| 词组 | review, revue |
| 释义 | review, revue Review has many meanings, but revue has only one: "a theatrical production consisting typically of satirical skits, songs, and dances." That also happens to be one of the meanings of review: • ... American composer of many musical reviews — The Dance Encyclopedia, ed. Anatole Chujoy, 1949 • His opportunity to appear in a Broadway musical review —Current Biography 1953 • ... the Shanghai Theatre ... with three blue films which were shown in the intervals of a nude review —Graham Greene, Travels with My Aunt, 1969 Review acquired this sense from revue, which was the name given these shows when they first became popular in Paris during the 19th century. The shows were —and often still are—intended to satirically review current events; hence the name revue, which is simply the French word for "review." Perhaps because of this etymological connection, usage commentators are generally tolerant toward the use of review as a synonym (or, if you prefer, a spelling variant) of revue. The only critics explicitly rejecting such use are Phythian 1979 and the Oxford American Dictionary. Others, such as Evans 1957 and Copperud 1964, consider review acceptable but prefer revue. So, apparently, do most writers and editors. Our evidence shows that revue is appreciably more common than review in this sense. |
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