英语词汇alibi ike的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Alibi Ike. Someone who is always making excuses or invent- ing alibis is called “Alibi Ike.” The designation was invented by Ring Lardner in his short story “Alibi Ike” (1914) as a nickname for outfielder Frank X. Farrell, so named because he had excus- es for everything. When Farrell drops an easy fly ball, he claims his glove “wasn’t broke in yet”; when questioned about last year’s batting average he replies, “I had malaria most of the sea- son”; when he hits a triple he says he “ought to had a home run, only the ball wasn’t lively,” or “the wind brought it back,” or he “tripped on a lump o’ dirt roundin’ first base”; when he takes a called third strike, he claims he “lost count” or he would have swung at and hit it. The author, who had a “phonographic ear” for American dialect, created a type for all time with Alibi Ike, and the expression became American slang as soon as the story was published. In an introduction to the yarn the incomparable Lardner noted, “The author acknowledges his indebtedness to Chief Justice Taft for some of the slang employed.”

词汇	alibi ike
词源	Alibi Ike. Someone who is always making excuses or invent- ing alibis is called “Alibi Ike.” The designation was invented by Ring Lardner in his short story “Alibi Ike” (1914) as a nickname for outfielder Frank X. Farrell, so named because he had excus- es for everything. When Farrell drops an easy fly ball, he claims his glove “wasn’t broke in yet”; when questioned about last year’s batting average he replies, “I had malaria most of the sea- son”; when he hits a triple he says he “ought to had a home run, only the ball wasn’t lively,” or “the wind brought it back,” or he “tripped on a lump o’ dirt roundin’ first base”; when he takes a called third strike, he claims he “lost count” or he would have swung at and hit it. The author, who had a “phonographic ear” for American dialect, created a type for all time with Alibi Ike, and the expression became American slang as soon as the story was published. In an introduction to the yarn the incomparable Lardner noted, “The author acknowledges his indebtedness to Chief Justice Taft for some of the slang employed.”
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