| 词组 | addicted |
| 释义 | addicted Copperud 1970 tells us that Bernstein 1965 and Evans 1957 advise reserving the participial adjective addicted for what is harmful; Bernstein dislikes its facetious use for what is not harmful. Partridge 1942 also finds addicted to pejorative and recommends not using it neutrally unless one is being facetious. But evidence in the OED shows neutral use to have existed from the 17th century at least: • He was much addicted to civil Affairs —Thomas Stanley, The History of Philosophy, 1660 (OED) • His majesty is much addicted to useful reading — 'Junius,' Letters, 1771 (OED) Neutral and mildly humorous use has continued undiminished: • Dear Sir, that is an excellent example Of an old school of stately compliment To which I have, through life, been much addicted —W. S. Gilbert, The Sorcerer, 1877 • ... those addicted to late dinner and those who still revelled in the primitive simplicity of high-tea — Osbert Sitwell, Triple Fugue, 1924 • They were addicted to travel, and spent only a month or so of each year in England —Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm, 1932 • ... as a man, addicted to pleasure, to work, and to fresh air —John Galsworthy, quoted in Correct English, January-February 1939 • ... he himself, addicted to books and too blind to participate in games —Edmund Wilson, The Wound and the Bow, 1941 • ... rich sportsmen addicted to deer shooting — George Bernard Shaw, Everybody's Political What's What, 1944 • She was addicted to gaudy shawls and the most Godawful hats —The Autobiography of William Allen White, 1946 • ... he was neither stupid, simple-minded, nor addicted to strait-jackets and pigeonholes —Stanley Edgar Hyman, The Armed Vision, 1948 • In appearance, Herbert Morrison is short, chunky, addicted to colorful ties and boutonnières —Mollie Panter-Downes, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 1951 • Catherine Morland, having become addicted to novels of terror —Lionel Trilling, Encounter, September 1954 • He must have been as addicted to clear thinking as Larkey Waldron —Oliver St. John Gogarty, // Isn't This Time of Year At All! 1954 I've mentioned before how I feel about the use of football as a metaphor for national policy. • President Ford is evidently addicted to it — Thomas H. Middleton, Saturday Rev., 14 June 1975 • ... you can become addicted to losing fights with any society you're in —William Stafford, Writing the Australian Crawl, 1978 • He was hopelessly addicted to the Senators, a team of monumental incompetence on the baseball diamond —Russell Baker, Growing Up, 1982 There is a British tradition (Fowler 1926, Treble & Val-lins 1937, Longman 1984) of warning writers not to follow addicted by an infinitive, although the regular preposition is to. OED remarks that the infinitive was formerly used in this way but shows no example of it later than the 16th century. |
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