floccinaucinihilipilification
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詞源 编辑
拉丁語 floccus (“一縷”) + naucum (“瑣事”) + nihilum (“沒有東西”) + pilus (“毛髮”) + -fication。
這顯然是伊顿公学的學生們創造的一種戲謔用語，[1]由多個拉丁語詞幹所組成。該詞的靈感來自威廉·莉莉（William Lily，約 1468-1522 年）在17-19世紀出版的各種版本的拉丁語語法教科書（包括《伊頓拉丁語語法（Eton Latin Grammar）》）中的一句話，[2][3][4]其中列出了一些名詞常用的屬格與一些動詞，像是pendo和facio的搭配，表示評價某物一文不值或如前所述：
「Flócci of a lock of wool, náuci of a nut-shell, níhili of nóthing, píli of a hair, ássis of a pénny, hújus of this, terúncii of a fárthing, addúntur are ádded, peculiáritèr pecúliarly or véry próperly vérbis to verbs æstimándi of esteéming.」
發音 编辑
- IPA(幫助)：/ˌflɒksɪˌnɔːsɪˌnaɪhɪlɪˌpɪlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/, /ˌflɒksiˌnɒsiˌnɪhɪlɪˌpɪlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
音頻 (美國) （文檔） 音頻 (英國) （文檔） - 斷字：flocci‧nauci‧ni‧hili‧pili‧fi‧ca‧tion
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floccinaucinihilipilification (不可數)
- (經常幽默) 把某事物都看作是毫無價值的一種行動或習慣
- 1741, William Shenstone, Letters:
- I loved him for nothing so much as his flocci-nauci-nihili-pili-fication of money.
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- 1970, Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander:
- There is a systematic flocci-nauci-nihili-pilification of all other aspects of existence that angers me.
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- 2000, Raymond J. Chambers, Logic, Law, and Ethics[1]:
- Floccinaucinihilipilification in accounting - does it matter?
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- 2006, Sol Steinmetz, The life of language[2]:
- They must be taken with an air of contempt, a floccinaucinihilipilification of all that can gratify the outward man.
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- 2009, Judith Orloff, Emotional Freedom[3]:
- Some people with low self-esteem are prone to floccinaucinihilipilification, the habit of deeming everything worthless.
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- 2011, Bruce Ratner, Statistical and Machine-Learning Data Mining[4]:
- The quasi statistician would doubtlessly not know how to check this supposition, thus rendering the interpretation of the mean profit as floccinaucinihilipilification.
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使用說明 编辑
- 經常被認為是英語中最長的非專業單字，比著名的長單字antidisestablishmentarianism多一個字母。保守黨議員雅各·里斯-莫格在2012年的一次辯論會中使用了該詞，之後該詞成為議會紀錄的最長單字，直到2017年麥可·布萊恩（Michael Bryan）在青年專責委員會上使用了pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis，才打破這一紀錄。[5]
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- ↑ Dot Wordsworth (11 June 2011), “Mind your language”, The Spectator, London: Press Holdings, ISSN 0038-6952, OCLC 1766325, 存档自[ 原始网页]于
- ↑ R. R. (1641) An Engliſh Grammar: Or, A plain Expoſition of Lilie's Grammar, London: […] Felix Kyngston […], 页107
- ↑ Lilies Rules Construed, […], London: […] Roger Norton, […], 1659, 页54, 卷1
- ↑ T. W. C. Edwards (1826), “Syntaxis, or the Rules of Grammar Construed”, The Eton College Grammar: A Plain and Concise Introduction to the Latin Language, being Lily's Grammar Abridged, […], London: […] W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, […], 页269
- ↑ David Shariatmadari (31 July 2017), “Want to sound cleverer than Jacob Rees-Mogg? Here are five long words to drop into conversation”, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, ISSN 0261-3077, OCLC 229952407, 存档自[ 原始网页]于: “Michael Bryan's use of "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" in a select committee meeting means floccinaucinihilipilification's reign – it has been a mere five years since Rees-Mogg said it during a Commons debate – is over.”
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