| 词组 | accused |
| 释义 | accused No one quibbles over uses of the adjective accused like this: • ... the accused teacher should be informed before the hearing ... of the charges —AAUP Bulletin, December 1967 But several commentators—Copperud 1970, Bernstein 1971, Reader's Digest 1983—note that accused is also used in such combinations as the accused spy, the accused assassin, the accused murderer: • Previously, accused shoplifters had been disciplined by an administration committee —Glynn Mapes, Security World, May 1968 Copperud advises avoiding these because they imply guilt before it is established; Reader's Digest calls the use an error; Winners & Sinners (19 Apr. 1985) finds it "journalese"; Bernstein finds the meaning of accused "distorted" but "accepted" and advises avoiding it as ambiguous. A combination like the accused murderer actually is journalistic shorthand for "the person accused of the murder"; it is probably not often misunderstood as "the murderer who has been unlucky enough to be caught and charged." While many commentators say such uses of accused are quite common, our files hold few examples other than those held up as bad examples. Reader's Digest prefers and approves alleged in place of accused in such combinations. See alleged, which has had its share of detractors, too. This is, perhaps, more of a problem for journalists than for other writers. See also suspected 1. |
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