释义 |
'satiable, a.2 Colloq. reduced form of insatiable a. Used in phr. 'satiable curiosity in allusion to Kipling's Just So Stories (see quot. 1900).
1900Kipling Just So Stories (1902) 63 There was one Elephant..—an Elephant's Child—who was full of 'satiable curtiosity, and that means he asked ever so many questions. 1963L. Egan Run to Evil i. 6 Talk about the Elephant's Child... Nobody could really dislike the Brandon boy, even with his 'satiable curiosity. 1974K. Benton Craig & Tunisian Tangle v. 52 She's like the Elephant's Child, full of 'satiable curiosity. |