| 词组 | feel |
| 释义 | feel Copperud 1964 quotes one Alice Hamilton, M.D., from an article in the Atlantic (September 1954), as being amused by "the increasing rejection of believe and think in favor of feel. " This is our earliest attested objection to the use, although Copperud seems to know of earlier objections based on the assertion that nothing can be felt that is not apprehended by the sense of touch. Shaw 1987 (at sense) says that apprehension by touch was a restriction on feel that held at an earlier time, but the evidence in the OED shows the presumed restriction has never existed. The earliest commentator we have seen is Evans 1957. Gowers added the topic to Fowler 1965, commenting on this use offeel in British government circles. A number of college handbooks, such as Macmillan 1982 and Ebbitt & Ebbitt 1982, object to the use, and Bernstein comments on it somewhat cautiously in his 1962 and 1971 books. Copperud defends the use, noting that it has been around for a long time (the modern construction goes back to Shakespeare) and that a number of respected authors—Trollope, Hardy, Lincoln—have used it. He also mentions that Webster's Third quotes an Alice Hamilton for the "think, believe" sense. Could it be the same Alice Hamilton? Yes, indeed, and from the same article: • I am a reader, so I feel I have a right to criticize authors —Alice Hamilton, M.D., Atlantic, September 1954 In the examples below you will see that this sense of feel tends to be colored by the notion of emotion or intuition; it doesn't seem to mean "think" in the sense of using powers of reasoning. • But I feel that I have not yet made my peace with God —Emily Dickinson, letter, 8 Sept. 1846 • ... there still remained my relation with the reader, which was another affair altogether and as to which I felt no one to be trusted but myself—Henry James, The Art of the Novel, 1934 • A person can admire New York and so on, and all that, but I feel it is absolutely impossible to love the place —James Thurber, letter, 20 Jan. 1938 • But our panel evidently felt that the Manhattan commuter's daily trek is no less arduous —Zinsser 1976 • Gibbon evidently felt that this first memoir had betrayed him into garrulity —John Butt, English Literature in the Mid-Eighteenth Century, edited & completed by Geoffrey Carnall, 1979 • Some people feel that if we arm ourselves with a lot of nuclear weapons, the Russians will never dare attack us —And More by Andy Rooney, 1982 • ... some of us felt that this wasn't an appropriate time to celebrate —Tip O'Neill with William Novak, Man of the House, 1987 This use is entirely standard. |
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