FAVORITE WORDS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE: A CELEBRATION OF SUPERIOR WORDS FROM WRITERS, EDUCATORS, SCIENTISTS & HUMORISTS
Book ID/图书代码： 06564012B52177
English Summary/英文概要： The favourite words of 250 of the best and brightest contemporary thinkers and creators are collected in this volume that no self-respecting word lover should be without. From Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to authors Yann Martel and Nicholson Baker, the writers, scientists, educators, humorists, and celebrities featured in this book write at length about their favourite words and why they are so enamoured with them. The entries cover a range of responses, some witty and hilarious, some brilliant and profound, others linguistically clever and poignant. For Mary Higgins Clark it’s memory (’the DNA of a writer’); for Arianna Huffington, it’s trust (’both unutterably sacred and the old banana-skin joke on a cosmic scale’). Other favourite words include the familiar (love, zest, goodness), the unfamiliar (cthonic, steatopygia, irredentist), long words (horripilating) and short (sex), weird words (jerzoid), and refreshingly down-to-earth words (egg). This cornucopia of words is a frequently funny, sometimes eccentric, and often surprisingly intimate and moving look into personality and language.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书收集编纂了当代最伟大最睿智的250位思想者和创造者的箴言。如果你热爱文字，那么他们将对你产生极为重大的影响。从国务秘书希拉里·克林顿(Hillary Clinton)到著名作家扬·马戴尔(Yann Martel)与尼克森·贝克(Nicholson Baker)，不论是作家，科学家，教育家，还是幽默大师，书中的名人都为我们罗列下了他们最爱的箴言佳句，并向我们娓娓道来他们喜爱这些词句的理由。书中所罗列的箴言内容广泛，时而机智喜悦，时而睿智且意味深长，而有些则语言精妙，一针见血。玛丽·希金斯·克拉克(Mary Higgins Clark) 认为作家的基因道出了某种潜在记忆，而在美国人安李安娜·哈芬顿(Arianna Huffington)看来本书是可信的，亦是尴尬囧事集但又句句充满神道。还有各种我们所熟悉的字语（如爱，热情，善良)，以及我们所不熟悉的（闪灵，臀脂过多，领土收复主义的倡导者），长的字语（使人毛骨悚然的horripilating），短的字语（性sex），古怪的（jerzoid）以及那些生活中普遍的各种词汇（鸡蛋egg）。这里是各种词汇汇聚一堂的宝殿，时常幽默风趣，有时古怪离奇，还不时惊人，贴心， 震撼的观察每人的个性和语言。(DC & CK)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 里维斯·伯克·弗朗克斯(Lewis Burke Frumkes)，WPAT-AM周末广播电视节目播音员，同时著有7部著作，包括《如何食用天才儿童提高你的智商》，《词汇爱好者的狂欢》，《曼哈顿鸡尾酒》，和《Metapunctuation》等。其作品曾刊登在Harper’s, Punch，及《纽约时报》等知名杂志上。现居美国纽约城。 Lewis Burke Frumkes hosts a weekly radio show on WPAT-AM and is the author of seven books, including How to Raise Your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children, The Logophile’s Orgy, Manhattan Cocktail, and Metapunctuation. His work has appeared in Harper’s, Punch, and the New York Times. He lives in New York City.
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