词组 | suspicion |
释义 | suspicion An issue about which there is some comment but no real controversy is the use of suspicion as a verb meaning "to suspect." The OED includes an early 17th-century citation for this verb, but the next most recent evidence of its use dates from about 1820, and the OED Supplement notes that the first citation is probably "a fortuitous occurrence unrelated to later uses." In modern English the verb suspicion has been chiefly a feature of substandard speech. It occurs in writing primarily in representations or imitations of such speech: • Anybody would suspicion us that saw us —Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer, 1876 • Everybody knowed them Newton boys wasn't no 'count and was rustling cattle, but nobody would have suspicioned them of killing a man —J. Frank Dobie, Coronado's Children, 1931 • Our nineteen-year-old son, which he's home from Yale ... and don't suspicion that his folks are rifting —S. J. Perelman, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 1946 (OED Supplement) It does not appear in formal writing. |
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