单词 | word-chopping |
释义 | > as lemmasword-chopping word-chopping n. ΚΠ 1858 Harvard Mag. Dec. 401 That Homeric epithet of our race, ‘word-dividing men’, is by no means inappropriate, since word-chopping is the employment of half our lives. 1943 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 37 1092 Waiving the question of the expediency of trying to define the limits of military authority within another nation, it is word-chopping to try to decide when departure from the chivalric code of battle is justifiable. 2004 New York Sun (Nexis) 15 Jan. 17 Lattimore's main weapon was always word-chopping. Rather than declare whether he is a supporter of the United States or forthrightly condemn Stalinism, he argues over the meaning of the words ‘leftist’ and ‘Communist’. < as lemmas |
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