| 词组 | implement |
| 释义 | implement The OED shows that the verb implement, meaning "to carry into effect," originated in the language of Scottish law at the beginning of the 19th century. Its more widespread use began to occur about a hundred years later: • ... council has been prepared to implement that agreement —Westminster Gazette, 30 Aug. 1909 (OED Supplement) Implement proved to be such a useful verb that before long it became common, thereby attracting the attention of usage commentators. Its early popularity was among the British, and its early critics were also British. They seem to have regarded it as too fancy and obscure a word for general use. Fowler 1926 considered its use in newspapers to be "pedantry," and Partridge 1942 classed it as a "literarism," by which he meant an unusual word "used only by the literary or the learned." Later critics, such as Follett 1966, found instead that implement had the quality of bureaucratic jargon. More recent commentators, however, tend to agree that there is nothing actually wrong with implement except that it is overused. Overuse tends to be in the eye of the beholder, but we do concede that implement is a very common word. It typically describes the taking of concrete measures to carry out an official policy or program: • ... once plans for a volunteer army are implemented —D. Park Teter, Change, September 1971 • Even should the amendment pass, however, it will take years of action in the courts to implement it — Susan Edmiston, New York, 27 Dec. 1971 • ... to implement New Orleans's court-ordered desegregation —Kenneth L. Woodward, Cosmopolitan, February 1973 In such contexts, implement is an entirely appropriate word. You should feel no uneasiness about using it. |
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