| 词组 | blink, blink at |
| 释义 | blink, blink at The verb blink has a transitive sense "to refuse to recognize, to close one's eyes to, ignore." This has often been used in the phrase blink the fact: • ... another escape hatch to allow us to blink facts — Stanley Kauffmann, Atlantic, March 1973 • ... there is no blinking the fact that... —Albert H. Marckwardt, in The College Teaching of English, ed. John C. Gerber, 1965 • The fact cannot be blinked —Times Literary Supp., 24 Sept. 1964 But it is also used with many other direct objects: • But it would be foolish to blink the pitfalls —Vermont Royster, Wall Street Jour., 15 Apr. 1981 • But without blinking that frightening connection — William Stafford, Writing the Australian Crawl, 1978 • He does not blink the weaknesses of the West — James Reston, N.Y. Times, 24 June 1979 • ... it seems necessary ... not to blink realities — Dell Hymes, in Language as a Human Problem, ed. Morton Bloomfield & Einar Haugenl974 • There is evil in it, no blinking that —Wilfrid Sheed, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 21 Nov. 1976 This sense is turned into an intransitive with at once in a while: • ... modern popular philosophy blinks at these facts —Morris R. Cohen, The Faith of a Liberal, 1946 • ... poem, which neither blinks at the brutality nor plays down ... —Babette Deutsch, Yale Rev., December 1953 • Carter had to blink at these differences in order to bring off a peace treaty —Sidney Zion & Uri Dan, N.Y. Times Mag., 8 Apr. 1979 The OED first noted the at construction in an 1857 citation, which it considered improper. Copperud 1970, 1980 echoes the OED disapproval, with the implication that blink at is not idiomatic. It is idiomatic, however; it is simply rare. Blink at is used in a related sense which means "to view with surprise or dismay": • When an eminent critic called them "stark as the Welsh mountains" I blinked at the implication — Waldo Williams, Dock Leaves, Winter 1953 • ... no one's even blinking at the $450 tag — Vogue, September 1976 • ... American propaganda (there is no use in blinking at the word) —Harrison Smith, Saturday Rev., 24 Feb. 1951 |
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