2015年8月16日 星期日

punned on the phrase...The Facts of Life/ wordplay 不只是雙關語



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a fact of life

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Something that must be accepted and cannot be  changed , however unpalatable :  baldness  is a fact of life for a lot of men

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推薦英國的經歷天路:約1小時
Pilgrimage with Simon Reeve episode1 BBC full documentary 2013 greatest adventures on earth約在17:45處,女廚建議某天--無肉天、週三、五--該吃漁,因為拉丁文肉carnālis和色欲carnality等是雙關。

carnality

 noun

excessive pursuit of fleshly pleasures  carnality
1350-400; Middle  English Latin carnālis,  equivalent  to  carn-  (stem  of carōflesh  +  -ālis -al 1

pun 雙關(詼諧)語


pun 1

Line breaks:  pun



NOUN

joke  exploiting  the  different  possible  meanings  of a  word  or  the fact that  there are  words  which sound alike  but have  different  meanings : the Railway  Society  reception  was an  informal  party  of  people  of all stations ( excuse  the pun) in life (station)[COUNT NOUN] dated  One's social rank or position: Karen was  getting ideas  above her station different  stations in life
MORE EXAMPLE SENTENCES
  • By all reports, the mountain men love mountain women almost as much as winning rugby league games (a cheap pun based on no facts).
  • The name Cindy sounds like a near pun to cinders, which speaks again to the idea of​​​​ complete destruction for the birth of some new work.
  • We can deduce whether a consonant was sounded from the way puns work.

VERB (punspunningpunned)

[NO OBJECT] (often as adjective  punning ) Back to top  
Make a pun: Freeth  adopted  the  nickname  Free in punning allusion  to his  beliefs the  designer  is punning on the  street name

  • First, it isn't Hobbes's view that the relation between states is characterised as involving a 'clubbable' social life, unless we're punning on 'club'.
  • In his great novel Ulysses, James Joyce, punning on the old line 'An Englishman's home is his castle' reflects that 'The Irishman's house is his coffin'.
  • Any theatre which presents a drama about poker lays itself open to critics punning madly about it 'taking a gamble' or 'playing for high stakes'.

Origin

mid 17th century : perhaps an abbreviation of obsolete pundigrion , as a fanciful alteration of  punctilio .

名](同音異義による)だじゃれ,地口(じぐち) ,語呂(ごろ)合わせ:例We must all hang together or we shall hang separately.共に団結しなければ,1人ずつしばり首になるだろう.
━━[動](~ned, ~・ning)(自)(…を)もじる,(…にかけて)しゃれ[地口]を言う((on, upon ...)).




  This volume, from a young poet out of Topeka, Kan., is Nabokovian in its ecstatic wordplay.
這一卷的作者是堪薩斯州托皮卡(Topeka)市的一位年輕詩人,其中充滿了納博科夫式的(Nabokovian)絕妙的雙關語。
Stories, Essays and Poems for the Powder Room




And never forget, do not insult your audience by calling attention to the coming wordplay.
The pardon-my-pun flag says to the listener or reader, "You're probably too dim-witted to catch this, so I'm pointing it out to you beforehand."
I do, however, commend the grammatically sensitive nominee for his choice of rear rather than raise , following the strict admonition that "you raise cattle but you rear children." Sad to say, that manner-born rule is now more honored in the breeches than the observance.

Word fun in Nabokov's Lolita - Mental Floss

www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/26070 - Cached
Word fun in Nabokov's Lolita by David K. Israel - June 2, 2009 - 7:38 AM. Lolita1. jpg If you're a fan of word play , you probably already know how much fun ...

Original of Laura - The New York Times

www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/books/10book.html?...all
9 Nov 2009 – In these pages readers will find bright flashes of Nabokovian wordplay (“The potentate had been potent till the absurd age of 80”) and surreal, ...



【hc:我們經常會用到Charles Dickens (1906) - by Gilbert Keith Chesterton 的第四章(Chapter 4)之末段
http://www.readprint.com/ chapter-1888/Gilbert-Keith- Chesterton


首先,我們查網路英文辭典(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary),可以知道phrasal verb take sb in有雙義:take sb in (CARE FOR) [M] to take care of someone and provide a place in your home for them:例Several families take in foreign students.;另外take sb in (DECEIVE) to cause someone to believe something which is not true, or to trick or deceive someone:例I can't believe she was taken in by him. 這就是原書介的「Chesterton, writing about Dickens, punned on the phrase "taken in," meaning both "deceived" and "welcomed in out of the cold."」之意思,我的提議中文是:無往(網)不利。



wordplay


  音節
wórd • plày
[名][U]軽妙な言葉のやり取り;しゃれ. n.
  1. Witty or clever verbal exchange; repartee.
  2. The act or an instance such exchange.

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