ain't是什麼意思匿名使用者 2016-03-13

ain‘t

[eint]

prep。

不是

ain’t

ain‘t

AHD:[³nt]

D。J。[eint]

K。K。[ent]

NONENon-Standard (無詞性)【非標準用語】

Am not。

不是

Used also as a contraction for are not,is not,has not,and have not。

也可用作are not,is not,has not 和 have not 的縮略語

The use of ain’t as a contraction of am not,are not,is not,has not,and have not has a long history,but ain‘t has come to be regarded as a mark of illiteracy and has by now acquired such a stigma that it is beyond any possibility of rehabilitation。However,it is used by educated speakers,for example,when they want to strike a jocular or demotic note,as in fixed expressions like Say it ain’t so or You ain‘t just whistling Dixie。· The stigmatization of ain’t leaves us with no happy alternative for use in first-person questions。The widely used aren‘t ,though illogical,was found acceptable for use in speech by a majority of the Usage Panel in an earlier survey,but in writing there is no acceptable substitute for the admittedly stilted am I not?

ain’t 作為 am not,are not,is not,has not 和 have not 的縮略語的用法已有很長的歷史,但是使用ain‘t 逐漸被認為是文盲的標誌,這一壞名聲目前為止還沒有可能除掉。然而受過教育的人也使用這個詞,例如當他們想達到滑稽或通俗的色彩,如在固定表達Say it ain’t so 或 You ain‘t just whistling Dixie 中。於是ain’t 的壞名聲使我們在第一人稱問句中沒有滿意的替代詞。廣泛使用的anen‘t I 儘管不合邏輯,卻在早期的調查中卻被大多數用法使用小組的成員認為在口語中是可以接受的,但是在書面語中還沒有可以接受的用語來代替公認的不自然用語am I not?