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【整理】2015-01-15 How to Use a Word
编者：cristianjey
Part 1 ：原文
Transcript.
Today's word is borbdingnagian, spelled B-r-o-b-d-i-n-g-n-a-g-i-a-n.
Brobdingnagian is a noun that means marked by tremendous size. Here is the word used in The Star Tribune of
Minneapolis.
"In a clever new show at the Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Amy
Toscani has mined thrift-store trinkets for inspiration and body parts for Brobdingnagian sculptures, whose huge
scale dwarfs viewers."
In Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels, Brobdingnag is the name of a land that is populated by a race of
human giants "as tall as an ordinary spire steeple." In Gulliver's first close-up encounter with the giants, he is
attempting to get past a stile of which every step is six feet high when a group of field-workers approach with
strides ten yards long and reaping hooks as large as six scythes. Their voices he at first mistakes for thunder.
Swift's book fired the imagination of the public and within two years of the 1726 publication of the story, people
had begun using Brobdingnagian to refer to anything of unusually large size. Swift himself had used
Brobdingnagian as a noun to refer to the inhabitants of Brobdingnag.
With your Word of the Day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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