cut of one's jib
英语[编辑]
词源[编辑]
源自cut (“样子，风格”)和jib (“艏三角帆”)，原为航海用语[1]，指通过帆的形状来辨别远处航行的船只。[2]俗语意可能是因为三角帆形似人的鼻子而产生。[3]
发音[编辑]
名词[编辑]
cut of one's jib (複數 cut of their jibs 或 cuts of their jibs)
- (俗語，過時) （人的） 外貌，外表，风格 （自19世纪初叶）
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- 1896, Robert Barr, 章號 XIII, 出自 A Woman Intervenes: Or The Mistress of the Mine, New York, N.Y., London: Frederick A[bbott] Stokes Company, →OCLC，頁號 122:
- I have seen that girl on the deck, and I like the cut of her jib. I like the way she walks. Her independence suits me.
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- 1911, John Oxenham [pseudonym; William Arthur Dunkerley], “An Unexpected Guest”, 出自 The Coil of Carne, Toronto, Ont.: The Copp, Clark Co., →OCLC，頁號 157:
- Jack thinks, by the cut of their jibs, they were Frenchmen, one an officer and the other his servant.
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- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 13: Nausicaa]”, 出自 Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey]，頁號 351:
- Mr Bloom watched her as she limped away. Poor girl! That's why she's left on the shelf and the others did a sprint. Thought something was wrong by the cut of her jib. Jilted beauty. A defect is ten times worse in a woman.
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- 1934, John Masefield, The Taking of the Gry, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC，頁號 22:
- We were drawn together from the first as young men will be: we liked the cuts of each other's jibs: we were both sailors (and there is only one sea-service in spite of the guns and gold-lace) and then the far distant dim relationship gave us the feeling that many of the barriers, of race and faith and custom, were down from between us.
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- 1959, Ken Jones, “The Eagles Gather”, 出自 Destroyer Squadron 23: Combat Exploits of Arleigh Burke’s Gallant Force, Philadelphia, Pa., New York, N.Y.: Book Division, Chilton Company, →OCLC，頁號 60:
- "By the cut of their jibs I shall know them!" That's the way Ham Hamberger summed it up as he looked ahead to his coming battle employment, and speculated upon those with whom he would be called upon to serve—not knowing. And by the cut of their jibs he did know them when the time came, and they him, […]
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- 2003 June, Ted Bell, 章號 42, 出自 Hawke […], New York, N.Y.: Atria Books, →ISBN，頁號 277:
- "You don't like me much, do you?" / "Let's just say I don't like the cut of your jib, Mr. Tate."
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用法说明[编辑]
常作构式“to like (or dislike) the cut of someone’s jib”。
参考资料[编辑]
- ↑ 对比“the cut of one’s jib” under “jib, n.1”, OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2023; “the cut of someone’s jib” under “jib1, n.”, Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- ↑ 例子见J[ames] W[ilkes] Maurice (19 June 1805 (date written)), “Official Account of the Loss of the Diamond Rock. [Letter to Rear-Admiral Alexander Cochrane。]”, The Naval Chronicle for 1806: […], 卷XV, London: […] Joyce Gold, […]; [a]nd sold by Messrs. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, [et al.], 出版于1806, OCLC 1267640132, 页125: “On the 16th of May, at half-past-seven in the morning, saw a large ship rounding Point Saline, and from her appearance I plainly saw she was a ship of the line, and from the cut of her sails an enemy.”
- ↑ Gary Martin (1997–), “Cut of your jib”, The Phrase Finder, 取回于26 February 2017.
