许多英语词汇带有明显的褒贬倾向,但词汇的褒义或贬义彼此之间并非完全泾渭分明,也可以相互转化,这主要涉及两类现象。有些词自身褒贬兼备,亦褒亦贬,对于该现象笔者曾另文做过介绍。本文将探讨另一类现象,即在个别情境中,部分通常为褒义的词语在某些语境中也可以用于贬义,实现词义的临时降格;同样,有些贬义词偶尔也可褒用,实现词义的暂时升格。 Many English vocabularies have obvious tendency to be praised or depreciated, but the ambiguity or derogatory meaning of vocabulary is not completely clear and ambiguous. It can also be transformed into each other. This mainly involves two kinds of phenomena. Some words have their own merits and demerits, and they also debase it. For this phenomenon, I have done another article. This article will explore another type of phenomenon, that is, in some contexts, some of the words that are usually ambiguous can also be used to derogatory in certain contexts to achieve a temporary demotion of the word sense; similarly, some derogatory terms can be used occasionally to achieve Temporary promotion of word meaning.