| 词组 | average |
| 释义 | average Average, says Jensen 1935, should not be used to mean "customary, ordinary, usual"; Evans 1957 concurs; Copperud 1970 notes that Bernstein 1965 and Follett 1966 do not agree. Even though an occasional writer puts this sense in quotation marks, • ... an ideal crowd of "average" American men — Joyce Carol Oates, Harper's, April 1972 this is a dead issue. The use has been completely standard for many years. • The average reader of the newspaper —Charles W. Eliot, Education for Efficiency, 1909 • Can we study in Dante and Milton the faith of the average man? —Albert Guérard, Education of a Humanist, 1949 • The law in charging them with such a duty has shaped its rules in disregard of the common standards of conduct, the everyday beliefs and practices, of the average man and woman —Selected Writings of Benjamin N. Cardozo, ed. Margaret E. Hall, 1947 • ... makes them, perhaps, less able to understand the average man —Bertrand Russell, Education and the Good Life, 1926 • If you pay too much by mistake, the average Briton will give you your proper change —Richard Joseph, Your Trip to Britain, 1954 • The average graduate of the grammar school in 1870 could not read with ease, nor could he write an ordinary letter in good English in a legible hand —Dictionary of American Biography, 1928 • The average family doctor today works about 60 hours a week —Dodi Schultz, Ladies' Home Jour., August 1971 |
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