| 词组 | take and |
| 释义 | take and Take and is used in essentially an intensive function before another verb in much the same way as go and (as in "Go and leave me if you want to"). Our evidence of the construction is not as full as we would like, but what we have suggests that it was quite common in the 19th century. Mark Twain used it often: • "... Well, when pap's full, you might take and belt him over the head with a church and you couldn't phase him " —Tom Sawyer, 1876 • So she took and dusted us both with the hickry — Huckleberry Finn, 1884 It persists in 20th-century American English, too: • Homer was courting a second time to get him a good wife and a home-keeper for his children, when he took and fell off the church-house roof —Maristan Chapman, The Happy Mountain, 1928 • You might as well take and trim the rim off an old soft hat —William Carlos Williams, Life Along the Passaic River, 1938 And it also occurs in Irish English: • Look at Matt Finn, the coffin-maker, put his hand on a cage the circus brought, and the lion took and tore it —Lady Gregory, The Full Moon, in New Comedies, 1913 Wentworth's American Dialect Dictionary carries a report that take and was "exceedingly common" in the mid-1930s. Our recent evidence of it in print is slight, but we suppose that the criticism of take and in Shaw 1975, 1987 and Prentice Hall 1978 attests to its continued vitality in speech. The OED Supplement includes an example from a 1977 novel. Take and is one of those speech constructions that mark the language of the common people—H. L. Mencken's "vulgate." Its primary use in writing is to recreate that speech. It does not occur in ordinary prose. See also go and. |
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