Word of the Day for Tuesday, July 3, 2012
surfeit \SUR-fit\, noun:
1. Excess; an excessive amount: a surfeit of speechmaking.
2. Excess or overindulgence in eating or drinking.
3. An uncomfortably full or crapulous feeling due to excessive eating or drinking.
4. General disgust caused by excess or satiety.
verb:
1. To bring to a state of surfeit by excess of food or drink.
2. To supply with anything to excess or satiety; satiate.
In both adults a surfeit of prudence and a surfeit of energy, and with the couple two boys still pretty much all soft surfaces, young children of youthful parents, keenly attractive and in good health and incorrigible only in their optimism.
-- Philip Roth, The Plot Against America
She peered at the parents, imagining their hearts like machines, manufacturing surfeit upon surfeit of love for their children, and then wondered how something could be so awesome and so utterly powerless.
-- Chris Adrian, The Great Night
Surfeit is a very old English word. It is recorded as early as 1393. It comes from the Latin roots sur- meaning "over" and facere meaning "to do."
過量\適合sur-\,名詞:1。過剩;過量:過量的演講。2。食用或飲用過量或放縱。3。一個令人不安的完整或crapulous的感覺,由於飲食過量或飲酒。4。一般的厭惡造成過多或過飽。動詞:1。帶來的過量的食物或飲料的過剩狀態。2。提供任何多餘的或過飽;吃飽喝足。
在成人過多的謹慎和過多的能量,並與對夫婦生育兩個男孩仍然非常柔軟的表面,年幼的孩子,年輕的父母深切的吸引力和良好的健康和屢教不改的,只有在他們的樂觀。 - 菲利普·羅斯,反對美國陰謀
她凝視著父母,想像他們的心,像機器一樣,生產後,對孩子的愛過多過量,然後不知道如何能如此真棒等完全無能為力的東西。 克里斯 - 阿德里安,偉大的夜晚過量是一個非常古老的英文單詞。據記載,早在1393。談到“做”拉丁根河畔,意思是“超過”和facere意義
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