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| 释义 | 〔care〕It is true that a close examination of the syntax of the phraseI could care less reveals that it ought by rights to mean something like "I care more than I might,” rather than "I don't care at all.” But while the illogicality of a phrase may be reason enough for excluding it from formal writing,this illogicality cannot be invoked as grounds for keeping it out of the colloquial language,particularly when the phrase is itself an expression of casual indifference.See Usage Note at cannot 对短语I could care less 的句法的仔细研究揭示，该短语按理应有类似“我极其在意，甚于我应该做的”的意思，而不表示“我一点儿也不介意”，这一点确凿无疑。 但是，尽管由于一个短语有不合逻辑性的含义，也许这一点足以使其不合逻辑的用法被排除在正式文体之外；这不合逻辑性却不能被援引作为把它排除在口语用法之外的根据，尤其是当该短语本身只是一个非正式的或随意的表达语时 参见 cannot〔literally〕For more than a hundred years,critics have remarked on the incoherency of usingliterally in a way that suggests the exact opposite of its primary sense of "in a manner that accords with the literal sense of the words.”In 1926, for example,H.W. Fowler cited the example 数百年来，批评家们一直在讨论literally 的一种用法的不连续性， 这一用法使其具有与主要意义“和字面意思相吻合地”正好相反的含义。例如，在1926年，H.W.福勒援引了这样一个例子 〔dictum〕"He cites Augustine's dictum that ‘If you understand it, it is not God’”(Joseph Sobran)“他援引奥古斯丁的最后声明‘如果你了解它，它就不是神了’”(约瑟夫·索布兰)〔tarnation〕The noun and interjectiontarnation illustrate suffixation, the addition of a suffix to a word.Tarnation and darnation (the latter probably having come first) are both euphemistic forms ofdamnation. Tarnationseems to have been influenced by tarnal, another mild oath derived from (e ) ternal! TheOxford English Dictionary cites late-18th-century examples of tarnation from New England, indicating that it has been part of American speech since colonial days.既是名词又是感叹词的tarnation 阐明了加后缀的构词法， 即将一个后缀加到一个词的末尾。Tarnation 和 darnation （后者可能先出现） 都是damnstion这个词的委婉形式。 Tarnation看来是受了 tarnal 一词的影响， 后者是从（e ） ternal 派生出来的一个较温和的诅咒语。 牛津英语辞典 援引了18世纪后期新英格兰地区居民使用 tarnation 一词的例子， 以此说明自殖民地时期起它就是美国语言的一部分 |
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