lucus a non lucendo

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短语
  1. A form of illogical argument asserting that two things are related because they have opposite significations.
    — This Sun, into which Jones was now conducted, was truly named, as lucus a non lucendo; for it was an apartment into which the sun had scarce ever looked.

词源

From Latin lūcus ā nōn lūcendō, literally "a grove from not shining", referring to Roman rhetorician Quintilian's assertion, in his Institutio Oratoria, that Latin lūcus (“grove”) derived from lūceō (“to shine”), because groves were dark places and did not shine.
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