garden path sentence
名词 n.
英 /ˈɡɑːdən pɑːθ ˈsɛntəns/
美 /ˈɡɑːɹdən pæθ ˈsɛntəns/
英文释义
名词 n.
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A sentence that is easily parsed incorrectly when first read, due to the ambiguity of a word or words.
— Whether a particular construction causes a garden-path effect depends on the specific grammar of the language. For example, the famous example of an English garden-path sentence in (1) ["The horse raced past the barn fell"] would not exist if the past tense form of the verb race were not identical to the reduced relative form, the former of which is the preferred reading for this sentence.
词源
From the idiom lead someone up (or down) the garden path, because readers form an interpretation of the sentence which remains plausible until near the end of the sentence, at which point the readers realize that their interpretation cannot be right (they have been led up a garden path) and they must try another interpretation.
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