| 词组 | endorse |
| 释义 | endorse 1. Endorse on the back. Endorse is derived from the Old French verb endosser, "to put on the back." This etymology has led some critics, dating back at least to Vizetelly 1906, to contend that the phrase endorse on the back is redundant. A good argument against that contention is made by Krapp 1927, who points out that the "on the back" connotations of endorse are "no longer strongly felt," and that the main idea in endorsing a check is to prepare it for cashing by signing it—that the signing is done on the back is almost incidental. If someone were to hand you a legal document and tell you to endorse it, you might reasonably ask, "Where?" Endorse still retains some associations with the idea of "back" in certain of its uses, but those associations are secondary to the principal idea of signing one's name. The redundancy of endorse on the back is more imaginary than real. 2. Endorse meaning "approve." The use of endorse to mean "approve, sanction" originated in the 19th century: • This book... the world has endorsed, by translating it into all tongues —Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men, 1847 (OED) Criticism of it followed soon afterward from such commentators as Richard Grant White 1870 and Ayres 1881. Its foremost critic in the 20th century has been Fowler 1926, who described it as a "solecism." Fowler objected in particular to its use in advertisements, such as (Fowler's example) "Paderewski endorses the pianola," in which its full sense is "to express support for or approval of publicly." Some resistance to this use of endorse has persisted among British commentators, but its place in American English has long been established, and no American critic that we know of has faulted it since the early part of the 20th century. Its most common occurrences continue to be in advertising and politics: • ... [players] of the Baltimore Colts football team also endorse UNIROYAL's All-Sports shoes — Annual Report, UNIROYAL Incorporated, 1970 • ... he alienated Democratic leaders by endorsing Richard Nixon for President —Current Biography, January 1967 But it occurs commonly in other contexts as well: • ... the American Medical Association endorsed community vaccination programs —Current Biography, March 1968 • He fully endorses the modern appreciation of Erasmus as a deeply religious writer —Times Literary Supp., 30 July 1971 3. Endorse, indorse. These spellings are equally reputable, but endorse is now far and away the more common of the two. Most of the scanty recent evidence we have for the in- spelling is from legal contexts: • An indorsement must be written on the instrument by or on behalf of the holder —Lowell B. Howard, Business Law, 1965 • ... a specially indorsed writ —Palmer's Company Law, 22ded., 1976 |
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