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释义 | 〔boughten〕American regional dialects allow freer adjectival use of certain past participles of verbs than does Standard English.Time-honored examples areboughten (Chiefly Northern U.S.) and bought (Chiefly Southern U.S.) to mean "purchased rather than homemade": boughten sugar,a boughten dress,bought bread. The Northern formboughten (as in store boughten ) features the participial ending -en, added to bought, the participial form, probably by analogy with more common participial adjectives such asfrozen. Another development, analogous withhomemade, is evident in bought-made, cited inDARE from a Texas informant. 美国地方方言较标准英语更自由地允许将一些动词过去分词用作形容词。历史较久的例子是boughten (主要在北美)和 bought (主要在南美), 意指“买来的而并非家里制的”: 买来的糖,买来的衣服,买来的面包。 北美形式boughten (如 商场里买的 )特征是有过去分词词尾 -en 加在过去分词形式 bought 的后面, 这可能是参照了一些更常见的过去分词形容词如frozen。 另一种发展,模拟homemade, 显见于 bought-made, 由美国区域英语词典 的得克萨斯资料提供人所引用 〔philanthropic〕Organized to provide humanitarian or charitable assistance:慈善事业的:为提供人道的或救济援助而组织的: |
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