July 24, 2008

Hapless & Woebegone (如喪考毗)

hapless

Y
[hap-lis]

D
–adjective 
unlucky; luckless; unfortunate.  
—Synonyms 
miserable, woebegone, wretched, forlorn; pathetic, pitiable.


woebegone
[woh-bi-gawn, -gon]

He always had a woebegone [look] on his face.
他整天一附哭爸哭母的樣子。




steve-coogan-2  
His U.K. fame cemented in the mid- '90s, however, with the introduction of his Alan Partridge character on the BBC, a deliciously hapless, deeply vain presenter for various provincial TV and radio shows. "I’m not someone who’s remotely bothered about looking uncool," he says. "If showing my ass gets a laugh, I will do it." Says Pam Brady, Hamlet 2’s co-screenwriter, "He’s not afraid to look douchey." 

As such, Partridge proves shamelessly self-important and sadistic (殘酷成性) to employees—a clear model for Ricky Gervais’s David Brent character on the original English version of "The Office." 

"That’s for you to say, and for me not to disagree with," 

Coogan quips.
(妙語;諷刺語)


see 
lovelorn haggard
despondent 
euphoric hedonistic








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