词组 | gap |
释义 | gap The use of gap in such phrases as generation gap and credibility gap is discouraged as hackneyed by several commentators. Its popularity continues unabated, however, and there seems to be no end to the variety of its applications: • There is also a "frustration gap" between new students and those who campaigned in support of the school —Cheryl Bentsen, Change, October 1971 • ... was no television then, and we filled the trash gap with glorious, pulpy ... fiction —Arthur Prager, Cosmopolitan, May 1972 • ... consumer advocates fear a "protection gap" while new rules are written —John Curley, Wall Street Jour., 20 Apr. 1982 • ... distrust plus loss of self-confidence equals the confidence gap —Theodore J. Lowi, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 10 Apr. 1983 |
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