| 单词 | acceptance world |
| 释义 | > as lemmasacceptance world acceptance world n. (originally, in Anthony Powell's novel of that title, with reference to sense 7) life ‘accepted’ as a debt which must eventually be repaid (cf. quot. 1955); (hence, in extended allusive use) any milieu within which one is accepted or within which acceptance (of persons, new ideas, etc.) is important. ΚΠ 1955 A. Powell Acceptance World v. 170 The Acceptance World was the world in which the essential element—happiness, for example—is drawn, as it were, from an engagement to meet a bill. 1966 J. Ashbery in Book Week 25 Sept. 6/1 Neglect in today's acceptance world has been practically abolished: every poet is assured of ‘a certain’ success. 1984 J. Bailey Sel. Essays 98 He goes to the party, for the world of elsewhere is also the acceptance world. 1995 M. Amis Information (1996) 104 There were cries and croaks of greeting, of ‘Still scribbling?’ and ‘Sold a million yet?’ The acceptance world. < as lemmas |
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