| 单词 | oxford accent |
| 释义 | > as lemmasOxford accent Oxford accent n. Received Pronunciation, formerly considered to be particularly characteristic of members of the University of Oxford, and (esp. in the early 20th cent.) supposed to be marked by affected utterance. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > accent > [noun] > specific accents Oxford accent1855 Oxford Englisha1894 Mummersetshire1952 Morningside1953 Brummie1963 Roedean1972 mid-Atlantic1975 Estuary English1984 1855 Tait's Edinb. Mag. June 345/1 Step inside; here it is the voice of Honeyman, B.A., bleating lavender with an Oxford accent. 1902 Sc. Notes & Queries 4 55/1 Even our cultivated men do not escape, as witness the nasty remark made by Mr. Percy White in a recent book about ‘what gentlemen from Aberdeen call the Oxford Accent’. 1904 J. K. Jerome Tommy & Co. v. 174 Somerville's Oxford accent is wasted here. 1934 S.P.E. Tract (Soc. for Pure Eng.) No. XXXIX. 616 It might be said perhaps that the ‘Oxford Accent’ conveys an impression of a precise and rather foppish elegance, and of deliberate artificiality. 1959 J. Braine Vodi vi. 93 Dick assumed an Oxford accent. ‘It's naht old-fashioned, dear brethren, to think of Hell in the language of fire and brimstone.’ 1992 Boundary 2 19 123 Wadleigh, with his disheveled appearance and acquired Oxford accent. 2014 K. L. Seegers tr. D. Meyer Cobra iii. 14 Morris contacted me by phone... With a…I suppose what they call an Oxford accent. < as lemmas |
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