[每日] cosmopolite (n) 世界公民
Word of the Day (Monday September 8, 2008)
cosmopolite \koz-MOP-uh-lyt\, noun:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/554LI
1. One who is at home in every place; a citizen of the world; a
cosmopolitan person.
2. (Ecology) An organism found in most parts of the world.
At first, Audubon made comparatively little impression in America,
but he was an immediate success in Britain, where he presented
himself alternately as a rustic backwoodsman and a sophisticated
cosmopolite.
-- Alan Fern, "A Great Original's Great Originals", New York Times,
December 12, 1993
He was a big-city sophisticate and moved easily in international
film circles but, like his exact contemporary, the Japanese
novelist Yukio Mishima (also a globetrotting cosmopolite), Pasolini
rejected the glossy consumer culture that had made him famous in
favor of the standards of an earlier, more rigid and more
traditional society.
-- Edmund White, "Movies and Poems", New York Times, June 27, 1982
Behind the professional caution is a figure of storied warmth and
charm, an American-educated cosmopolite as comfortable in the
Midwest as in the Middle East.
-- Paula Span, "Man of Many Worlds", Washington Post, February 28,
1998
Cosmopolite comes from Greek kosmopolites, from kosmos, "world" +
polites, "citizen," from polis, "city."
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