| 词组 | still and all |
| 释义 | still and all This adverbial phrase is not well-loved by several critics who regard its last two words as illogical and superfluous—mere excess baggage adding nothing to the meaning of still. Its frequent appearance in print is a fairly recent development, but the phrase itself is not new: the OED Supplement includes a citation for it from 1829, and it was doubtless in spoken use for some time before that. In the past it has been regarded as dialectal, but it is clearly standard today. The attractions it holds for the writers who use it are probably that it is less formal than the starchy nevertheless and less abrupt than the monosyllabic still. It has, in other words, a casual, conversational quality which is consistent with the informal tone of much modern prose: • Still and all ... Fishberg could indubitably whip up a musicale that would receive better notices than any other large-scale family jamboree in town —Andy Logan, New Yorker, 29 Oct. 1949 • Still and all, Alice would never have become a queen without her aid —Elizabeth Janeway, Leaving Home, 1953 • Still and all, the Goldwater people attached some value to his support —Richard H. Rovere, New Yorker, 25 July 1964 • Still and all, if you are cagy, you can leave town with plenty of cash in your jeans —George V. Higgins, Boston Globe Mag., 18 Nov. 1979 • But, still and all, Monaco remains a jewel of a playground —Barry Tarshis, Town & Country, April 1980 • Nowadays I recognize the bad-spell-of-weather joke as a bad joke. Still and all, Miss Laney had a point —Gordon Grindstaff, Christian Science Monitor, 21 July 1981 • Still and all, there is no manual or handbook for the creation of a perfect translation —Gregory Rabassa, American Scholar, Winter 1974/75 |
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