| 词组 | guy |
| 释义 | guy Stephen Leacock put it this way: • The fact is we are always hard up for neutral words to mean "just a person"; each new one gets spoiled and has to be replaced • Hence the need for "guy," which will gradually rise from ridicule to respectability — Leacock 1943 Flesch 1983 announces that guy has reached respectability. A few commentators, however, demur. Shaw 1975, 1987, Bell & Cohn 1981, and Macmillan 1982 are not sure it belongs in standard English. Harper 1985 is more neutral. But guy has filled the need described by Leacock and is in common use in standard journalism. This use of guy was once thought to be an Americanism (the only citation in the original OED is from a late 19th-century American source), but evidence in the OED Supplement shows that it had a British origin around the middle of the 19th century. We will here follow the precedent of Flesch and give several examples of current use. You will note that it can also be used of women and corporations; it truly has become a term for "just any person." These examples show many of the currently popular expressions that guy is used in. • As for Mr. Symons' readers, they can't tell the good guys from the bad —Mary Cantwell, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 20 Mar. 1983 • Cunning is the refuge of the little guy —Stephen Jay Gould, "Were Dinosaurs Dumb?," 1980, in The Contemporary Essay, ed. Donald Hall, 1984 • In short, small banks can go down in flames. The big guys? Never. —Milton Moskowitz, Houston Post, 3 Sept. 1984 • ... a small cabal of very tough guys who really run that country —Alistair Cooke, quoted in Women's Wear Daily, 10 Mar. 1975 • ... eager to assure us that he is no ivory tower intellectual but a regular guy —Paul Robinson, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 25 Sept. 1983 • He's sneaky-bright He doesn't flaunt it, because he wants to be one of the guys —Jay Daniel, quoted in Newsweek, 8 Sept. 1986 • Amy Irving likes it that Santa Fe isn't a swinging place. "The people are down-home—I'm just a normal guy here," she says —Andrea Chambers, People, 16 Aug. 1982 • ... the inability of people to put themselves in the other guy's shoes —Ishmael Reed, TV. Y. Times Book Rev., 4 Nov. 1984 • But he was a tenacious old guy who wrote some interesting poems —William Stafford, Writing the Australian Crawl, 1978 |
| 随便看 |
英语用法大全包含2888条英语用法指南，基本涵盖了全部常用英文词汇及语法点的翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。