| 词组 | slate |
| 释义 | slate As a verb, slate has very different meanings in American and British English. In American English it commonly means "to schedule or designate": • ... the place was up for sale and slated to be converted into a run-of-the-mill hospital —E. J. Kahn, Jr., New Yorker, 4 Apr. 1953 • ... how many employees are slated to be taken off the payroll —Maria Shao & Bill Paul, Wall Street Jour., 28 June 1982 • ... on Monday he's slated to appear in Kansas City —Curry Kirkpatrick, Sports Illustrated, 14 Feb. 1983 The meaning of the British slate is "to criticize severely": • ... she slated me like a fishwife for being a lazy slacker —Richard Hull, The Murder of My Aunt, 1934 • ... a national weekly transport magazine which slates the use of the word "Transit" as an "Americanism" —Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England), 31 May 1974 The American slate and the British slate are two entirely different words. The American verb is derived from the familiar noun slate, while the British verb is thought to be derived from the little-used verb slat, which has among its senses "to hurl or throw smartly" and "to strike or pummel." The British slate dates from the early 19th century; the American slate was first recorded in 1904. Copperud 1970, 1980 notes that the American verb has been "often criticized in journalism," partly because it is thought to be a misuse of the British verb; however, Copperud himself dismisses such criticism, and no other commentator has repeated it. |
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