||1:Most of the inkhornisms survived.||2:These days, English has become so robust that it is no longer the polluted but the polluter.||3:That it now lacks a purist tendency of its own may be less because the British are naturally laissez-faire liberals than because English is the world’s top linguistic dog.||4:It exports words around the globe, often to the alarm of nationalists overseas.||5:They might take some comfort from the fact that English thrived after its controversial mangling .||6:Objectively, borrowing does no harm.||7:But then, such worries are rarely objective to begin with.
||1:大多水墨水主义幸存了下来。||2:如今,英语变得如此强大,以至于它不再是受污染的国家,而是污染者。||3:它现在缺乏自己的纯粹主义倾向,与其说是因为英国人天生就是自由放任的自由主义者,不如说是因为英语是世界上最好的语言宠儿。||4:它向全球输出词汇,常常引起海外民族主义者的警惕。||5:他们可能会从一个事实中得到一些安慰,那就是英语在备受争议的混乱之后蓬勃发展。||6:客观地说,外来词没有害处。||7:但是,这样的担忧很少是客观的。
noun
1.A large machine for ironing sheets or other fabrics, usually when they are damp, using heated rollers.
‘At seven in the evening they broke off to run the hotel linen through the mangle.’
‘The sheets were not ironed but were put through a mangle - like a large wringer - which flattened them.’
2.A machine having two or more rollers turned by a handle, between which wet laundry is squeezed to remove excess moisture.
‘The garden also contains a vintage mechanical washing machine as well as antique ploughs, mangles and bacon slicers.’
‘Mum used a mangle and a washboard so when the washing machine arrived it was a big moment.’
verb
1.Destroy or severely damage by tearing or crushing.
‘the car was mangled almost beyond recognition’
‘Two crushed and mangled pick-up trucks have been flipped on their side.’
2.Press or squeeze with a mangle.
‘the hard household labour often involved pounding clothes in a dolly tub and mangling them with a hand wringer’
3.Ruin or spoil (a text, piece of music, etc.)
‘he was mangling Bach on the piano’
‘But while the validity of moulding the myths from separate classical poems is questionable, he is not the first to mangle the work of Homer in the name of cinema.’
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