单词 | Hobson-Jobson |
释义 | Hobson-Jobson /hob"seuhn job"seuhn/, n. the alteration of a word or phrase borrowed from a foreign language to accord more closely with the phonological and lexical patterns of the borrowing language, as in English hoosegow from Spanish juzgado. [1625-35; Anglo-Indian rendering of Ar ya Hasan, ya Husayn lament uttered during ta'ziyah; an example of such an alteration] |
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