| 词组 | flunk |
| 释义 | flunk A number of college handbooks (including Little, Brown 1980, 1986, Prentice Hall 1978, Macmillan 1982) and at least one high-school handbook (Guth 1980) stigmatize flunk as "colloquial"—whatever that may mean to their respective editors. Flesch 1983, in contrast, approves the term, which he finds more forceful than fail. It is probably this forcefulness that is moving flunk from the schoolroom and the campus into wider general use. Here are a few examples: • ... why Professor Schlesinger flunks Nixon as a President —Garry Wills, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 18 Nov. 1973 • ... publicizing the names of violators who had flunked two inspections in a row —Richard Haitch, N.Y. Times, 4July 1976 • ... millions would flunk the examinations —Vance Packard, The People Shapers, 1977 • ... I had, I recall, flunked trigonometry four times in a row —William Styron, This Quiet Dust and Other Writings, 1982 It is Flesch's contention that flunk connotes failure by a generous margin. His contention is supported by this example: • My latest accomplishment is that I flunked the driver's test I drove the patrolman around the block. • He sat crouched in the corner, picking his teeth nervously while I went up a hill in the wrong gear, came down on the other side with the car out of control and stopped abruptly on somebody's lawn —Flannery O'Connor, letter, 2 July 1958 |
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