"For instance,using the word 'preclude' to mean 'precede.' Yeah,it sounds like 'precede,' but it means 'prevent.' And yet 'preclude' is not a particularly erudite term.

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

This is the first instance in which Richard will do what he later describes Mencken doing, using words as weapons.

如同门肯后来所做的,语言第一次被理查当作武器。

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