Enormity

[摘要] English gains and loses words all the time. It's easy to see where new words come from. We find or invent a thing or idea and need a word. When a thing or idea is discarded or falls into disuse, the word still exists, but dictionaries eventually label it archaic. ‘Governance’ was just such a word, until it was resurrected by big business for ‘corporate governance’, and then purloined by the NHS for ‘clinical governance’, a phrase famously described by one of my colleagues as ‘impossible to translate into any other language, including English’.

[学科分类] 卫生学