malapropism的词源

英文词源

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malapropism: [19] English owes the word malapropism to Mrs Malaprop, a character in Richard Sheridan’s play The Rivals 1775 whose grandiloquent impulses led her to use slightly (but ludicrously) the wrong word: amongst the most familiar of her errors are ‘contagious countries’ (for contiguous), ‘a supercilious knowledge in accounts’ (for superficial), and ‘as head-strong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile’. Sheridan based the name on malapropos ‘inappropriate’ [17], an anglicization of French mal à propos, literally ‘badly to the purpose’ (on mal, see MALIGN).
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malapropism (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1826, from Mrs. Malaprop, character in Sheridan's play "The Rivals" (1775), noted for her ridiculous misuse of large words (such as "contagious countries" for "contiguous countries"), her name coined from malapropos.

中文词源

malapropism(文字误用):喜欢乱用词语的喜剧人物马拉普洛普太太

英国杰出的喜剧作家谢里丹(Richard Brinsley)于1775年发表了自己创作的第一部喜剧《情敌》,塑造了著名的马拉普洛普太太(Malaprop)这一形象。她喜欢搬弄漂亮的词句,又不了解它们的含义,经常误用,闹出笑话。她的名字由mal(坏)+aprop(=appropriate, 适当的)构成,本意就是“不恰当的”。马拉普洛普太太这一人物形象描写得非常成功,深入人心,以致人们创造了malapropism一词,表示“文字误用的行为”。

malapropism:['mæləprɒ,pɪz(ə)m] n.文字的误用,词语的荒唐误用

malaprop:['mæləprɒp] adj.用词错误可笑的n.文字的误用

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malapropism:近音词误用

来自18世纪戏剧人物Mrs Malaprop,她经常由于发音不准或出于幽默犯下类似的错误,比如把contagious countries念成contiguous countries.其人名来自法语短语mal a propos,不合适的,mal,坏的,不良的,propos,放置,词源同propose.类似的错误比如two 包子,土包子。

malapropism:近音词的荒唐误用

英国18世纪杰出的喜剧作家谢里丹(Richard BrinsIeySheridan,1751 - 1816)于1775年问世的第一部喜剧《情敌》(The Rivals)中有一人物名叫Malaprop夫人。她饶舌健谈,但却矫揉造作,性喜炫耀;她好用多音节词,但却不解其意,屡屡荒唐地误用发音相似而意思趔异的词语,以致笑料百出,令人啼笑皆非。譬如她将epithet(表述词语)念作epitaph(墓志铭);将odious(可惜的)说戚odorous(香的);将prodigy(奇才)误为progeny(子女),管她的女儿叫a progeny of learning;她蹇曼说的是She's as headstrong as an alligator on the banks of theNile(她和尼罗河岸边的鳄鱼一样任性),却把alligator(鳄鱼)误作allegory(寓言);她想的足the geography of contiguous countries(邻近各国的地理),说的却是the geometry of contagious countries(传染病国家的几何学);她希望女儿comprehend the true mean/ng of what she is saying(理解她所说的真正含义),却把comprehend(理解)说成了reprehendc指摘)。凡此种种,不一而足。后人便将Malaprop这一名字加一后缀-ism成其为malapropism,用以称谓此类“近音词的叮笑误用”,尽管在这以前莎士比亚为了取得喜剧的效果也曾使用过这种手法。Malaprop 一词,究其根源,实为法语短语maL d propos的缩略,有“不合时宜的”,“不合适的”之意。