| 单词 | 城市居民 |
| 释义 | 〔keep〕a city dweller who didn't keep a car.没有汽车的城市居民〔metropolitan〕A citizen of a metropolis, especially one who displays urbane characteristics, attitudes, and values.大城市人：大城市居民，尤指表现出大城市性格、特征和价值观者〔burgher〕A citizen of a town or borough.城市居民：一城镇或一自治市的公民〔drudge〕"Out here on the Chesapeake,they call it ‘drudging for arsters,’”says Charles Kuralt in his bookOn the Road with Charles Kuralt. The standard English verbdredge is pronounced with a centralized vowel by Chesapeake Bay oyster fishermen, yielding drudge. Drudge in turn has been picked up by city dwellers on the Delmarva Peninsula;a survey of some young people from Baltimore revealed thatthey did not even know that there was a standard English verbdredge. Kuralt gives the regional pronunciation a whimsical folk etymology with the standard meaning ofdrudge, "to do tedious, menial, or unpleasant work,” observing, "Whatever you do for a living, it's not as hard as ‘drudging for arsters.’”在切萨皮克湾那边，他们把它称之为“为捕虾做苦工，”查尔斯·库洛特在他的与查尔斯·库洛特同游 一书中谈及。 标准英语动词dredge ，在发音时其元音被切萨皮克湾捕虾渔民发成中元音，随后产生 drudge。 Drudge 又被德尔马瓦半岛一城市居民吸收；对来自巴尔的摩的一部分年轻人的调查表明，他们甚至不知道有一个标准英语动词dredge 。 对具有标准含义的drudge “做单调、卑贱或无趣工作”，库洛特给出了一个稀奇古怪的民俗语源， 他说道，“无论你以何谋生，再没有比捕虾做的工更苦的了”〔metropolitan〕from Greek mētropolitēs [citizen of a metropolis] 源自 希腊语 mētropolitēs [大城市居民] 〔bananas〕"That's the horrible thing when you're bananas—nobody can know the awful things that are going on in your head"(Otto Friedrich)"City dwellers . . . are subjected to so much noise it drives them bananas"(New Yorker)“当你发疯时是件可怕的事，没人知道你头脑里正在发生什么可怕的事”(奥托·弗雷德里克)“城市居民承受了太多的噪音，他们会发疯的”(纽约人)〔urbanism〕The culture or way of life of city dwellers.城市主义：城市居民文化或生活方式〔binge〕"The story is like a fever dream that a disturbed and imaginative city-dweller might have after binging on comics"(Lloyd Rose)“这故事象是一群失去控制的、富于想象力的城市居民在放纵嘻闹之后做的狂热之梦”(劳埃德·罗斯) |
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