单词 | 眼里 |
释义 | 〔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 〔face〕Value or standing in the eyes of others; prestige:面子,价值,威信:在别人眼里的价值或地位;威信:〔beg〕The child, with tears in his eyes, implored his father not to be angry.这孩子眼里含着泪,央求他的父亲不要生气。〔dowel〕A usually round pin that fits tightly into a corresponding hole to fasten or align two adjacent pieces.暗榫:通常为一圆钉,紧扣在相应的眼里以固定或校正相似的两片〔eyedropper〕A dropper for administering liquid medicines, especially one for dispensing medications into the eye.滴药管:一种控制药液的滴管,尤指用来将药滴入眼里〔prude〕Being a prude has never been widely considered a good thing,but if we dig further into the history of the wordprude, we will find that it had a noble past.The change for the worse took place in French.Frenchprude first had a good sense, "wise woman,” but apparentlya woman could be too wise or, in the eyes of some,too observant of decorum and propriety,and soprude took on the sense in French that was brought into English along with the word, first recorded in 1704.The French word first meant "wise woman"becauseprude was a shortened form of prude femme (earlier in Old Frenchprode femme ), a word that was modeled on earlierpreudomme, "a man of experience and integrity.” The second part of this word is, of course,homme, "man.” Old Frenchprod, meaning "wise, prudent,” is from Vulgar Latin prōdis with the same sense. Prōdis in turn comes from Late Latin prōde, "advantageous,” derived from the verbprodesse, "to be good.” We can see that the history ofprude is filled with usefulness, profit, wisdom, and integrity, but in spite of all this,things did not turn out that well.人们从来没有普遍地认为做一个拘守礼仪的人是一件好事,但是如果我们深挖prude 这个词的历史, 我们会发现这个词有一个体面的过去。这个词变成贬义是在法语中发生的。法语词prude 开始时是褒义的,意为“明智或聪明的女人,” 但是很显然,女人可能会过于聪明或者在某些人的眼里,对仪表和行为的得体过分注重,这样法语词prude 就有了这个和词一起被引入英语的意思, 并最早记载于1704年。这个法语词开始时的意思之所以是“聪明的女人”,因为prude 是 prudefemme 的缩写形式 (更早的时候在古法语中为prodefemme ), 这个词模仿更早的一个词preudomme “一个富有经验而又正直的男人”而来。 这个词的第二部分当然是意为“男人”的homme。 意思是“聪明,谨慎”的古法语prod 由一个相同意思的俗拉丁词 prodis 而来。 Prodis 从后期拉丁语 prode 演变而来,意为“有利的”, 该词又从意思为“从善”的动词prudesse 衍生而来。 我们现在明白prude 的历史充满了有利、利益、智慧或忠诚的意思, 但尽管如此,事情并没有变得那么好 |
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