Dereliction

dereliction







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玩忽職守



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–noun 

1. deliberate 

or 

conscious neglect; negligence; delinquency: dereliction of duty.  



2. the act of abandoning something.

3. the state of being abandoned.

4. Law. a leaving dry of land by recession of the water line. 





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derelict (adj., n.), dereliction (n.)   

 

DER-uh-likt and DER-uh-LIK-shuhn are the Standard pronunciations, and the third syllable is always spelled -lict, not -lect. 





 　

From the very first page of the screenplay, the suitability of Gilliam as a director leapt out at me. There’s definitely something familiar about the aesthetic described, blending cheap electronics, hand-adjusted tech, church architecture, dereliction and an overall sense of entropy. Have no doubt that this is going to look like a Gilliam film.



entropy

【物】熵 (熱力學函數)





intrepid

He was [intrepid] in his business, but in his personal affairs, absolutely [audacious]

tepid

fetid

this [fetid] mood piece [embraces] split-psyche trauma (Fight Club)

that Trevor's [cackling], Lynchian arc-[welder] friend (John Sharian) is imaginary, and much of what [transpires] has a [tepid] hallucinatory [aura].

Detest