英语词汇zeugma的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

zeugma. Zeugma is the Greek word for “yoking” or “joining” and in English means a figure of speech in which a verb is used with two subjects or two objects, or an adjective is used to modify two nouns—although the verb or adjective is appropri- ate to only one noun. Zeugma is often unintentional, as in “She caught a cold and a husband” but it is a common satrical de- vice. An example often quoted is Dickens’s phrase in the Pick- wick Papers: “Miss Bobo . . . went straight home, in a flood of tears, and a sedan chair.”

词汇	zeugma
词源	zeugma. Zeugma is the Greek word for “yoking” or “joining” and in English means a figure of speech in which a verb is used with two subjects or two objects, or an adjective is used to modify two nouns—although the verb or adjective is appropri- ate to only one noun. Zeugma is often unintentional, as in “She caught a cold and a husband” but it is a common satrical de- vice. An example often quoted is Dickens’s phrase in the Pick- wick Papers: “Miss Bobo . . . went straight home, in a flood of tears, and a sedan chair.”
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