单词 | koan |
释义 | koan (once / 110461 pages) n WORD FAMILY koan: koans USAGE EXAMPLESTed, Jr.,’s boozy koan: “First you hate it. Then you like it. It’s called beer.” The New Yorker(Nov 27, 2016) He mumbles some koans, cleans out their refrigerator, and sleeps in their guestroom for a month. Slate(Nov 11, 2016) At first, Wagner guided a mini-orchestra's worth of collaborators — strings, keyboards, heavy bass, the occasional horn — through his literate, existential twang-soul koans. Los Angeles Times(Nov 02, 2016) n a paradoxical anecdote or a riddle that has no solution; used in Zen Buddhism to show the inadequacy of logical reasoning Hyper problem a question raised for consideration or solution |
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