我的微博：Repost（来自 Lake桑的微博）
原文链接 原文链接 Repost 转发 @原画人官方微博 : 今天是 #世界备份日# ，大家记得做好备份 Lake桑
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我的微博：Repost（来自 Lake桑的微博）
原文链接 原文链接 Repost 转发 @李淼磊 : 刚才在微信里看到，2011年，著名的防火墙之父到武大参加学术活动，被扔鸡蛋和鞋。事后他指责主办方没有预先做好防护工作，并说攻击者早在推特上讨论了，主办方说，他们看不到推特。 Lake桑
每日一词：etiquette（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 31, 2019 is: etiquette • \ET-ih-kut\ • noun : the conduct or procedure required by good breeding or prescribed by authority to be observed in social or official life Examples: “… the Victorians saw the role of etiquette as something closer to a behavioral amulet capable of protecting one from the polluting forces of vulgarity and vice.” — Alice Gregory, The New Yorker , 8 Oct. 2018 “As a matter of etiquette , contemporary bosses are expected to rein in their swagger and talk up their team. Some … even project vulnerability, not invincibility. — The Economist , 24 Nov. 2018 Did you know? The French word étiquette means “ticket” or “label attached to something for identification.” In 16th-century Spain, the French word was borrowed (and altered to etiqueta ) to refer to the written protocols describing orders of precedence and behavior demanded of those who appeared at court. Eventually, etiqueta came to be a...
每日一词：scrumptious（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 30, 2019 is: scrumptious • \SKRUMP-shus\ • adjective : delightful , excellent ; especially : delicious Examples: I prepared a scrumptious chocolate cake for our grandfather’s 80th birthday. “The main dish was a scrumptious serving of noodles, chicken pieces and shrimp in a peanut-flavored sauce and some scallions.” — Maria Cortes Gonzalez, El Paso Times , 11 Feb. 2019 Did you know? First appearing in English in the early 1800s, scrumptious is a mouth-watering word that is used to describe what is delightful and delectable. It probably originated as an alteration of sumptuous , and it carries the elegant and wonderful connotations of its parent. (Speakers of Middle English borrowed sumptuous from the Latin adjective sumptuousus ,a derivation of the Latin noun sumptus ,meaning “expense” or “cost”). British author Roald Dahl had some fun with scrumptious and created a delightful coinage, when he inserted the inf...
人类的四大本质。（梗向）
原文链接 复读机 英语作“Repeater”。复读机本意是学习非母语时部分磁带录音机提供的重复播放磁带中某一特定片段的功能，记录下的片段会被录音机重复播放且无间断，有一种鹦鹉学舌的效果。现在一般指在网络上重复别人话语的人，甚至可泛指重复别人做过的事等的人。在此基础上又发展出了“劣质复读”（出处见萌娘百科上ywwuyi/爽粉相关段落），指在重复别人话语中故意或非故意地调换句中的部分字词（一般调换成分，或者调换成分中的一部分，而并非只是“汉字的顺序并不一定影响阅读”这个梗的形式）的行为，例如： – 爽粉吃你家大米了？ – 大米吃你家爽粉了？ – 爽米吃你家大粉了？ 以上三句互相为“劣质复读”行为。 英语作“Repeater”。复读机本意是学习非母语时部分磁带录音机提供的重复播放磁带中某一特定片段的功能，记录下的片段会被录音机重复播放且无间断，有一种鹦鹉学舌的效果。现在一般指在网络上重复别人话语的人，甚至可泛指重复别人做过的事等的人。在此基础上又发展出了“劣质复读”（出处见萌娘百科上ywwuyi/爽粉相关段落），指在重复别人话语中故意或非故意地调换句中的部分字词（一般调换成分，或者调换成分中的一部分，而并非只是“汉字的顺序并不一定影响阅读”这个梗的形式）的行为，例如： – 爽粉吃你家大米了？ – 大米吃你家爽粉了？ – 爽米吃你家大粉了？ 以上三句互相为“劣质复读”行为。 鸽子 了，以后再更。 原取自于普通话的常用短语“放鸽子”，意为约会中故意或非故意未及时到达的行为，即爽约。后来在网络上简化为“鸽”一个字，作动词，可不及物，此时主语是未兑现承诺的那一方，也可为承诺本身。若接宾语，接的宾语一般是承诺未兑现的双方中的接受承诺的那一方，或者未兑现的承诺本身，如： – 感冒了，今天的直播鸽了。 – 他鸽了咱们。 – 他又鸽了直播。 – 化学相关系列文章？鸽了（ 后又出现了用鸽子的拟声词“咕”来进一步简化的现象。此时“咕”可以依然用作拟声词（一般连用三个为多，但是如果想充分体现鸽子的属性，可以多用一点），也可以用做不及物动词。例： – 咕，咕咕，咕咕咕 – 京鸽鸽又咕了，出来挨打 – 在做了在做了，咕咕咕 也可作名词，这里不再赘述。 也存在以下成句。 鸽 了自己的 鸽 ，这也是一种不 鸽 。（简略版） 你觉得我会...
每日一词：comminute（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 29, 2019 is: comminute • \KAH-muh-noot\ • verb : to reduce to minute particles : pulverize Examples: “Type III fractures are comminuted (involve multiple broken pieces of bone), which lead to mechanical blocks to motion and significant elbow joint and ligament damage. Surgery would be required to fix or remove the broken pieces of bone and repair the soft-tissue damage.” — Joshua Dines, Forbes.com , 21 Oct. 2018 “… the USDA says all cooked sausages (including bologna and hot dogs) must be comminuted , or ‘reduced to minute particles.'” — Emily Petsko, Mental Floss , 24 Oct. 2018 Did you know? What do comminute , pulverize , and triturate all have in common? All three words are derived from Latin and share the meaning “to reduce to small particles.” Comminute can be traced back to the prefix com – and the verb minuere , meaning “to lessen.” Pulverize descends from a combination of pulver -, meaning “dust” or “p...
每日一词：polyglot（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 28, 2019 is: polyglot • \PAH-lee-glaht\ • adjective 1 a : speaking or writing several languages : multilingual b : composed of numerous linguistic groups 2 : containing matter in several languages 3 : composed of elements from different languages 4 : widely diverse (as in ethnic or cultural origins) Examples: With vacationers arriving from all over Europe and other parts of the world, merchants in the resort city must adjust to serving a polyglot clientele. “Learning the basics of any language is a quick task. Programmes like Duolingo or Rosetta Stone can guide you through a few greetings and simple phrases at lightning speed. For a more personal experience, polyglot Timothy Doner recommends reading and watching material that you already have an interest in. ‘If you like cooking, buy a cookbook in a foreign language; if you like soccer, try watching a foreign game,’ he says.” — Peter Rubinstein ...
每日一词：litmus test（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 27, 2019 is: litmus test • \LIT-mus-TEST\ • noun : a test in which a single factor (such as an attitude, event, or fact) is decisive Examples: For Curtis, the litmus test of good barbeque ribs is whether or not they have that moist fall-off-the-bone quality. “But, then, this can of corn: How did it even get here? Nothing against canned corn, but it’s not something we use. It definitely did not ‘spark joy,’ per [Marie] Kondo’s keep-it-or-toss-it litmus test .” — Bethany Jean Clement, The Providence Journal , 6 Feb. 2019 Did you know? It was in the 14th century that scientists discovered that litmus , a mixture of colored organic compounds obtained from lichen , turns red in acid solutions and blue in alkaline solutions and, thus, can be used as an acid-base indicator. Six centuries later, people began using litmus test figuratively. It can now refer to any single factor that establishes the true character of someth...
每日一词：decoct（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 26, 2019 is: decoct • \dih-KAHKT\ • verb 1 : to extract the flavor of by boiling 2 : boil down , concentrate Examples: “Though the taste is a bonus, the real draw in this caffeine-free latte is the CBD , or cannabidiol , oil. The CBD served in the lattes is derived from Kentucky-grown hemp, decocted from the flowers and leaves with hot dairy or coconut milk.” — Mackensy Lunsford, The Asheville (North Carolina) Citizen-Times , 2 Mar. 2018 “The cooking liquor he decocts from roasted red peppers … gives surprising oomph to roasted rice purée and royal red potato.” — Lee Tran Lam, The Gourmet Traveller , 3 Jan. 2018 Did you know? Decoct boils down to a simple Latin origin: the word decoquere , from de- , meaning “down” or “away,” and coquere , meaning “to cook” or “to ripen.” Decoct itself is somewhat rare. Its related noun decoction , which refers to either an extract obtained by decocting or the act or process o...
每日一词：bower（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 25, 2019 is: bower • \BOW-er\ • noun 1 : an attractive dwelling or retreat 2 : a lady’s private apartment in a medieval hall or castle 3 : a shelter (as in a garden) made with tree boughs or vines twined together : arbor Examples: The couple’s rendezvous was a secluded bower in the garden. “In retelling Shakespeare’s story of mortal and immortal lovers lost in a bewitched Athenian wood, Ms. Taymor has sought to conjure the sort of Jungian visions that are bred in the fertile fields of sleep. … [S]he transforms bed and bedding into a sylvan, starry wonderland. An immense sheet rises, falls and twists itself to become a confining roof, a vast sky, a writhing forest floor and an amorous bower fit for a queen of the fairies.” — Ben Brantley, The New York Times , 4 Nov. 2013 Did you know? Bower derives from Old English būr, meaning “dwelling,”and was originally used of attractive homes or retreats, especia...
每日一词：magniloquent（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 24, 2019 is: magniloquent • \mag-NIL-uh-kwunt\ • adjective : speaking in or characterized by a high-flown often bombastic style or manner Examples: The magniloquent sportscaster sometimes got so carried away with his monologues that he would forget to describe the action on the field. “It [the television series Billions ] features two outsize, magniloquent protagonists who are constant foils to one another: light and dark, good and evil, both cut from the same ambitious cloth and therefore destined to lock in an endless pas de deux of power.” — Rachel Syme, The New Republic , 1 May 2018 Did you know? Magnus means “great” in Latin; loqui is a Latin verb meaning “to speak.” Combine the two and you get magniloquus , the Latin predecessor of magniloquent . English-speakers started using magniloquent in the 1600s—even though we have had its synonym grandiloquent since the 1500s. ( Grandiloquent comes from Latin...
每日一词：reverberate（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 23, 2019 is: reverberate • \rih-VER-buh-rayt\ • verb 1 : to reflect or become reflected 2 : to repel or become driven back 3 : to continue in or as if in a series of echoes : resound Examples: “Inmates’ relatives began protesting outside the jail. Inmates responded by banging on the inside of their windows, the clangs and thuds reverberating in the street below.” — Jon Schuppe, NBCNews.com, 5 Feb. 2019 “The hiring went off like a sonic boom in Hollywood, reverberating to the highest levels of rival studios.” — Brooks Barnes, The New York Times , 17 Feb. 2019 Did you know? The letter sequence “v-e-r-b” in reverberate might make you think at first of such word-related brethren as proverb , verbal , and verbose , all of which derive from the Latin noun verbum , meaning “word.” In fact, reverberate comes from a much different source: the Latin verb verberare , meaning “to whip, beat, or lash,” which is relat...
每日一词：purview（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 22, 2019 is: purview • \PER-vyoo\ • noun 1 a : the body or enacting part of a statute b : the limit, purpose, or scope of a statute 2 : the range or limit of authority, competence, responsibility, concern, or intention 3 : range of vision, understanding, or cognizance Examples: “The Supreme Court had ruled that the House has purview over ordering a new election….” — Dan Haar, The New Haven (Connecticut) Register , 13 Feb. 2019 “In getting the role of president of NBC Entertainment’s Alternative and Reality Group, [Meredith] Ahr now commands one of the biggest unscripted portfolios in television. Adding the network to her purview means that she also will be the executive overseeing TV’s two biggest reality properties, America’s Got Talent and The Voice.” — Michael O’Connell, Hollywoodreporter.com , 19 Nov. 2018 Did you know? You might guess that there is a connection between purview and view . Purview ...
每日一词：hamartia（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 21, 2019 is: hamartia • \hah-mahr-TEE-uh\ • noun : a flaw in character that brings about the downfall of the hero of a tragedy : tragic flaw Examples: Greed was the hamartia that ultimately brought down the protagonist. “Characters in Greek tragedies usually had a hamartia , or fatal flaw. Hubris, pride, presumption and arrogance were some of the chief character traits that brought down peasants and emperors alike.” — Christine Barnes, The Tallahassee (Florida) Democrat , 6 May 2010 Did you know? Hamartia arose from the Greek verb hamartanein , meaning “to miss the mark” or “to err.” Aristotle introduced the term in the Poetics to describe the error of judgment which ultimately brings about the tragic hero’s downfall. As you can imagine, the word is most often found in literary criticism. However, media writers occasionally employ the word when discussing the unexplainable misfortune or missteps of celebrities r...
每日一词：canker（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 20, 2019 is: canker • \KANG-ker\ • verb 1 : to become infested with erosive or spreading sores 2 : to corrupt the spirit of 3 : to become corrupted Examples: “Nevertheless, the self-absorption into which the lovers fall and the death and transfiguration with which the action ends have often been thought of as symptoms of a disease that cankers the human condition.” — Simon Williams, Wagner and the Romantic Hero , 2004 “They want to talk. They want to get it off their chest. Some people have been holding onto these things for years, just cankering their soul, but they don’t know where to say it.” — Shannon Hale, quoted in The Deseret News , 12 Mar. 2018 Did you know? Canker is commonly known as the name for a type of spreading sore that eats into the tissue—a use that obviously furnished the verb with both its medical and figurative senses. The word ultimately traces back to Latin cancer , which can ...
每日一词：orthography（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 19, 2019 is: orthography • \or-THAH-gruh-fee\ • noun 1 a : the art of writing words with the proper letters according to standard usage b : the representation of the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols 2 : a part of language study that deals with letters and spelling Examples: English orthography was not yet regularized in William Shakespeare’s time, so words often had many different spellings. “He had to finish his thesis … before leaving for a research job in Australia, where he planned to study aboriginal languages. I asked him to assess our little experiment. ‘The grammar was easy,’ he said. ‘The orthography is a little difficult, and the verbs seemed chaotic.'” — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker , 3 Sept. 2018 Did you know? “It’s a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word!” That quote, ascribed to Andrew Jackson, might have been the motto of early English spelling. T...
每日一词：parabolic（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 18, 2019 is: parabolic • \pair-uh-BAH-lik\ • adjective 1 : expressed by or being a parable : allegorical 2 : of, having the form of, or relating to a curve formed by the intersection of a cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone Examples: The batter launched the ball into a towering parabolic arc that carried it well over the center field fence. “In 1937, [ radio astronomer Grote] Reber built the world’s first parabolic radio telescope in his backyard. The Reber Telescope was moved to the National Radio Observatory at Green Bank in the 1960s and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1989.” — Princeton Times (West Virginia), 21 Dec. 2018 Did you know? The two distinct meanings of parabolic trace back to the development of Late Latin and New Latin. Late Latin is the Latin language used by writers in the third to sixth centuries. In that language, the word for “parable” was parabola —henc...
每日一词：smithereens（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 17, 2019 is: smithereens • \smih-thuh-REENZ\ • plural noun : fragments , bits Examples: “For the Soviet Union, it didn’t matter that Luna 2, which became the first spacecraft to reach the moon, had been smashed into smithereens . The point was to get there first—to mark territory.” — Marina Koren, The Atlantic , 3 Jan. 2019 “Diagnosed at around age 5 with optic nerve atrophy , an incurable and often progressive disease that damages the nerve connecting the eyes to the brain, Terri doesn’t just defy conventional images of blindness. She smashes them to smithereens . She’s the married mom of two grade-schoolers, president of the National Federation of the Blind of Nevada and a dedicated camper who navigates the woods with a long white cane. “I can do just about anything except drive,” she says. — Peg Rosen, Good Housekeeping , October 2018 Did you know? Despite its American sound and its common use by the fiery a...
每日一词：encroach（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 16, 2019 is: encroach • \in-KROHCH\ • verb 1 : to enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another 2 : to advance beyond the usual or proper limits Examples: “The house had been abandoned for years, with peeling stucco, a half-buried swimming pool, the jungle encroaching on every side.” — Paula McLain, Town & Country , August 2018 “As algorithms are viewed as encroaching more and more on our everyday lives, and, importantly, the privacy of those lives, there is an increased clamour to make them available and accessible for scrutiny.” — James Kitching, Computing , 2 Jan. 2019 Did you know? The history behind encroach is likely to hook you in. The word derives from the Middle English encrochen , which means “to get or seize.” The Anglo-French predecessor of encrochen is encrocher , which was formed by combining the prefix en- (“in”) with the noun croche (“hook”). Croche also...
我的微博：每次我说什么话，大家都担心我会炸号的时候…（来自 Lake桑的微博）
原文链接 原文链接 Repost 转发 @虎皮辣蕉 : 每次我说什么话，大家都担心我会炸号的时候，就是在自我审查，这种自保的思维惯性才是他们炸号想达到真正的深层目的——杀鸡儆猴。后来猴不仅自己不敢说话怕被杀，看到鸡啼鸣，还担心这只鸡是不是又要被杀。 明明是最基本的权利，但是大家开始害怕了。 这种情况，你们去问问自己的父母，问问他们对89动乱的评价，在他们身上，你能看到这种恐惧逻辑最深切的表现。 热血就是这样被磨灭的，一步退，然后步步退。 一旦你进入自我审查，自动规避敏感词，说每句话都担心这是最后一句话的时候，你就会发现说话好累，于是大家都开始不说话了，他们的目的也就达到了。 而这种处理事的方法，我不知道是不是我们的国民性，还是人类其实都会这样，因为我没有深入研究过，但现象早不止真正的敏感话题了。 我举个明晰的例子。 早年大家评价明星的时候，都是直呼其名的。 后来因为粉丝会搜索这个明星的名字，来骂你。于是很多人为了息事宁人，开始使用缩写。 慢慢的，这居然成了网络时代大家公认的一种规则，不止微博，豆瓣或者其他平台也是这样。 再后来，明星的粉丝开始搜缩写。 怕发表负面评价某当红明星会被TA的粉丝骂，很多人就直接放弃了吐槽当红明星，毕竟放弃评价一个明星而已，又不会影响生活对吧？ 看到没有，一步退，步步退。 明明大家都是普通的网络用户，一部分人却因为另一部分人，把自己的权利直接让出去了。 而获得了胜利的那帮人，可不会就此停下，他们只会把这块地圈得越来越大，制定出更多奇奇怪怪的规则，比如“广场邪说”，他们常扯的正义执法大旗是“你上了我家的广场，所以我们有理由撕你”，即使你不明白什么是广场，而这个广场——明明指的是所有用户都可以使用的微博搜索页面，一个普通UI页面而已。 再后来，这种所谓的“饭圈思维”已经渗透到方方面面，不止明星，相声演员、运动员、作家、导演、当红博主，甚至纸片人、影视角色……只要有粉丝，有拥趸，就不能对他们发表你的评价。 人们能发表意见的公共范围已经越来越小了。 直到某一天你说草莓难吃，都有草莓粉上来骂你，而你只能缩写CM的时候，才发觉这一切都是没有道理的时候，已经晚了。 可笑吗？ 再回看，里面的深层逻辑真的是“饭圈恶臭”吗？ 我早说过，饭圈的组织形态和宗教、政党并无不同，是利益联盟和小型社会的原始雏形。 而他们到底...
我的微博：喏（来自 Lake桑的微博）
原文链接 喏 转发 @寒舞C : 人与人之间互相理解真的太难了，你跟他说a小于c，他说怎么？b就不能大于c吗？这时候你已经觉得心累了，还耐着性子跟他解释你表达的只是a和c的关系没b什么事，然后他怒问那我b大于d就有错吗？！这时候你就…去tm的互相理解，亮兵器吧！ Lake桑 2019.3.15
每日一词：two-bit（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 15, 2019 is: two-bit • \TOO-BIT\ • adjective 1 : cheap or trivial of its kind : petty , small-time 2 : of the value of two bits Examples: “In 1956, he published Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems at City Lights Books, which was then, [Lawrence] Ferlinghetti says, both a one-room bookshop and a ‘ two-bit poetry press’ in San Francisco.” — Ira Silverberg, The Document Journal , December 10, 2018 “Bright lights shining through the foggy 1950s London air is the memorable backdrop of Jules Dassin’s story of a two-bit American hustler, Harry Fabian, doing everything he can to stay ahead of his arrears and the doomed end pursuing him.” — Kevin P. Sullivan, Vulture , 22 Jan. 2019 Did you know? The money-related definition of two-bit makes its etymology obvious: it is derived from the noun phrase two bits . However, two bits is an interesting phrase because it actually means “the value of a quarter of ...
每日一词：animadversion（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 14, 2019 is: animadversion • \an-uh-mad-VER-zhun\ • noun 1 : a critical and usually censorious remark — often used with on 2 : adverse criticism Examples: “Some of his contemporaries and erstwhile friends, meanwhile, displayed considerable frankness in what they wrote. They did not count on Hemingway reading their animadversions on his character and talents while sitting in a café in Venice.” — Norman Birnbaum, The Nation , 19 Dec. 2011 “If any grudge-bearing customer is equipped to voice his uncalled-for animadversions , why should restaurants not seize the opportunity to speak for themselves—to articulate the counterpoint or impress upon would-be diners a voice of their own? Instagram has emerged as the go-to platform for restauranteurs, unsurprisingly: there’s no better way to sell food than with alluring photographs of the dishes you’re selling.” — Calum Marsh, The National Post , 4 Aug. 2016 Did you know? An...
每日一词：zero-sum（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 13, 2019 is: zero-sum • \ZEER-oh-SUM\ • adjective : of, relating to, or being a situation (such as a game or relationship) in which a gain for one side entails a corresponding loss for the other side Examples: “Among the greatest risks posed by a new recession is that governments may engage in a zero-sum war for spending. Unable to overcome the technical and political hurdles to creating more money at home, they might opt to suck in money from abroad.” — The Economist , 13 Oct. 2018 “The industry conflict is too often framed as physical retail versus online retail. Statistical analyses of the growth of e-commerce almost always get coupled with a story surrounding the decline of physical retail, with a heavy focus on the closure of malls. These two things are undoubtedly linked, but experts often communicate this as a zero-sum game. This ignores a fundamental human truth: People now and into the future will cont...
每日一词：delate（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 12, 2019 is: delate • \dih-LAYT\ • verb 1 : accuse , denounce 2 : report , relate Examples: Hepzibah was brought to trial after being delated for the practice of witchcraft. “Persons who are delated must first swear to tell the truth concerning themselves and others; if they confess, the judge proceeds accordingly.” — H. Ansgar Kelly, Speculum , October 2019 Did you know? To delate someone is to “hand down” that person to a court of law. In Latin, delatus is the unlikely-looking past participle of deferre , meaning “to bring down, report, or accuse,” which in turn comes from ferre , meaning “to carry.” Not surprisingly, our word defer , meaning “to yield to the opinion or wishes of another,” can also be traced back to deferre . At one time, in fact, defer and delate had parallel meanings (both could mean “to carry down or away” or “to offer for acceptance”), but those senses are now obsolete. Today, you are ...
每日一词：bathetic（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 11, 2019 is: bathetic • \buh-THET-ik\ • adjective : characterized by triteness or sentimentalism Examples: “The TV people inevitably reduce history to a series of bathetic tropes: the flag waving in slow motion, the rescued puppy, the evacuee given the star treatment of American Idol.” — Matthew Power, Harper’s , December 2005 “A vein of knowingness runs through it, a gently comic self-portrait of a lost soul out of time, as when Pierce casts himself in the bathetic role of a ‘lonely rock and roller’ hankering to hear Big Star on the radio.” — Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, The Financial Times , 7 Sept. 2018 Did you know? When English speakers turned apathy into apathetic in the late 17th century, using the suffix -etic to turn the noun into the adjective, they were inspired by pathetic , the adjectival form of pathos , from Greek pathētikos. People also applied that bit of linguistic transformation to coin bathe...
每日一词：newspeak（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 10, 2019 is: newspeak • \NOO-speek\ • noun, often capitalized : propagandistic language marked by euphemism , circumlocution , and the inversion of customary meanings Examples: “Remember that in 1984 , totalitarian newspeak is created not through elaborate sentences and jargon, but through cutting words out of the dictionary and simplifying grammar. Clear, transparent writing can be used for propaganda purposes as easily as can convoluted prose—and maybe even more easily.” — Noah Berlatsky, The Chronicle of Higher Education , 16 July 2011 “He’d lost his birthplace after the Yalta agreement, when his native region was incorporated into the Soviet Union. Since his family was Polish, they decided to join thousands of other ‘ repatriates ‘ and re-settle in the area in Poland that the communists’ newspeak labeled ‘the Recovered Territories.'” — Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough, American Scholar , Summer 2010 Did you k...
每日一词：cap-a-pie（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 9, 2019 is: cap-a-pie • \kap-uh-PEE\ • adverb : from head to foot Examples: The birthday girl—dressed cap-a-pie as a princess, from tiara to sequined slippers—waited excitedly for her guests to arrive. “When they all appear at the elegant ball for the Prince of Wales, the men’s outfits outshine the women’s and the villain of the story, the French fanatic Chauvelin, cap-a-pie in ominous black, makes a striking contrast.” — Marie D. Galyean, The Boise (Idaho) Weekly , 9 Aug. 2006 Did you know? Think of a medieval knight riding off to battle completely encased (from head to foot, as it were) in armor. Knights thus outfitted were said to be “armed cap-a-pie.” The term cap-a-pie (or cap-à-pie ), which has been used in English since at least the 16th century, descends from the Middle French phrase de cap a pé , meaning “from head to foot.” Nowadays, it is generally extended to more figurative armor, as in “armed cap-a-...
每日一词：shard（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 8, 2019 is: shard • \SHAHRD\ • noun 1 a : a piece or fragment of a brittle substance; broadly : a small piece or part : scrap b : shell , scale ; especially : elytron 2 : a fragment of a pottery vessel found on sites and in refuse deposits where pottery-making peoples have lived 3 : highly angular curved glass fragments of tuffaceous sediment Examples: There were shards of glass on the floor where the burglars had broken into the building the night before. “Some 2,600 years ago, in the land of ancient Israel, a military official inked a request onto the reverse side of a pottery shard : ‘If there is any wine, send [quantity].’ Archaeologists found the shard in the 1960s, but the boozy inscription, which had faded to near invisibility, went unnoticed for decades.” — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian , 22 June 2017 Did you know? Shard dates back to Old English (where it was spelled sceard ), and it is related to...
每日一词：Mirandize（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 7, 2019 is: Mirandize • \muh-RAN-dyze\ • verb : to recite the Miranda warnings to (a person under arrest) Examples: “Miranda warnings only kick in if you’re going to interrogate a suspect. And so if they didn’t Mirandize him, and they didn’t ask him any questions, that wouldn’t be a problem at all. The remedy for failing to Mirandize someone is that their statements to the officers then become inadmissible at trial. — Barbara McQuade, quoted on MSNBC, 1 Feb. 2019 “According to the website, Heller’s motion is baseless as there was no need for police to Mirandize the actress since she wasn’t in their custody, and it’s ‘perfectly legal to question people involved in a car accident without reading them their rights.'” — The Huffington Post , 26 Feb. 2013 Did you know? “You have the right to remain silent….” These seven words typically begin the notification that police recite to inform a suspect of his or her rights...
每日一词：abecedarian（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 6, 2019 is: abecedarian • \ay-bee-see-DAIR-ee-un\ • adjective 1 a : of or relating to the alphabet b : alphabetically arranged 2 : rudimentary Examples: The children recited an abecedarian chant, beginning with “A is for apple” and ending with “Z is for zebra.” “Aficionados of Sue Grafton’s popular detective novels starring Kinsey Millhone will not be disappointed by S is for Silence , Grafton’s 19th book in her abecedarian series launched in 1982 with A is for Alibi .” — Jan Collins, The State (Columbia, South Carolina), 11 Dec. 2005 Did you know? The history of abecedarian is as simple as ABC—literally. The term’s Late Latin ancestor, abecedārius (which meant “alphabetical”), was created as a combination of the letters A, B, C, and D, plus the adjective suffix -arius ; you can hear the echo of that origin in the pronunciation of the English term (think “ABC-darian”). In its oldest documented English uses ...
语文相关：旖旎
原文链接 旖 yǐ 旎 nǐ 解释： （形）形容柔美的样子。 （本义）形容旌旗飘扬的样子。 例句： 风光旖旎 旖旎从风。——《 史记 · 司马相如列传 》 顾青翠之茂叶，繁旖旎之弱条。—— 成公绥 《 木兰赋 》 说不尽软玉温香，娇柔旖旎。——《 梼杌闲评 ——明珠缘》 千般袅娜，万般旖旎。—— 王实甫 《 西厢记 》 一霎时局已到齐，真正是翠绕珠围，金迷纸醉，说不尽温柔景象，旖旎风光。——清· 李宝嘉 《 官场现形记 》 香脸半开娇旖旎，当庭际，玉人浴出新妆洗。—— 李清照 《 渔家傲 ·雪里已知春信至》 窃悲夫蕙华之曾敷兮，纷旖旎乎都房。—— 宋玉 楚辞《 九辩 》 Lake桑 2019.3.6
每日一词：leviathan（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 5, 2019 is: leviathan • \luh-VYE-uh-thun\ • noun 1 a often capitalized Leviathan : a sea monster defeated by Yahweh in various scriptural accounts b : a large sea animal 2 capitalized Leviathan : the political state; especially : a totalitarian state having a vast bureaucracy 3 : something large or formidable Examples: “Fossils of the ancient leviathan were unearthed from 480-million-year-old rocks exposed on a hillside in southeastern Morocco.” — Sid Perkins, Science , 11 Mar. 2015 “… [T]he extension of the Star Wars story has been the biggest global movie phenomenon since Avatar …. It is a leviathan , totaling nearly $4.5 billion in global ticket sales and an entire subcultural media industry.” — Sean Fennessey, The Ringer , 25 May 2018 Did you know? Old Testament references to a huge sea monster, Leviathan (in Hebrew, Liwyāthān ), are thought to spring from an ancient myth in which the god Baal s...
每日一词：feisty（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 4, 2019 is: feisty • \FYE-stee\ • adjective 1 chiefly Southern US and Midland US a : full of nervous energy : fidgety b : touchy , quarrelsome c : exuberantly frisky 2 : having or showing a lively aggressiveness : spunky Examples: “She’s feisty . She’s bawdy. She’s bodacious…. She’s a bit of a wild child.” — Vicki Lawrence, quoted in The New York Magazine , 5 Oct. 2018 “The rise of satellite and cable technology in the nineties created new possibilities for nationally syndicated programs built around feisty , voice-driven pundits.” — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker , 24 Sept. 2018 Did you know? In certain parts of the United States, most notably the South, the noun feist (pronounced to rhyme with heist ) refers to a small dog used in hunting small game animals (such as squirrels). Also spelled fice or fyce , it comes from an obsolete term, “fisting hound,” that derived from another obsolete ...
每日一词：sentient（转自 韦氏词典）
原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 3, 2019 is: sentient • \SEN-shee-unt\ • adjective 1 : responsive to or conscious of sense impressions 2 : having or showing realization, perception, or knowledge : aware 3 : finely sensitive in perception or feeling Examples: “Frightened of the potential that a vast automated intelligence represents, we often portray sentient intelligences as the equivalent of machine gods—ones that, in many cases, find us wanting.” — Mark Hachman, PC Magazine , 15 Apr. 2013 “Diana’s hippie- Wiccan aunts … live in one of the tale’s more charming inventions: a funky, sentient house that rattles the crockery when it’s irritated and supplies flashbacks by conjuring up life-size holographic scenes in situ .” — Mike Hale, The New York Times , 18 Jan. 2019 Did you know? You may have guessed that sentient has something to do with the senses. The initial spelling sent- or sens- is often a giveaway for such a meaning. A senti...