| 词组 | scotch |
| 释义 | scotch When Shakespeare wrote in Macbeth, "We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it," he was using scotch to mean "to disable by wounding," a sense of the verb that is now archaic. The current meaning of scotch is "to put an end to." • But if the king's suspicions of Roger of Salisbury were justified, he did well to scotch the danger while he was still strong —Frank Barlow, The Feudal Kingdom of England 1042-1216, 3d ed., 1972 • In the process they scotch many a fable —Timothy Ferris, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 31 July 1983 • The plan was scotched in the White House —Business Week, 5 Aug. 1985 • 'Hopefully' we can scotch this vulgarism —Stanley Kunitz, in Harper 1975 Fowler 1926 made the modern use of scotch an issue when he attributed it to the carelessness of journalists, and a few recent commentators have shown the influence of Fowler by continuing to insist that the disused sense is the only correct one. Needless to say, the cause is lost. The current sense of scotch is unquestionably standard. |
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