| 词组 | believe, think |
| 释义 | believe, think "In casual speech and writing," says Kilpatrick 1984, "the two words are interchangeable. The precise usage scarcely justifies prolonged fussing " Bremner 1980 believes in fussing. His rule of thumb: you believe from the heart; you think with the intellect. Sounds simple, but it's not. Evans 1961 points out that believe covers a wide range of credulity, and at the less intense end of the range has long been interchangeable with think. Kilpatrick is right in suggesting the matter is scarcely worth fussing over. Here are some examples of believe, from the 18th century to the 20th. See which ones you can confidently assign to the heart or the mind. • But I, who smell a rat at a considerable distance, do believe in private that Mrs Howard and his Lordship have a friendship that borders upon the tender — Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, letter, August 1725 • ... how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world —Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 1818 • Good day—I believe you are a Sorcerer —W. S. Gilbert, The Sorcerer, 1877 • Consequently, we must believe that "emotion recollected in tranquillity" is an inexact formula —T. S. Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent," 1917 • ... the Czar of Russia was a man of uncertain temper who believed he had great interests in the Mediterranean —C. S. Forester, The Barbary Pirates, 1953 • ... I believe they picked her up without stopping — Eudora Welty, The Ponder Heart, 1954 • These axioms, though they believed them to be unnecessary, were always introduced in their mathematical works —Bertrand Russell, Foundations of Geometry, 1897 • ... he believed he was better with a knife than any man in all of New York —Norman Mailer, Advertisements for Myself, 1959 See also feel. |
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