| 词组 | alongside of, alongside |
| 释义 | alongside of, alongside Longman 1984 tells us alongside of is widely disliked, but little evidence of widespread dislike has reached our files. The Oxford American Dictionary, Shaw 1962, and Harper 1975, 1985 mention it. It is, of course, perfectly proper, and historically antecedent to the single word preposition, alongside, recommended by our four commentators. The adverb alongside came first, was then used as a preposition with of, and later the of was dropped. (For a counter case where the commentators object to dropping of, see couple, adjective.) The OED shows that alongside of was used by Thomas Jefferson and Nathaniel Hawthorne in the 19th century. Our files show that alongside has been more frequently used in the modern era than alongside of, and that alongside is much more common in our most recent evidence; use of the two-word form may be beginning to recede. Our evidence also suggests that the nautical origin of these words is no longer a major factor in their use and that figurative use is at least as common as the literal use that refers to physical position. We will give you a sampling of 20th-century use of alongside of and then a few, mostly recent, examples of the single-word preposition. • Alongside of your last letter a day or two ago came a dear little note from your daughter —Oliver Wendell Holmes d. 1935, letter, 5 Nov. 1923 • ... Tacitus really has the spirit of great drama and alongside of him the medieval chroniclers ... seem dull and tame —Harold J. Laski, letter, 15 Aug. 1925 • ... airplanes that will stand up fairly well alongside of the best in the world —Yale Rev., 1936 • ... now engaged alongside of us in the battle — Dwight D. Eisenhower, Britain To-Day, September 1944 • They also use them alongside of the ideograms — Mario Pei, The Story of Language, 1949 • ... postulate a second substance whose essence is thought, alongside of body —Noam Chomsky, Columbia Forum, Spring 1968 • This work had to be carried forward alongside the first —Harry S. Truman, State of the Union Address, 7 Jan. 1953 • Should it, in a draft..., have been published alongside the flawless final writing of The Great Gatsby? —James Thurber, New Republic, 22 Nov. 1954 • ... bring the launch alongside the Lamb Island dock —Daphne du Maurier, Ladies' Home Jour., September 1971 • Did the novel grow out of the critical study, or alongside it... ? —J. M. Cocking, Times Literary Supp., 21 May 1982 • ... ever since she graduated (alongside Nancy Davis Reagan) from Smith College —William F. Buckley, Jr., New Yorker, 31 Jan. 1983 |
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