| 词组 | she |
| 释义 | she A few commentators take note of the conventional usage in which she and her are used to refer to certain things as if personified—nations, ships, mechanical devices, nature, and so forth. The origin of the practice is obscure. The OED has evidence from the 14th and 15th centuries, some of which is translated material, and it is not known if the gender markers in the original had any influence on the translators' practice. The conventions are still observed: • It was a good furnace all last winter ... ; it ran real quiet and when they turned up the thermostat early Sunday morning, she went from fifty to seventy in about an hour flat —Garrison Keillor, Lake Wobegon Days, 1985 • In 1841 Steers designed the William G. Hagstaff for the Jersey pilots, and she regularly beat the New York boats —Robert H. Boyle, Sports Illustrated, 30 June 1986 • England, therefore, was not so feudal as Gaul. But she was probably developing in the same direction —Frank Barlow, The Feudal Kingdom of England, 1042-1216, 3d ed., 1972 • Nature has come through again—she always does — Stephen Jay Gould, The Flamingo's Smile, 1985 Copperud 1964, 1970, 1980 and Flesch 1964 prefer it when the reference is to a nation. Reader's Digest 1983 says that many women object to the feminine pronouns. To the extent that this is so, they seem to be viewed as relatively minor problems in comparison with other aspects of sexism in language. They are covered in Rosalie Maggio's The Nonsexist Word Finder (1987) by a single sentence that recommends avoiding them. Casey Miller and Kate Swift similarly prefer it to she in these uses in The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing (1980), but the four pages given to personification are unheated and end mildly with the sensible observation that "writers who use it to identify something inanimate are not tempted to rely on supposedly universal sex-linked characteristics to make their point." See also sexism 2. |
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