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2017年2月12日 星期日

Even his colleagues do not wax enthusiastic about it

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Even his colleagues do not wax enthusiastic about it (the great idea).
-- W. Edwards Deming  {產官學一體適用的新經濟學} (The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education - 2nd Edition) p.117


ASTORIA, Ore. — Work, sometimes just the memory of it, is what brings the fisher poets to this faded port at the mouth of the Columbia River for a weekend each year.
They might wax about the versatility of a deck bucket or of romance in rubber boots, but they also describe a livelihood that can kill those who pursue it. And at a time when industries everywhere are in decline, this year some said that increasingly restrictive fishing laws had taught them about struggle long ago.


wax (SPEAK/WRITE)
OLD USE OR FORMAL
wax lyrical/eloquent, etc. to speak or write in the stated way:
My mother, a Spaniard, always used to wax lyrical about the lemon trees in the family garden.

To grow or become as specified: “could afford … to wax sentimental over their heritage” (John Simon).


wax1
waks/
verb
  1. 1.
    cover or treat (something) with wax or a similar substance, typically to polish or protect it.
    "I washed and waxed the floor"
  2. 2.
    informal
    make a recording of.
    "he waxed a series of tracks that emphasized his lead guitar work"

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