| 词组 | glamour |
| 释义 | glamour 1. Glamour has an interesting history. It originated as a Scottish derivative of grammar that meant "a magic spell"—a sense attributable to the former popular association of scholarly knowledge with occult practices. The OED indicates that it was "introduced into the literary language" by Sir Walter Scott in the early 19th century. By the middle ofthe 1800s, it had acquired the meaning "a magical or illusory beauty or charm," from which sense developed its now common use to describe the kind of dazzling appeal associated with movie stars and fashion models. Its former connotations of magic have now been largely replaced by connotations of glitter: • ... shuns the glitz and glamour of the world he creates —Rebecca Bricker, People, 22 Nov. 1982 • ... intoxicated by the glamour of show business — Molly Haskell, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 30 Oct. 1983 • ... retains her model's figure and glamour —William E. Geist, N. Y. Times Mag, 8 Apr. 1984 • To the outsider the city has more glamour than ever —William E. Blundell, Wall Street Jour., 9 May 1986 A few commentators (such as Bernstein 1965) have regretted seeing glamour lose its magic, but the hew uses of the word are far too well established to be seriously controversial. 2. The spelling variant glamor originated in the U.S. on analogy with such other American spellings as honor and odor. Some commentators have been reluctant to accept it as a respectable variant, but our evidence shows that it occurs widely in American periodicals: • ... have built-in glamor —New York, 30 Aug. 1971 • ... glamor and performance —Harper's, May 1972 • ... the glamor of the stage —Wall Street Jour., 19 Nov. 1980 • Has the glamor faded ... ? —Science, 16 Jan. 1981 • White House evenings—glamor, glamor, glamor — Women's Wear Daily, 9 Mar. 1981 Glamour is, however, appreciably more common than glamor in the U.S. and is the only spelling used in Great Britain. |
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