| 词组 | aggress |
| 释义 | aggress Heritage 1982 notes some current objection to aggress as psychology jargon even though the verb has long been in use. We have but slight evidence of the verb's questionable status: • I asked him [Harvey Kurzman] if women could be funny in print. "Absolutely not," he said, "they don't aggress as well as men. (Author's note: his verb)...." —Janie T. Gaynor, Harper's Weekly, 14 June 1976 Our evidence shows that aggress has been more or less confined to contexts dealing with behavior and psychology during the past twenty years or so, but from the time of World War II well into the 1950s it was used primarily in political contexts. Here is a sample of the older usage; the last citation is probably partly psychological: • [Von Ribbentrop] said it was not Germany who had aggressed against Poland —Sir Nevile Henderson, Life, 16 Oct. 1939 • The Peiping Politburo may decide neither to aggress further nor to negotiate —N.Y. Times, 4 Feb. 1951 • Westerners even aggressed against one another — Adlai E. Stevenson, Call to Greatness, 1954 • Yet it would appear from recent events that the users of force rarely think they are aggressing, and never admit they are —E. B. White, New Yorker, 15 Dec. 1956 • ... stay away from those of lesser rank, for fear of being aggressed against —Norman Podhoretz, Making It, 1967 |
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