pun
英 [pʌn]美 [pʌn]- vi. 说双关语；说俏皮话
- n. 双关语；俏皮话
- vt. 捣实敲打
- n. (Pun)人名；(柬)本；(泰)汶
助记提示
1. 对比：pan, pen, pin, pon-, pun.2. 谐音“判”---判官----判双关-----判一语双关----判词一语双关。
3. pound => pun.
4. p- -un (字母u、n正好是双向倒置，它们就像是两个通道，但是通道的末尾都被堵死了、被关上了，是不是非常形象地表达了“双关”的意境啊) => pun <= 盼双关。
5. p- (pipe) -un (形象“双关”) =》pun: 双向的管道都被关了。
6. 段子手 =》 punster.
中文词源
pun 双关语词源不详，可能缩写自拉丁语punctum,点，刺点，词源同point,punch.
英文词源
punpun: [17] Snappy monosyllables produced by breaking off a piece of a longer word were all the rage in late 17th- and early 18th-century England (mob is a well-known example), and it is thought that pun may be one of them. It seems to be short for pundigrion, a short-lived fanciful 17th- and 18th-century term for a ‘pun’ or ‘quibble’ which may have been adapted from Italian puntiglio ‘nice point, quibble’ (source of English punctilious).pun (n.)1660s (first attested in Dryden), of uncertain origin, perhaps from pundigron, which is perhaps a humorous alteration of Italian puntiglio "equivocation, trivial objection," diminutive of Latin punctum "point." This is pure speculation. The verb also is attested from 1660s. Related: Punned; punning.
Pun was prob. one of the clipped words, such as cit, mob, nob, snob, which came into fashionable slang at or after the Restoration. [OED]
双语例句
1. He is a master of the pun and the double entendre.他出口就是俏皮话，说话下流不带脏字。来自柯林斯例句
2. We‘re banking on them lending us the money—no pun intended!我们正指望他们借给我们钱呢—bank绝无双关之意！来自《权威词典》
3. The slogan is a pun on the name of the product.那广告用语与其产品名称一语双关。来自辞典例句
4. The slogan was a pun on the name of the product.那广告用语与其产品名称一语双关.来自辞典例句
5. There are two kinds of puns, phonetic pun and semantic pun.双关语分为谐音双关和语义双关两类.