2024年4月9日 星期二

*entrails, rugged.He urged the justices not to lose sight of the basic legal terrain.

He urged the justices not to lose sight of the basic legal terrain.


德尼·狄德羅Denis Diderot1713年10月5日1784年7月31日),法國啟蒙思想家、哲學家和作家,百科全書派的代表。



When ''The Dean's December'' was published in 1982, it was not so much reviewed as scrutinized like sacred entrails: Had this idiosyncratically independent writer turned ''conservative''?...

感謝梁先生和小讀者賜知: 這sacred entrails指從遠古近東等地的巫師詳審"牲禮"之內臟(尤其是肝)來占卜預料.......

Here it seemed to Little Dorrit that a change came over the
Marshalsea spirit of their society, and that Prunes and Prism got
the upper hand. Everybody was walking about St Peter's and the
Vatican on somebody else's cork legs, and straining every visible
object through somebody else's sieve. Nobody said what anything
was, but everybody said what the Mrs Generals, Mr Eustace, or
somebody else said it was. The whole body of travellers seemed to
be a collection of voluntary human sacrifices, bound hand and foot,
and delivered over to Mr Eustace and his attendants, to have the
entrails of their intellects arranged according to the taste of
that sacred priesthood. Through the rugged remains of temples and
tombs and palaces and senate halls and theatres and amphitheatres
of ancient days, hosts of tongue-tied and blindfolded moderns were
carefully feeling their way, incessantly repeating Prunes and Prism
in the endeavour to set their lips according to the received form.
Mrs General was in her pure element. Nobody had an opinion. There
was a formation of surface going on around her on an amazing scale,
and it had not a flaw of courage or honest free speech in it.



CHAPTER 7

Mostly, Prunes and Prism

Project Gutenberg's Etext of Little Dorrit, by Charles Dickens*




 en・trails

━━ n. pl. 内臓; 内部.靈魂-心
pl.n.
  1. The internal organs, especially the intestines; viscera.
  2. Internal parts: “sidewalk repair shops, where the entrails of bicycles and cars and motorcycles are spread, mechanics poring over them” (Alan Cowell).

[From Middle English entraille, from Old French, from Medieval Latin intrālia, alteration of Latin interānea, from neuter pl. of interāneus, internal, from inter, within.]


  • "And his hands would plait the priest's entrails, for want of a rope, to strangle kings."
  • "Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."


rugged (STRONG) Show phonetics
adjective
1 strong and simple; not delicate:
Jeeps are rugged vehicles, designed for rough conditions.

2 describes a man's face that is strongly and attractively formed:
She fell for his rugged good looks.


rugged (UNEVEN) Show phonetics
adjective
(of land) uneven and wild; not easy to travel over:
rugged landscape/terrain/hills/cliffs

ruggedly Show phonetics
adverb

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