| 词组 | pajamas, pyjamas |
| 释义 | pajamas, pyjamas Until the early 20th century, in the United States the spelling pajamas vied with the spelling pyjamas. However, pajamas is now the usual American spelling and pyjamas is the British: • ... a silent, distrustful crowd of villagers gathered in their ragged black pajamas and wide conical hats — Darrell Berrigan, Saturday Evening Post, 12 Nov. 1955 • ... old women in black pajamas, hair pulled back — Peggy Seeger & Diane Alexander, N.Y. Times, 13 Apr. 1975 • ... the bed was turned back and a suit of remarkably brilliant pyjamas ... was laid out —Ngaio Marsh, Colour Scheme, 1943 • ... perhaps it was the colour of his pyjamas —Graham Greene, Travels with My Aunt, 1969 Exceptions, of course, can occur: • The Professor in pyjamas was not an unpleasant sight —Willa Cather, The Professor's House, 1925 • ... a pair of puce pajamas newly laundered — Anthony Burgess, MF, 1971 Perhaps the biggest categorical exception occurs in contemporary American advertising, where the spelling pyjamas is found with some regularity, perhaps for snob appeal; even so, the spelling pajamas can be found in the same publications: • Evening pyjamas made for us alone —advt., Vogue, June 1982 • ... silky black jersey hostess pyjamas —catalog, Horchow, July-August 1982 • ... takes Polyester Georgette into a tea length dress and evening pajamas —caption, Vogue, May 1985 |
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