| 释义 |
‖ kwai-lo|kwailo|
Also kwai-tze |kwaitsə|.
[Chinese (Cantonese dial.).]
‘Foreign devil’, a name given by the Chinese to foreigners.
[1878H. A. Giles Gloss. Far East 76 Kwei-tsze or Kuei-tzŭ, devils. A Chinese term for foreigners. 1910J. S. Thomson Chinese i. 70 Now and then an urchin spits at a foreigner's chair and shouts, Fan kwei lai (See, here's a foreign devil). 1944H. B. Rattenbury China, my China i. 9 On the streets they cursed me for..a ‘yang kuei-tze’—‘a foreign devil’.] 1969Times 9 Dec. (Taiwan Suppl.) p. viii/6 To the kwai-lo's innocent suggestion that the Foochow or coastal school might be classified under the generic label ‘shanghai’, Master Wei responded with a sour oath. 1972South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) 4 Dec., Kwai Lo, a foreigner (or literally devil man). 1972Times 21 Oct. (Hongkong Suppl.) p. i/4 A discreet variety of Mao-style padded-coat is admirable wear for young and elderly kwai-lo (foreign devils) in the Hongkong winter. |