malapropism
n. 文字的错用
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The blundering use of an absurdly inappropriate word or expression in place of a similar-sounding one.
不可数 可数The script employed malapropism to great effect.
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An instance of this; malaprop.
可数 不可数The translator matched every malapropism in the original with one from his own language.
The humor comes from all the malapropisms.
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From the name of Mrs. Malaprop, a character in the play The Rivals (1775) by Richard Brinsley Sheridan + -ism. As dramatic characters in English comic plays of this time often had allusive names, it is likely that Sheridan fashioned the name from malapropos (“inappropriate; inappropriately”), from French mal à propos. Mrs. Malaprop is perhaps the best-known example of a familiar comedic character archetype who unintentionally substitutes inappropriate but like-sounding words that take on a ludicrous meaning when used incorrectly.
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