| 单词 | 德莱 |
| 释义 | 〔spin〕"Dryden . . . was adept at putting spin on an apparently neutral recital of facts"(Robert M. Adams)“德莱登善于加油添醋的叙述中立的事实”(罗伯特M.亚当斯)〔biography〕a film biography of Adlai Stevenson; an oral biography.爱德莱·史蒂文生传记影片；口头传记〔Delaney〕British playwright best known forA Taste of Honey (1958). 德莱，谢拉夫：(生于 1930) 英国剧作家，其最负盛名的作品是《浅尝蜂蜜》 （1958年） 〔precinct〕"It was in these spacious precincts that Dryden's imagination was most at home"(Mark Van Doren)“只有在这些特殊领域内，德莱登才可以最为自由地想象”(马克·万·多雷恩)〔pun〕The origin of the wordpun is lost in obscurity, perhaps deservedly so in the eyes of those who consider the pun the feeblest form of wit. The wordpun is first recorded in a work of 1662 written by John Dryden. In a slightly later passage of 1676we find the wordpun in the company of the words pundigrion and punnet with the same sense. Punnet is probably a diminutive of pun, as are the laterpunlet (used by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1819) and punkin (Henry James, 1866). Butpundigrion, although recorded later, may have been around earlier than pun and might be its source.Pundrigrion in turn might be an alteration of the obsolete Italian word puntiglio, "fine point,” which we have in English aspunctilio. In any case,the wordpun has given birth to some derivatives of its own, including punnigram, modeled onepigram, and punnology. 可能在那些认为双关语是智慧的最虚弱表现形式的人眼里，pun 的本源难以考证是当然的。 1662年在约翰·德莱登的一篇文章中最早出现了pun 这个词。 其后不久1676年的一篇文章中，pun 同 pundigrion 和 punnet 具有相同的意思而列在一起。 Punnet 可能是 pun 的一个词尾， 后来的punlet (1819年萨缪尔·泰勒·柯利芝使用）和 punkin （亨利·詹姆斯于1866年使用）可能也是如此。 但尽管pundigrion 比 pun 的记载晚，却很可能比它略早出现， 且可能是它的来源。Pundrigrion 按顺序来说可能是已废弃的意大利语 puntiglio 的变形，意为“妙处”， 英语中相应的词是punctilio。 不论如何，pun 自身还衍生了一些词，包括 punnigram ， 它是模仿epigram 和 punnology 而成的 〔Johnson〕American lawyer, politician, and diplomat. As a lawyer he is remembered for representing the defense in the Dred Scott case (1856-1857). He also served as U.S. senator for Maryland (1845-1849 and 1863-1868) and minister to Great Britain (1868-1869).约翰逊，里维蒂：(1796-1876) 美国律师、政治家、外交家。作为律师他最著名的是为德莱德·思科一案担任的辩护(1856-1857年）。他还曾担任代表马里兰州的美国参议员(1845-1849及1863-1868年）以及驻英国公使(1868-1869年） |
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