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《经济学人》（the economist）妙语如珠，是很好的英文教材。去年10月22日关于剑桥大学校长选举的报道，开首形容生动，语言幽默：

"tourists clogging the king's parade in the historic heart of cambridge often seem let down by the absence of begowned scholars (students these days tend to wear t-shirts and trainers). not so on october 15th, when a merry crowd of dons and alumni queued up in robes to cast their votes for a new chancellor of cambridge university, much to the glee of camera-wielding onlookers."
"tourists clogging the king's parade..." 生动地描写出游人水泄不通的情景。clog解作“塞满”，例如："many people were trapped in the fire because the fire escape was clogged with furniture dumped by the residents".

begowned scholars（穿袍的学者）和camera-wielding onlookers（拿相机的旁观者）都用了自创的形容词。begowned的格式如bespectacled（戴眼镜的，spectacles即眼镜）：gown（袍）加上be...ed，就变成形容词。camera-wielding是复合形容词，类似的例子包括record-breaking（破纪录的）、time-consuming（花时间的）和food-loving（爱吃的）。