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1. |
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▶ big brother ▶ elder brother |
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[n]
《from Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four》 ▶ Big Brother ▶ dictator ▶ despot |
3. | A 2018-07-25 23:26:34 Jim Breen <...address hidden...> | |
2. | A* 2018-07-25 21:40:54 Rene Malenfant <...address hidden...> | |
Refs: | gg5, daijs, wiki someone once got viscerally angry at me for writing that book title as numerals, which as i take it is not accepted by literature pedants |
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Comments: | i think "Big Brother" should be added as a gloss. daijisen has this as meaning the state (not necessarily a dictator), which is how it is normally used in english |
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Diff: | @@ -17 +17,2 @@ -<s_inf>from Orwell's 1984</s_inf> +<s_inf>from Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four</s_inf> +<gloss>Big Brother</gloss> |
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1. | A* 2018-07-25 05:02:28 Jim Breen <...address hidden...> | |
Refs: | Daijr, GG5 |