| 词组 | reckon |
| 释义 | reckon 1. When used with a preposition, reckon is most often followed by with, the phrase constituting an idiom meaning "to take into consideration": • ... a brilliant book that will have to be reckoned with by all informed students of American society — Richard Hofstadter, N. Y. Times Book Rev., 27 Feb. 1955 • ... have found Mormonism so fascinating or so provocative that they have been unable to resist the urge to reckon with it in print —Fawn Brodie, Frontier, December 1952 • The assertion that man was always a killer ... must reckon with these many alternative possibilities — Lewis Mumford, American Scholar, Winter 1966-67 • ... the Communists were still a force to be reckoned with —Robert Shaplen, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 1971 Although reckon is also followed by without, meaning "to fail to consider," this usage is not nearly so prevalent as is reckon with: • But the Georgia legislature had reckoned without the speculators and their friends —Sidney Warren, Current History, February 1952 • Miss Hope reckoned without the genius of Feuer and Martin —Henry Hewes, Saturday Rev., 16 Oct. 1954 Reckon is sometimes used with on: • The King scarcely knew on what members of his own cabinet he could reckon —T. B. Macaulay, The History of England, vol. I, 1849 • ... a man of our own times and once again in the generations a man and a poet to reckon on — Edward Townsend Booth, Saturday Rev., 4 Oct. 1947 Occasionally reckon is followed by among, as, at, by, in, or upon: • ... he must be reckoned among the great mathematicians of our time —Times Literary Supp., 21 May 1970 • I pass to another field where the dominance of the method of sociology may be reckoned as assured — Selected Writings of Benjamin N. Cardozo, ed. Margaret E. Hall, 1947 • These assets were reckoned at $1,250,000 —Marquis James, The Texaco Story, 1953 • ... each cutter's share ... was reckoned only by the number of days he had worked —Joel Aronoff, Psychology Today, January 1971 • ... RCA's productivity as reckoned in sales per employee —Edgar H. Griffiths, Annual Report, RCA, 1977 • There are many things in which I think I shall be wiser if I come back, but do not reckon upon it — The Letters of Rachel Henning, Written between 1853 and 1882, 1952 In American English, reckon may be found with to, but only infrequently. In British English, reckon followed by to and the infinitive is quite common: • ... despite his astonishing anticipations of the painting of the end of the nineteenth century, it seems better to reckon him to the old school —Frank Jewett Mather, Jr., Modern Painting, 1927 • ... up till then it had not reckoned to accept papers of living authors, even as gifts —Philip Larkin, Required Writing, 1983 • ... with gold in the $ 170 range, it is reckoned to be worthwhile having a look at the gold prospects — Leslie Parker, Financial Times (London), 17 Apr. 1974 • ... he reckons to spend about a year on a book — Anna Pavord, Observer Mag., 14 Apr. 1974 In both American and British English, reckon is often followed by a clause: • "I reckon it would scare Senator Johns half to death " —John Dos Passos, Number One, 1943 • "... As for finishing the job, I reckon we'll all be there together " —Richard Llewellyn, A Few Flowers for Shiner, 1950 • He doubtless reckoned, as almost everyone here reckons, that it was a mite better to uphold the courts —Richard H. Rovere, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 1957 • We reckon that we have been hired to get results — The Bookseller, 18 May 1974 2. "Reckon" in the sense of "suppose, think": • ... so I reckon Bernage is on very good foot when he goes to Spain —Jonathan Swift, Journal to Stella, 12 Feb. 1711 Howard 1977 notes this use of reckon as one of several standard 18th-century usages that survive in common use in British English but have dropped out of standard American use. Some examples from British English: • Our brickies reckon the house that Jack built in England would go up faster here —8 O'clock (Auckland, N.Z.), 8 Feb. 1975 • "If you reckon that paradise is a hamburger " —William Nagle, Nation Rev. (Melbourne), 1 May 1975 • ... I reckon they pinched the money —John Fowles, The Collector, 1963 • We used to reckon it upped a man's sex appeal at least 20 per cent —advt., Sunday Times Mag. (London), 7 Apr. 1974 • Russia is one place Americans reckon they are unlikely to be victims of a terrorist attack —The Economist, 26 Apr. 1986 In American English this use is mostly dialectal; it may occasionally be used in informal or deliberately countrified contexts: • And I bought this one for $4.75. I was, oh I reckon, ten years old —William Faulkner, 7 Mar. 1957, in Faulkner in the University, 1959 • I reckon I grew up under Roosevelt —Representative Claude Pepper, quoted in People, 21 June 1982 • I reckon he doesn't like to feel surrounded by females —Flannery O'Connor, letter, 20 Sept. 1951 • ... we fairly reckoned you'd be with us on one of the weekends —John O'Hara, letter, March 1931 • I reckon if anybody wears a double-breasted suit properly it's Doug Fairbanks —G. Bruce Boyer, Town & Country, March 1983 More Americans would use I guess where these people use I reckon. |
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