| 单词 | 二流 |
| 释义 | 〔bush〕"Reviewers here have tended to see in him a kind of bush D.H. Lawrence"(Saturday Review)“这里的评论家们倾向于把他理解为二流的D·H·劳伦斯一类的小说家”(星期六评论)〔cannibalize〕"cannibalizes the lives of his wife and friends for his second-rate novels"(Washington Post)“采用他的妻子和朋友的生活素材写出二流小说”(华盛顿邮报)〔common〕Of mediocre or inferior quality; second-rate:普通或低劣质量的；二流的：〔Comstockery〕Bowdlerism, named after Dr. Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825),has been around longer than Comstockery, named for Anthony Comstock (1844-1915). All Bowdler did to enter the world of common nouns was to expurgate Shakespeare, the Bible, and Gibbon'sHistory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. On the other hand, Comstock, the organizer and secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice,helped destroy 160 tons of literature and pictures that he deemed immoral.Comstockery, the word honoring his achievements, is first recorded in 1905 in a letter by George Bernard Shaw to the New York Times: “Comstockery is the world's standing Joke at the expense of the United States. . . . It confirms the deep-seated conviction of the Old World that America is a provincial place, a second rate country-town civilization after all.” 以汤姆斯·鲍德勒博士(1754-1825年）的名字命名的鲍德勒主义，存在时间要比以安东尼·康斯托克(1844-1915年）命名的康斯托克主义长一些。鲍德勒所做的只是删节莎士比亚作品、《圣经 》和吉伯恩的罗马帝国的衰落与灭亡 就使其名字成为一个通用名词了。 而另一方面，作为纽约反暴力社会党的组织者和秘书长，康斯托克协助销毁了160吨他认为不道德的作品与图片。Comstockery ，这一为了表彰他的成绩的词最初是出现于1905年乔治·伯那德·修在写给 纽约时报 的信中： “Comstockery 一词是世界对美国的嘲笑…它证实了在东半球中根深蒂固的观念，那就是美国是个粗鄙的地方，充其量只能算是一个二流的乡村文明” 〔scribbler〕One who scribbles, especially an author regarded as very minor, untalented, or disreputable:笔迹潦草的人，拙劣的作家：字迹潦草的人，尤指二流的、没有能力的或者名声不好的作家：〔scribbler〕a scribbler of sentimental verse.写情感诗的二流作家〔ordinary〕Of inferior quality; second-rate.平庸的：质量较差的；二流的〔vile〕Contemptibly low in worth or account; second-rate.微不足道的；二流的：在价值或数量上低的；二流的〔epigone〕A second-rate imitator or follower, especially of an artist or a philosopher.追随者，模仿者：二流的模仿者或追随者，尤指追随或模仿艺术家或哲学家的人 |
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