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发帖数: 6973 | 1 Ian Brunskill, The Story Of a Lifetime; An ordinary German—and compulsive
diarist—lives through Weimar, the Nazi era and the Cold War. Wall Street
Journal, Mar 19, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142
4052748704893604576200583943459752.html
(book review on Peter Fritzsche, The Turbulent World of Franz Göll; An
Ordinary Berliner Writes the Twentieth Century. Harvard University Press,
2011)
Note:
(a) German surname Fritzsche/Fritsche/Fritsch is a reduced form of Friedrich
. Franz is German counterpart of English first name Frank, which means
French (person).
(b) grapho- combining form: "writing"
Definitions are from www.m-w.com, except in (d).
(c) The review states, "He kept notes on his reading, jotting down
quotations from novels and books of verse and well as from books on science
and philosophy."
The "and" should be "as."
(d) Kristallnacht
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht
(throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria on Nov 9-10, 1938; SA
stormtroopers and civilians destroyed buildings with sledgehammers, leaving
the streets covered in pieces of smashed windows—the origin of the name "
Night of Broken Glass." Ninety-one Jews were killed, and 30,000 Jewish men—
a quarter of all Jewish men in Germany—were taken to concentration camps)
* The review was erroneous to say it happened Nov 8.
* Kristallnacht (n; German Kristall crystal + Nacht night)
Random House dictionary.
(e) warden (n): "an official charged with special supervisory duties or with
the enforcement of specified laws or regulations
warden> "
(f) Springer Science+Business Media
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media
(Julius Springer founded Springer-Verlag in Berlin in 1842)
(g) autodidact (n; Greek didaktos taught, from didaskein to teach): "a self-
taught person"
(h) windy (adj): "lacking substance : EMPTY "
(i) The review furtehr states, "Göll is undoubtedly capable of acute
observation."
acute (adj): "marked by keen discernment or intellectual perception
especially of subtle distinctions " |
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