false friend

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌfɒls ˈfɹɛnd/|/ˌfɔːls ˈfɹɛnd/    美 /ˌfɔls ˈfɹɛnd/|/ˌfɑls ˈfɹɛnd/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A word in a language that bears a deceptive resemblance to a word in another language but in fact has a different meaning.
    — A word and its false friend may well be etymologically related: in such cases semantic shifts have made them drift apart.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see false, friend.

词形变化

false friends plural

词源

Calque of French faux-ami, from the longer phrase faux amis du traducteur (“false friends of a translator”), first used by Maxime Kœssler and Jules Derocquigny in 1928 in their book Les Faux Amis ou les trahisons du vocabulaire anglais (False Friends, or the Pitfalls of the English Vocabulary).
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