| 词组 | input |
| 释义 | input This fashionable word, which has spread into general use from the world of computers, is disparaged as jargon and bureaucratese by Heritage 1982, Shaw 1987, Bremner 1980, Bryson 1984, Janis 1984, Mitchell 1979, and Zinsser 1976. Most of the objections are directed at the noun. And the sense which seems to provoke the most irritation is a broad one: "advice, opinion, comment." Let us concede input to be jargonish and faddish; yet, it must be in some way useful if it continues to be chosen so frequently by such a variety of writers as the ones quoted below. We'll let you decide how useful it can be in this sampling of the citations in our files. • Some lakes can withstand inputs of acids for many years because they sit in or near beds of limestone — Robert Alvo, Natural History, September 1986 • Vegetable producers and home gardeners alike depend upon seed companies for one of their most essential inputs —Ann Ingerson, New England Farmer, November 1983 • ... getting the process started would require an input equivalent to that spent on the Apollo program — Isaac Asimov, Saturday Rev., 28 June 1975 • ... the best way for farmers to protect their profits is to cut input costs —Wall Street Jour., 18 Dec. 1985 • ... a home-cooked dinner on a weeknight often requires more input than the committed career woman can summon at the day's end —Ruth Spear, New York, 25 Oct. 1976 • Her one rule as a writer is succinct: never show anything to anybody while in the process. There can be nothing worse than input from well-meaning family or friends —Sybil Steinberg, Publishers Weekly, 24 Aug. 1984 • ... the raw sensory material, actually, the input right into his own ear from the streets —Allen Ginsberg, American Poetry Rev., Vol. 3, No. 3, 1974 • Where, as in Vietnam and Laos, the frustration has been nearly total, the bureaucratic input has been all but infinite —John Kenneth Galbraith, ADA World Mag., March 1971 • ... the musical design was rounded rather than rugged, the level of expressivity restrained by Kim's much too restricted scale of personal input —Irving Kolodin, Saturday Rev., 3 Apr. 1976 • The Soviet economy may be viewed as confronting a growth dilemma arising from the simultaneous slowing in the growth of inputs of labor and capital and in the productive use of those inputs —Abraham S. Becker, Wall Street Jour., 21 June 1982 These examples may give you some idea of the semantic spread of input as used outside bureaucracy and the worlds of science and technology. Whether you use it is obviously your choice. One aspect of the matter worth your considering is how many words are needed to replace it effectively in each of these examples. You will not always find a one-for-one exchange possible. This use of input may yet be a novelty and may carry with it unwanted connotations of technology, but it is concise. |
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