| 词组 | show up |
| 释义 | show up Show up in its chief transitive and intransitive senses has been labeled a colloquialism in college handbooks from Woolley & Scott 1926 and Jensen 1935 to Prentice Hall 1978 and Bell & Cohn 1981. The label is, it seems, a bit of a tradition in such works. The studies cited by Bryant 1962 find show up occurring frequently in informal writing and in speech. Our own evidence, however, shows wide use in general prose as well, and occasional use in more formal contexts. Some examples: • Demonstration plots of themselves have not had much effect on the countryside. Inevitably they show up the inefficiency and lack of knowledge of the average farmer and so arouse a certain amount of opposition —John M. Mogey, Rural Life in Northern Ireland, 1947 • Xenophon has been shown up for what he is or rather for what he is not —George Cawkwell, introduction to Xenophon's A History of My Times, 1979 • The good thing about the intelligent anti-intellectual is that he scents with appropriate alarm the dangers of committing himself to abstract attitudes that a later or rougher or rounder experience would show up —Robert Fitzgerald, New Republic, 25 Apr. 1949 • ... American ships showed up now and then to continue the blockade —C. S. Forester, The Barbary Pirates, 1953 • They start to show up about mid-May, and the 'run' is on until around June 20 —Alan Villiers, London Calling, 15 Apr. 1954 • The problems began to show up last January — Forbes, 1 Dec. 1970 • ... you could show up on registration day without advance notice —Tom Wicker, Change, September 1971 • And it had also shown up the extent to which both the ACTU and employer groups practise tokenism —Nation Rev. (Melbourne), 24 Apr. 1975 |
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