英语词源
- folk-etymology (n.)
- 1890; see folk (n.) + etymology.
By Folk-etymology is meant the influence exercised upon words, both as to their form and meaning, by the popular use and misuse of them. In a special sense, it is intended to denote the corruption which words undergo, owing either to false ideas about their derivation, or to a mistaken analogy with other words to which they are supposed to be related. [The Rev. A. Smythe Palmer, "Folk-Etymology," 1890]
权威例句
- 1. The word "volk" translates literally as "folk"
- volk这个单词直译过来为folk（人们）。
- 2. The folk-song world was another of his abiding interests.
- 民歌是他的另一个始终不渝的爱好。
- 3. Jack was a folk hero in the Greenwich Village bars.
- 在格林尼治村的酒吧里杰克是人们心目中的英雄。
- 4. A military band played Russian marches and folk tunes.
- 一支军乐队演奏了俄罗斯的进行曲与民乐。
- 5. I don't know what those folk think they are playing at.
- 真不知道那些家伙在搞什么鬼。