| 词组 | escapee |
| 释义 | escapee Escapee has occasionally been criticized as a mistake for escaper, on the assumption that the suffix -ee can properly form only words that refer to the object of an action. It is, however, a standard word and is recognized as such by all current dictionaries. It was first used in the second half of the 19th century, when it occurred in both the U.S. (the earliest citation for it is from Walt Whitman's Specimen Days in 1865) and Australia. It made its way back to Britain at about the turn of the century. Escaper is an older word, first recorded in 1611. It is now rarely seen, having been all but eclipsed by escapee: • ... she ran off the dunes like an escapee —Gail Sheehy, New York, 10 Jan. 1972 • Escapees tended to be much younger —Peter Watson, The Sunday Times (London), 17 Mar. 1974 • ... nursery escapees with the toughness to survive —Wallace Stegner, Blair & Ketchum's Country Jour., December 1979 • ... an elegant escapee from the boredom of suburbia —Robert Sherrill, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 14 Sept. 1980 Our scanty recent evidence for escaper is all from British sources: • ... they are not the only zoo escapers to have prospered —In Britain, November 1975 • One of her escapers was Freud's "Wolf Man" — Rosemary Dinnage, Times Literary Supp., 19 Aug. 1983 See also -ee. |
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