| 词组 | talented |
| 释义 | talented • I regret to see that vile and barbarous vocable talented, stealing out of the newspapers into the leading reviews and most respectable publications of the day —Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table-Talk, 8 July 1832 (OED) It may seem hard to believe now, but talented was in fact once regarded by more than a few people as "vile and barbarous." Their objection to it was based on the mistaken notion that an adjective could not properly be formed by adding -ed to a noun. Talented was unacceptable as an adjective, in this view, because there was no such verb as talent; according to Bierce 1909, "If Nature did not talent a person the person is not talented." It follows from the same reasoning that if nature did not wing a bird, a bird is not winged. The fact is that many English adjectives have been formed by adding -ed to a noun; for example, bigoted, crested, dogged, moneyed; skilled, spotted, and tenured. The criticism of talented was entirely groundless, and its inadequacy was recognized by such commentators as Fitzedward Hall 1873, Hodgson 1881, and Utter 1916. The issue died a quiet death in the early 20th century. |
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