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Hollywood old hands are snooty about Amazon’s video efforts, and understandably so
Though supporters in the West lumped Mr Solzhenitsyn with the rest of the intelligentsia, he stood monumentally alone. A friendship with an Estonian prisoner, Arnold Susi, had exploded his lingering belief in Marxism; but he detested the self-regarding and snooty Russian intellectuals, the “well-read ones”, as he referred to them.
That made me smile, not because snooty audiophiles got the 'wrong' answer, but because it suggests great sound can come from popular, cheap gear.
這令我會心一笑﹐不僅是因為“勢利”(
snnoty 可討論)的發燒友們得出了錯誤答案﹐而且還因為這意味著美妙的聲音可能來自一個普通廉價的設備。
popular不是"普通"
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snooty 翻譯成“勢利”
之所以可討論 乃是當初用“勢利”來翻譯一英國專門說法snobbish 它可以表現"友善"......)
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snooty Show phoneticsadjective INFORMAL 自覺高人一等而表現出不友善behaving in an unfriendly way because you believe you are better than other people:She was one of those really snooty sales assistants that you often find in expensive shops.)
snoot・y
━━ a. 〔話〕 思い上がった, 横柄な.
gather your wits LITERARY
to make an effort to become calm and think more clearly:
I spent the five-minute break between games gathering my wits and rethinking my strategy for the second half of the match.
self-regard
n.- Consideration of oneself or one's interests.
- Self-respect.
self-regarding actionAn action that affects no one other than the agent. Some authorities locate this categorization of action in Kant's treatment of the ordinary moral consciousness, others in Bentham's account of the relationship between pains, pleasures, and motives. But the most extended classical treatment is undoubtedly in J. S. Mill's On Liberty (1859). Here Mill distinguishes a province of virtue from a province of duty. An action in the former province is self-regarding and subject only to personal persuasion and inducement. Such an action becomes other-regarding and open to public sanction if, and only if, it either harms an interest, violates a right, or neglects a duty owed to another person or persons. Hence a soldier or policeman merely drunk is self-regarding, a soldier or policeman drunk on duty is other-regarding. This kind of categorization is often regarded as one essential foundation of the liberty principle.
— John Halliday
