false friend

短语

假朋友, 不忠实的朋友

发音

UK /ˌfɒls ˈfɹɛnd/
UK /ˌfɔːls ˈfɹɛnd/
AU
US /ˌfɔls ˈfɹɛnd/
US /ˌfɑls ˈfɹɛnd/

词形变化

false friends 复数 false friends

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see false, friend.

  2. 2.

    A word in a language that bears a deceptive resemblance to a word in another language but in fact has a different meaning.

    伪友

    假友

    假等义

    假朋友

    同形异义词

    语言学

    A word and its false friend may well be etymologically related: in such cases semantic shifts have made them drift apart.

词源

Calque of French faux-ami, from the longer phrase faux amis du traducteur (“false friends of a translator”), first used by Maxime Kœssler and Jules Derocquigny in 1928 in their book Les Faux Amis ou les trahisons du vocabulaire anglais (False Friends, or the Pitfalls of the English Vocabulary).

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