mangy
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[meyn-jee]
(獸) 生疥癬的
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–adjective
1. having, caused by,
or
like the mange.
2. contemptible; mean: a mangy trick.
3. squalid; shabby: a mangy little suburb.
Also, mangey.
The vigorous muckraking sensibility that informed Eric Schlosser's 2001 nonfiction bestseller keeps this fictionalized screen version of "Fast Food Nation" bobbing along despite its overly slackerish narrative organization.
Richard Linklater's rough-hewn tapestry of assorted lives that feed off of and into the American meat industry is both rangy and mangy; it remains appealing for its subversive motives and revelations even as one wishes its knife would have been sharper.
Pre-sold title and contrarian perspective will play into the sympathies of hip, younger audiences, although a more pugnacious comic approach and emotionally bolstered drama might have helped Fox Searchlight push the picture to a more mainstream arena in planned fall release.
contrarian
做法與一般大眾想法相反的投資人
ulceration
pustule
rankle
fester
Malice festered his [spirit].
slough
mortification
1. humiliate
2. subjugate by abstinence
3. gangrene or necrosis (壞疽) cf. gangling
scabrous
scabby, scabious (covered with scabs)
Scalp
- Dec 31 Wed 2008 16:57
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