[每日] limn (v) 描繪
Word of the Day (Friday October 24, 2008)
limn \LIM\, transitive verb:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/344UV
1. To depict by drawing or painting.
2. To portray in words; to describe.
Oh, yes, I write, as I limn the familiar perfections of his
profile, "you look very well."
-- Kimberly Elkins, "What Is Visible", The Atlantic, March 2003
In telling these people's stories Mr. Butler draws upon the same
gifts of empathy and insight, the same ability to limn an entire
life in a couple of pages.
-- Michiko Kakutani, "Earthlings May Endanger Your Peaceful
Rationality", New York Times, March 10, 2000
But used faithfully and correctly, language can "limn the actual,
imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers."
-- John Darnton, "In Sweden, Proof of The Power Of Words", New
York Times, December 8, 1993
Limn is from Middle English limnen, alteration of luminen, from
enluminen, from Medieval French enluminer, from Late Latin
illuminare, "to illuminate," ultimately from Latin lumen, "light."
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