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peccadillo

\peck-uh-DIL-oh\, noun:
A slight offense; a petty fault.
名词 n.
1.轻罪;小过;小瑕疵

No peccadillo is too trivial: we learn that the mogul once blew his top because his laundry came back starched (" 'Fluff and fold!' he screamed").
~Eric P. Nash, "High Concept", New York Times, May 10, 1998

And besides "what do they say? 'Don't judge lest you be judged.' Everybody has their peccadilloes."
~"Tyson has a friend in his corner", Irish Times, October 21, 1999

Child of a dominant mother, victim of a guilt-ridden conscience, [St. Augustine] wrote bewilderingly haunted 'Confessions,' in which infantile peccadilloes like stealing apples and adolescent fumblings with instinctive sexuality are bewailed with all the anguish of a frustrated perfectionist.
~Geoffrey Parker, "True Believers", New York Times, June 29, 1997

Peccadillo comes from Spanish pecadillo, "little sin," diminutive of pecado, "sin," from Latin peccatum, from peccare, "to make a mistake, to err, to sin." It is related to impeccable, "without flaw or fault."



A bad thing never dies.

遗臭万年。



Which horses have six legs?
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