[轉錄][每日] disconcert (v) 使倉皇失措

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標題: [每日] disconcert (v) 使倉皇失措
時間: Tue Sep 16 21:19:18 2008

Word of the Day (Tuesday September 16, 2008)

        disconcert \dis-kuhn-SURT\, transitive verb:

        Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/264Og

        1. To disturb the composure of.

        2. To throw into disorder or confusion; as, "the emperor 
           disconcerted the plans of his enemy."

        In steering a small boat before a heavy gale, don't look back --
        it may disconcert you.

        -- Frank Arthur Worsley, Shackleton's Boat Journey

        I wander away, disconcerted by this sudden sense of having been
        cut short, frozen in mid-flow.

        -- Paul Golding, The Abomination

        They were disconcerted each time they saw him change from one
        evening to the next from a dramatic role to a comic one, from the
        part of a good man to that of the villain, as if he were thereby
        revealing some incomprehensible mutability in his being; but every
        time, after just a few lines, they would become wholly engrossed
        in the new fiction, convincing themselves that this was just how
        he was.

        -- Paola Capriolo, The Woman Watching

        Disconcert is derived from Old French desconcerter, from des-, 
        "dis-" + concerter, from Old Italian concertare, "to act together, 
        to agree."

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