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。
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