| 词组 | clone |
| 释义 | clone Clone is such a recent and useful addition to the general vocabulary from the realm of science that even though it receives brief mention in Reader's Digest 1983 and Harper 1985, no one seems to disparage it even as the "popularized technicality" it is. Until the 1970s clone was found mostly in scientific contexts. It may have reached the general public through science fiction: • The clone is the most terrifying monster to come to life in science fiction for a long time —Publishers Weekly, 1 Nov. 1965 At any rate, by the mid-1970s the term was catching on: • In Boston, while the President is making a speech, a body is found—the exact double of the President, even to fingerprints. This has happened once before. Who is in the White House? The real thing? A clone? —Newgate Callendar, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 29 Aug. 1976 Applied to people, clone can be neutral, but it is normally at least faintly derogatory. Sometimes it is decidedly pejorative: • There's a whole new legion of Brooke Shields clones coming along —John Peden, quoted in N. Y. Times, 26 May 1980 • ... Peter Lorre and Sidney Greenstreet clones out to commit dastardly acts —Pat Sellers, US, 28 Sept. 1982 • The picknicking K.C.s, until he got up close, resembled clones —Noel Perrin, N. Y. Times Book Rev., 6 Sept. 1981 • What I like about Christine is that she's not a clone. She isn't one of those airheads you usually see on the tube —King Harris, quoted in People, 15 Nov. 1982 The word tends to be pejorative when applied to such things as movies, television shows, and such: • ... an increase in "me too" publishing, the issuance of volumes that are clones of books that have been selling well —Ray Walters, NY. Times Book Rev., 27 Dec. 1981 • Clones of his broad-shouldered, man-tailored casual look have been appearing in almost every collection since the fall —Bernadine Morris, NY. Times, 15 Mar. 1984 Clone is used as a verb, too. • ... tend to look as though they were cloned rather than recruited —Berkeley Rice, NY. Times Mag., 30 May 1976 • ... someone has cloned Farrah Fawcett-Majors and Donny Osmond and sent them to newsrooms all over America —Ron Nessen, TV Guide, 8 Dec. 1978 • ... no less than three of his Japanese classics have been cloned in the West —Dianna Waggoner, People, 21 Oct. 1980 • ... set out in 1959 to clone a nationwide chain of Burger Kings from their five stores in Florida —Lee Smith, Fortune, 16 June 1980 Clone's popularity shows no sign of abating at present. Perhaps all we need to do is to remind you that it often carries a pejorative overtone. |
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