| 词组 | end result, end product |
| 释义 | end result, end product Those people to whom redundancy is anathema do not take kindly to end product and end result. Of the two terms, end result is closer to a simple redundancy; it basically means "result" but may emphasize the finality of the result. • We may look at schizophrenic utterances as the end result of a combination of two factors —Brendan Maher, Psychology Today, November 1968 • It is obviously too soon to predict the nature of the end-result —Aaron Copland, quoted in N. Y. Times, 13 May 1951 • ... the end result was the same, no matter how it was reached —Shelby Foote, Love in a Dry Season, 1951 • ... only the end results of changes over many thousands of centuries can be seen —Dr. Alex B. Novi-koff, Science, 2 Mar. 1945 End product, on the other hand, has two uses. Especially in science and manufacturing, an end product is the final product of a series of processes or activities and is often distinguished from a by-product. In most general contexts it simply means "result" or "product." • ... the digestible materials have been acted on by enzymes and their end-products —Edwin B. Steen & Ashley Montagu, Anatomy and Physiology, 1959 • In areas where little residual fuel oil is used, road oil and coke may be the end-products —John W. Frey, in World Geography of Petroleum, eds. Wallace E. Pratt & Dorothy Good, 1950 • These schemes give not the faintest thought to the immediate results ... or the end product —Lewis Mumford, New Yorker, 19 Mar. 1955 • He is the end-product of poll taxes and machine politics —J. Lacey Reynolds, New Republic, 21 Mar. 1944 • ... this is the end product of a lot of work —Jeremy Bernstein, N. Y. Times Book Rev., 28 Feb. 1982 In end result and the looser, noncontrastive uses of end product, the question of whether end is superfluous or whether it serves as an intensifier depends occasionally on the context but usually on your opinion of redundancy (which see). |
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