2015年10月10日 星期六

imbecile, changeling, likeness. imbecility

“The intellectual is so often an imbecile that we should always take him for one until he proves the contrary.”


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She looked at me with an imbecile grin.



With the confidence of an imbecile or a saint, the next Fed chief explains why we need not worry about deflation. And yet, falling prices would be just the sort of treachery nature might be tempted to bring to a nation in debt and a Fed chief in denial; not what they expected, but what they richly deserve.



He responded to such charges with a statement published in Les Lettres Francaises, which said in part:
"What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he is a poet, or, if he is merely a boxer, only his muscles?
"On the contrary, he is at the same time a political being, constantly alert to the heart- rending, burning, or happy events in the world, molding himself in their likeness.

governmental imbecility

Dictionary: im·be·cil·i·ty (ĭm'bə-sĭl'ĭ-tēpronunciation
n.pl. -ties.
    1. Great stupidity or foolishness.
    2. Something, such as conduct or an act, that is stupid or foolish.
  1. Psychology. The state or condition of being an imbecile; moderate or severe mental retardation.





大江健三郎 新小說《被偷換的孩子》原名Changeling
—這是一有風俗的字眼。WordNet Dictionary 發音為: 'cheynjling

Definition: [n] a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy /[n] a person of subnormal intelligence
Synonyms: cretin, half-wit, idiot, imbecile, moron, retard

imbecile

noun [C]
a person who behaves in a stupid way:
What an imbecile that boy is!

imbecilic adjective (ALSO imbecile)
That was an imbecilic thing to do!
She looked at me with an imbecile grin.

━━ n., a. 低能(な); ばか(な); 【心】痴愚 ((知能指数25-50)); 愚か者.
 im・be・cile・ly ━━ ad.
 im・be・cil・ic
 ━━ a.

 im・be・cil・i・ty ━━ n. 低能; 愚行.



likeness
n.
  1. The state, quality, or fact of being like; resemblance.
  2. An imitative appearance; a semblance.
  3. A pictorial, graphic, or sculptured representation of something; an image.
SYNONYMS likeness, similarity, similitude, resemblance, analogy, affinity. These nouns denote agreement or conformity. Likeness implies close agreement: It was your uncanny likeness to my brother that made me stare at you. Similarity and similitude suggest agreement only in some respects or to some degree: They were drawn to each other by similarity of interests. “A striking similitude between the brother and sister now first arrested my attention” (Edgar Allan Poe). Resemblance refers to similarity in external or superficial details: “The child . . . bore a remarkable resemblance to her grandfather” (Lytton Strachey). Analogy is similarity, as of properties or functions, between things that are otherwise not comparable: The operation of a computer presents an interesting analogy to the working of the human brain. Affinity is likeness deriving from kinship or from the possession of shared properties or sympathies: Being an orphan, she felt an affinity with other parentless children.


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