| 词组 | bit |
| 释义 | bit 1. Vizetelly 1906 called the use of bit for liquids— "there's not a bit of water on the farm"—an error; Longman 1984 mentions that some people in the U.K. still think it is wrong. No one objects to bit used of abstractions: • The Neapolitan Court was always prime for a bit of scandal —Mollie Hardwick, Emma, Lady Hamilton, 1969 • ... fill up any spaces in the oven with a bit of baking —Mary Dene, Woman's Realm, 21 Sept. 1974 Since neither the abstraction nor the liquid is particulate, it seems a bit nit-picking to object to one but not the other. 2. Everybody has heard of a bit part in a theatrical production. There is another theatrical use of bit that refers to a routine or to some business onstage: • Yes, yes, yes, I see what you mean about the "headless man" bit —Ellen Terry, letter, 24 Sept. 1896 This theatrical use spread into more general use gradually and was especially prominent in hip use of the 1960s and 1970s. Predictably, the usage panels hated it, although the Harper 1975 group expressed a willingness to put up with it in speech. This use is by now well established, but from the examples below (the first is apparently from speech) you can see that it is most at home in a breezy style. • I did the starving writer routine, the full La Boheme bit —Les Dawson, quoted in Annabel, July 1974 • So what's with this "lady" bit, that seems to have come into fashion over the last two or three years? —Margaret Sydney, Australian Women's Weekly, 16 Apr. 1975 • No, I didn't get my impression of the Civil War from home. I got it from the air around me (with the ambiguous Lincoln bit probably from a schoolroom) —Robert Penn Warren, Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back, 1980 |
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