| 词组 | each and every, each and all |
| 释义 | each and every, each and all Each and every is an emphatic form, damned on all sides (Copperud 1970, 1980, Watt 1967, Shaw 1975, Bryson 1984, Janis 1984, and more) as pompous, redundant, wordy, officialese, trite, and a cliché—a wide-ranging selection from the language critic's stock of disapproving descriptors. (Watt does, however, point out that it is not strictly tautological.) Strunk & White 1972, 1979 calls it "pitchman's jargon," to be avoided except in dialogue. It is, in fact, used in fictional speech. In this example, the author has purposely created a context that seems to justify the critics' adjectives: • "My friends, the time has come when each and every one of us must face the fact that pornography, no matter what disguise it wears, still remains outright obscenity and a threat to our families, to our future, and to the health of this great nation " —Irving Wallace, The Seven Minutes, 1969 But mostly each and every is simply used as an emphatic modifier: • ... if a man is lucky to avoid such intimate confrontation with the failure of his deepest projects each and every month —Norman Mailer, Harper's, March 1971 • I decided to do what most of the correspondents have no patience or need to do, and that is cover each and every one of the press briefings —Irving Wallace, The Plot, 1967 • Not only has the Report apparently found criteria ... but also a way to apply them to each and every one of 1,187 faculties —Samuel McCracken, Change, June 1972 • By now, every woman knows it's all right not to get an orgasm each and every time she goes to bed with a man —Jane DeLynn, Cosmopolitan, December 1976 There is a less common variant each and all, similarly used: • ... a wild assortment of vital and trivial statistics about each and all of us —Malcolm S. Forbes, Forbes, 1 Feb. 1974 • ... what we are looking for is a special chemistry for each and all of our publications —Rupert Murdoch, quoted in UPI Reporter, 28 Apr. 1977 The evidence suggests that writers fail to take the strictures of the commentators very seriously and that they use each and every simply as an emphatic form of each or every or they use it, as Irving Wallace did in his fictional political speech, to help achieve a particular effect. It is available for you to use, if it seems useful, or to avoid, if it strikes you as it does the commentators. |
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