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释义 | 〔glance〕On initial consideration:在最初考虑上:〔deuterocanonical〕Of, relating to, or being a second canon, especially that consisting of sections of the Old and New Testaments not included in the original Roman Catholic canon but accepted by theologians in 1548 at the Council of Trent.次经的:旁经的,尤其是指包括在新约和旧约全书中,却不包括在最初的罗马天主教经典中的那一部分的,该部分经典于1548年在特伦特会议上被神学家认可〔opossum〕The wordopossum takes us back to the earliest days of the United States. The settlement of Jamestown, Virginia, was founded in 1607 by the London Company, chartered for the planting of colonies.Even though the first years were difficult,promotional literature was glowing.In one such piece,A True Declaration of the Estate of the Colonie in Virginia, published in 1610, we find this passage: "There are . . . Apossouns, in shape like to pigges.”This is the first recorded use ofopossum, although in a spelling that differs from the one later settled on to reproduce the sound of the Virginia Algonquian word from which our word came.The wordopossum and its shortened form possum, first recorded in 1613 in more promotional literature, remind us of a time when the New World was still very new, settlers were few,and the inhabitants for whom the New World was not new were plentiful.词语opossum 把我们带回到了早期的美国社会。 伦敦公司,作为开拓殖民地的委托者,在1607年建立了弗吉尼亚詹姆斯敦的居民点。即使在最初的年代里很困难,激进文学也开始抬头。在其中有一篇于1610年出版的弗吉尼亚殖民地的真实宣言 , 其中有一段“一种形似猪的动物”,就是最早的关于opossum 的记录, 虽然它的拼写和现在我们所使用的弗吉尼亚阿尔贡金语的拼写有所不同。词语opossum 和其缩写形式 possum 最初于1613年记录在更加激进的文学作品中, 让我们回想起当新大陆还很陌生而且只有很少的居住者时,已有许多对于新大陆并不陌生的土著居民〔fun〕The use offun as an attributive adjective, as ina fun time, a fun place, most likely originated in a playful reanalysis of the use of the word in sentencessuch asIt is fun to ski, wherefun behaves syntactically like an adjective such as amusing or swell. The usage became popular in the 1950's and 1960's, though there is some evidence to suggest that it has 19th-century antecedents.Certainly the sense of this word makes it particularly susceptible to jocular treatment.But as with other such reanalyses (for example, in the expressiona whole 'nother ), the usage appears to have persisted after the original flavor had been lost.Thus there is no intimation of humorous intent in a press release that announces: fun 作为定语形容词使用, 如一段愉快的时光,一个娱乐场所, 极有可能源于对此词在某些句中用法的玩笑性再分析,如滑雪真好玩 从句法功能来讲, fun 在这里的用法象 amusing 或 swell 之类的形容词。 尽管有证据表明19世纪就出现这种用法了,但开始变得流行却在19世纪50,60年代。当然,此词的这层含义尤令人怀疑对方是否在打趣。但正如其他这类再分析词(例如,在句子a whole 'nother 中一样), 此用法在最初的含义都失去之后,还一直坚持使用下来。因此当报界发布以下消息时就从中找不出任何滑稽意味了: 〔seed〕To help (a business, for example) in its early development.催化:在最初的发展阶段中帮助(例如一个企业)〔perseveration〕The tendency to continue or repeat an act or activity after the cessation of the original stimulus.持续重复症:在最初的刺激停止后,继续或重复某个行为或活动的倾向 |
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