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M'lady is how a servant, in older British English, addresses a woman of a noble family. It is only my lady said quickly, with the y squeezed out. You meet it in historical films and manor-house stories — a at the door: This way, m'lady. Nobody in a modern shop should say it, and Taiwan students do not need it for real life. Though actually, younger people on the internet sometimes say m'lady as a joke, copying an over-polite man in a hat who bows too much. That joke is teasing, not respectful. The old use is formal and class-marked; the meme use is comic. Both are my lady in disguise.
夫人(舊時僕人對貴族女性的稱呼;現在多半只出現在古裝片或網路梗)
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。
m'ladynoun/məˈleɪdi/
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historicalMy Lady (used to address peers temporal, judges, etc).
m'ladyverb/məˈleɪdi/
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To address as “m’lady”.
- […]when people living in the same social set m’lorded and m’ladied each other with much frequency.
- […]lavishly “M’Ladyed,” as was the fashion of the day.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。