| 词汇 | person |
| 词源 | person. The word person derives from the Latin persona, which was the term for the mask that actors in Greek and Ro- man dramas wore to portray the various characters. The word came to mean the part anyone played in this world, his or her individuality, coming into English as person. In his article “Language Liberated” in The University Bookman (Spring 1976), Robert Beum considers some alternatives for sexist “man” terms in the language. Believing, as someone has said, that “the proper study of personkind is person,” I’ve recorded a number of Mr. Beum’s tongue-in-cheek suggestions below. Note his advice that “the key rule is that the root ‘man,’ even when it is derived etymologically from the Latin ‘manus’ (hand), bears the degrading connotations of sexist tradition and is to be dropped”: personners (manners) personslaughter (manslaughter) personhandle (manhandle) personnuscript (manuscript) Person overboard! Person the oars! See political correctness. |
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