| 词组 | host |
| 释义 | host The credit for first raising the question of the propriety of host as a verb seems to belong to Roy Copperud; he has dealt with it in his 1960, 1964, 1970, and 1980 books. Copperud blames the usage on society columnists. Flesch 1964 calls it journalistic. Two usage panels, those of Heritage 1969 and Harper 1975, have also condemned it. The thrust of the criticism assumes that host is a modern invention, whether of society writers or other journalists or of radio and television. These assumptions are, as Quinn 1980 points out, incorrect. The OED dates the verb back to the 15th century; it was used by Spenser (and by Shakespeare, though in a different sense). Evidence of its use apparently stops early in the 17th century and then reappears at the end of the 19th. It seems to have survived dialectally in the U.S.; the American Dialect Dictionary has an early 20th-century regional American example. The OED Supplement records a 1939 example, and then many from the 1950s on. The verb is widely used, in the press and elsewhere, and is entirely standard in spite of the critics' reservations. • ... read at the celebration dinner hosted (invariably) by Anson himself —Isaac Asimov, Whiff of Death, 1958 (OED Supplement) • Moscow had backed out of its promise to host the World's Fair —Frank Deford, Sports Illustrated, 28 Sept. 1970 • ... on television in Pittsburgh, where he briefly hosted an afternoon variety show —Current Biography, February 1967 • ... I hosted a luncheon —William L. Shirer, Saturday Rev., 25 Mar. 1972 • ... where he hosted a dinner last night —Jamaica Weekly Gleaner, 13 Feb. 1974 • Though the scores of friends he generously hosted at the Savile were given no reason to suspect it, he remained a man of acutely slender means —Randolph Quirk, Style and Communication in the English Language, 1982 |
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