| 释义 |
▪ I. quis, pron. School slang.|kwɪs, kwɪz|
[L. interrog. pron., = who.]
‘Who (wants this)?’, asked by the possessor of a specified object which he no longer requires, to a group of his fellows.
The first person to reply ‘ego’ (ego 2) receives the object.
1913[see ego 2]. 1916E. F. Benson David Blaize vi. 111 ‘Quis for a catapult?’ he said heroically, and a chorus of ‘Ego’ answered him. 1927W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 22 While at the Prep. I fell into the way of using pater for father and came to know the schoolboy question quis for who wants? with the answer ego. 1945E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited ii. v. 281 Who wants it? Quis? Would you like it, Cara? No, of course you would not. Cordelia? 1959[see ego 2]. a1966‘M. na Gopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 217 ‘Quis?’ ‘Ego.’ ‘See, man, you meant him.’
▪ II. quis
obs. f. quiz. |