| 词汇 | the effluent society |
| 词源 | The Effluent Society. According to Nigel Rus’s fascinating Mark My Words (1997), the punning effluent society appears in Stan Gooch’s poem “Never So Good” (1964). It is a pun on The Affluent Society (qv). One definition of effluent is “a discharge of liquid waste, as from a factory, a nuclear plant, or a sewer.” |
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