2023年11月5日 星期日

unalloyed, perspicuous/perspicacious, Coraggio

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The Latinity of Phaedrus is not exempt from an alloy of
the silver age; but his manner is concise, terse, and sententious;
the Thracian slave discreetly breathes the spirit of a freeman; and
when the text is found, the style is perspicuous. But his fables,
after a long oblivion, were first published by Peter Pithou, from a
corrupt manuscript. The labours of fifty editors confess the
defects of the copy, as well as the value of the original; and the
school-boy may have been whipped for misapprehending a passage,
which Bentley could not restore, and which Burman could not explain.
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example: 1932/1/22

胡適日記全集 p.626

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perspicuous
[形]
1 〈表現・陳述などが〉明快な;明確な.
2perspicacious.

(pûr'spĭ-kā'shəs) pronunciation
adj.
Having or showing penetrating mental discernment; clear-sighted. See synonyms at shrewd.

[From Latin perspicāx, perspicāc-, from perspicere, to look through. See perspective.]
perspicaciously per'spi·ca'cious·ly adv.
perspicaciousness per'spi·ca'cious·ness n.

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What does Coraggio mean? It means courage.


  unalloyed

adjective

  • 1(of metal) not alloyed; pure:unalloyed copper
2(chiefly of emotions) complete and unreserved:unalloyed delight


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