August 1, 2008

Possum








possum

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【動】負鼠
【澳】(與負鼠相似的)袋貂

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–noun 
1. opossum
2. Australian. any of various phalangers (澳洲產之)捲尾袋鼠, esp. of the genus Trichosurus.  

—Idiom
3. play possum, Informal. 
a. to feign sleep or death
b. to dissemble (隱藏真心) or pretend ignorance

The baseball broke the window, but the children played possum when asked who had thrown it.  


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From day to day, we may be as [cautious] and [calculating] as possums, but at the movies we want to see everything, including the worst. We may even feel a tiny sense of duty to see the worst, though the pleasure derived from looking at meanness is likely more aesthetic than moral. If we sense, This is right, this is the way things are, we know that we’re in the hands of an artist. 


see genus feign cagey

vulture haggard 
antelope alopecia 
walrus 
artichoke hemlock


   





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