| 释义 |
-stan, comb. form Freq. humorous.
Brit. |stæn|, |stɑːn|, U.S. |stæn|
[‹ -stan (in the names of various (especially Central Asian) countries, as e.g. Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, etc.: see stan n.). Compare -istan comb. form and earlier stan n.
In Whitestan in quot. 1960 immediately after Bantustan n.]
Used as the second element in fictitious place names with the sense ‘the notional realm or domain dominated by or centred around——’, ‘a world typified or characterized by——’.
Sometimes implying resemblance to (aspects of) Asian or Islamic culture.
1960E. G. Malherbe in H. Spottiswoode S. Afr. 145 However much we may cut it up into ‘Bantustans’ and ‘Whitestans’, South Africa will have to remain an interlinked economic and political unity. 1970Post 6 Dec. 20 They want their own Homostan where they can do what they like. 1993R. Hughes Culture of Complaint ii. 101 What poses as ‘radical multiculturalism’ exists in an ignorance of other cultures as profound as that of a West Coast car-salesman newly appointed as the U.S. Ambassador to Somewherestan in the 60s. 2003Observer 16 Nov. i. 29/4, I want Bush to stop tolerating the nastystans of Central Asia. |