| 词组 | facilitate |
| 释义 | facilitate Fowler 1926 said that only things could be facilitated and that an example he had in which police officers were facilitated was "a slipshod extension." Fowler is wrong on style but right in substance. Facilitate with a personal direct object is attested in the OED from the 17th to the 19th centuries; Fowler found it in the 20th. It is, however, a rare use; it is almost always a thing that is facilitated. Flesch 1964 and Zinsser 1976 disparage facilitate where ease would do (Flesch would also allow help). The shorter word, though, is not always the automatic choice. Neither ease nor help would convey the full intended meaning in these examples: • ... a practice facilitated, once the war broke out, by the blackout —William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, 1960 • ... smallpox, which decimated tribes in what was to be New England at the start of the 17th century and facilitated the first European settlements there — William S. McFeely, N. Y. Times Book Rev., 14 Aug. 1983 • Mr. Archer facilitates his own task of destruction, and avoids offending popular opinion, by making an exception of Shakespeare —T. S. Eliot, "Four Elizabethan Dramatists," in Selected Essays, 1932 • ... the World Bank concentrated on facilitating loans and investment —Current Biography, July 1965 Simple solutions are not always good solutions, and monosyllabic words are not always the best words. |
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