| 词组 | think |
| 释义 | think The use of think with to and an infinitive (as in "We didn't think to ask him") was called an illiteracy by Fowler 1926, but it has now won general acceptance. Evans 1957 found the construction to be standard in American English when the sense of think was "remember" but archaic when the sense was "plan" or "expect." Our evidence shows, however, that think to meaning "expect or intend to" continues in good use: • ... and I thought to succeed as they did, and as rapidly —The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats, 1953 • Or else the writer thinks to succeed by piling up an accumulation of details —Leacock 1943 • ... has done what few people who write for the screen think to do —Pauline Kael, New Yorker, 2 Oct. 1971 • Martin thinks to make a case for Whitman as a model —Robert Boyers, Times Literary Supp., 30 May 1980 See also believe, think. |
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