英语词汇malapropism的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

malapropism. “Then, sir, she should have a supercilious knowledge in accounts;—and as she grew up, I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries . . . and likewise that she might reprehe- and the true meaning of what she is saying.” The preceding is a speech of Mrs. Malaprop in the first act of Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The Rivals. Mrs. Malaprop is the name of an affected talkative woman in the play, the aunt of the heroine, Lydia Lan- guish. Sheridan coined her name from the French mal à propos, “unsuitable, out of place,” for he had her ludicrously misuse many “high sounding” words out of her ignorance and vanity, just as Shakespeare had Dogberry do in Much Ado About Noth- ing and had Mistress Quickly do in Henry IV, Parts I & II. Sheridan’s The Rivals was produced in London in 1775, when he was only 24. Mrs. Malaprop’s name soon became a synonym for the misuse of words, especially by those who are trying to sound important. See goldwynism; slipslop.

词汇	malapropism
词源	malapropism. “Then, sir, she should have a supercilious knowledge in accounts;—and as she grew up, I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries . . . and likewise that she might reprehe- and the true meaning of what she is saying.” The preceding is a speech of Mrs. Malaprop in the first act of Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The Rivals. Mrs. Malaprop is the name of an affected talkative woman in the play, the aunt of the heroine, Lydia Lan- guish. Sheridan coined her name from the French mal à propos, “unsuitable, out of place,” for he had her ludicrously misuse many “high sounding” words out of her ignorance and vanity, just as Shakespeare had Dogberry do in Much Ado About Noth- ing and had Mistress Quickly do in Henry IV, Parts I & II. Sheridan’s The Rivals was produced in London in 1775, when he was only 24. Mrs. Malaprop’s name soon became a synonym for the misuse of words, especially by those who are trying to sound important. See goldwynism; slipslop.
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