| 词组 | fleshly, fleshy |
| 释义 | fleshly, fleshy A few critics, starting with Fowler 1926, distinguish between fleshly and fleshy and warn against confusing them. The two words, the OED shows, have been occasionally synonymous for many years—at least since Chaucer used them both in the sense of "plump." To show the main directions of development while not getting bogged down in unnecessarily specific details, we can say that each word has two main divisions of meaning. The first relates to the flesh as substance, the second to flesh as opposed to the spirit or to what is immaterial. The senses relating to flesh as a substance and its physical attributes have come to predominate with fleshy: • A charming, fleshy, latter-day Jay Gatsby —Aljean Harmetz, N.Y. Times Mag, 5 Oct. 1980 • ... right angles are softened by curves and fleshy pillows —Michael Walker, Metropolitan Home, April 1983 The senses contrasting with spiritual are those that have come to predominate with fleshly: • Paul has to bring these fleshly pagans over to a more ascetic faith —Anthony Burgess, TV Guide, 5 Apr. 1985 • ... this vision of life without tears in a fleshly paradise —Malcolm Muggeridge, in Ronald Reagan, Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation, 1984 There are quite a few instances in which both words can be used similarly, or even synonymously. These uses are well justified historically and are not wrong, but they tend to be counter to what the reader would normally expect. |
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