men 的意思
男人; 人们; 男性
men 的词源
men(n.)
man (名词) 的复数形式。与德语的 Männer 等类似,显示出 i-变音 的影响。从古英语晚期起,用作不定代词(“一个,人,他们”)。Men's liberation 首次出现在1970年。Men's room “男士洗手间”出现在1908年,美式英语。早期其意义更为一般:
men's room, n. "One end of this [cook and dining] room is partitioned off for a men's room, where the crew sit evenings, smoking, reading, singing, grinding their axes, telling stories, etc., before climbing the ladder to their night's rest in the bunk room ... For many years women have been employed in [logging] camps as cooks, hence the name men's room, for the crew are not allowed in the cook room except at meal time." [quoted in "Some Lumber and Other Words," in Dialect Notes, vol. II, part VI, 1904]
men's room, n. “这个 [烹饪和就餐] 房间的一端被隔开,作为男士休息室,工作人员晚上在这里抽烟、阅读、唱歌、磨刀、讲故事等,然后爬梯子进入他们的卧铺室 ... 多年来,女性一直在 [伐木] 营地中担任厨师,因此称为男士休息室,因为工作人员不允许在用餐时间以外进入厨师房。” [摘自《Some Lumber and Other Words》,收录于《Dialect Notes》,第二卷,第六部分,1904年]
Menswear(也写作 men's wearseparate the men from the boys 在比喻意义上“区分一群中成熟、有能力等男性与其他人”始于1943年;最早的用法倾向于将其归功于二战中的美国飞行员。
One of the most expressive G.I. terms to come out of the late strife was "that's where they separate the men from the boys" — so stated by American aviators leaning from their cockpits to observe a beach-landing under fire on some Pacific island far below. ["Arts Magazine," 1947]
在战争后期,最生动的G.I.术语之一是“那就是他们区分男士与男孩的地方” — 美国飞行员从驾驶舱俯瞰在敌火下的某个太平洋岛屿海滩登陆时如此描述。[《Arts Magazine》,1947年]
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