| 单词 | kenning |
| 例句 | She sang in improvised kennings, recited emphatic lyrics in English and Japanese, and moved between extremes of sound. Review: Modern Sky Festival Unites Budding Stars (Song Dongye) and Celebrities (Yoko Ono) 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z “It sounds bizarre,” Roberta said, “but it’s what people spoke in Britain in the early medieval period. And there are these beautiful things called kennings in the poetry.” Letter of Recommendation: Old English 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z In Old Norse and Old English, kennings—compound words such as “bone-house” or “whale-road”—provided a metaphorical, poetic alternative to nouns. At a loss for words? Join the Bureau of Linguistical Reality 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z The king is not the “cunning or the kenning” man, and his contempt for “logic-choppers” and “word-mongers” does not commend him to such as value the theoretical above the practical. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z Mattie was grown almost out of “kenning,” as the Scotch say. Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers 2011-12-12T03:00:34.923Z How could he speak out all that he wanted to say, kenning my father! The Twa Miss Dawsons 2011-12-05T03:00:37.413Z At the bar that night with Roberta, I got it immediately: These kennings were metaphors of circumlocution, a way to talk around the thing you want to represent. Letter of Recommendation: Old English 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z I thocht on this, for his voice was mournfu', though I couldna understand the words; and, kenning he was a stranger in a far land, my bowels yearned within me with compassion towards him. Amusing Prose Chap Books 2011-06-27T02:01:05.043Z He is famed on the other side of whaleroad, as the Anglo-Saxon kennings called the ocean, for books of a more indoors nature, among them studies of Oscar Wilde and Noël Coward. 2010-02-14T05:00:00Z “There’s things it’s best to put off kenning as lang as we can.” The Little Minister The two shook hands heartily—each “kenning a man when he saw him.” The Twa Miss Dawsons 2011-12-05T03:00:37.413Z Most Old English poetry, which is where kennings are found, is nothing like the Medieval Times version of the Middle Ages, with knights and ladies and jousting. Letter of Recommendation: Old English 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z In the early days the fili is represented as employing a mysterious archaic form of speech—doubtless full of obscure kennings—which was only intelligible to the initiated. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" "I wish there was a summat to eat up their drovers," said another; "a plain Englishman canna make bread with a kenning of them." International Short Stories English Thorkelin knew nothing of the peculiar style of Old English poetry; he could recognize neither kenning, metaphor, nor compound. The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography But Willie had told his sister of his friend’s success in other directions, and he gave the Americans credit for “kenning a good man when they saw him.” Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not None of that is explained, exactly — it’s just there in the kenning. Letter of Recommendation: Old English 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z You’ll scorn me, as I often scorn myself: But, kenning the worst, in my heart of hearts, I hanker ... Krindlesyke Many and beautiful are the epithets or kennings which he applies to God, taken in part from the Bible, and in part from the imagery of the not wholly extinct heathen mythology. Andreas: The Legend of St. Andrew He was the first to recognize the significance of kenning, metaphor, and compound. The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography Let her and him gang to the Cuttle Well, as Aaron and me went, kenning no guile and thinking none, and with their arms round one another's waists. Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood There are ways of expressing feeling in the Old English kennings that do not exist in the formal English of today. Letter of Recommendation: Old English 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z I asked, maybe a kenning sharper than ordinary. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 The antiquity of part at least of this story is proved by the kenning “Hagbard's collar” for halter, in a poem probably of the tenth century. The Edda, Volume 2 The Heroic Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 13 The passages which the translator has omitted are not the obscure episodes or the long digressions, but the metaphors, the parenthetical phrases, and especially kennings and similar appositives. The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography But there are no kennings of the same sort in the poem, and the line would have no meaning. The Edda, Volume 1 The Divine Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 12 Even if I were to dream up some delicious new portmanteau here — some melding of “history,” “poignant” and “solitude,” say — I still would not be creating a true kenning. Letter of Recommendation: Old English 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z Pluck up a good spirit, boys, 'tis within a kenning. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 These kennings add much imaginative suggestiveness to the otherwise over-terse style, and often contribute to the grim irony which is another outstanding trait. A History of English Literature He that is ill of his harbery, is good of his way kenning. Collection of Scotch Proverbs I wish I could set her on again without this blood-sucker kenning what I am doing. The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 In kenning of the shore, Thanks to God first given, O you, the happiest men, Be frolic then; Let cannons roar, Frighting the wide heaven. Anne Bradstreet and Her Time "There's things it's best to put off kenning as lang as we can." The Little Minister "An' fat the better wad you be for the kenning o' this, man?" said he. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner |
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