| 词组 | upcoming |
| 释义 | upcoming One way to form an adjective in English is to invert a verb + preposition combination. An event that is going on thereby becomes an ongoing event. A train that is coming on becomes an oncoming train. And an election that is coming up becomes an upcoming election. The adjective upcoming was formed in just the same way—and is used in just the same way—as oncoming, forthcoming, incoming, and outgoing. It differs from them in only one respect: it is relatively new. It was coined in the early 1940s and did not come into frequent use until after World War II. By the 1950s it had established itself as a common word, and it continues to be one today. It has sometimes been used as a predicate adjective: • Before I could determine what cotillions were upcoming ... my attention was impaled on a singular advertisement —S. J. Perelman, New Yorker, 12 Dec. 1953 But its use as an attributive adjective is much more common: • This will make some sizable "bunching" for the upcoming holidays —Bosley Crowther, N. Y. Times, 15 Dec. 1957 • ... hoping for chill weather to greet the upcoming hunting season —David Butwin, Saturday Rev., 20 Nov. 1971 • ... the aims, objectives and reasons for the upcoming fight —Jane O'Reilly, New York, 26 Feb. 1973 • ... and the results of the upcoming rocket reflight — J. R. Hickey et al., Science, 18 Apr. 1980 Upcoming has been denigrated as "journalese" by a few commentators, who recommend substituting coming, forthcoming, or approaching in its place. It does in fact occur most often in journalistic use, but that is hardly surprising considering that journalists are frequently called upon to write about events, occasions, and ceremonies that are coming up. There is really no particular reason to dislike the word, aside from its newness and its common use, and most commentators take no notice of it. Among those that do, disapproval appears to be centered in New York publishing circles. It may owe something to the word's fairly frequent use in Time magazine: • ... a world where eminent people are "famed" and their associates are "staffers," where the future is always "upcoming" and someone is forever "firing off' a note. Nobody in Time has merely sent a note or a memo or a telegram in years —Zinsser 1976 • Some years ago a newspaper publisher fired off a memo to his staff saying, "If I see the word 'upcoming' once more, I'm going to be downcoming and the person responsible will be outgoing." —Edwin McDowell, N.Y. Times, 29 June 1983 Upcoming is a standard and reputable word, recognized as such by current dictionaries. Disapproval of it has never been especially widespread, and recent evidence suggests that it is becoming less so. You have little to worry about if you choose to use upcoming. See also ongoing. |
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