2012年3月2日 星期五

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。虛偽
2。乞丐抱怨歌詠基調發言;乞討。

名詞:
1。拿捏尤其是傳統的表達崇高的理想,善虔誠熱情
2。黑社會私人語言
3。一個特定階級,政黨,專業特有的用語
4。嗚嗚歌詠講話尤其是乞丐

我不否認遲早一個人不能說話胡言亂語使用公平順利正式短語宗教
- 理查德·沃德和薩拉·赫頓,亨利生活

一個天生的慈善家他是不是OFAdreamersÂ不會幫助他們的寵物計劃安達不能一般的兄弟情誼豁免他們從特定慈善
- 羅伯特·阿爾弗雷德·沃恩神秘小時

不能來自唄,拉丁詞歌曲旋律一樣拉丁詞出現18世紀言不由衷的話”感覺

沒有留言:

張貼留言