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释义 | 〔gallery〕In Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and southern Alabama,an open roofed porch that runs along at least one side of a house is called agallery: "Out on the small front gallery she had hung Bobinôt's Sunday clothes to air" (Kate Chopin).Craig M. Carver, the author ofAmerican Regional Dialects, points out that the word gallery, from Old French galerie, was borrowed into British English in the 15th century and was brought over to the American colonies by English-speaking settlers.Although the word in the sense "porch" did not survive in the American English of the East Coast,it was borrowed separately, probably from Acadian French,into the English of 18th-century Louisianaand there survived as part of the Gulf Southern dialect.在得克萨斯州、阿肯色州、路易斯安那州、密西西比和南部阿拉巴马,至少在房屋的一侧延伸出来的一种敞开屋顶的门廊被称作gallery: “出了前面的小门廊,她把博比内的最好的衣服晾在那里” (凯特·肖邦)。美国区域方言 的作者克雷格·M·卡弗尔指出 gallery 来源于古代法语 galerie , 在15世纪借入英语并由讲英语的殖民者带入美国殖民地。虽然该词当作“门廊”的意义没有在东海岸的美式英语中保存下来,但是它很有可能被分开借自阿卡迪亚的法语,并在18世纪进入路易斯安那英语,并在那里保存下来而成为南部港口方言的一部分〔everwhere〕Inversion—the reversal of the two halves of a compound word—is a common process in Southern dialects.It affects a number of indefinite pronouns (whichever, whatever, whoever ) ending in -ever, yieldingeverwhich, everwhat, and everwho. The commonly occurringeverwhere can be an example of inversion when it means "wherever" but illustrates elision of an unstressed syllable in its meaning "everywhere.”Other examples of Southern inversion cited by Craig M. Carver inAmerican Regional Dialects are peckerwood, hoppergrass, doll-baby, tie-tongued, doghanged (meaning "hangdog"), and right-out ("outright"). 倒置——一个复合词的两部分的颠倒──是美国南部方言的一种常用方法,它影响到若干以-ever 结尾的不确定性代名词( whichever,whatever,whoever ), 产生出everwhich,everwhat 和 everwho 。 通常出现的everwhere ,当它意为"wherever(即无论何处)”时是倒置的一个例子, 但当它意为"everywhere(各处,到处)”时是省略非重读音节的一例证。克雷格M卡弗尔在美国区域方言 中引用的其它美国南部倒置的例子有 peckerwood , hoppergrass,doll-baby,tie-tongued,doghanged(意思是“下贱的人”)和 right-out (“坦率的”) |
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