| 词组 | eminent, imminent |
| 释义 | eminent, imminent Almost all books on usage include a warning about confusion of eminent and imminent (occasionally the much less used word immanent is included for good measure). The meanings are actually quite distinct: eminent means "prominent" (as in "an eminent author"); imminent means "soon to occur, impending" (as in "imminent danger"). Use of one word in place of the other is now extremely rare in edited prose, but it does seem to occur from time to time in writing that has not been so closely scrutinized (as in a quiz given several years ago to aspiring emergency medical technicians, which included a question about the proper course of action with a pregnant woman when "the birth is eminent"). Such confusion appears to have been somewhat more common in the past: • The eminent Danger I had been in —Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, 1722 (OED) See also imminent 1. |
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