- 1近音誤用（用了聽起來像、意思卻完全不對的詞，往往很好笑）
A malapropism is a funny slip where you reach for a word and come out with another that sounds like it but means something quite different — “for all intensive purposes” instead of “intents and purposes,” or a character saying “ him from your memory” when they mean “obliterate.” The laugh comes from the near-miss: the wrong word is not nonsense, just wildly the wrong tool.
A malapropismMalapropism is a funny slip是一種好笑的口誤 where you reach for a word你想找一個字 and come out with another that sounds like it but means something quite different結果冒出另一個聽起來很像、但意思完全不同的字 "for all intensive purposes"「for all intensive purposes」 instead of "intents and purposes,"而不是「intents and purposes」 or a character saying "illiterate him from your memory"或某個角色說「illiterate him from your memory」 when they mean "obliterate."其實想說的是「obliterate」 The laugh comes from the near-miss好笑的地方在於那個「差一點」 the wrong word is not nonsense講錯的字不是亂講一通 just wildly the wrong tool只是完全用錯了工具
English took the name from Mrs Malaprop, a comic character in Sheridan’s play The Rivals (1775), who kept doing exactly this. of that time often gave characters names that hinted at their fault; Sheridan probably built Malaprop from malapropos, “not to the point,” from French mal à propos.
English took the name from Mrs Malaprop英文把這個名字取自Mrs Malaprop a comic character in Sheridan's play The Rivals (1775)是Sheridan(謝里丹)劇作The Rivals(1775)裡的一個喜劇角色 who kept doing exactly this她老是這樣講錯話 Playwrights of that time often gave characters names that hinted at their fault那個年代的劇作家常常給角色取一個暗示他們毛病的名字 Sheridan probably built Malaprop from malapropos, "not to the point," from French mal à proposSheridan可能是從malapropos（「不切題」，來自法文mal à propos）造出Malaprop這個名字的
The word is a little ; teachers and use it. A plain wrong word with no sound-alikeness is just a mistake, not a malapropism. Children and tired adults make them; so do people showing off a long word they have not quite got hold of.
The word這個字 is a little bookish有點書卷氣 teachers and reviewers use it老師和評論家會用 A plain wrong word with no sound-alikeness一個單純講錯、跟原字發音不像的字 is just a mistake, not a malapropism只是個錯誤，不是malapropism Children and tired adults make them小孩和累壞的大人會講出這種話 so do people showing off a long word they have not quite got hold of愛炫耀一個自己還沒完全掌握的長字的人，也會講出這種話
core核心畫面
組成From Mrs Malaprop, a character in Sheridan’s The Rivals (1775), plus -ism. The name was probably fashioned from malapropos (“inappropriate”), from French mal à propos.
同家族的字
- malaproposthe older word meaning “not to the point,” from which the character’s name was probably made
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
malapropismnoun/ˈmæləpɹɒpˌɪzəm/
- 1
The blundering use of an absurdly inappropriate word or expression in place of a similar-sounding one.
- The script employed malapropism to great effect.
- 2
An instance of such use.
- The translator matched every malapropism in the original with one from his own language.
- The humor comes from all the malapropisms.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。