| 词组 | accessorize |
| 释义 | accessorize Popular writers on language enjoy lampooning advertising copy, which tends to make a target about as elusive as the proverbial side of a barn. Here is a typical instance: • As it happened, I did not have time to sparkle my table because I was busy following instructions given in another advertisement and was accessorizing my spacious master bedroom with oil paintings — Edwin Newman, Esquire, December 1975 One object of Newman's scorn here is the verb accessorize, which seems to have been discovered by usage commentators in 1975. Here is Harper 1975 on the subject: Accessorize is a bastard offshoot of the noun accessory. It has appeared in advertising copy like the following: "The new kitchen range is accessorized with stainless steel." This says nothing that "trimmed" doesn't say better and more simply. Avoid accessorize. The advice implied here—that trim is preferable to accessorize—shows the weakness of relying on a single example. Try using trim in place of accessorize in these examples and see what the effect is in each case: • We'd love to get into making accessories, because if a woman isn't accessorized properly, the whole thing goes down the drain —Edith Head, Holiday, November/December 1973 • We've selected a suit dress, accessorized it with a hat and bag —American Girl, February 1953 • A quaint old Early American clock and a pair of antique porcelain flower pots filled with green foliage which ties in with the wallpaper pattern nicely accessorize the narrow mantel shelf —Betty Lenahan, Sunday Republican (Springfield, Mass.), 20 Apr. 1958 • And even toy horses are now accessorized. Among the additional items you are at liberty to buy for them is a blacksmith set —New Yorker, 11 Dec. 1965 • ... herringbone jackets accessorized with long silk aviator scarves —Richard Natale, Cosmopolitan, April 1975 Accessorize is a relatively new word—it has been around since 1939—and it is found almost entirely in contexts dealing with fashion and interior decoration, where it is well established. It is undoubtedly a handy word in such writing. If you are writing on something else, however— philosophy, geometry, grammar, art history—you will probably never need accessorize. See -izE 2. |
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