| 词组 | acceptance, acceptation |
| 释义 | acceptance, acceptation Fowler 1926 proclaims acceptance and acceptation "fully differentiated" in meaning. The differentiation is not quite complete even now, however, although it characterizes most use of these words. Acceptation is the less frequently used word, and its usual meaning is "a generally understood meaning of a word or understanding of a concept": • ... are never supposed to be understood in the literal acceptation of the words —Tobias Smollett, Travels Through France and Italy, 1766 • In its technical acceptation as a term of psychology —Arthur Pap, Elements of Analytic Philosophy, 1949 • And it is in this spirit that they [authors of a work on French grammar] make use of such terms as punctual in their usual acceptation —Howard B. Garey, Language, April-June 1957 Occasionally it is used like acceptance: • His record is plainly true and worthy of all acceptation —Times Literary Supp., 16 Nov. 1951 • "All right, then!" he cried bitterly, with sudden acceptation of the other's story —Thomas Wolfe, Of Time and the River, 1935 Acceptance is much the more frequent word. It occasionally is used much like acceptation: • There is also a common acceptance among far too many teachers that the field trip is a device for exposing youngsters to museum facilities without any particular preparation or use of their experience upon return to the classroom —Gilbert Hagerty, New-England Galaxy, Fall 1970 But mostly it does duty as the noun for accept in its common and specialized senses: • ... uncritical acceptance of sense experience —Iris Murdoch, The Fire and the Sun, 1977 • ... that expression of mildly cynical regret and acceptance that one often notices in people who have seen much of life —Thomas Wolfe, You Can 7 Go Home Again, 1940 • ... a general uncritical acceptance of novelty as advance —Howard Mumford Jones, Saturday Rev., 23 Apr. 1955 • ... a fine indifference to things that did not interest him, and an acceptance of those that did —Osbert Sitwell, Noble Essences, 1950 • ... the acceptance of English as the language of North America —I. A. Richards, Basic English and Its Uses, 1943 • ... in spite of their acceptance into the new structure —Martin Bernai, N.Y. Rev. of Books, 23 Oct. 1969 • ... high product acceptance in the extensive agricultural ... industrial and logging markets —Annual Report, Caterpillar Tractor Co., 1952 • Through its acceptance corporation it helps surmount problems of home financing —Frederick Gutheim, New Republic, 26 July 1954 |
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