good riddance
英語
[编辑]外語每日一詞 – 2025年7月24日
詞源
[编辑]源自 good + riddance (“擺脫或移除的行為；涉及去除某物的解脫”)，最初见于a great riddance、a fair riddance[1]或gentle riddance[2]之类的短语。比威廉·莎士比亚更早的使用是在 1597 年 8 月 3 日伯尔勋爵给罗伯特·塞西尔爵士的一封信中，该信出现在与爱尔兰有关的国家文件中第364页——“or in good riddance”。[3]
后期则见于莎士比亚的悲剧作品《特洛伊羅斯與克瑞西達》的第2幕第1场。[4]
發音
[编辑]- (標準英音) 國際音標(幫助): /ˌɡʊd ˈɹɪd(ə)n(t)s/
- (通用美式) 國際音標(幫助): /ˌɡʊd ˈɹɪdn̩(t)s/
音頻 (通用美式)： (檔案) 音頻 (澳大利亞)： (檔案) - 斷字：good rid‧dance
感嘆詞
[编辑]- 用于表达对某人或某事物离去的欣慰、喜悦等
- 近義詞：good riddings
- I couldn’t be more glad to see the back of them. Good riddance, I say.
- 我看到他們離開再高興不過了。好走不送，我說。
- Goodbye and good riddance!
- 再见，再也不见！
- Template:RQ:Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress
- 1859 January 1 (date written)，James Brown Kendall，“Letter to J. W. B., on His Giving Up His School and Becoming Representative”, in Poems，Framingham, Mass.: J. C. Clark, […], 出版於 1878, →OCLC，頁s 48–49:
- And the nephew says good riddance, / And the uncle says good riddance, / And the Aunt, she says good riddance, / And the cousins say good riddance, / All the household in a chorus, / Singing in a household chorus, / Bid the boys good bye, and also— / Bid the boys good riddance also, / "No more walking says the uncle— / Walking up and down the school room / Teaching little boys their letters, / Bothering my brains with school boys, / Bothering their brains with letters.["]
- 姪子說走得好，/ 叔叔說走得好，/ 阿姨，她說走得好，/ 表兄弟們說走得好，/ 全家人齊聲說，/ 在家庭合唱中唱著，/ 向男孩們道別，還有—— / 也向男孩們說走得好，/ 「叔叔說不用再走來走去—— / 在教室裡走來走去 / 教小男孩們字母，/ 讓我的腦袋被學童煩擾，/ 讓他們的腦袋被字母煩擾。」
- 2020年8月4日，Richard Conniff，“They may Look Goofy, but Ostriches are Nobody’s Fool”, in National Geographic[2]，Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 出版於 September 2020, →ISSN, →OCLC，存檔自the original on 2021-02-27:
- After 50 years of farming, [Maurice] Fisch too has left the ostrich business, and says good riddance. […] Ostriches, says Fisch, are "stupid birds that just had nice feathers."
- 經營了50年農場後，[莫里斯]費施也離開了鴕鳥業，並說再也不見。 […] 費施說，鴕鳥是「只是羽毛好看的笨鳥」。
用法說明
[编辑]- 此詞幾乎總是帶有負面含義。
同類詞彙
[编辑]派生詞彙
[编辑]名詞
[编辑]good riddance (複數 good riddances)
- 受人歡迎的離去
- 近義詞：(棄用) fair riddance、(棄用) gentle riddance、good riddings
- 1597 August 13 (date written; Gregorian calendar)，Thomas Burgh, 3rd Baron Burgh，“The Lord Deputy Burgh to Sir Robert Cecil”, in Calendar of the State Papers, Relating to Ireland, of the Reign of Elizabeth, 1596, July – 1597, December. […]，卷 [VI], Nendeln, Eschen, Leichtenstein: Kraus Reprint, Kraus-Thomson Organization, 出版於 1974, →OCLC, paragraph 72，頁 364:
- The fortification whereof he last advertised has required more time than he expected, "or in good riddance needed."
- 他最後通報的防禦工事需要的時間比預期的要長，「或者說在順利擺脫中需要的時間」。
- Template:RQ:Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida Q1
- 1701，Marcus Antoninus [i.e., Marcus Aurelius]，“Book X”, in Jeremy Collier（譯者）, The Emperor Marcus Antoninus His Conversation with Himself. […]，London: […] Richard Sare, […], →OCLC, paragraph XXXVI，頁 200:
- There's no Body ſo Happy in his Family and Friends, but that ſome of them vvhen they ſee him going, vvill vviſh for a good Riddance, and almoſt keep a Holy Day for his Death: […]
- 沒有人在家庭和朋友方面如此幸福，以至於當他們看到他離開時，其中一些人不會希望有個好的解脫，並幾乎為他的死亡守聖日： […]
- Template:RQ:Dickens Dombey and Son
- Template:RQ:Dickens Great Expectations
- 2003，Herbert Zincke, with Scott A. Mills，“Never Enough to Eat: January 1, 1944, to October 31, 1944”, in Mitsui Madhouse: Memoir of a U.S. Army Air Corps POW in World War II，Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN，頁 105:
- Lt. Saito and Bucktooth Kasuya left camp on October 12—good riddances. But Saito was back twelve days later and decided the barracks area of my chow section was not clean enough. Shiozawa had me sweep it up.
- 齋藤中尉和暴牙春日於10月12日離開營地——走得好。但齋藤12天後回來了，認為我所負責伙食區的營房區域不夠乾淨。鹽澤讓我把它掃乾淨。
用法說明
[编辑]- 此詞幾乎總是帶有負面含義。
參考資料
[编辑]- ↑ See, for example, Tho[mas] Middleton ([c. 1611?] (date written)年) No Wit, No Help Like a Womans. A Comedy, […]，London： […] Humphrey Moseley, […], 出版于1657，OCLC 83327188, Act II，第 58 頁:“Mr Low. They have given thee all the ſlip. / Mrs Low. So a fair riddance!”
- ↑ See, for example, W[illiam] Shakespeare (c. 1596–1598 (date written)) The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. […] (First Quarto)，[London]： […] J[ames] Roberts [for Thomas Heyes], 出版于1600，OCLC 24594216, Act II, scene vii, signature [D4], recto:“A gentle riddance, dravv the curtaines, goe, / Let all of his complection chooſe me ſo.”
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Gary Martin (1997–年)，“Good riddance”，The Phrase Finder, 取回于26 February 2017.
延伸閱讀
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good Riddance (disambiguation)在英語維基百科上的資料。維基百科 en- “a good (†fair, †gentle) riddance, good riddance” under “riddance, n.”，OED Online
，Oxford, Oxfordshire：Oxford University Press，March 2024年 - “good riddance, phrase”，Lexico，Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press，2019–present年.
- Gary Martin (1997–年)，“Good riddance”，The Phrase Finder, 取回于26 February 2017.
- “good riddance”in the《Cambridge English Dictionary》in the，Cambridge:Cambridge University Press。
- “good riddance to somebody” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
