| 释义 |
druther|ˈdrʌðə(r)|
U.S. dialectal alteration of (I, you, etc.) would rather. Hence ˈdruther(s), ˈruther(s), a choice, preference.
1876[see dern a.]. 1895Dialect Notes I. 388 Bein's I caint have my druthers an' set still, I cal'late I'd better pearten up an' go 'long. 1896‘Mark Twain’ Tom Sawyer, Detective ix. 74 ‘Any way you druther have it, that is the way I druther have it. He― .’ ‘There ain't any druthers about it, Huck Finn; nobody said anything about druthers.’ 1941W. A. Percy Lanterns on Levee (1948) xxii. 292 ‘Your ruthers is my ruthers' (what you would rather is what I would rather). Certainly the most amiable and appeasing phrase in any language, the language used being not English but deep Southern. |