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- 时间: 2014-7-15 17:50For the ancient Greeks, "seismos" meant an earthquake. Later on, when the study of earthquakes became a science, anything seismic meant anything related to the study of the pressures in the Earth's crust.
The English language has a long and proud tradition of stealing scientific words and applying them in all sorts of ways that scientists probably wish they didn't: Darwinian, tempestuous, evolutionary — to name but three. It's the same with seismic, which is now far more likely to be applied to political or psychological turmoil than anything to do with the earth opening up and molten hot lava spewing out.
DEFINITIONS OF: seismic
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adj subject to or caused by an earthquake or earth vibration
Synonyms:
seismal
unstable
lacking stability or fixity or firmness
The AP has the scoop on the weekend’s seismic activity, which saw seven quakes over two days:
SalonJul 14, 2014
More cheeringly, and no less seismically there was America’s long-coming and much-vaunted embrace of, if not necessarily soccer itself, then certainly the World Cup.
The GuardianJul 14, 2014
That reflects the view of experts, who say that the World Cup did not result in a seismic shift in American sporting tastes.
ReutersJul 14, 2014
After dredging up all the available seismic recordings, Zhan and his co-authors realized the earthquake was extremely short because it was extremely fast. -
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- 时间: 2014-7-16 17:22Walk into class in your underwear is to feel what the word ignominy means. Ignominy is a noun meaning great public shame, disgrace, or embarrassment, or a situation or event that causes this.
The shame can be major or minor: to suffer the ignominy of defeat/the ignominies of old age. When pronouncing this word, the main accent is on the first syllable, and the secondary accent is on the third syllable. Ignominy is from French ignominie, from Latin ignominia, formed from the prefix in- "no, not" plus nomen "a name." The corresponding English adjective is ignominious.
A subsequent effort to spare “Carrie” from everlasting ignominy has involved muting the musical’s excesses — including the excision of “Out for Blood.”
Washington Post
Brazil were not clear favourites against Germany, but they suffered the ignominy of losing in front of their own fans.
The GuardianJul 8, 2014
Is Argentina's World Cup about to end in ignominy?
SlateJul 1, 2014
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- 时间: 2014-7-16 17:35When people are didactic, they're teaching or instructing. This word is often used negatively for when someone is acting too much like a teacher.
When you're didactic, you're trying to teach something. Just about everything teachers do is didactic: the same is true of coaches and mentors. Didactic is often used in a negative way. If you heard that a movie is overly didactic, that's probably not good. Most people want to see a story and be entertained when going to the movies, and if it feels like the movie is just telling you what to think, that's didactic in a bad way.
DEFINITIONS OF: didactic
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adj instructive (especially excessively)
Synonyms:
didactical
informative, instructive
serving to instruct or enlighten or inform
Her fiction was not didactic but rather nuanced, driven by character and situation, portraying realistic people engaged in the tumult of their lives.
Los Angeles TimesJul 13, 2014
It has made a flat, didactic data dump of a speech an unacceptable form of public torment – at least in many places around the world.
ForbesJul 9, 2014
It could give me a chance to address all the judgments and confusion that people have head-on, without having to be didactic.
SalonJul 6, 2014
For the first time in his life, he managed to link those didactic anecdotes with a reality he could see.
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