬菜品種，在一個值得稱讚的進步狀態。
- 霍桑，樓七山牆
有蘑菇的品種很多，其中有些是非常有毒的，因此你應該慎重選擇他們，你不要誤以為是可食用的有毒。
- 布萊恩麗紅，肯塔基州的家庭主婦
相關的詞吃，可食用來自食物的拉丁詞，ESCA。
esculent \ES-kyuh-luhnt\, noun:
1. Something edible, especially a vegetable.
adjective:
1. Suitable for use as food; edible.
The remainder of the garden presented a well-selected assortment of esculent vegetables, in a praiseworthy state of advancement.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
There are many varieties of mushrooms, some of which are very poisonous; therefore you should be careful in selecting them, that you do not mistake the poisonous for the esculent ones.
-- Lettice Bryan, The Kentucky Housewife
Related to the word eat, esculent comes from the Latin word for food, esca.
可食\ ES-kyuh luhnt\，名詞：
1。食用的東西，尤其是蔬菜。
形容詞：
1。適合作為食品食用。
花園的剩餘部分提出了精心挑選的可食蔬菜品種，在一個值得稱讚的進步狀態。
- 霍桑，樓七山牆
有蘑菇的品種很多，其中有些是非常有毒的，因此你應該慎重選擇他們，你不要誤以為是可食用的有毒。
- 布萊恩麗紅，肯塔基州的家庭主婦
相關的詞吃，可食用來自食物的拉丁詞，ESCA。
2012年3月9日 星期五
2012_03_09 furcate \FUR-keyt\, verb:分支branching.分支。
Word of the Day for Friday, March 9, 2012
furcate \FUR-keyt\, verb:
1. To form a fork; branch.
adjective:
1. Forked; branching.
The root systems of an ancient tree seemed to furcate and furrow the surface of his thighs, and where his skin was not covered in dark hair, it was strangely rippled with wild webs of some kind of tissue just beneath the skin.
-- Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel
Just focus your attention on the eyes and let your mind furcate as it will.
-- Patrick Moran, Tsunami Sundog
Furcate is from the Medieval Latin word furcātus which meant "cloven."
1。形成一個叉;分支。
形容詞：
1。分叉;分支。
一個古老的樹的根系統似乎分叉和他的大腿溝的表面，他的皮膚，黑頭髮覆蓋，這是奇怪的一些組織的野生網皮下波紋。
- 邁克爾·Chabon，Kavalier及黏土驚人的冒險：一種新型的
對眼睛只集中你的注意力，讓你的心，因為它會分叉。
- 帕特里克·莫蘭，海嘯Sundog帶來;
分叉是“偶”。這意味著中世紀拉丁字furcātus
furcate \FUR-keyt\, verb:
1. To form a fork; branch.
adjective:
1. Forked; branching.
The root systems of an ancient tree seemed to furcate and furrow the surface of his thighs, and where his skin was not covered in dark hair, it was strangely rippled with wild webs of some kind of tissue just beneath the skin.
-- Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel
Just focus your attention on the eyes and let your mind furcate as it will.
-- Patrick Moran, Tsunami Sundog
Furcate is from the Medieval Latin word furcātus which meant "cloven."
1。形成一個叉;分支。
形容詞：
1。分叉;分支。
一個古老的樹的根系統似乎分叉和他的大腿溝的表面，他的皮膚，黑頭髮覆蓋，這是奇怪的一些組織的野生網皮下波紋。
- 邁克爾·Chabon，Kavalier及黏土驚人的冒險：一種新型的
對眼睛只集中你的注意力，讓你的心，因為它會分叉。
- 帕特里克·莫蘭，海嘯Sundog帶來;
分叉是“偶”。這意味著中世紀拉丁字furcātus
2012年3月8日 星期四
2012_03_08 pococurante 冷淡 \poh-koh-koo-RAN-tee\, noun:
Word of the Day for Thursday, March 8, 2012
pococurante \poh-koh-koo-RAN-tee\, noun:
1. Caring little; indifferent; nonchalant.
adjective:
1. A careless or indifferent person.
“She is a charming lady who happened to be born in Vitebsk, and no more than that,” he kept thinking, trying to convince himself that he would be a pococurante person when it came to Nina.
-- Johnny Wright, The Lost Chagall
Already he could see Alfred's blonde head making its way toward him, and he was smiling to himself at the thought of the contemptuous objurgations his friend would address to him at his absurd pococurante affectation, for so Alfred always called Guston's indifference, when his eyes fell upon a woman's profile seated within a few feet of him.
-- Ernest Roland, "Lèse-Amour," The Galaxy
Pococurante came directly from Italian into English in the 1750s. It literally meant "caring little."
pococurante\ POH-KOH-辜然的發球\，名詞：
1。照顧小;漠不關心;冷淡。
形容詞：
1。不慎或漠不關心的人。
她是一位迷人的女士發生在維捷布斯克出生，並沒有比這更“，他一直在想，試圖說服自己，他會是一個pococurante人，當它到了尼娜。
- 約翰尼·賴特，失落的夏加爾
已經他可以看到Alfred的金發碧眼的頭部使對他的方式，和他的微笑想到的輕蔑objurgations他的朋友給他解決他的荒誕pococurante做作，為使阿爾弗雷德總是叫古斯頓的冷漠，當他的眼睛下跌，對自己坐在一個女人的個人資料後，他幾英尺的範圍內。
- 歐內斯特·羅蘭，“的傾慕Lèse，”銀河
pococurante直接來自意大利成英文在18世紀50年代。它的字面意思是“一點關懷。”
It's one of those "and I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house down" kind of day. Whoosh!
這是其中之一“，我一怒之下，我吹，我會吹倒你的房子”樣的一天。嗖！
pococurante \poh-koh-koo-RAN-tee\, noun:
1. Caring little; indifferent; nonchalant.
adjective:
1. A careless or indifferent person.
“She is a charming lady who happened to be born in Vitebsk, and no more than that,” he kept thinking, trying to convince himself that he would be a pococurante person when it came to Nina.
-- Johnny Wright, The Lost Chagall
Already he could see Alfred's blonde head making its way toward him, and he was smiling to himself at the thought of the contemptuous objurgations his friend would address to him at his absurd pococurante affectation, for so Alfred always called Guston's indifference, when his eyes fell upon a woman's profile seated within a few feet of him.
-- Ernest Roland, "Lèse-Amour," The Galaxy
Pococurante came directly from Italian into English in the 1750s. It literally meant "caring little."
pococurante\ POH-KOH-辜然的發球\，名詞：
1。照顧小;漠不關心;冷淡。
形容詞：
1。不慎或漠不關心的人。
她是一位迷人的女士發生在維捷布斯克出生，並沒有比這更“，他一直在想，試圖說服自己，他會是一個pococurante人，當它到了尼娜。
- 約翰尼·賴特，失落的夏加爾
已經他可以看到Alfred的金發碧眼的頭部使對他的方式，和他的微笑想到的輕蔑objurgations他的朋友給他解決他的荒誕pococurante做作，為使阿爾弗雷德總是叫古斯頓的冷漠，當他的眼睛下跌，對自己坐在一個女人的個人資料後，他幾英尺的範圍內。
- 歐內斯特·羅蘭，“的傾慕Lèse，”銀河
pococurante直接來自意大利成英文在18世紀50年代。它的字面意思是“一點關懷。”
It's one of those "and I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house down" kind of day. Whoosh!
這是其中之一“，我一怒之下，我吹，我會吹倒你的房子”樣的一天。嗖！
2012年3月7日 星期三
2012_03_07 rutilant \ROOT-l-uhnt\, adjective: 閃閃發光
Word of the Day for Wednesday, March 7, 2012
rutilant \ROOT-l-uhnt\, adjective:
Glowing or glittering with ruddy or golden light.
He had a round head as bare as a knee, a corpse's button nose, and very white, very limp, very damp hands adorned with rutilant gems.
-- Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
It was like the show-piece that is reserved for the conclusion of a fete, the huge bouquet of gold and crimson, as if Paris were burning like a forest of old oaks and soaring heavenward in a rutilant cloud of sparks and flame.
-- Émile Zola, The Downfall
Why flashed through space a sudden and extraordinary splendor, intenser than the rutilant fulgurations of the aurora borealis, lighting up the whole heavens instantaneously, and for a moment eclipsing every star of every magnitude?
-- Jules Verne, To The Sun?
Rutilant is from the Latin word rutilāns, meaning "having a reddish color or glow."
rutilant\根-L-uhnt\，形容詞：
灼熱或紅潤或金色的光芒，閃閃發光。
他裸露的膝蓋，一具屍體的按鈕鼻子，很白，很酸軟，rutilant寶石裝飾的非常潮濕的手圓圓的頭。
- 納博科夫，ADA，或熱情：家庭紀事
這是像展示片，是一個祭祀的結論，金色和深紅色的巨大花束，巴黎彷彿都在燃燒一樣的老橡樹林和飛漲的火花和火焰rutilant雲仰天保留。
- 左拉的倒台
為什麼閃過空間突然異彩更加劇烈比北極光rutilant fulgurations的，照亮了整個天空瞬間，和每一個巨大的明星黯然失色每一刻嗎？
- 儒勒·凡爾納，在陽光下？
rutilant是從拉丁詞rutilāns，意思是“有顏色偏紅或發光。”
rutilant \ROOT-l-uhnt\, adjective:
Glowing or glittering with ruddy or golden light.
He had a round head as bare as a knee, a corpse's button nose, and very white, very limp, very damp hands adorned with rutilant gems.
-- Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
It was like the show-piece that is reserved for the conclusion of a fete, the huge bouquet of gold and crimson, as if Paris were burning like a forest of old oaks and soaring heavenward in a rutilant cloud of sparks and flame.
-- Émile Zola, The Downfall
Why flashed through space a sudden and extraordinary splendor, intenser than the rutilant fulgurations of the aurora borealis, lighting up the whole heavens instantaneously, and for a moment eclipsing every star of every magnitude?
-- Jules Verne, To The Sun?
Rutilant is from the Latin word rutilāns, meaning "having a reddish color or glow."
rutilant\根-L-uhnt\，形容詞：
灼熱或紅潤或金色的光芒，閃閃發光。
他裸露的膝蓋，一具屍體的按鈕鼻子，很白，很酸軟，rutilant寶石裝飾的非常潮濕的手圓圓的頭。
- 納博科夫，ADA，或熱情：家庭紀事
這是像展示片，是一個祭祀的結論，金色和深紅色的巨大花束，巴黎彷彿都在燃燒一樣的老橡樹林和飛漲的火花和火焰rutilant雲仰天保留。
- 左拉的倒台
為什麼閃過空間突然異彩更加劇烈比北極光rutilant fulgurations的，照亮了整個天空瞬間，和每一個巨大的明星黯然失色每一刻嗎？
- 儒勒·凡爾納，在陽光下？
rutilant是從拉丁詞rutilāns，意思是“有顏色偏紅或發光。”
2012年3月6日 星期二
2012_03_06 Appertain v. 附屬 To belong as a part, right, possession or attribute.
Word of the Day for Tuesday, March 6, 2012
appertain \ap-er-TEYN\, verb:
To belong as a part, right, possession or attribute.
Natural rights are those which appertain to man in right of his existence. Of this kind are all the intellectual rights, or rights of the mind, and also all those rights of acting as an individual for his own comfort and happiness…
-- Thomas Paine, Common Sense and Other Writings
In all matters of discovery and invention, even of those that appertain to the imagination, we are continually reminded of the story of Columbus and his egg.
-- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
…and since Phillotson's success in obtaining at least her promise had become known to Jude, he had frankly recognized that he did not wish to see or hear of his senior any more, learn anything of his pursuits, or even imagine again what excellencies might appertain to his character.
-- Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
Appertain stems from the Old French word apertenir which meant "to belong." The prefix ap- is a variation of the prefix ad- which means "toward."
附屬\ AP-ER-TEYN\，動詞：
屬於作為的一部分，權利，擁有或屬性。
自然權利是那些附屬男子在他的存在的權利。這種所有的知識產權，或心靈的權利，所有這些作為個人對自己的安慰和幸福的權利......
- 托馬斯·潘恩，常識和其他著作
在發現和發明，甚至那些想像力，附屬，一切事宜，我們正在不斷提醒哥倫布的故事和他的蛋。
- 瑪麗·雪萊，科學怪人
Phillotson的成功獲得至少她的承諾已成為裘德以來，他曾坦白承認，他並沒有想到看到或聽到的他的高級了，學習任何治學，或即使想像再次什麼閣下可能附屬以他的性格。
- 哈代“無名的裘德”
附屬源於“屬於”，這意味著從舊的法語單詞apertenir前綴AP-是一個前綴廣告，這意味著“走向的變化。”
appertain \ap-er-TEYN\, verb:
To belong as a part, right, possession or attribute.
Natural rights are those which appertain to man in right of his existence. Of this kind are all the intellectual rights, or rights of the mind, and also all those rights of acting as an individual for his own comfort and happiness…
-- Thomas Paine, Common Sense and Other Writings
In all matters of discovery and invention, even of those that appertain to the imagination, we are continually reminded of the story of Columbus and his egg.
-- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
…and since Phillotson's success in obtaining at least her promise had become known to Jude, he had frankly recognized that he did not wish to see or hear of his senior any more, learn anything of his pursuits, or even imagine again what excellencies might appertain to his character.
-- Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
Appertain stems from the Old French word apertenir which meant "to belong." The prefix ap- is a variation of the prefix ad- which means "toward."
附屬\ AP-ER-TEYN\，動詞：
屬於作為的一部分，權利，擁有或屬性。
自然權利是那些附屬男子在他的存在的權利。這種所有的知識產權，或心靈的權利，所有這些作為個人對自己的安慰和幸福的權利......
- 托馬斯·潘恩，常識和其他著作
在發現和發明，甚至那些想像力，附屬，一切事宜，我們正在不斷提醒哥倫布的故事和他的蛋。
- 瑪麗·雪萊，科學怪人
Phillotson的成功獲得至少她的承諾已成為裘德以來，他曾坦白承認，他並沒有想到看到或聽到的他的高級了，學習任何治學，或即使想像再次什麼閣下可能附屬以他的性格。
- 哈代“無名的裘德”
附屬源於“屬於”，這意味著從舊的法語單詞apertenir前綴AP-是一個前綴廣告，這意味著“走向的變化。”
2012年3月5日 星期一
2012_03_05 Profluent a. 大量來回流動 Flowing smoothly
Word of the Day for Monday, March 5, 2012
profluent \PROF-loo-uhnt\, adjective:
Flowing smoothly or abundantly forth.
Half the congregation — Gwen's family and friends — reached the door ahead of me, their nonchalance more powerful, more profluent than my most intense desire. I could only crawl toward the chapel doors.
-- Stephanie Grant, The Passion of Alice
In southern Arizona, it rains in summer, and I'm impatient for the monsoon torrents of August, for an indulgence of water, a baptism that will roister over rocks and swell profluent down the mountainside, roll through the rubble of the canyon floor...
-- Caitlin L. Gannon, Southwestern Women: New Voices
Profluent is derived from the Latin word prōfluere, which meant "to flow forth."
profluent\潘宗光廁所，uhnt\，形容詞：
順利或大量來回流動。
一半眾 - Gwen的家人和朋友 - 走到門口，我前面的，他們的冷淡更強大，更profluent比我最強烈的願望。我只能爬行向教堂的大門。
- 斯蒂芬妮·格蘭特，愛麗絲的激情
在亞利桑那州南部，下雨的夏天，我不耐煩八月季風種子的水放縱，喝酒喧囂的洗禮，將在岩石和膨脹profluent沿著山腰，通過峽谷樓的瓦礫輥。 ..
- 凱特琳L.甘農，西南婦女：新聲
profluent派生從拉丁詞prōfluere的，這意味著“來回流動。”
profluent \PROF-loo-uhnt\, adjective:
Flowing smoothly or abundantly forth.
Half the congregation — Gwen's family and friends — reached the door ahead of me, their nonchalance more powerful, more profluent than my most intense desire. I could only crawl toward the chapel doors.
-- Stephanie Grant, The Passion of Alice
In southern Arizona, it rains in summer, and I'm impatient for the monsoon torrents of August, for an indulgence of water, a baptism that will roister over rocks and swell profluent down the mountainside, roll through the rubble of the canyon floor...
-- Caitlin L. Gannon, Southwestern Women: New Voices
Profluent is derived from the Latin word prōfluere, which meant "to flow forth."
profluent\潘宗光廁所，uhnt\，形容詞：
順利或大量來回流動。
一半眾 - Gwen的家人和朋友 - 走到門口，我前面的，他們的冷淡更強大，更profluent比我最強烈的願望。我只能爬行向教堂的大門。
- 斯蒂芬妮·格蘭特，愛麗絲的激情
在亞利桑那州南部，下雨的夏天，我不耐煩八月季風種子的水放縱，喝酒喧囂的洗禮，將在岩石和膨脹profluent沿著山腰，通過峽谷樓的瓦礫輥。 ..
- 凱特琳L.甘農，西南婦女：新聲
profluent派生從拉丁詞prōfluere的，這意味著“來回流動。”
2012年3月4日 星期日
2012_03_05 oracular \aw-RAK-yuh-ler\, adjective:含糊;晦澀
Word of the Day for Sunday, March 4, 2012
oracular \aw-RAK-yuh-ler\, adjective:
1. Ambiguous; obscure.
2. Of the nature of, resembling, or suggesting an oracle.
3. Giving forth utterances or decisions as if by special inspiration or authority.
4. Uttered or delivered as if divinely inspired or infallible; sententious.
5. Portentous; ominous.
"If you want me to understand, you'll have to be less oracular," Daisy said, patience wearing thin.
-- Carola Dunn, Mistletoe and Murder
His demurrals, disclaimers, and protestations of ignorance were completely ineffective. Whatever guess he was finally strong-armed into hazarding was received as oracular.
-- Deborah Eisenberg, Twilight of the Superheroes
Oracular comes from the Latin word oracle, meaning "a message from god." The suffix -ar forms an adjective from a noun, like the word lunar.
神諭\ AW-哈伊馬角的YUH-LER\，形容詞：
1。含糊;晦澀。
2。的性質，類似或暗示的Oracle。
3。給予提出特殊的靈感或授權，如果言論或決定。
4。說出或交付作為神聖的或萬無一失;簡潔的。
5。夜郎自大;不祥。
“如果你想我明白了，你一定要少神諭，”菊花說，耐心穿著單薄。
- 卡羅拉鄧恩，槲寄生和謀殺
他demurrals，免責聲明，和無知的抗議是完全無效的。任何猜測，他終於到hazarding強武裝作為神諭收到。
- 德博拉·艾森伯格，黃昏的超級英雄
神諭來自拉丁美洲甲骨文字，意思是“來自上帝的訊息。”後綴-AR形成了一個從名詞的形容詞，像字月球。
oracular \aw-RAK-yuh-ler\, adjective:
1. Ambiguous; obscure.
2. Of the nature of, resembling, or suggesting an oracle.
3. Giving forth utterances or decisions as if by special inspiration or authority.
4. Uttered or delivered as if divinely inspired or infallible; sententious.
5. Portentous; ominous.
"If you want me to understand, you'll have to be less oracular," Daisy said, patience wearing thin.
-- Carola Dunn, Mistletoe and Murder
His demurrals, disclaimers, and protestations of ignorance were completely ineffective. Whatever guess he was finally strong-armed into hazarding was received as oracular.
-- Deborah Eisenberg, Twilight of the Superheroes
Oracular comes from the Latin word oracle, meaning "a message from god." The suffix -ar forms an adjective from a noun, like the word lunar.
神諭\ AW-哈伊馬角的YUH-LER\，形容詞：
1。含糊;晦澀。
2。的性質，類似或暗示的Oracle。
3。給予提出特殊的靈感或授權，如果言論或決定。
4。說出或交付作為神聖的或萬無一失;簡潔的。
5。夜郎自大;不祥。
“如果你想我明白了，你一定要少神諭，”菊花說，耐心穿著單薄。
- 卡羅拉鄧恩，槲寄生和謀殺
他demurrals，免責聲明，和無知的抗議是完全無效的。任何猜測，他終於到hazarding強武裝作為神諭收到。
- 德博拉·艾森伯格，黃昏的超級英雄
神諭來自拉丁美洲甲骨文字，意思是“來自上帝的訊息。”後綴-AR形成了一個從名詞的形容詞，像字月球。
2012年3月3日 星期六
2012_03_03 liege \leej\, adjective: 忠誠;忠實
Word of the Day for Saturday, March 3, 2012
liege \leej\, adjective:
1. Loyal; faithful.
2. Owing primary allegiance and service to a feudal lord.
3. Pertaining to the relation between a feudal vassal and lord.
noun:
1. A feudal lord entitled to allegiance and service.
2. A feudal vassal or subject.
The materialist, liege to his own system, is incapable of doing anything but put one after another the results of his observations.
-- Agostino Da Montefeltro, Conferences Of; Delivered in Rome During Lent 1889
Subjects were required to give their liege to their lord.
-- Paul L. Williams, The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Crusades
Liege is of uncertain origin. It either came from the Middle English word leidig meaning "free" or from the Late Latin word for serf, laeticus. Both roots identified the relationship between a vassal, or serf, and his superior.
的的老爺子\ leej\，形容詞：
1。忠誠;忠實。
2。由於小學到封建領主的效忠和服務。
3。有關封建諸侯和領主之間的關係。
名詞：
1。一個封建領主有權效忠和服務。
2。一個封建諸侯或主題。
唯物主義者，老爺子自己的系統，是不能做任何事情，但提出後，他的另一個觀察的結果之一。
- 大Montefeltro阿戈斯蒂諾，會議在羅馬1889年四旬期期間交付
受試者被要求給他們的君主，他們的主。
- 保羅·威廉斯，完全傻瓜指南“十字軍東征
老爺子是不確定的起源。它不是來自中古英語單詞leidig意思是“自由”的農奴，laeticus從晚拉丁詞或。兩個根確定的附庸，或農奴之間的關係，和他的上級。
liege \leej\, adjective:
1. Loyal; faithful.
2. Owing primary allegiance and service to a feudal lord.
3. Pertaining to the relation between a feudal vassal and lord.
noun:
1. A feudal lord entitled to allegiance and service.
2. A feudal vassal or subject.
The materialist, liege to his own system, is incapable of doing anything but put one after another the results of his observations.
-- Agostino Da Montefeltro, Conferences Of; Delivered in Rome During Lent 1889
Subjects were required to give their liege to their lord.
-- Paul L. Williams, The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Crusades
Liege is of uncertain origin. It either came from the Middle English word leidig meaning "free" or from the Late Latin word for serf, laeticus. Both roots identified the relationship between a vassal, or serf, and his superior.
的的老爺子\ leej\，形容詞：
1。忠誠;忠實。
2。由於小學到封建領主的效忠和服務。
3。有關封建諸侯和領主之間的關係。
名詞：
1。一個封建領主有權效忠和服務。
2。一個封建諸侯或主題。
唯物主義者，老爺子自己的系統，是不能做任何事情，但提出後，他的另一個觀察的結果之一。
- 大Montefeltro阿戈斯蒂諾，會議在羅馬1889年四旬期期間交付
受試者被要求給他們的君主，他們的主。
- 保羅·威廉斯，完全傻瓜指南“十字軍東征
老爺子是不確定的起源。它不是來自中古英語單詞leidig意思是“自由”的農奴，laeticus從晚拉丁詞或。兩個根確定的附庸，或農奴之間的關係，和他的上級。
2012年3月2日 星期五
2012_02_26 Word of the Day for Sunday, February 26, 2012
Word of the Day for Sunday, February 26, 2012
hircine \HUR-sahyn\, adjective:
1. of, pertaining to, or resembling a goat.
2. Having a goatish odor.
3. Lustful; libidinous.
The hircine stink in the air that he had sucked in while running was replaced by a cool dampness.
-- Jonathan Wilson, A Palestine Affair
Dad was thick-haired, bowlegged, bottom-heavy; he wore a tangly, hircine beard; a cigar depended from his lips at all times, the aromatic stub of a flute; panic was his state of nature.
-- Michael Griffith, Spikes
Hircine comes from the Latin word meaning of a goat, hircīnus.
hircine \HUR-sahyn\, adjective:
1. of, pertaining to, or resembling a goat.
2. Having a goatish odor.
3. Lustful; libidinous.
The hircine stink in the air that he had sucked in while running was replaced by a cool dampness.
-- Jonathan Wilson, A Palestine Affair
Dad was thick-haired, bowlegged, bottom-heavy; he wore a tangly, hircine beard; a cigar depended from his lips at all times, the aromatic stub of a flute; panic was his state of nature.
-- Michael Griffith, Spikes
Hircine comes from the Latin word meaning of a goat, hircīnus.
2012_03_02 cant \kant\, verb: To talk hypocritically. 談虛偽
Word of the Day for Friday, March 2, 2012
cant \kant\, verb:
1. To talk hypocritically.
2. To speak in the whining or singsong tone of a beggar; beg.
noun:
1. Insincere, especially conventional expressions of enthusiasm for high ideals, goodness, or piety.
2. The private language of the underworld.
3. The phraseology peculiar to a particular class, party, profession, etc.
4. Whining or singsong speech, especially of beggars.
I don't deny but that may sooner teach a Man to Cant and talk Gibberish, or use fair, smooth, formal Phrases, and religious Words.
-- Richard Ward and Sarah Hutton, The Life of Henry More
A philanthropist by nature, he is not one of those dreamers who hate all that will not aid their one pet scheme, and cant about a general brotherhood which exempts them from particular charity.
-- Robert Alfred Vaughan, Hours with the Mystics
Cant comes from the same Latin word as chant, the Latin word for song, cantus. The sense of "insincere talk" arose in the early 1700s.
不能\康德\，動詞：
1。談虛偽。
2。在乞丐抱怨或歌詠基調發言;乞討。
名詞：
1。拿捏，尤其是傳統的表達崇高的理想，善，或虔誠的熱情。
2。黑社會的私人語言。
3。一個特定的階級，政黨，專業等特有的用語
4。嗚嗚或歌詠講話，尤其是乞丐。
我不否認，但遲早會教一個人不能和說話胡言亂語，或使用公平，順利，正式的短語，和宗教詞。
- 理查德·沃德和薩拉·赫頓，亨利的生活
一個天生的慈善家，他是不是有OFA的dreamersÂ的恨都不會幫助他們的寵物計劃，安達不能對一般的兄弟情誼，豁免他們從特定的慈善。
- 羅伯特·阿爾弗雷德·沃恩，與神秘小時
不能來自唄，拉丁詞的歌曲，旋律一樣拉丁詞。出現在18世紀初的“言不由衷的話”的感覺。
cant \kant\, verb:
1. To talk hypocritically.
2. To speak in the whining or singsong tone of a beggar; beg.
noun:
1. Insincere, especially conventional expressions of enthusiasm for high ideals, goodness, or piety.
2. The private language of the underworld.
3. The phraseology peculiar to a particular class, party, profession, etc.
4. Whining or singsong speech, especially of beggars.
I don't deny but that may sooner teach a Man to Cant and talk Gibberish, or use fair, smooth, formal Phrases, and religious Words.
-- Richard Ward and Sarah Hutton, The Life of Henry More
A philanthropist by nature, he is not one of those dreamers who hate all that will not aid their one pet scheme, and cant about a general brotherhood which exempts them from particular charity.
-- Robert Alfred Vaughan, Hours with the Mystics
Cant comes from the same Latin word as chant, the Latin word for song, cantus. The sense of "insincere talk" arose in the early 1700s.
不能\康德\，動詞：
1。談虛偽。
2。在乞丐抱怨或歌詠基調發言;乞討。
名詞：
1。拿捏，尤其是傳統的表達崇高的理想，善，或虔誠的熱情。
2。黑社會的私人語言。
3。一個特定的階級，政黨，專業等特有的用語
4。嗚嗚或歌詠講話，尤其是乞丐。
我不否認，但遲早會教一個人不能和說話胡言亂語，或使用公平，順利，正式的短語，和宗教詞。
- 理查德·沃德和薩拉·赫頓，亨利的生活
一個天生的慈善家，他是不是有OFA的dreamersÂ的恨都不會幫助他們的寵物計劃，安達不能對一般的兄弟情誼，豁免他們從特定的慈善。
- 羅伯特·阿爾弗雷德·沃恩，與神秘小時
不能來自唄，拉丁詞的歌曲，旋律一樣拉丁詞。出現在18世紀初的“言不由衷的話”的感覺。
2012年3月1日 星期四
2012_03_01 alembic \uh-LEM-bik\, noun :蒸餾器
Word of the Day for Thursday, March 1, 2012
alembic \uh-LEM-bik\, noun:
1. Anything that transforms, purifies, or refines.
2. A vessel with a beaked cap or head, formerly used in distilling.
The dream-world of their experiences in the wood near Athens becomes a kind of 'alembic' which they pass through to a truer perception of reality.
-- Ronald P. Draper, Shakespeare, The Comedies
But the more he read the more he was astonished to find how the facts had passed through the alembic of Carlyle's brain and had come out and fitted themselves, each as a part of one great whole, making a compact result, indestructible and unrivaled...
-- Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Alembic is derived from the Arabic word al-anbiq, which means "a distilling cup." It developed its broader meaning in the 1300s.
蒸餾器\ UH-萊姆-BIK\，名詞：
1。任何變換，淨化，或提煉。
2。用喙帽或頭前用蒸餾，船隻。
他們的經驗，在雅典附近的木材世界的夢想變成了一種“蒸餾器”，他們通過對現實更真實的感知通過。
- 羅納德P.德雷珀，莎士比亞的喜劇
但他讀越多，他驚奇地發現，事實如何凱雷的大腦的蒸餾器，並已通過了出來，裝自己，作為一個偉大的整體的一部分，每年，一個緊湊的結果，堅不可摧和無與倫比的...... 。
- 狄更斯雙城記
蒸餾器是來自阿拉伯語單詞AL-anbiq的，這意味著“蒸餾杯。”它在14世紀發展的更廣泛的含義。
alembic \uh-LEM-bik\, noun:
1. Anything that transforms, purifies, or refines.
2. A vessel with a beaked cap or head, formerly used in distilling.
The dream-world of their experiences in the wood near Athens becomes a kind of 'alembic' which they pass through to a truer perception of reality.
-- Ronald P. Draper, Shakespeare, The Comedies
But the more he read the more he was astonished to find how the facts had passed through the alembic of Carlyle's brain and had come out and fitted themselves, each as a part of one great whole, making a compact result, indestructible and unrivaled...
-- Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Alembic is derived from the Arabic word al-anbiq, which means "a distilling cup." It developed its broader meaning in the 1300s.
蒸餾器\ UH-萊姆-BIK\，名詞：
1。任何變換，淨化，或提煉。
2。用喙帽或頭前用蒸餾，船隻。
他們的經驗，在雅典附近的木材世界的夢想變成了一種“蒸餾器”，他們通過對現實更真實的感知通過。
- 羅納德P.德雷珀，莎士比亞的喜劇
但他讀越多，他驚奇地發現，事實如何凱雷的大腦的蒸餾器，並已通過了出來，裝自己，作為一個偉大的整體的一部分，每年，一個緊湊的結果，堅不可摧和無與倫比的...... 。
- 狄更斯雙城記
蒸餾器是來自阿拉伯語單詞AL-anbiq的，這意味著“蒸餾杯。”它在14世紀發展的更廣泛的含義。
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