功能的转变(下)

• 作 者: 西米恩·波特 杨希都
• 出 处: 现代外语
• 发表日期: 1981年04期
• 关键词: 丘陵 古英语 塞克 parents downs 白垩 萨里 动词 形容词 在北方

多重转化一个词可以不止一次地转变其功能。比如在in North and South Downs(在北方和南方的丘陵中)里,down的意义是“hill”(小山;丘陵)。就是那在英格兰东南的肯特、萨里和索塞克斯等郡内从东到西延伸的两条白垩丘陵。可以说“My parents nowlive on the downs.”(我的双亲现在住在北方丘陵草原上)。从词组of down,古英语是

Multiple conversions of a word can change its function more than once. For example, in the North and South Downs (in the hills north and south), down means “hill” (hill; hills). That is, two chalk hills stretching east to west in the counties of Kent, Surrey and Sessex in southeastern England. It can be said “My parents nowlive on the downs.” (My parents now live in the northern hilly grasslands). From the phrase of down, Old English is