| 词组 | through |
| 释义 | through The use of through as an adjective meaning "finished" was disparaged by many American commentators in the early 20th century. Krapp 1927, for example, described it as "colloquial and children's English." The "finished" sense of through was still fairly new at the time, having originated in American English during the late 1800s: • He ... scrawled a dash underneath. 'There! I'm through!' he said —Scribner's Mag., May 1887 (OED Supplement) What may be most noteworthy about the criticism of through in this sense is that it did not last. Nicholson 1957 and Gowers in Fowler 1965 persist in describing this sense as colloquial, but most commentators have abandoned the subject altogether, and both American and British dictionaries now routinely treat the "finished" sense as standard. Its two principal applications in current English are in describing the completion of an activity: • ... the hour when he expected to be through with his day's writing —Irving Wallace, The Writer, November 1968 And in describing a person who is washed-up: • ... he had believed the 1950s would bring him to greatness. Now they were almost at an end and he was through —Paul Nelson, Rolling Stone, 14 Sept. 1972 See also done 1; finished. |
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