| 释义 |
wordsman|ˈwɜːdzmən|
= wordman. So ˈwordsmanship.
1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. iii. 50 Wordsmanship. It is common practice to snub a companion who makes irritating use of words such as ‘Well!’ ‘What?’ and ‘Eh?’ 1962Canadian Intelligence Service XII. ii. 3/1 The U.S. Senate Security Subcommittee recently issued a report entitled Wordsmanship; Semantics as a Communist Weapon. 1981W. Safire in N.Y. Times Mag. 27 Apr. 18/3 Robert Burchfield, chief editor of the Oxford Dictionaries, known to wordsmen as ‘Superlex’. 1984N.Y. Times Mag. 30 Dec. 6/2 The occasion was a gathering at the library of renowned scholars, including a babble of wordsmen, to mark the 200th anniversary of the death of Samuel Johnson. |