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n. 知识, 眼光



    lore
    [ noun ]
    knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote
    <noun.cognition>
    early peoples passed on plant and animal lore through legend


    Lore \Lore\ (l[=o]r), n. [F. lore, L. lorum thong.] (Zo["o]l.)
    (a) The space between the eye and bill, in birds, and the
    corresponding region in reptiles and fishes.
    (b) The anterior portion of the cheeks of insects.


    Lore \Lore\, obs. imp. & p. p. of {Lose}. [See {Lose}.]
    Lost.

    Neither of them she found where she them lore.
    --Spenser.


    Lore \Lore\, n. [OE. lore, lare, AS. l[=a]r, fr. l[=ae]ran to
    teach; akin to D. leer teaching, doctrine, G. lehre, Dan.
    l[ae]re, Sw. l["a]ra. See {Learn}, and cf. {Lere}, v. t.]
    1. That which is or may be learned or known; the knowledge
    gained from tradition, books, or experience; often, the
    whole body of knowledge possessed by a people or class of
    people, or pertaining to a particular subject; as, the
    lore of the Egyptians; priestly lore; legal lore;
    folklore. ``The lore of war.'' --Fairfax.

    His fair offspring, nursed in princely lore.
    --Milton.

    2. That which is taught; hence, instruction; wisdom; advice;
    counsel. --Chaucer.

    If please ye, listen to my lore. --Spenser.

    3. Workmanship. [Obs.] --Spenser.

    1. 'Can you tell me why your credit card department will not deal with my sex shop?' Such stories are rife in the lore of general meetings.
    2. Mr. Wilson's ear for the speech of black Americans is unfailing: his rhythms, inflections and vocabulary capture perfectly not only regionalisms but the rich verbal lore of his characters.
    3. The delightful Daniel Stern pops into town; he's an NYU sociology student whose questions allow Amarante to explain some local lore.
    4. Not surprisingly, Mr. Palmer gets few glimpses of his "hero" and fleshes out his nature walks with often engaging stories drawn from local lore, medical reports and novels.
    5. The letter asks judicial officials for "anything you think might be helpful _ established procedures, transcripts, briefs or even informal office lore."
    6. Airplane stories were part of the Mulroy lore.
    7. As former financial secretary to the Treasury, and widely believed to have his long-term sights set on No 11 Downing Street, he comes to the department of heritage steeped in Treasury lore.
    8. Bill Veeck threw his wooden leg across a stool and rhapsodized here for hours. And future baseball legends, it now appears, will get a chance to become part of the lore at McCuddy's saloon.
    9. "This is the kind of place where lore encrusts itself," the official adds.
    10. Indeed, the blending of Mr. Klein's design skills and Mr. Schwartz's vaunted business savvy is storybook lore on Seventh Avenue.
    11. Scandal has been part of the lore of this smuggler's paradise since the days of Blackbeard, but the current corruption mess is setting records for duration and damage.
    12. A man of simple tastes, rooted in Bohemian lore, he had no trouble at all giving believably human emotions to the quaint denizens of his moonlit magical lake.
    13. The reason, according to even less provable lore, has to do with a barrel maker's mistake.
    14. Diving lore is haunted by stories of Rapture of the Deep, a fit of ecstasy brought on by oxygen deficiency that moves divers to discard their gear and drown themselves.
    15. A skeleton wearing old shoes discovered in an underwater cave is believed by many to be the remains of Jess Preston, the subject of 50-year-old lore in this north Florida town.
    16. He also conducts training workshops to help Indians across the country learn how to preserve tribal lore.
    17. For instance, popular lore holds that the first Mormon pioneers who entered the Salt Lake Valley tamed a harsh, barren desert and made it bloom.
    18. The 90-minute expedition moves past the lore and into the obsessive priorities of the man behind the legend.
    19. That's a little known aspect of Easter lore, the zanily uproarious, upside down funniness of a holiday Christians celebrate this weekend.
    20. Actually, there could be big trouble if you don't drink it, according to Pohnpeian lore.
    21. Plea to a Travel Agent Find me a country to explore With vistas of modern or ancient lore That has never known bread lines And never made headlines.
    22. Both productions aspired and achieved modestly. Local audiences loved Marsha Norman's D. Boone, which celebrates Kentucky's hero Daniel Boone and refers heavily to Kentucky lore.
    23. For example, popular lore has kept "Ded Moroz," or Grandfather Frost, alive as a sort of Soviet Santa and many homes have a "New Year's" tree.
    24. The newspaper complained that emphasizing 1920s gangster lore does little for the city's image, and the Italian-American group objected to continuation of the Italian gangster stereotype.
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