| 单词 | slant-eye |
| 释义 | > as lemmasslant-eye slant-eye n. (also slant-eyes) slang (depreciative and offensive) (originally U.S.) a person with slanting eyes, spec. an Asian person; cf. slant n.1 10. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > person by shape of eyes or forehead > [noun] slant-eye1929 slant1942 slope1948 slopy1948 roundeye1955 slopehead1966 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [noun] > by size, shape, etc. > person having slant-eye1929 slant1942 1929 Amer. Speech 4 344 Slant eye, an oriental. 1962 E. Snow Other Side of River (1963) xii. 85 One might assume that contempt for American imperialism would by now have produced Chinese equivalents of insulting American epithets such as slopeys, slant-eyes and chinks. 1966 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. 1964 xlii. 31 A few terms [for Orientals] reflect stereotype racial characteristics, i.e., yellow-belly, yellow~man, slant eyes. 1972 Times 20 May 3/4 I have engaged in campaigns against blacks, yellows and slant-eyes. Why should we have one rule for the whites and one for coloureds? 1974 Times Lit. Suppl. 26 July 795/4 And those Jap Ph.D.'s, their questionnaires! (Replying ‘Sod off, Slant-Eyes’ led to friction.) 1977 ‘J. le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy i. 36 Renting a cottage in the New Territories, he..proposed to expire under a slanteye heaven. < as lemmas |
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