英语词汇“tmesis”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

tmesis

/ˈtmiːsɪs

noun (plural tmeses /ˈtmiːsiːz/) [mass noun]

The separation of parts of a compound word by an intervening word or words, used mainly in informal speech for emphasis (e.g. can’t find it any-blooming-where).Isn't phrasal tmesis a syntactic equivalent of those ‘specious lines of play’ his books are filled with?...

But my abso-bloody-lutely favourite way of swearing is to use bastardised tmesis - the splitting up of a compound word into parts, and then slotting a rude word in the middle.
A master of so many poetic devices, Humbert riddles the narrative with instances of tmesis, the figure Hartman identifies as the epitome of poetry's elided middles and overspecified ends.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Greek tmēsis 'cutting', from temnein 'to cut'.

单词	tmesis
释义	tmesis /ˈtmiːsɪs / noun (plural tmeses /ˈtmiːsiːz/) [mass noun] The separation of parts of a compound word by an intervening word or words, used mainly in informal speech for emphasis (e.g. can’t find it any-blooming-where).Isn't phrasal tmesis a syntactic equivalent of those ‘specious lines of play’ his books are filled with?... But my abso-bloody-lutely favourite way of swearing is to use bastardised tmesis - the splitting up of a compound word into parts, and then slotting a rude word in the middle. A master of so many poetic devices, Humbert riddles the narrative with instances of tmesis, the figure Hartman identifies as the epitome of poetry's elided middles and overspecified ends. Origin Mid 16th century: from Greek tmēsis 'cutting', from temnein 'to cut'.
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