英和和英

名詞

evenizer (複数形 evenizers)

1. (まれに) Something that makes things even.
   • 1923, R. M. Washburn, Smith’s Barn: “A Child’s History” of the West Side, Worcester, 1880-1923, Worcester, Massachussets, Chapter 4, p. 39,^[1]

     A father resents an ingrate son, forgetting that he too in his young days was an ingrate to a father now dead. Fate is not an unfair evenizer.

   • 1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, 1971, Chapter 15, p. 79,^[2]

     It was fortunate that I never saw her in the company of powhitefolks. For since they tend to think of their whiteness as an evenizer, I’m certain that I would have had to hear her spoken to commonly as Bertha […]