2016年4月29日 星期五

lip service, rhetoric, vacuous, tautology, tautonym

Grace Poe is bland and inexperienced. But Rodrigo Duterte is a wannabe hard man who has made unforgivable comments about wishing he had been part of an infamous gang rape in 1989


中國共產黨只顧自己的死活 對於廣大農民的福利連口惠(無實惠)都懶得給
It is trouble that China's Communist Party is increasingly ill-prepared to deal with. For all Mr Hu's rhetoric about greater internal democracy, the party is too fearful for its own survival to open itself up to a genuine clash of ideas. Although a few brave voices have called for that (see article), there has been no open debate in the run-up to the congress about how to address any of China's pressing rural problems. To add to their burdens, China's peasants are saddled with a ruling party that is too worried about its own survival to spend more than a little lip-service on theirs.

12. J.J. Sullivan, “Japanese Management Philosophies: From the Vacuous to the Brilliant,” California Management Review 34, no. 2 (

lip (SPEECH) Show phonetics
noun [U] INFORMAL
when someone argues in a rude way or in a way the shows a lack of respect:
That's enough of your lip, young lady!


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lip service
noun
pay lip service to sth to say that you agree with something but do nothing to support it:
She claims to be in favour of training, but so far she's only paid lip service to the idea.
lip service から世辞, 口先だけの親切. (只是口頭上的親切關心而已)

rhet·o·ric (rĕt'ər-ĭk) pronunciation
n.
    1. The art or study of using language effectively and persuasively.
    2. A treatise or book discussing this art.
  1. Skill in using language effectively and persuasively.
    1. A style of speaking or writing, especially the language of a particular subject: fiery political rhetoric.
    2. Language that is elaborate, pretentious, insincere, or intellectually vacuous: His offers of compromise were mere rhetoric.
  2. Verbal communication; discourse.
[Middle English rethorik, from Old French rethorique, from Latin rhētoricē, rhētorica, from Greek rhētorikē (tekhnē), rhetorical (art), feminine of rhētorikos, rhetorical, from rhētōr, rhetor. See rhetor.]

vac·u·ous (văk'yū-əs) pronunciation
adj.
  1. Devoid of matter; empty.
    1. Lacking intelligence; stupid.
    2. Devoid of substance or meaning; inane: a vacuous comment.
    3. Devoid of expression; vacant: "The narrow, swinelike eyes were open, no more vacuous in death than they had been in life" (Nicholas Proffitt).
  2. Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle. See synonyms at empty.
[From Latin vacuus, empty. See vacuum.]
vacuously vac'u·ous·ly adv.
vacuousness vac'u·ous·ness n.





tau·tol·o·gy (tô-tŏl'ə-jē) pronunciation
n., pl., -gies.
    1. Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
    2. An instance of such repetition.
  1. Logic. An empty or vacuous statement composed of simpler statements in a fashion that makes it logically true whether the simpler statements are factually true or false; for example, the statement Either it will rain tomorrow or it will not rain tomorrow.
[Late Latin tautologia, from Greek tautologiā, from tautologos, redundant : tauto-, tauto- + logos, saying; see -logy.]

tautology恆真(同義反複)

[名](複-gies)[U][C]
1 (不必要な)類語反復, トートロジー(redundancy);[C]類語反復の例(widow womanなど).
2 《論理学》同語反復(の命題).
-gous, tàu・to・lóg・i・cal
[形]
tàu・to・lóg・ical・ly
[副]

tautological tau'to·log'i·cal (tôt'l-ŏj'ĭ-kəl) or tau'to·log'ic (-ĭk) adj.
tautologically tau'to·log'i·cal·ly adv.



tautonym (TAU-tuh-nim)

noun
A scientific name in which the generic and the specific names are the same, as Chloris chloris (the greenfinch).

Etymology
Greek tautxnymos of the same name, equiv. to tauto- + -nymos named.

Usage
"... the name of the Bank Swallow becomes the tautonym Riparia riparia ...." — Elliott Coues, 100 years ago in the Auk: Notes on generic names of certain Swallows, The Auk, 1 Jul 1998.

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