| 词组 | thinking man |
| 释义 | thinking man Thinking man and similar expressions are sometimes used as a way of discouraging disagreement: • Equally, no thinking person can fail to recognize the individual and, even, the occasional corporate courage and wisdom —letter to the editor, Center Mag., May/June 1971 The implication—that anyone who disagrees with what the writer is asserting must be an idiot—is bound to cause a certain amount of irritation, especially among the disagreers. Fowler 1926 and Flesch 1964 have criticized such usage for that reason. Note, however, that the adjective thinking and the expression thinking man have other uses which are entirely inoffensive: • ... tried his hand at a magazine for the thinking public —Henry Ladd Smith, New Republic, 22 Nov. 1954 • ... to produce thinking citizens —Change, May-June 1969 • Mr. Ustinov is a thinking man with a satiric mind —Haskel Frankel, Saturday Rev., 13 Nov. 1971 • ... he is a thinking man's spy—reflective, historically aware —Michael Malone, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 12 Jan. 1986 |
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