[字彙] milquetoast (n) 膽小者
好幾天沒更新了。
今天的字來自連載漫畫中主人翁的名字！
http://sovereignty.pixnet.net/blog/post/26933919
August 26, 2010 Word of the Day
milquetoast \MILK-tohst\ => podcast
DEFINITION
noun
a timid, meek, or unassertive person
EXAMPLE
Brian was such a milquetoast that he agreed to work extra hours on Sunday
even though he had already told his boss that he needed that day off.
DID YOU KNOW?
Caspar Milquetoast was a comic strip character created in 1924 by the
American cartoonist Harold T. Webster. The strip, called "The Timid Soul,"
ran every Sunday in the New York Herald Tribune for many years. Webster, who
claimed that Milquetoast was a self-portrait, summed up the character as "the
man who speaks softly and gets hit with a big stick." The earliest examples
of "Milquetoast" being used as a generic synonym for "timid person" date from
the mid-1930s. Caspar's last name might remind you of "milk toast," a bland
concoction of buttered toast served in a dish of warm milk.
M-W 每日一字換新版面了，相當清爽。不過小缺點是 e-mail 未把 podcast 連結附上，
要到網頁版去看才有。
已經寫信向 M-W 反應了，但尚無回應。
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