| 词组 | species, specie |
| 释义 | species, specie The word species has the same form both in the singular and the plural: • ... it ranks as a new species —Norman Myers, Natural History, February 1985 • There are about thirty thousand species of spiders throughout the world —Katherine W. Moseley, Massachusetts Audubon, June 1971 That final 5 looks like a plural ending, however, and it fools some people into thinking that the singular form must be specie. This is scarcely a modern corruption, as the OED's first record of specie as the singular of species is from 1711. In total, the OED includes half a dozen citations for the singular specie from the 18th and 19th centuries. Our own files provide a number of 20th-century examples, including the following: • Though one specie, called by us the red phalarope — I. W. Russell, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 19 Apr. 1953 • ... some new specie appears that is difficult to classify —John P. Marquand, New England Journeys, 1953 • In this race specie is paired in mind-contact with alien specie —Barbara A. Bannon, Publishers Weekly, 11 Apr. 1980 The evidence we have accumulated in recent decades gives some indication that this use of specie is becoming more common, but it is not yet sufficiently widespread to be considered standard, and perhaps it never will be. The standard use of specie in current English is as a noun meaning "money in coin": • With a limited amount of specie in the country, ... the American monetary system was uniquely ill-qualified to cope with financial "panics" —Martin Mayer, The Bankers, 1974 • ... where money was necessary and specie scarce — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Age of Jackson, 1945 • United States silver purchases drained out much specie from China —David Nelson Rowe, Modern China, 1959 |
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