| 词组 | stop |
| 释义 | stop The use of stop to mean "stay" was much criticized in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. An early critic was Bache 1869, whose remarks are typical: To stop is to bring progress to an abrupt termination A man cannot stop for a week or a day. If he stops, he stays, until his journey, or his locomotion of whatever sort, is resumed. The usage Bache was objecting to specifically was in such a sentence as "He is stopping at the hotel for a week." Note that while stop does mean "stay" in such a sentence, it usually also implies a temporary break or pause in a journey. A slightly different use of stop is in a phrase such as stopping at home, in which stop has the sense "to remain" with no implication of a pause or break. This use of stop was cited as a Briticism by Richard Grant White 1870 (he also considered stopping at a hotel to be British). Later commentators, including Gould 1867, Vizetelly 1906, Bierce 1909, and Weseen 1928, concerned themselves mainly with the stopping at a hotel usage, which they faulted for the same reasons as Bache. Questions about the propriety of stop for stay have persisted only among the British. Longman 1984 reports that "careful writers" prefer staying at a hotel, confining stop to short breaks only ("stop for lunch"). No American commentator addresses this subject, and the criticized usage is fairly common in American English: • ... when he was in New York he usually stopped at the Windsor House —John Kobler, New Yorker, 25 Feb. 1956 • ... the Manila Hotel, a favorite stopping place for musicians —Robert Jacobson, Saturday Rev., 30 Oct. 1971 The use of stop that was noted by Richard Grant White has continued in informal British English: • "... I wasn't going to stop in bed, in retreat, all my life " —Ford Madox Ford, The Last Post, 1928 • Oh, all right, you can stop till I'm dressed if you like —Vita Sackville-West, The Edwardians, 1930 • Will playing football make a German more Nazi or stopping at home make him less so? —Manchester Guardian Weekly, 15 June 1945 • "You must not sleep alone at Hampstead," said Godfrey. "Call on Lisa Brooke and ask her to stop with you for a few days " —Muriel Spark, Memento Mori, 1959 In American English, the word used in these contexts would be stay. |
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