pun

英 [pʌn] 美 [pʌn]

解释

※ 提供单词"pun"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

pun 双关语

词源不详，可能缩写自拉丁语punctum,点，刺点，词源同point,punch.

pun: pun: [17] Snappy monosyllables produced by breaking off a piece of a longer word were all the rage in late 17th- and early 18th-century England (mob is a well-known example), and it is thought that pun may be one of them. It seems to be short for pundigrion, a short-lived fanciful 17th- and 18th-century term for a ‘pun’ or ‘quibble’ which may have been adapted from Italian puntiglio ‘nice point, quibble’ (source of English punctilious).
pun (n.): 1660s (first attested in Dryden), of uncertain origin, perhaps from pundigron, which is perhaps a humorous alteration of Italian puntiglio "equivocation, trivial objection," diminutive of Latin punctum "point." This is pure speculation. The verb also is attested from 1660s. Related: Punned; punning.
Pun was prob. one of the clipped words, such as cit, mob, nob, snob, which came into fashionable slang at or after the Restoration. [OED]

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2. We're banking on them lending us the money—no pun intended!: 我们正指望他们借给我们钱呢—bank绝无双关之意！

5. There are two kinds of puns, phonetic pun and semantic pun.: 双关语分为谐音双关和语义双关两类.