There are two types of speech mistakes. “Typos” are ubiquitous, and listeners hardly notice many of them. “Thinkos” go deeper; they betray that the speaker might not actually know something
First, “to jaw-jaw is better than war-war”, as Winston Churchill remarked. Given the intensity of the anger and fear loose upon the world, discussion itself must be good.
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jaw(TALK) verb[I]INFORMAL to talk for a long time: He was jawing away to his girlfriend for hours on the phone.
intr.v.Slang., jawed, jaw·ing, jaws.
To talk vociferously; jabber.
To talk; converse.
jaw noun[S] I met Jane and we had a good jaw over lunch.
jaw-jaw
NOUN
mass nouninformal
Talking, especially lengthy and pointless discussion.
‘a week of financial jaw-jaw’
VERB
informal
Talk, especially at length.
‘to jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war’ 邱吉爾有句名言：「喋喋總好過殺殺。」
Origin
patch sth upphrasal verb
1[M]to try to improve a relationship after there have been problems: Jackie and Bill are still trying to patch up their marriage. Did you manage to patch things up with Jackie after your row?
2to repair something, especially in a basic and temporary way patch sb/sth upphrasal verb to give basic medical care to someone that helps them temporarily: If you've cut your hand, the first aider will patch you up.
vociferouslyadj.
Making, given to, or marked by noisy and vehement outcry. vociferouslyvo·cif'er·ous·lyadv. vociferousnessvo·cif'er·ous·nessn.
SYNONYMSvociferous, blatant, boisterous, strident, clamorous. These adjectives mean conspicuously and usually offensively loud. Vociferous suggests a noisy outcry, as of vehement protest: vociferous complaints.Blatant connotes coarse or vulgar noisiness: “Up rose a blatant Radical” (Walter Bagehot). Boisterous implies unrestrained noise, tumult, and often rowdiness: boisterous youths.Strident stresses offensive harshness, shrillness, or discordance: a legislator with a strident voice. Something clamorous is both vociferous and sustained: a clamorous uproar.
pointless
ADJECTIVE
Having little or no sense, use, or purpose.
‘speculating like this is a pointless exercise’
with infinitive‘it's pointless to plan too far ahead’
"One of the most intriguing things about Melania Trump is the pointed yet cryptic way she seems to have found to drag her husband," Karen Tumulty writes in Opinions.
in medias res[in med‐i‐ahs rayss], the Latin phrase meaning ‘into the middle of things’, applied to the common technique of storytelling by which the narrator begins the story at some exciting point in the middle of the action, thereby gaining the reader's interest before explaining preceding events by analepses (‘flashbacks’) at some later stage. It was conventional to begin epic poems in medias res, as Milton does in Paradise Lost. The technique is also common in plays and in prose fiction: for example, Katherine Mansfield's short story ‘A Dill Pickle’ (1920) begins in medias res with the sentence
The Washington Postleads with the lashing that lawmakers delivered Alan Greenspan, the man who was once referred to as "the Oracle" on the economy. Angry lawmakers trampled over themselves to blame the former Federal Reserve chairman for the current crisis and criticize decisions Greenspan made during his 18-year tenure. Sibyl
Prophetess of Greek legend. She was a figure of the mythical past whose prophecies, phrased in Greek hexameters, were handed down in writing. In the late 4th century BC, the number of Sibyls multiplied, and the term sibyl was treated as a title. Sibyls were associated with various oracles, especially those of Apollo, who was said to be their inspiration. They were typically depicted as extremely old women who lived in caves and delivered their prophecies in an ecstatic frenzy. A famous collection of prophecies, the Sibylline Books, was traditionally kept in the temple of Jupiter, to be consulted only in emergencies.
The most famous Sibyl in antiquity was that of Cumae in Campania (sometimes identified with the Erythraean) whom Virgil represents as being visited by Aeneas (see AENEID 6). The cave in which she lived still exists. Her prophecies were said to have been inscribed on palm-leaves. According to legend she offered nine volumes of oracles to the last king of Rome, Tarquinius Superbus, at a high price. When he refused to buy she burned three volumes and offered the remainder at the same price. When he again refused she burned three more, and finally sold the last three to him at the original price. The king is said to have entrusted these Sibylline books (libri Sibyllini) to the care of two patricians.
One of a number of women regarded as oracles or prophets by the ancient Greeks and Romans.,
A woman prophet.
[Middle English sibile, from Old French, from Latin Sibylla, from Greek Sibulla.]
It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration. — Edmund Burke (1729-1797), British statesman, from Prior's Life of Burke.
oracular resembling an oracle (as in solemnity of delivery). 神託の(ような)、威厳のある、なぞめいた、あいまいな
contort verb[I or T] to (cause something to) twist or bend violently and unnaturally into a different shape or form: His face contorted with bitterness and rage.
contorted adjective contorted limbs/branches
contortion noun[C or U] facial/bodily contortions
contortionistn[C] someone who can twist their body into shapes and positions that ordinary people cannot
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ep·os(ĕp'ŏs')
n.
1. A number of poems, not formally united, that treat an epic theme.
2. An epic.
[Latin, from Greek.] Usage "Not many people outside South Sulawesi know about this most unique epos, La Galigo." — Carla Bianpoen; Jakarta Post; Ancient Bugis Epos Goes International; The Jakarta Post (Indonesia); Jan 15, 2004.
epic
ˈɛpɪk/
noun
1.
a long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the past history of a nation.
synonyms:
heroic poem, long poem, long story; More
2.
informal
an exceptionally long and arduous task or activity.
"the business of getting hospital treatment soon became an epic"
adjective
1.
relating to or characteristic of an epic or epics.
"our national epic poem Beowulf"
synonyms:
heroic, long, grand, monumental, vast, Homeric, Miltonian; More
