| 词组 | inaugurate |
| 释义 | inaugurate Copperud 1960, 1964, 1970, 1980 is following a long journalistic tradition when he disparages inaugurate for open, begin, or start as journalese; it goes back to Bierce 1909 and before him to William Cullen Bryant's Index Expurgatorius, compiled when he was editor of the New York Evening Post and published in 1877. Inaugurate was also disparaged by Richard Grant White 1870 and Ayres 1881, and (according to Vizetelly 1906), by Yale professor William Lyons Phelps, inaugurating (if we may) an extra-journalistic tradition followed by Partridge 1942, Evans 1957, and Flesch 1964. Vizetelly notes that lexicographers ignore these strictures, and indeed they have—the sense "to begin" was recognized in Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (1755). To be frank, were it not for the strength of the tradition, this would have been a dead issue long ago. Here are a few examples of what is clearly a standard, and not especially journalistic, usage: • ... the era of galvanized sesquipedalism and sonorous cadences, inaugurated by Johnson —FitzedwardHall 1873 • Who inaugurated the custom of working by day? — Brooks Atkinson, Saturday Rev., 21 Aug. 1954 • ... turning from the hero to the common man, we inaugurated the era of realism —Joseph Wood Krutch, The Modern Temper, 1929 • ... thereby inaugurating a terror which would become dreadfully familiar to hundreds of millions — William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall ofthe Third Reich, 1960 • ... inaugurated the train of disasters —Robert B. Heilman, Southern Rev., April 1970 • Yet it would be unreasonable to demand that a writer both inaugurate a new era of scholarship and solve all the problems he has raised —Richard Sen-nett, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 19 Oct. 1980 |
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