Colonel上校

【使用地区】：美国南部

【释义】：

An honorary title in the South，as are Major and General，since the eighteenth century．Novelist William Faulkner explained it this way in The Town，1957：“Jefferson，Mississippi，the whole South for that matter，was still full at that time of men called General or Colonel or Major because their fathers or grandfathers had been generals or colonels or majors or maybe just privates，in Confederate armies，or who had contributed to the campaign funds of successful state governors．”The unofficial title of respect is also used in an ironic or joking sense．

自18世纪以来，该词与Major(少校)和General(上将)一样，在美国南部一直被用作荣誉称号。小说家William Faulkner(1897－1962)在1957年所写的《城镇》里这样解释道：“那时，被称为上将、上校或少校的人遍布杰斐逊城、密西西比州、甚至整个南部，因为他们的父亲或祖父曾经是南北战争中南部联军的上将、上校、少校，或士兵，或者他们为州长的成功竞选捐献过资金。”该词也用作非正式的尊称，含讽刺或诙谐义。