| 释义 |
punditry|ˈpʌndɪtrɪ|
[f. pundit + -ry.]
The characteristics of a pundit; opinions or actions befitting a pundit (sense b).
1926T. M. Healy in Pioneer Ref. Spelling Apr. 14, I..decry the punditry of Civil Service Commissioners in making so-called orthography a test subject. 1930Times Lit. Suppl. 13 Nov. 932/2 His latest book..blends a good deal of punditry with its collectors' gossip. 1948J. Steinbeck Russ. Jrnl. i. 3 News has become a matter of punditry. A man sitting at a desk in Washington or New York reads the cables and rearranges them to fit his own mental pattern and his by-line. 1958Oxford Mag. 13 Feb. 278/1 All Oxford seemed to be there, with its focus in the ebullient punditry of Sir Isaiah Berlin. 1966Listener 15 Sept. 397/3 It pounded and explored the whole subject of South Africa: past, present, future. Plenty of instant punditry. 1978Bull. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. Jan. 22, I have caught him in a moment of punditry and while he was yielding to a weakness common to critics. |