| 单词 | Levant |
| 例句 | Levant nounWORD NOTE Levant To restore a pleasing word that, for one of any number of reasons, has been dropped from the popular lexicon, to something approaching its former status and glory, is a duty that a writer is, in my view, obliged to undertake from time to time. Back in the 1930s Georgette Heyer rescued delope —"to fire one's dueling pistol harmlessly into the air"—from oblivion, and deserves much gratitude for keeping it in currency. These days I am keen to see that the word Levant, an at-risk lexeme, remains in circulation. It is a word with a charming etymology, in that it comes from the French verb "to rise," and denotes the place from which the sun seems to rise each morning—the east. Specifically it means the countries on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean—Turkey to Egypt, via Palestine and Israel—all of which, in a decidedly nonpolitical, but agnostically geographical description, were for centuries lumped together as the Levant. (Of course, the world being spheroidal, someone's east is another person's west, so to an inhabitant of India, the Levantine countries would be those where the sun sets, in the West, and there may well be a Hindi term suggesting so). There is a raw Mediterranean east wind still called a levanter, known to yachtsmen who also know the simoom and the sirocco; but people of Levantine stock, and the Levant from which they come, are half-vanished terms, due for a prompt and enthusiastic revival and a swift and lasting rescue. — SWConversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage. |
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