Apocalypse later.
By Ellis Rosen with Cartoon Collections
By JEANETTE WINTERSON
Reviewed by SUSANN COKAL
Reviewed by SUSANN COKAL
Jeanette Winterson’s novel imagines a post-apocalyptic future.
Indeed, the idea of admitting one’s wealth, once considered déclassé, is becoming more acceptable. A cover story in the popular weekly magazine VSD this month included revelations that just a few years ago would have been unthinkable: the 2006 income of leading French personalities ($18 million for soccer star Zinedine Zidane, $12.1 million for rock star Johnny Hallyday, $334,000 for Prime Minister François Fillon, $109,000 for Mr. Sarkozy).
dé·clas·sé (dā'klä-sā')
adj.
- Lowered in class, rank, or social position.
- Lacking high station or birth; of inferior social status.
[French, past participle of déclasser, to lower in class : dé-, down (from Latin dē-; see de–) + classe, class; see class.]
Apocalypse :默示錄;啟示錄(基):新約中的最後一卷,為若望宗徒所撰寫;完成于紀元後一百年,多以象徵方式啟示天主子民將來之得救。英文又稱 Book of Revelation 。
默示錄 Revelation
若望默示錄/Revelation | [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] |
noun [S or U]
1 a very serious event resulting in great destruction and change:
The book offers a vision of the future in which there is a great nuclear apocalypse.
2 the Apocalypse in the Bible, the total destruction and end of the world 啟示錄
apocalyptic
adjective
apocalyptic visions of a nuclear confrontation
apocalyptic warnings about our destruction of the environment
apocalyptic
(ə-pŏk'ə-lĭp'tĭk) also apocalyptical (-tĭ-kəl)adj.
- Of or relating to an apocalypse.
- Involving or portending widespread devastation or ultimate doom: “now speaks in apocalyptic terms about the probable conflict ahead” (Financial Times).
- Characterized by usually exaggerated predictions of or allusions to a disastrous outcome: “Stripped of its apocalyptic tone, what this amounts to is an advocacy of teaching names, dates and places by rote” (Stefan Kanfer).
- Of a revelatory or prophetic nature.
四騎士 (李青涯譯) Los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis (The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse) (1916)
"The Great War" WWI film series continues this week with "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse," "Seventh Heaven," and more. http://bit.ly/1r5RnUP
["The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse." 1921. USA. Directed by Rex Ingram.]
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