Definition
nub Show phoneticsnoun [U]
the most important or basic part of something:
What do you think is the nub of the problem?
2004年
思果(1989)譯《大衛‧考勃菲爾》，
假如再深入討論 sweetmeat到底是什麼東西便譯死了。 」
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由「借形」修辭格想到你（hc按：「小讀者」）
一、「甲方」(羅馬人)的角度：把快樂建築在人的痛苦上。
二、「乙方」(奴隸)的角度：犧牲自己，娛樂他人(
三、「借形」用法：也即只採用字面的意義，
****關於sweetheart 和 sweetmeats
先了解一下對小朋友最重要的甜嘴：
sweetmeat
noun [C] OLD-FASHIONED蜜餞、甜食、甜點
a small piece of sweet food, made of or covered in sugar
網路上許多文本，譬如：
Chapter 5 - David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
' I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME'
By and by, he said: 'No sweethearts, Ib'lieve?... Sweetmeats did you say, Mr. Barkis?' For I thought he wanted something else to eat, and had pointedly alluded to that description of refreshment. 'Hearts,' said Mr. Barkis. 'Sweet hearts; no person walks with her!'. 'With Peggotty?'. 'Ah!' he said. 'Her.'. 'Oh, no. She never had a sweetheart.'. ...
**** meat古來有"食物"意。所以新譯就直接採"food"
One man's meat is another man's poison. SAYING
said to emphasize that people like different things）
我對於'meat"感興趣，所以查
Webster's 1913 Dictionary 之網頁
http://www.hyperdictionary.
\Meat\, n. [OE. mete, AS. mete; akin to OS. mat, meti, D. met hashed meat, G. mettwurst sausage, OHG. maz food, Icel.matr, Sw. mat, Dan. mad, Goth. mats. Cf. {Mast} fruit,{Mush}.]
1. Food, in general; anything eaten for nourishment, either by man or beast. Hence, the edible part of anything; as, the meat of a lobster, a nut, or an egg. --Chaucer.
創 世 紀 Genesis 1:29 [hb5] 神說、看哪、我將遍地上一切結種子的菜蔬、
[kjv] And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
[bbe] And God said, See, I have given you every plant producing seed, on the face of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit producing seed: they will be for your food:
又：
創 世 紀 Genesis 9:3 [hb5] 凡活著的動物、都可以作你們的食物、
[kjv] Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
[bbe] Every living and moving thing will be food for you; I give them all to you as before I gave you all green things.
2. The flesh of animals used as food; esp., animal muscle; as, a breakfast of bread and fruit without meat.
它的一些引伸意很有意思：
meat (INTEREST) noun [U]
important, valuable or interesting ideas or information:
[n] the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story"）
It was a nicely written article and quite amusing but there wasn't much meat to it.
meaty adjective
having a lot of important or interesting ideas:
a meaty book/letter/report
She has written some wonderfully meaty parts for older actresses.
meat-and-potatoes adjective [before noun] US
more basic or important than other things:
For many unions, the meat-and-potatoes issue is no longer pay increases but job security.
be meat and drink to sb
If a difficult or unpleasant activity is meat and drink to someone, they enjoy doing it very much and find it easy.
****ch
「Roman Holiday(重溫林以亮的文章)，
hc
很有意思。Herbert Simon在自傳中用它說一流的學術界競爭激烈，
這回我查《英漢大詞典》，
Google一下即可查出處
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 140. Author: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron.
There were his young barbarians all at play; There was their Dacian mother: he, their sire, Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday! Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 141. ...
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