| 词组 | blond, blonde |
| 释义 | blond, blonde Do you use blond or blonde? Both? Do you reserve blonde for female applications and blond for male ones? Do you make no distinction? The e meant feminine in the Middle French word which was brought into English, but its force is somewhat weaker in English. We have studied fourteen handbooks offering occasionally conflicting advice to help you choose between blond and blonde; rather than try to untangle their various formulas, we will simply describe what our most recent evidence shows. Blonde, when used as a noun of a human, is currently used only of females: • Promise Land, a blonde who lives up to her blissful name —Alan Bold, Times Literary Supp., 27 Nov. 1981 • ... her lightest, funniest performance, rivalled only by her dippy blonde in "Beat the Devil" —Elizabeth Tallent, New Yorker, 10 Jan. 1983 Blond, when used as a noun of a human, is currently used of either males or females: • ... got off the plane with an incredible looking blond in tow—Seieina Marlow —Jeremy Bernstein, American Scholar, Winter 1981/1982 • ... the lanky blond lies across the bed, his wrists tied to the bedpost —John Stark, People, 13 Aug. 1984 The blond spelling is applied slightly more often to males than to females. As an adjective applied to humans, blonde is used of both males and females, but more often of females: • ... her streaked blonde hair swept up in a hive — James Atlas, Atlantic, April 1982 • He shakes his blonde, layered locks —Rochelle Cha-dakoff, US, 8 June 1982 • A handsome blonde lady —William Weber Johnson, Smithsonian, March 1983 • He was a Northern Frenchman, very blonde —Richard Cobb, The Listener, 18 July 1974 • Out fell six nude photographs of a blonde girl — Cape Times (South Africa), 1 Feb. 1975 As an adjective applied to humans, blond is used of both males and females: • ... the tall, blue-eyed blond Dutch actor Rutger Hauer —Pauline Kael, New Yorker, 12 July 1982 • The girl—she looked about twenty—was slim and blond and beautiful —Berton Roueché, New Yorker, 28 Dec. 1981 • ... the blond boys —People, 13 Feb. 1984 • ... the blond actress who plays one of her two daughters —David Gritten, People, 4 Oct. 1982 • ... the "British Blondes," a popular troupe of women entertainers. Thanks to them, blond hair for the first time became a mark of feminine beauty — Carl N. Degler, N. Y. Times Book Rev., 17 Apr. 1983 • ... a lovely blond Englishwoman —G. Y. Dryansky, Town & Country, April 1984 The adjective blond, like blonde, is more often applied to females than males. When the word is applied to a nonhuman object, you can use either spelling. Here are two things to which it is applied—wood and beer: • ... blond wooden tables —Katharine Andres, New Yorker, 9 Jan. 1984 • Blonde wood handles —Crate & Barrel Catalogue, Spring and Summer 1981 • In a blond beer —Norman S. Roby, Cuisine, August 1983 • ... blonde barley beer —Peter Dragadze, Town & Country, April 1983 In sum, the adjective is applied more often to females than males in both spellings. The noun blonde is used of females; the noun blond, of both sexes. You can use either spelling for nonhuman objects. See also brunet, brunette. |
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