| 词组 | equally as |
| 释义 | equally as This phrase has been denigrated in books on English usage for more than a hundred years. Nineteenth-century commentators such as William Blackley (in Word Gossip, 1869) and Ayres 1881 concerned themselves in particular with the phr.?.se equally as well, which Ayres described as "a redundant form of expression." Commentators throughout the 20th century have expressed much the same opinion. The definitive seal of disapproval was given by Fowler 1926, who called equally as "an illiterate tautology." The reason equally as is considered redundant is that either equally or as can stand alone in most of the contexts in which the phrase is used. "The old show was awful, and the new show is equally as bad" can be revised to " ... the new show is equally bad" or " ... the new show is as bad" with no change of meaning. What will change, of course, is emphasis, especially if equally is deleted in favor of as. As Bernstein 1965 notes, as by itself is far less emphatic than either equally as or equally. The point of the equally in equally as is to make it clear that the comparison being made is unqualified. Other adverbs and adverbial phrases are also used with as for the same purpose; for example, "the new show is just as bad" or " ... every bit as bad." The difference is that only equally can also be used to replace as altogether (except in such constructions as "One is equally as bad as the other," in which as cannot be deleted). Equally as is certainly not "illiterate," and its redundancy is more apparent than real. We would describe it as an idiomatic phrase that is equivalent to just as and that is widely regarded as redundant. It no doubt occurs commonly in speech, but its reputation is bad enough to make it relatively rare in edited prose: • There are others equally as dedicated —Forbes, 15 Sept. 1970 • ... retaliated with two thorough slaughters of the Redmen.... Their two get-back whippings of Syracuse were equally as brutal —Curry Kirkpatrick, Sports Illustrated, 25 Mar. 1985 This innocuous phrase has drawn more vehement criticism than is warranted, but you may well want to prefer just as in your writing or to use equally by itself for emphasis where your construction permits it. |
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