英语词汇“calque”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

calque

/kalk

Linguistics

noun

another term for loan translation.A calque or loan-translation is a borrowing of a compound word from another language where each component is translated into native words and then joined together....

In either case, English-speakers may have adopted the phrase via a direct, word-for-word translation of the German idiom; linguists call this a calque.
So ‘butt naked’ would be a straightforward calque of a common expression whose word for ‘butt’ had dropped out of the language.

verb (be calqued on)

Originate or function as a loan translation of: ‘it goes without saying’ is calqued on French ‘cela va sans dire’...

Besides, even when the new meanings of existing words were calqued on cognate words in other languages.
The most plausible explanation of its origin seems to be that it came in via American English, calqued on German ‘hoffentlich’.
He is aware that the French in the above poem is purposefully calqued on English, rather than based on standard French.

Origin

1930s: from French, literally 'copy, tracing', from calquer 'to trace', via Italian from Latin calcare 'to tread'.

单词	calque
释义	calque /kalk / Linguistics noun another term for loan translation.A calque or loan-translation is a borrowing of a compound word from another language where each component is translated into native words and then joined together.... In either case, English-speakers may have adopted the phrase via a direct, word-for-word translation of the German idiom; linguists call this a calque. So ‘butt naked’ would be a straightforward calque of a common expression whose word for ‘butt’ had dropped out of the language. verb (be calqued on) Originate or function as a loan translation of: ‘it goes without saying’ is calqued on French ‘cela va sans dire’... Besides, even when the new meanings of existing words were calqued on cognate words in other languages. The most plausible explanation of its origin seems to be that it came in via American English, calqued on German ‘hoffentlich’. He is aware that the French in the above poem is purposefully calqued on English, rather than based on standard French. Origin 1930s: from French, literally 'copy, tracing', from calquer 'to trace', via Italian from Latin calcare 'to tread'. Rhymes talc
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