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词组 entitle
释义 entitle
      Entitle has two common meanings: "to give a title to, title" and "to give a right to." Sources as diverse as Emily Post 1927 and Bremner 1980 have expressed disapproval of using entitled to mean "titled." However, this well-established usage has been common for over 500 years and is the older of the two senses.
      ... a sermon entitled "Popular Government by Divine Right" —Stuart W. Chapman, Yale Rev., Summer 1954
      ... describes himself as an "elephant tramp" for the purpose of entitling his autobiography —Robert Lewis Taylor, N. Y. Times Book Rev., 27 Feb. 1955
      ... shows entitled "Sesame Street" —Annual Report, Carnegie Corp., 1969
      ... a chapter entitled Eugene Onegin —Times Literary Supp., 30 July 1971
      I was impelled to entitle a recent political column about the Saudi oil minister, Sheik Ahmed Yamani, "Yamani or Ya Life" —Safire 1984
      The sense "to give a right to" has inspired commentary rather than criticism. Evans 1957 notes that it "is not followed by the -ing form of a verb, as in this entitles you to going," and Fowler 1926 says that "it does not mean bound (to do) or liable (to a penalty)." We agree with both of these statements because none of the citations we have fits either of the patterns described. Entitle is almost always used with to plus an infinitive or a noun phrase, and in all cases the thing that is entitled to be had or done is something that is desired or desirable.
      ... felt entitled to advise her in such matters —Louis Auchincloss, A Law for the Lion, 1953
      We were entitled to believe ... that there was a general acceptance of the principles —John Foster Dulles, U.S. News& World Report, 16 July 1954
      When children are cheated of these happy times to which they are entitled —Frances R. Horwich, NEA Jour., February 1965
      ... we're entitled to our half of the country —Ian Douglas Smith, quoted in Time, 26 Nov. 1965
      This rank entitles us to full membership —Naomi F. Levin, Barnard Alumnae, Winter 1971
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