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单词 long time no see
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long time no see
l. colloquial (originally U.S.). long time no see: (used esp. as a greeting) ‘it is a long time since we last saw each other’.
[ < Chinese Pidgin English, after Chinese hǎojiǔ bú jiàn ( < hǎojĭu long (time), lit. ‘good long (time)’ + not, no + jiàn to see, meet) and (with a different word for ‘not’) hǎojĭu méi jiàn .
Quot. 1894 appears to reflect indiscriminate attribution of a nonstandard expression to a non-native speaker of English; isolating constructions of this kind do not normally occur in the agglutinating languages of North America.]
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1892 Boston Sunday Globe 24 Jan. 2/3 ‘Goodby, Mamie,’ said Sing... ‘You come back tonight?’ ‘Maybe. I think I go see my mamma to-day. Long time no see,’ answered Mamie, who from constant association had..fallen into the habit of talking pigeon English to the Chinamen. ‘Goodby.’
1894 Boston Daily Globe 18 Feb. 9/1 Come to my tepee. Long time no see. Plenty game in mountains. We kill deer and bear.
1906 Outing Dec. 363/2 Greeting the son of a friend by whose benefits Chan Kow had enabled his extraordinary rise in America... ‘You boy—long time no see—what for?’
1939 R. Chandler in Sat. Evening Post 14 Oct. 72/4 Hi, Tony. Long time no see.
1959 C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 68 Hail, squire... Long time no see.
2002 R. Williams Sing yer Heart out for Lads i. 25 Awright, Mark? Long time no see. Still giving it large in Paddy Land?
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