| 词组 | this |
| 释义 | this 1. • It is not just that he was selling arms to Iran in order to retrieve American hostages, even as he swore to do no business with terrorists and bombed Colonel Qaddafi, but that he can see no inconsistency in this —The Economist, 6 Mar. 1987 • But language is the expression of the human psyche, and this is something that nobody has yet been able, except in the crudest way, to measure —Barnard 1979 • I decided a good idea might be to drive along the road in the car, watching for kudu, and hunt any likely-looking clearings. We went back to the car and did this —Ernest Hemingway, Green Hills of Africa, 1935 • The question whether we would not accept the issues as real breaks down into two questions: Would we be upset if it were proved that the environment in which an animal grew up changed the hereditary endowment which it passed on to its offspring? and: Did Kammerer's experiments look like proving that? —Times Literary Supp., 22 Oct. 1971 • ... some courses that might have only the charm of novelty were still to the good in a subject so hagridden by obsolete tradition as English, and most of the new courses were an improvement on the old ones— all of which implies that we do have acceptable standards of judgment —Herbert J. Muller, The Uses of English, 1967 • It was a lesson to me—in temperament, in point of view; I went with his mood, tried even to outdo him, in the hope of spurring him to outdo himself. I only mention it because I did it so well that it led to extraordinary consequences —Joseph Conrad & Ford Madox Ford, The Inheritors, 1900 Now that this is no longer an issue when referring to a preceding clause or sentence, a few commentators have switched their objections to this when it refers to a preceding noun and another pronoun could possibly be used instead. The underlying reason for the criticism in this case is probably that the construction is more typical of speech than writing. • And I listened to him talk for a half hour or so ... to evaluate what kind of person this was —Robert C. McFarlane, quoted in The Tower Commission Report, 1987 • ... an old man ... sent I am sure by the Lord to be a plague to the penwomen. This was a poet, and he had his poems in a paper bag —Flannery O'Connor, letter, 9 Aug. 1957 The use of constructions typical of speech is not a particularly heinous fault in writing, however, unless you are aiming to produce highly formal prose. See also which 2. 2. "This guy said to me " Use of the emphatic this in writing has sometimes been discouraged (as in Heritage 1982), but our evidence shows that it is neither rare nor inappropriate in writing of a conversational tone. You can get a good sense of its quality from these examples: • From the beginning of the show, Stanley makes a real pain in the neck of himself as this farmer who wants a ride in an airplane —Alan Loncto, quoted in New Yorker, 27 Aug. 1984 • Strange, even to me, that I haven't become a cynic after all I've been through, that I am still this sucker for the Land of Opportunity —Philip Roth, Atlantic, April 1981 • ... is comic-book stuff that reads as though he snapped it off on a free afternoon with his favorite word processor. There's this retired C.I.A. hit man —Newgate Callendar, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 10 Apr. 1983 • He pictured himself as this hard, lonely man —Wilfrid Sheed, People Will Always Be Kind, 1973 See also this here, that there. 3. • All of my neighbors who cherish French poodles owe their interest in them to Booth Tarkington's various accounts of his dear Gamin, this many years dust in some such apple orchard as your own —Alexander Woollcott, letter, 1 Aug. 1935 See also that 5. |
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