| 释义 |
hyphenated, a.
1. Consisting of two (or more) parts joined by a hyphen.
1852N. & Q. 1st Ser. V. 124/2 The Germans giving the hyphenated title thus. 1893E. Coues Exp. Lewis & Clark I. 66 In the text..the name usually stands Council-bluff, in one hyphenated word.
2. Applied to persons (or, by extension, their activities) born in one country but naturalized citizens of another, their nationality being designated by a hyphenated form, e.g. Anglo-American, Irish-American; hence, to a person whose patriotic allegiance is assumed to be divided. Also in extended use. orig. U.S.
1893Farmer & Henley Slang III. 386/2 Hyphenated American, a naturalised citizen, as German-Americans, Irish-Americans, and the like. 1900Daily News 15 Aug. 3/1 My opponents were of the hyphenated variety—Dutch-Americans and Irish-Americans predominating. 1904Westm. Gaz. 3 Jan. 3/2 American politics, where men who call themselves Irish-Americans, German-Americans, Dutch-Americans, and so on, are contemptuously referred to as ‘hyphenated Americans’. 1907Nation (N.Y.) 7 Nov. 410 Some of these hyphenated American journals. 1915Lit. Digest 4 Sept. 462/1 Hyphenated residents will continue to insist that American newspapers should be strictly neutral. 1948Manch. Guardian Weekly 3 June 7/1 ‘Hyphenated Americans’— undigested immigrant stock. 1965B. Sweet-Escott Baker St. Irreg. i. 37 It was thought that, with the whole of western Europe under Nazi domination, hyphenated Americans might provide recruits for work in occupied territory. 1973Times 17 Oct. 6/8 This did not go down well with the Greek community here [sc. in the U.S.], or with other groups of ‘hyphenated Americans’. |