2015年11月20日 星期五

gerbil, peripeteia, (one's) own woman

She's her own woman regardless of Xi-Ma meeting.

Some say this amount of money from big business and Wall Street inevitably compromises her. Others say she's her own woman regardless of who backs her. What do you think?


The gerbil's name is Max.

Genuine Rodin statue once resided near Maryland family's gerbil cage
The bronze cast of a woman crossing her legs could command $200,000 at...
Washington Post

姚一葦先生的《詩學箋註》,目前不在手頭。不過從他在《論《雙奇會》的結構模式》中的大力引用所附的原文,可能採自英文本。
 譬如說,現在容易找到英文仍沿用希臘文peripeteia,而不是peripety.......


(one's) own woman - The Free Dictionary

www.thefreedictionary.com/(one's)+own+woman

(one's) own woman synonyms, (one's) own woman pronunciation, (one's) own ...Independent in judgment or action

peripeteia

Line breaks: peri|pet¦eia
Pronunciation: /ˌpɛrɪpɪˈtʌɪə, -ˈtiːə/



noun

formal
  • A sudden reversal of fortune or change in circumstances, especially in reference to fictional narrative: the peripeteias of the drama 1936 is the peripeteia, the point where the action turned


Origin

late 16th century: from Greek peripeteia 'sudden change', from peri- 'around' + the stem of piptein 'to fall'.


rl再說:這denouement他每日一字專欄去年已介紹過」查一下,為
1. 【古】解結;解開
2. (戲劇、小說的)結局
3. (事情的)解決;結束
Source: Aristotle: Poetics of Aristotle: XVIII. Further rules for the Tragic Poet




  1. Gerbil
    Rodent
  2. A gerbil is a small mammal of the order Rodentia. Once known simply as "desert rats", the gerbil subfamily includes about 110 species of African, Indian, and Asian rodents, including sand rats and jirds, all of which are adapted to arid habitats. Wikipedia

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