英语词汇chiasmus的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	chiasmus
词源	chiasmus. A chiasmus is “a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases,” as in Shakespeare’s “Suit the action to the word, the word to the action” (Hamlet); or “This man I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords” (Dr. Johnson of Lord Chesterfield). These quotes are from among the hundreds in Dr. Mardy Grothe’s Never Let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss Fool You (1999), the title of which is also a chiasmus.
随便看	wet hen we the people of the united states in order to form a more perfect union wet one wet one-s beak wet one-s whistle wet ship wetting a commission wet your whistle we who are about to die salute you we wuz robbed whalemen-s chapel whaling wham bam thank-ye-ma’am what am i chopped liver what a revoltin’ development this is what are you a man or a mouse what a way to run a railroad what can’t be cured must be endured what cato did and addison approved cannot be wrong whatchamacallit whatcheer what doesn’t kill me him makes me him stronger what do you know about that what every schoolboy knows what fools these mortals be

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