| 词组 | advance |
| 释义 | advance 1. Advance, advanced. As adjectives these words are rarely, if ever, used of the same things, and why usage writers, who treat them frequently, believe they are a problem is not clear. Any good dictionary will show you the differences. Here are a few typical examples: • ... with a little advance warning plus tip, the principal steward was always ready to prepare his own special recipe of crêpes Suzette —Caleb Pirtle III, Southern Living, November 1971 • ... you could show up on registration day without advance notice —Tom Wicker, Change, September 1971 • ... advisors had already reviewed advance copies of Northeast's plan —Homer Page, Not Man Apart, July 1971 • ... modernizing their building regulations to allow the advanced systems of construction —Harold Howe II, Saturday Rev., 20 Nov. 1971 • ... the education of those less gifted or less advanced —Jerome S. Bruner, Saturday Rev., 15 Jan. 1972 • ... employees with bachelor's as well as advanced degrees —Lucia Mouat, Christian Science Monitor, 19 Aug. 1980 • Advanced age ended Dr. Schweitzer's practice as a surgeon —Current Biography, July 1965 2. The phrases advance warning, advance planning, and advance preparations are sometimes censured as redundant (see redundancy). We have little evidence of their use in print. In the first example in section 1 above, advance warning is roughly synonymous with advance notice, which has not been called redundant. Janis 1984 defends advance planning, judging that it is not redundant when advance means "early." 3. Advance, advancement. These nouns overlap occasionally in meaning, but we have little evidence that they cause difficulty for writers. A few commentators insist that advance means "progress," advancement "promotion," but the words have more senses than that, as a check of your dictionary will show. Here are a few examples: • ... a great advance in the ability of moviemakers to render physical reality more accurately —Richard Schickel, Harper's, March 1971 • ... the fruits of research and scientific advances — Carnegie Quarterly, Summer 1970 • ... the peculiar role assigned his hero in the advance of civilization —Richard Poirier, A World Elsewhere, 1966 • ... had come to feel it almost an emancipation from the conventional feminine freedoms, certainly an advance over the starved lives that so many of her friends gained from their independent, mutual sharing marriages —Angus Wilson, The Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot, 1958 • ... an authentic advance upon traditional Marxism —Theodore Roszak, The Making of a Counter Culture, 1969 • ... failed to obtain an advance of salary from the lycée —Times Literary Supp., 16 Apr. 1970 • The program of the Corporation included the advancement of education through support of specific undertakings —Collier's Year Book, 1949 • ... for university students at every stage of their advancement —E. Adelaide Hahn, Language, April-June 1954 • Middle-aged executives, bureaucrats, and salaried professionals favor mandatory retirement for reasons related to their own advancement —Paul Woodring, Saturday Rev., 1 Aug. 1976 4. Advance feedback is noted as business jargon by Janis 1984. We have no evidence of it (so far) in our files. |
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