| 词组 | cum |
| 释义 | cum Cum is a Latin preposition that was taken over into English in the second half of the 19th century. Because it is Latin, it is considered snobbish by Flesch 1964 and as pretentious and intellectually ostentatious by Copperud 1964, 1970, 1980. In his 1980 edition Copperud worries further about its puzzling those who do not know Latin. The examples below indicate that journalists and other writers need have no concern about the word's being widely understood. The matter of intellectual ostentation is for individual judgment, of course. Cum is used in two ways in English: as an ordinary preposition and as a sort of combining word attached to the preceding and following nouns or adjectives by hyphens. Even now it is fairly often italicized, a practice indicating that not all writers feel it is fully English. Since our commentators concentrated on the hyphenated form, we will illustrate that first: • ... whoops it up with them in the saloon-cum-cat-house —John Simon, New York, 31 May 1976 • ... gives the role a tough-cww-innocent quality — Arnold Hano, TV Guide, 21 Apr. 1979 • ... an engineer-cum-producer who gained his reputation partly through the Hendrix albums —Chris Hodenfield, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 1972 • ... doing a 1929 gangster-movie-cum-musical spoof —Judith Crist, Saturday Rev., 2 Oct. 1976 • ... to grill our hamburger-cum-hotdog supper —Al Statman, N.Y. Times, 15 Dec. 1974 • ... executives on a business-cum-pleasure jaunt — John Godwin, Cosmopolitan, July 1973 • It is true that the notion of Homer as a kind of Moses-cum-Jeeves is not dead —Colin MacLeod, Times Literary Supp., 18 July 1980 As a plain preposition it looks like this: • ... the President threatened the economy with a new oil import fee cum gasoline tax — Wall Street Jour., 15 May 1980 • ... a fashionable restaurant cum boutique on the East Side —John Corry, N.Y. Times, 20 Apr. 1977 • Her full-throttle delivery of nostalgia cum schlock — Patricia Burstein, People, 30 June 1975 • ... parents' traditional educational cum recreational functions —Richard Schickel, Harper's, April 1971 • ... also visited the Maharajah, cum Governor, in his palace —John Kenneth Galbraith, Ambassador's Journal, 1969 Cum looks standard to us in a considerable variety of contexts. |
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