词组 | so-called |
释义 | so-called Several commentators find fault with using quotation marks to enclose a term or terms following so-called, as in "you and your so-called 'friends.'" Their advice is to omit either the quotation marks or the so-called: "you and your so-called friends" or "you and your 'friends.'" Our evidence shows that in edited writing quotation marks are in fact more often than not omitted after so-called: • In so-called real life ... —John Bainbridge, Gourmet, November 1982 • The so-called gender gap ... —Nancy J. Walker, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 11 Mar. 1984 • These so-called Watergate Babies ... —Tip O'Neill with William Novak, Man of the House, 1987 But their use is not at all rare: • ... the so-called "cold war liberals" ... —Alden Whitman, Saturday Rev., 18 Mar. 1978 • ... their so-called "news value" ... —Orville Schell, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 11 May 1983 • ... the so-called "Fifth Generation" of computers ... —Paul Delany, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 18 Mar. 1984 The use of quotation marks following so-called is not an error, but they are just as easily and sensibly omitted. |
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