cult, insouciance, golden calf

Kumo may be just as good as Google, though the latter (and largest) search engine keeps improving and adding to its functions. It is far too early to tell whether Microsoft can pick up new users even if its product is 99% as good as Google in the eyes of most people who look for things online. A cult has developed around Google — including the company and the product — just as it has around Apple (AAPL) and its Mac and iPhone products. Loyalty is not always a by-product of function, though function often creates loyalty.


With the breezy insouciance that unbroken success creates, Yu then began to recount a somewhat irreverent memory of Mao Zedong’s death.

in・sou・ci・ant

［F.］ a. 不注意［むとんちゃく］な.
 in・sou・ci・ance　━━ n.

Meaning #1: the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you
Synonyms: carefreeness, lightheartedness, lightsomeness

cult

n.

1. 1. A religion or religious sect generally considered to be extremist or false, with its followers often living in an unconventional manner under the guidance of an authoritarian, charismatic leader.
   2. The followers of such a religion or sect.
2. A system or community of religious worship and ritual.
3. The formal means of expressing religious reverence; religious ceremony and ritual.
4. A usually nonscientific method or regimen claimed by its originator to have exclusive or exceptional power in curing a particular disease.
5. 1. Obsessive, especially faddish, devotion to or veneration for a person, principle, or thing.
   2. The object of such devotion.
6. An exclusive group of persons sharing an esoteric, usually artistic or intellectual interest.

[Latin cultus, worship, from past participle of colere, to cultivate.]

cultic cul'tic or cult'ish adj.
cultism cult'ism n.
cultist cult'ist n.━━ n. 礼拝（式）, 儀式; （宗教的な）信仰; 新興宗教; 崇拝, 礼賛 ((of)); 熱狂, 流行; ((集合的)) （主義などの）崇拝者, ファンたち.
cult・ist　━━ n. （宗派・流行などの）崇拝者, 礼賛者

golden calf

n.

1. A golden image of a sacrificial calf fashioned by Aaron and worshiped by the Israelites.
2. 1. Money as an object of worship; mammon.
   2. The subject of intense veneration: “Arms control . . . has evolved [into] the golden calf of liberalism” (Patrick J. Buchanan).

Columbia Encyclopedia: golden calf,

erected by the Israelites on several occasions, as related in the Bible and the Qur'an. Aaron made one while Moses was on Mt. Sinai. Jeroboam placed one at Bethel and another at Dan. Hosea denounced one in Samaria. Archaeological evidence suggests that bull images functioned as representations of the gods or as bearers of them. Bull cults were widespread in Canaan at the time of the invasion of the Israelites.

Wikipedia article "Golden calf".



費孝通譯文集（上下冊）. 類別：群言譯叢 作者：費孝通譯
注某印度人嘲諷西方崇拜唯一之金牛犢
似乎不是指宗教方面 而是指"拜金教"

calf¹

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━━ n. （pl. calves ） 子牛; （象・鯨・アザラシなどの）子; 〔話〕 愚か［無器用］な若者; ＝calfskin; （氷山の）氷塊.
kill the fatted calf　（永く不在だった人に）特別のごちそうを用意する, とびきり歓待する.
with [in] calf　（動物が）子をはらんで.
calf love　幼い恋.
calf・skin　子牛の皮.