| 单词 | word-mill |
| 释义 | > as lemmasword-mill word-mill n. [apparently originally after French moulin à paroles (1765 in the French version of the text cited in quot. 1765)] a garrulous or talkative person; (humorously) the supposed mechanism by means of which such a person produces his or her words; (also) an institution in which words are produced in great quantity. ΚΠ 1765 J. Lockman Entertaining Instructor 221 She also said of a lady, who indeed talked much, but well also, that she was a word-mill [Fr. que c'étoit un moulin à paroles]. 1853 C. G. F. Gore Dean's Daughter xxiv Do not give Miss Mordaunt reason to suppose me the only word-mill in the family! 1885 Puck (N.Y.) 29 July 343 Shut off your word-mill and take a tumble! 1943 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 9 528 Knowing little of the treatises on slavery, pro or con, they filled their columns day after day with the products of the word-mill on Capitol Hill. 1989 Anthropol. & Educ. Q. 20 107 Madame Durand revealed her cynicism when she called a doctor's son a ‘word mill’ who cranked out the answers without thinking. 2004 G. Samuelsson-Brown Pract. Guide Translators (ed. 4) (back cover) To view translation as a highly-qualified, skilled profession and not just a cost-led word mill. < as lemmas |
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