| 词组 | ice cream, ice water |
| 释义 | ice cream, ice water It is sometimes instructive to take a look at the usage issues of the past, so that we may be chastened and not so easily carried away by those of the present. It may be hard to believe that the innocuous terms ice cream and ice water were once a subject of intense scrutiny and cerebration. (They were hyphenated then.) • By mere carelessness in enunciation these compound words have come to be used for iced-water and iced-cream—most incorrectly and with a real confusion of language, if not of thought. For what is called ice-water is not made from ice, but is simply water iced, that is, made cold by ice; and ice-water might be warm, as snow-water often is. Ice-cream is unknown —Richard Grant White 1870 • As for ice-cream, there is no such thing, as ice-cream would be the product of frozen cream, i.e., cream made from ice by melting. What is called ice-cream is cream iced; hence, properly, iced cream and not zee-cream. The product of melted ice is ice-water, whether it be cold or warm; but water made cold with ice is iced water, and not ice-water —Ayres 1881 These paragraphs are the product of intellectual reasoning upon idiom by two important commentators of another age, many of whose other opinions are still kept alive in usage books today. Think about that over your next bowl of ice cream or glass of ice water. |
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