| 词组 | slay |
| 释义 | slay The surviving and normal past tense of slay is slew (for an inkling of the huge variety of alternatives that once was, see the OED), and the past participle slain. • ... he slew twenty-nine adversaries in his lifetime — Robert Penn Warren, Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back, 1980 • ... the Japanese swordsmen who are indifferent to getting slain —Flannery O'Connor, letter, 25 Nov. 1960 There is also a regular form stayed. It is sparsely attested as a dialectal form in the American Dialect Dictionary. Roberts 1954 and Longman 1988 note, and our evidence confirms, that it is usual with the showbiz sense "to be a great hit with" (stodgily defined in dictionaries as "overwhelm"): • ... it turns out Harold and Maude just slayed 'em in Japan —Ruth Gordon, quoted in People, 13 Oct. 1980 Slayed as the past tense for the "kill" sense seems to occur occasionally in speech. The professional wrestler Hulk Hogan, for one large example, used it while doing a little pre-fight boasting for publicity in 1985 or 1986: "You're a dragon, Piper ... and you're gonna be slayed." It is also sparsely attested in print. A 1962 children's book of Greek myths had "Cadmus easily slayed it," and slayed was used in a prominent headline in an advertisement run in several national magazines in 1985. But slayed cannot be considered established in such use. Whether it eventually becomes established remains to be seen. |
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