| 释义 |
Hopi|ˈhəʊpɪ|
[Native name.]
The name of a group of North American Indians living chiefly in north-eastern Arizona; also, a member of this people; their language. Also attrib.
1877Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci. Bull. 170 The title of ‘Moquis’ has been applied to this confederacy by its enemies, and signifies the dying race. I understand that they usually speak of themselves as ‘Ho-pees’ (our people). 1893T. Donaldson Moqui Pueblo Indians 13 The name which they call theselves by is Ho-pi, or Ho-pi-tuh-lei-nyu-muh, meaning ‘peaceful people’. 1927W. Cather Death comes for Archbishop vii. i. 197 Last year, in May, he had been on his way to the Hopi Indians. 1927D. H. Lawrence Mornings in Mexico 135 The Hopi country is in Arizona, next the Navajo country. Ibid., The Hopis are Pueblo Indians, village Indians, so their reservation is not large. 1933L. Bloomfield Language iv. 72 The Shoshonean family..including..Comanche, and Hopi. 1937R. H. Lowie Hist. Ethnological Theory vii. 82 Swanton has shown..that in North America..many higher tribes, like the Hopi, are strictly matrilineal. 1952A. Huxley Let. 12 Oct. (1969) 657 The ways I look at the world, are determined—determined in profoundly different ways according to whether I speak Chinese, Maori, Hopi, or English. 1956D. Abercrombie Probl. & Princ. i. 12 Hopi is an example of a language which lacks expression..for concepts of time. 1957C. F. & F. M. Voegelin in Int. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics Mem. No. 14 (title) Hopi domains, a lexical approach to the problem of selection. 1959E. Tunis Indians 25/2 Even today an elderly Hopi will jog trot twenty miles to his cornfield, work all day, and jog home again. 1969Observer (Colour Suppl.) 18 May 34/1 She is a Hopi, one of the less-known tribes. 1973Holt & Marjoram Math. in a Changing World ii. 65 The difference between a noun and a verb to a Hopi Indian, Whorf discovered, is that a noun is more permanent than a verb. |