| 词组 | advert |
| 释义 | advert I Fowler 1965 and Flesch 1964 are reported in Copperud 1970 to consider advert to as obsolete for refer to. Sir Ernest Gowers, editor of Fowler 1965, considers it an archaism, and he remarks on it elsewhere as one of the words he considers overworked in British official prose. Advert to, however, is not obsolete; it is still in use, chiefly as a learned alternative to refer to or to turn the mind or attention to. Here are a few typical examples: • So let us escape from all this for a while and advert to a fascinating subject —Simon 1980 • ... it will not be enough to advert to the dignity of man, the connectedness among things —A. Bartlett Giamatti, Profession 79, 1979 • Webster set out to correct Pickering's views on the American corruption of the English language, adverting only briefly to the oblique personal reference —Ronald A. Wells, Dictionaries and the Authoritarian Tradition, 1973 • The point which I think needs comment is the distinction, adverted to by William James —Mortimer J. Adler, The Conditions of Philosophy, 1965 • However, the type of cooperation I advert to can be brought about in any of America's institutions of higher learning —Charles E. Wilson, Think, June 1957 II See ad. advice See advise 1. |
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