| 释义 |
Russianness|ˈrʌʃənnɪs|
[f. Russian a. + -ness.]
The quality or state of being Russian.
1937Sunday Times 21 Nov. 9/2 His [sc. Lenin's] essential Russianness had not been weakened by culture; it had not been Westernised by foreign contacts. 1954U. Weinreich in Saporta & Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 382/2 We may characterize the utterance by the feature of ‘Russianness’ or ‘Englishness’. 1968Economist 9 Nov. p. x/2 This book is an account of the author's life-long love affair with Russianness: not with Russia, past or present, but with a Russianness conceived in the nursery as a daydream of the trans-Siberian railway. 1973Observer 4 Feb. 37/3 Wilson is worrying away about the peculiarities of the Russian language and the astonishing Russianness of Russians. 1977V. S. Pritchett Gentle Barbarian ii. 27 The Russian disease..the ever shadowy figure of Russianness. |