有关Dear John Letter的典故以及范例(二)

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She sites the following Oxford English Dictionary references:

1945 Democrat & Chron. (Rochester, N.Y.) 17 Aug. 17/2: 'Dear John,' the
letter began. 'I have found someone else whom I think the world of. I think
the only way out is for us to get a divorce,' it said. They usually began
like that, those letters that told of infidelity on the part of the wives of
servicemen... The men called them 'Dear Johns'.

1947 Amer. Speech XXII. 187: It was a 'Dear John'. Quite a lot of the
fellows had already had their 'Dear Johns'.

1957 W. CAMP Prospects of Love xvi. 103: There was a note from Fenny on the
kitchen table. For the moment he enjoyed the irony of thinking it might be
what the Americans called a 'dearjohn'.

1964 J. PHILIPS Laughter Trap (1965) I. ii. 13: Peter..had gone to war..in
love with a girl named Elizabeth Schofield... He had received a 'Dear John'
letter from Elizabeth, telling him she was married...

1971 Guardian 7 Jan. 11/8: The going is getting distinctively gritty for Pan
Am, so much so that 1,876 of its staff are now walking round with a new year
'Dear John' from... the airline's president.


For your amusement, some "Dear John" links:
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