| 词组 | estimation |
| 释义 | estimation Fowler 1926 expresses a curious dislike for the use of this word to mean "opinion, judgment," and he especially considers its use in such phrases as in my estimation to be nothing less than "illiterate." Presumably he was unaware that this sense of estimation dates back to the 14th century, when Chaucer used it in his translation of Boethius's De Consolatione Philoso-phiae (as the OED shows), and that it has been recognized as standard in dictionaries going all the way back to Samuel Johnson's (1755), in which it is illustrated with a quotation from Francis Bacon. It is, beyond doubt, an entirely reputable sense, and Fowler's disapproval of it (which has been echoed by some later commentators) can only be regarded as a personal idiosyncrasy. • ... rose therefore in the estimation of the regiment —Rudyard Kipling, Wee Willie Winkie, and Other Child Stories, 1888 • To divert interest from the poet to the poetry is a laudable aim: for it would conduce to a juster estimation of actual poetry, good and bad —T.S. Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent," 1917, in Selected Essays, 1932 • Dictatorial propaganda aims first of all at the legitimizing in popular estimation of the dictator's government —Aldous Huxley, The Olive Tree, 1937 • ... apart from his own estimation of certain modern composers —Warwick Braithwaite, The Conductor's Art, 1952 • In the estimation of Picasso's friends, it acts like a memorandum for him —Janet Flanner, New Yorker, 9 Mar. 1957 |
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