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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 31, 2020 is: plenary • \PLEN-uh-ree\  • adjective 1 : complete in every respect : absolute , unqualified 2 : fully attended or constituted by all entitled to be present Examples: “The President always retains the plenary power granted to him by the Constitution to pardon or commute sentences, and does so at his sole discretion, guided when he sees fit by the advice of the Pardon Attorney.” — Nicole Navas, quoted in The Washington Post , 3 Feb. 2020 “The UK is scheduled to leave the European Union this Friday once the European Parliament gave their assent to the Withdrawal Agreement in a special plenary vote on Wednesday.” — Aurora Bosotti, The Express (UK), 27 Jan. 2020 Did you know? In the 14th century, the monk Robert of Brunne described a situation in which all the knights of King Arthur’s Round Table were present at court by writing, “When Arthures court was plener, and alle were comen, fer and ner.…” For m...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 30, 2020 is: laissez-faire • \less-ay-FAIR\  • noun 1 : a doctrine opposing governmental interference in economic affairs beyond the minimum necessary for the maintenance of peace and property rights 2 : a philosophy or practice characterized by a usually deliberate abstention from direction or interference especially with individual freedom of choice and action Examples: “Though often viewed as an age of laissez-faire , the Victorian period saw ambitious lawmaking. Much of this involved revising existing legislation: one result was the expansion of the middle-class bureaucracy….” — Henry Hitchings, The Language Wars: A History of Proper English , 2011 “In the late nineteenth century, a new generation of economists, who had returned from training in Germany to challenge the laissez-faire orthodoxy of the American Gilded Age, gradually rose to prominence at Wharton. They argued that the government should intervene to...

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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 29, 2020 is: quixotic • \kwik-SAH-tik\  • adjective 1 : foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals; especially : marked by rash lofty romantic ideas or extravagantly chivalrous action 2 : capricious , unpredictable Examples: “‘Amazon’ covers nearly a quarter-century of business history, from [Jeff] Bezos’ rise at a data-obsessed Wall Street hedge fund to his seemingly quixotic  attempt to crash into the book business.” — The New Jersey Herald , 18 Feb. 2020 “Gary Garrels, SFMoMA’s senior curator of painting and sculpture, needed about ten years to put it together, in part because Celmins, who turns eighty-one in October, is so quixotic  about how, and when, her work is seen.”— Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker , 26 Aug. 2019 Did you know? If you guessed that quixotic has something to do with Don Quixote , you’re absolutely right. The hero of Miguel de Cervantes ‘ 17th-century Spanish novel ...

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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 28, 2020 is: derogate • \DAIR-uh-gayt\  • verb 1 : to cause to seem inferior : disparage 2 : to take away a part so as to impair : detract 3 : to act beneath one’s position or character Examples: “While one could argue that the phrase [‘OK Boomer ‘] in itself derogates the very term used to describe an older age bracket of generational Baby Boomers (those born between the 1940s and 1960s), it would be more useful to examine how and when people use such a new phrase.” — Kameryn Griesser, The Battalion (Texas A & M University), 19 Nov. 2019 “All jobs require us at some point to deliver bad news—whether it be a minor revelation such as a recruiter telling a prospective employee that there’s no wiggle-room in salary, or something major, like when a manager must fire an employee.… Our research shows that people are prone to derogating those who tell them things they don’t want to hear—we shoot the m...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 27, 2020 is: cordial • \KOR-jul\  • adjective 1 a : showing or marked by warm and often hearty friendliness, favor, or approval : politely pleasant and friendly b : sincerely or deeply felt 2 : tending to revive, cheer, or invigorate Examples: Even though we disagree with one another on many points, we have long maintained a cordial relationship. “Last Wednesday, three members of the Taste Test team had lunch at All City Grille…. The experience was wholly pleasant. The dining room is modern and clean, the student servers were  cordial  and efficient, and the food was well-prepared and well-priced.” — Dan Kane, The Repository (Canton, Ohio), 12 Feb. 2020 Did you know? Cordial shares the Latin root cor with concord (meaning “harmony”) and discord (meaning “conflict”). Cor means “heart,” and each of these cor descendants has something to do with the heart, at least figuratively. Concord , which co...

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原文链接 主播：Lake桑。 此次博客用到了 英文Minecraft Wiki的1.16页面 的大部分内容。 本次播客以 CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 协议发布。 推荐几位Bilibili的UP： Xekr ， 黑山大叔 ， wuguangyao （广药）， 鬼鬼 算测试播客，没录稿子。 随便扯了一些私事。 推广： Minecraft文言文语言包 ， 梗体中文资源包 我们的网址： https://lakejason0.wordpress.com 订阅地址： https://lakejason0.wordpress.com/category/podcast/feed Lake桑 2020.3.26

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 26, 2020 is: ninja • \NIN-juh\  • noun : a person trained in ancient Japanese martial arts and employed especially for espionage and assassinations Examples: “Mando’s one-man raid on the client’s compound is lit darkly to better convey that our gunslinger can also operate like a ninja , but in the process it made the action there a bit harder to make out than some of the fight scenes from the two previous weeks.” — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone , 22 Nov. 2019 “Clyde was on the fire escape. As he ambled back and forth, preening, Boicourt grabbed a purple bath towel. She threw it over the bird and pulled him into her apartment. ‘I felt like a ninja ,’ she said. The creature bit her, hard, on the pinkie.” — Katia Bachko, The New Yorker , 23 Dec. 2019 Did you know? Ninjas may seem mysterious, but the origin of their name is not. The word ninja derives from the Japanese characters nin and ja . Nin initially meant “pers...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 25, 2020 is: gibe • \JYBE\  • verb 1 : to utter taunting words 2 : to deride or tease with taunting words Examples: “My PR firm introduced Tom and me, and I came ready to impress. I had read every piece he had written in the last five years. I playfully gibed  him about obscure predictions he had made years ago in other articles, and was prepared to thoughtfully discuss his most recent column.” — Keith Ferrazzi, Never Eat Alone , 2005 “‘Anybody who complains about the microphone,’ she gibed , is not having a good night.'” — Mark Z. Barabak et al., The Los Angeles Times , 27 Sept. 2016 Did you know? Confused about jibe and gibe ? The distinction actually isn’t as clear-cut as some commentators would like it to be. Jibe is used both for the verb meaning “to be in accord” or “agree” (as in “the results do not jibe with those from other studies”) and for the nautical verb and noun referring to the act of s...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 24, 2020 is: timorous • \TIM-uh-rus\  • adjective 1 : of a timid disposition : fearful 2 : expressing or suggesting timidity Examples: The study suggests that timorous people suffer from stress more frequently than their bolder peers. “Perhaps most disappointing was the 1935 ‘Mosaic Quartet’…, a collection of five short movements that the performers can play and repeat in whatever order they choose. It’s the kind of innovation that sounds intriguing in theory, but … they felt mild and even timorous in comparison with Cage’s much wilder spirit.” — Joshua Kosman, The San Francisco Chronicle , 20 Jan. 2020 Did you know? Timid and timorous don’t just have similar spellings and meanings; they are etymologically related as well. Both words ultimately derive from the Latin verb timēre , meaning “to fear.” The immediate ancestor of timid is Latin timidus (with the same meaning as timid ), whereas timorous traveled...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 23, 2020 is: welkin • \WEL-kin\  • noun 1 a : the vault of the sky : firmament b : the celestial abode of God or the gods : heaven 2 : the upper atmosphere Examples: “If you stand in the trees you might see … owls, vibrant red cardinals and goldfinches lift into the welkin .” — Emily Clark, The Carver Reporter (Plymouth, Massachusetts), 25 June 2018 “The night was dim, but not dark; no moon shone, but the stars, wan though frequent, gleamed pale, as from the farthest deeps of the heaven; clouds grey and fleecy rolled slowly across the welkin , veiling and disclosing, by turns, the melancholy orbs.” — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Harold, The Last of the Saxons Kings , 1848 Did you know? When it comes to welkin , the sky’s the limit. This heavenly word has been used in English to refer to the vault of the sky for centuries, and it derives from an Old English word meaning “cloud.” In current English, welkin is still fl...

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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 22, 2020 is: lampoon • \lam-POON\  • verb : to make the subject of a satire : ridicule Examples: “From ‘Seinfeld’ to ‘Veep,’ I think [Julia] Louis-Dreyfus’ greatness lies in her ability to savagely skewer the ridiculousness of the men around her while simultaneously lampooning herself.” — Jake Coyle, The Washington Post , 12 Feb. 2020 “Ultimately, Craig, a struggling mystery writer, comes up with what he thinks is the perfect crime, but not quite with the results he expected. That’s the premise behind Nick Hall’s Dead Wrong…. As a playwright, Hall isn’t afraid to lampoon  the most hallowed gimmicks and creates a clever mystery about a man living off his wife’s fortune, a man who plans the perfect murder.” — Richard Hutton, The Fort Erie Post (Ontario, Canada), 12 Feb. 2020 Did you know? Lampoon can be a noun or a verb. The noun lampoon (meaning “satire” or, specifically, “a harsh satire usually directed ag...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 21, 2020 is: incommunicado • \in-kuh-myoo-nuh-KAH-doh\  • adverb or adjective : without means of communication : in a situation or state not allowing communication Examples: Their government has agreed to give the Red Cross access to the prisoners who are being held incommunicado . “[Tommy Lee] Jones’ character is his father, a world-renowned hero astronaut who has been incommunicado for 16 years after venturing to Neptune on a mission to find signs of intelligent life in the great beyond.” — Soren Andersen, The News Tribune (Tacoma, Washington), 18 Sept. 2019 Did you know? Incommunicado ultimately comes from Latin but made its way into English via the Spanish incomunicado . We borrowed the word (with a slightly modified spelling) from the past participle of the Spanish verb incomunicar , meaning “to deprive of communication.” The Spanish word, in turn, derives from the Latin prefix in- and the verb communicare ...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 20, 2020 is: fusty • \FUSS-tee\  • adjective 1 British : impaired by age or dampness : moldy 2 : saturated with dust and stale odors : musty 3 : rigidly old-fashioned or reactionary Examples: “She was there as an intermediary to translate the fusty  old world of politics to a feisty new generation.” — Stephanie Ebbert, The Boston Globe , 13 Jan. 2020 “In a city facing the extinction of that rather prickly creature known as fine dining, it’s nice to take a seat at GOMA and get properly coddled. Not, as you might be thinking, in a 1980-something, musty, fusty , rigid kind of way. But it has linen on the table, gorgeous crockery and service that’s slick and glossy—almost formal, but not quite.” — Tony Harper, The Brisbane (Australia) News , 12 Feb. 2020 Did you know? Fusty probably derives from the Middle English word foist , meaning “wine cask,” which in turn traces to the Medieval Latin word fustis , mea...

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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 19, 2020 is: viridity • \vuh-RID-uh-tee\  • noun 1 a : the quality or state of being green b : the color of grass or foliage 2 : naive innocence Examples: The bright colors of spring training baseball, with its blue Florida skies and the viridity of its playing fields, annually gave Roger hope and comfort after a bleak New England winter. “Many single people wish they had a partner. Many married people wish they were single again. Oh, that grass, that fence, that trick of the light that alters the intensity of the viridity . We want what we haven’t got.” — Oscar Cainer, The Scottish Daily Mail , 9 Sept. 2016 Did you know? Viridity is simply a highfalutin way to say “greenness” in both its literal and figurative senses. Greenness goes all the way back to Old English grēnnes , from grēne (“green”), a word akin to Old English grōwan (“to grow”). Viridity did not enter the language until the 15th century, when ...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 18, 2020 is: abbreviate • \uh-BREE-vee-ayt\  • verb : to make briefer; especially : to reduce (a word or name) to a shorter form intended to stand for the whole Examples: Due to time constraints, the last speaker at the ceremony had to abbreviate her speech. “New Mexico’s legislative sessions are abbreviated from 60 to 30 days in even years and limited in the scope of what can be considered.” — Patrick Kulp, Adweek.com , 9 Jan. 2020 Did you know? Abbreviate and abridge both mean “to make shorter,” so it probably will come as no surprise that both derive from the Latin verb brevis , meaning “short.” Abbreviate first appeared in print in English in the 15th century and derives from abbreviātus , the past participle of Late Latin abbreviāre , which in turn can be traced back to brevis . Abridge , which appeared a century earlier, also comes from abbreviāre but took a side trip through the Anglo-French abreger b...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 17, 2020 is: crwth • \KROOTH\  • noun : an ancient Celtic stringed instrument that is plucked or bowed Examples: An Irish journeyman is expected to perform at the St. Patrick’s Day celebration; he is an accomplished player of the hornpipe and crwth . “Rae embarked on her first journey into songwriting and multi-instrumentalism with If Only I Could Fly [May 2013], featuring her prowess on fiddle, vocals, guitar and the crwth ….” — Emeraldrae.com Did you know? Crwth , which comes to us from Welsh , is the name for an ancient Celtic instrument that is similar to a violin. In Middle English, the instrument’s name was spelled crouth before metamorphosing to crowd , a word still used in some dialects of England to refer to a violin. Crwth can also refer to a swelling or bulging body, and we can speculate that it came to be used for the instrument because of the violin’s bulging form. Other Celtic words for the violin ...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 16, 2020 is: palpate • \PAL-payt\  • verb : to examine by touch especially medically Examples: “Therapy, though, felt different to me. I found performing a concrete task with specific steps, such as palpating an abdomen or starting an IV, less nerve-racking than figuring out how to apply the numerous abstract psychological theories I’d studied over the past several years to the hundreds of possible scenarios that any one therapy patient might present.” — Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk To Someone , 2019 “A heel spur is a hard and usually painful area in the back of the heel where the Achilles tendon attaches itself to the heel bone. When the area is examined and palpated , there is a feeling of hard bone rather than the soft suppleness of the Achilles tendon.” — Robert Weiss, The Fairfield (Connecticut) Citizen , 29 Jan. 2020 Did you know? Palpate has been part of the English language since the 19th century....

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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 15, 2020 is: minutia • \muh-NOO-shee-uh\  • noun : a minute or minor detail — usually used in plural Examples: The book argues that it is easy to get bogged down in the minutiae of everyday life and fail to notice important opportunities. “Bart has the soul of an artist, but his mind is like this steel trap of information that has details on everything from the minutia of legislation to the lyrics of every hit song that’s ever been written.” — Beckie Foster, quoted in The Tennessean , 10 Nov. 2019 Did you know? Minutia was borrowed into English in the 18th century from the Latin plural noun minutiae , meaning “trifles” or “details,” and derived from the singular noun minutia , meaning “smallness.” In English, minutia is most often used in the plural as either minutiae (pronounced \muh-NOO-shee-ee) or, on occasion, as simply minutia . The Latin minutia , incidentally, comes from minutus , an adjective meaning “s...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 14, 2020 is: hoise • \HOYZ\  • verb : lift , raise ; especially : to raise into position by or as if by means of tackle Examples: “The closest Brennan has come to hoising  the AHL’s holy grail has been the conference finals on a couple of occasions, most recently with the Toronto Marlies.” — Dave Isaac, The Courier-Post (Cherry Hill, New Jersey), 5 May 2018 “The 6-foot-3, 228-pound Ole Miss receiver ran a 4.33 40-yard dash, posted a 40.5 inch vertical and hoised  225 pounds on the bench 27 times.” — James Koh, The Daily News (New York), 6 Mar. 2019 Did you know? The connection between hoise and hoist is a bit confusing. The two words are essentially synonymous variants, but hoist is far more common; hoise and its inflected forms hoised and hoising are infrequently used. But a variant of its past participle shows up fairly frequently as part of a set expression. And now, here’s the confusing part...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 13, 2020 is: ambidextrous • \am-bih-DEK-strus\  • adjective 1 a : using both hands with equal ease or dexterity b soccer : using both feet with equal ease : two-footed 2 : designed or suitable for use by the left or right hand 3 : unusually skillful : versatile 4 : characterized by duplicity : double-dealing Examples: “Holiday is ambidextrous . He is the rare basketball player who shoots jump shots with one hand (right) but prefers to finish inside with the other (left).” — Christian Clark, NOLA.com (New Orleans, Louisiana), 2 Dec. 2019 “Miyamoto … also tells her he’s ambidextrous and can use chopsticks with either hand, so if they go out for sushi, she can sit on either side.” — Ben Flanagan, AL.com (Alabama), 5 Feb. 2020 Did you know? Latin dexter originally meant “related to or situated on the right side,” but since most people do things better with the right hand, dexter developed the sense of “...

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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 12, 2020 is: retronym • \RET-roh-nim\  • noun : a term (such as analog watch, film camera , or snail mail) that is newly created and adopted to distinguish the original or older version, form, or example of something (such as a product) from other, more recent versions, forms, or examples Examples: “… first came paperback book, differentiated from a book with a cloth or leather binding, provoking the retronym hardcover book.” — William Safire, The New York Times Magazine , 18 Nov. 2007 “You can get a good sense of the pace of change over the past century just by looking at the retronyms we’ve accumulated. New technologies have forced us to come up with terms like steam locomotive , silent movie , manual transmission , AM radio , day baseball , conventional oven , and acoustic guitar .” — Geoffrey Nunberg, Going Nucular: Language, Politics, and Culture in Confrontational Times , 2004 Did you know? Remember way back...

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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 11, 2020 is: Byzantine • \BIZ-un-teen\  • adjective 1 : of, relating to, or characteristic of the ancient city of Byzantium 2 architecture : of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a style of architecture developed in the Byzantine Empire especially in the fifth and sixth centuries featuring the dome carried on pendentives  over a square and incrustation with marble veneering and with colored mosaics on grounds of gold 3 Christianity : of or relating to the churches using a traditional Greek rite and subject to Eastern canon law 4 often not capitalized a : of, relating to, or characterized by a devious and usually surreptitious manner of operation b : intricately involved  : labyrinthine Examples: “Unlike most Greek Orthodox churches in the U.S., though, St. Anna won’t have a traditional Byzantine  dome. While that might seem unusual, Savas said, it’s hardly unheard of—there ...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 10, 2020 is: escapade • \ESS-kuh-payd\  • noun : a usually adventurous action that runs counter to approved or conventional conduct Examples: “There was a report that people with spotlights were turning picnic tables on their end and using them for snow escapades on Pine Street and West Second Street in Cle Elum.” — The Daily Record (Ellensburg, Washington), 22 Jan. 2020 “There was a dramatic escalation in the Senate’s milk-drinking escapades . We’ve written about the trial rules limiting beverage consumption in the Senate chamber to just milk and water, and over the past week several senators have been spotted drinking regular milk at their desks. On Tuesday, Senator Mitt Romney, an important vote in the trial, took it to another level: He brought a bottle of chocolate milk.” — Noah Weiland, The New York Times , 28 Jan. 2020 Did you know? When it was first used in English, escapade referred to an act of escaping ...

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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 9, 2020 is: devise • \dih-VYZE\  • verb 1 a : to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent b : to plan to obtain or bring about : plot 2 : to give (real estate) by will Examples: The author’s childhood home was devised to the city, and the Historical Commission will turn it into a museum devoted to her life and her works of fantasy and science fiction. “There are efforts to devise an FDA-approved method for diagnosing concussion, including new blood tests, advanced brain scans, and systems that use artificial intelligence to read them.” — Scott Eden, Men’s Health , 12 Dec. 2019 Did you know? There’s something inventive about devise , a word that stems from Latin dividere , meaning “to divide.” By the time devise began being used in early Middle English, its Anglo-French forebear deviser had accumulated an array of senses, including “divide,” “distribute,” “arrange,...

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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 8, 2020 is: chapfallen • \CHAP-faw-lun\  • adjective 1 : having the lower jaw hanging loosely 2 : cast down in spirit : depressed Examples: “His appearance caused shouts of merriment in the camp,—but Tom for once could not join in the mirth raised at his expense: he was completely chapfallen ….” — Washington Irving, Adventures of Captain Bonneville , 1837 “This season or next, don’t bet on them turning a profit without making the playoffs. They need to do that next year to satisfy perennially chapfallen fans, if nothing else.” — David J. Neal, The Miami Herald , 7 Feb. 2006 Did you know? A variant spelling of the adjective chapfallen is chopfallen , a spelling that may help us to better understand this somewhat unusual word. The chap in chapfallen is a word that dates back to at least the 16th century. It refers to the fleshy covering of the jaw or to the jaw itself and is often used in the plural, as in ...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 7, 2020 is: sea change • \SEE-CHAYNJ\  • noun 1 archaic : a change brought about by the sea 2 : a marked change : transformation Examples: “Something was operating to make these marginal views more acceptable, something of which I had no inkling…. Something that it would not be an exaggeration to call a sea change in the whole culture, a transvaluation of values—for which there are many names.” — Susan Sontag, Where the Stress Falls , 2001 “It’s a scenario that’s getting more common for traditional retailers as they find themselves under pressure from a sea change in where and how people are shopping. Retailers like Barneys and RadioShack have found themselves on the brink twice—going through a bankruptcy filing once, emerging, and then heading back to court, again.” — Lauren Thomas, CNBC.com , 3 Feb. 2020 Did you know? In William Shakespeare’s The Tempest , a sea change is a change brought about by the sea,...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 6, 2020 is: oleaginous • \oh-lee-AJ-uh-nus\  • adjective 1 : resembling or having the properties of oil : oily ; also : containing or producing oil 2 : marked by an offensively ingratiating manner or quality Examples: The clerk’s charm is in the eye of the beholder: where some see a quick smile and ready compliment, others see an oleaginous demeanor. “The antagonists (calling them villains would go too far) were superbly embodied by Catherine Cook as Marcellina …, Greg Fedderly as the oleaginous Basilio, and James Creswell as Dr. Bartolo….” — Joshua Kosman, The San Francisco Chronicle , 15 Oct. 2019 Did you know? The oily oleaginous slipped into English via Middle French oleagineux , coming from Latin oleagineus , meaning “of an olive tree.” Oleagineus itself is from Latin olea , meaning “olive tree,” and ultimately from Greek elaia , meaning “olive.” Oleaginous was at first used in a literal sense, as it ...

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原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 5, 2020 is: filch • \FILCH\  • verb : to steal secretly or casually Examples: “Last November, thieves broke into a jewel room at the Royal Palace in Dresden, Germany, and took off with an array of precious jewelry…. One piece they failed to filch , however, was the Dresden Green, an elaborate diamond hat pin crafted around an extremely rare, almond-shaped celadon-green diamond.” — Sebastian Smee, The Washington Post , 10 Jan. 2020 “The family that lived there previously had been in it for 50 years, so it hadn’t been abandoned like so many other fixer-uppers near downtown. That was good news because many of the home’s small treasures—vintage glass doorknobs, wall sconces—hadn’t been filched or damaged.” — Richard A. Marini, The Houston Chronicle , 18 Aug. 2019 Did you know? “I am glad I am so acquit of this tinder-box: his thefts were too open; his filching was like an unskilful singer—he kept not time.” So says Fals...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 4, 2020 is: albeit • \awl-BEE-it\  • conjunction : even though : although Examples: Kara’s big break as an actress came in a big-budget Academy Award-nominated movie, albeit in a minor role where she played a hotel clerk. “He admitted hitting a home run at Wrigley was ‘a dream come true,’ albeit with a big twist. Originally the dream had him wearing a Cubs uniform.” — Paul Sullivan, The Chicago Tribune , 19 June 2019 Did you know? Albeit dates to the 14th century and comes from a Middle English word meaning, literally, “all (or completely) though it be.” Its heritage is clear in its pronunciation, which is as though it were three words instead of one: all , be , it . In the early 20th century, albeit was accused of being archaic. That descriptor was never quite accurate; the word had mostly been holding steady at “not-terribly-common” since at least the mid-18th century. When albeit began to see a marked incre...

原文链接 原文链接 Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for March 3, 2020 is: rectitudinous • \rek-tuh-TOO-duh-nus\  • adjective 1 : characterized by the quality of being honest and morally correct 2 : piously self-righteous Examples: The senatorial candidate’s supporters insist that he is possessed of a rectitudinous character and a spotless record. “In a personal boycott of the Mongol regime, with its prejudicial attitude toward many native-born Chinese scholars, Ni took to living a fugitive’s life on houseboat, always on the move, painting soundless little vistas of river and sky, with thin bare trees standing as symbols of his own rectitudinous isolation.” — Holland Cotter, The New York Times , 30 Sept. 2010 Did you know? Rectitudinous comes to us straight from Late Latin rectitudin- , rectitudo (English added the -ous ending), which itself ultimately derives from the Latin word rectus , meaning both “straight” and “right.” (Other rectus descendants in English include r...