| 词组 | get |
| 释义 | get 1. One of the more important verbs in English, get is handled with considerable diffidence in the handbooks. Part of the problem, as the handbooks see it, is the large number of vigorously expressive idioms get enters into; the "Choice English"—to use the term of Roberts 1954—that college freshmen are expected to cultivate much prefers colorlessness to vigor. Vigorous expressions are often suspected by usage critics of being "colloquial"—that is, slightly improper in some way or other not easily specified. If you are writing with the idea of getting your point across, however, you will not avoid the rich fund of idiomatic phrases with get. One very important use of get is to form a sort of passive with the past participle. Bryant 1962 says that this construction emphasizes the idea of process. A couple of other commentators call it emphatic and unambiguous. Roberts 1954 says it is felt to be somewhat colloquial and thus avoided in Choice English. Evans 1957 says that the construction was condemned by grammarians in the 19th century, who prescribed become or be as substitutes. Both Evans and Flesch 1964 think that such substitution results in a weaker, less emphatic statement. Here are examples of the passive with get: • There are times when the French get aggravated and displeased by us —Jimmy Carter, quoted in N.Y. Times, 14 Feb. 1980 • ... propaganda in the form of news items which I doubt ever got printed —Katherine Anne Porter, The Never-Ending Wrong, 1977 • ... Neither partner will be, ultimately, the person who got married in the beginning —Germaine Greer, McCall's, March 1971 • Perhaps the letter had got lost in the post and never arrived at all —Hugh Fleetwood, Cosmopolitan, June 1973 2. There has been some mild controversy over get in the sense of obtain. Bernstein 1965 prefers obtain, which he thinks stronger than get, but Copperud 1970, 1980 considers the substitution of obtain for get an affectation when get is more natural. You can use whichever sounds better to you without concern. Here are some samples of get: • ... sign the inventory. Get a copy —Anna Fisher Rush, McCall's, March 1971 • ... has missed out on the help that can be gotten from the academic community —Barry Commoner, quoted in NY. Times, 17 Mar. 1980 • ... administrators can easily get agreement from almost every unit —Ivar Berg, Change, September 1971 3. The past tense of get is got; the past participle is got or gotten. See got, gotten; have got. 4. The pronunciation \\\\(')git\\\\ has been noted as a feature of some British and American dialects since the 16th century. In the phonetic spelling of his own speech Benjamin Franklin records git. However, since at least the 17th century some grammarians and teachers have deprecated this pronunciation. It nonetheless remains in widespead and unpredictable use in many dialects, often, but not exclusively, in weakly stressed positions followed by a strong stress, as in "get up!" 5. get ahold of See ahold. |
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