| 词组 | interesting, interestingly |
| 释义 | interesting, interestingly Interesting has drawn occasional criticism from usage commentators dating back to Partridge 1942, primarily on the grounds that it is an overused and imprecise adjective. It is, of course, an extremely common word. • What was most interesting about Daniel's speech ... —Gay Talese, Harper's, January 1969 • ... for more interesting part-time jobs —Jane Schwartz Gould, Barnard Alumnae, Winter 1971 • ... these letters are interesting but not fascinating — Robert F. Byrnes, Saturday Rev., 5 Apr. 1975 Its imprecision is part of what makes it useful, and we see no need to make a policy of avoiding it. No doubt there are times, however, when a more precise adjective does make a good substitute for interesting. More interestingly, the adverb interestingly is often now used as a sentence modifier, as we have used it in this sentence. Such usage has been common since the 1960s: • ... and, interestingly, no public funds at any level could have been used —James B. Conant, Slums and Suburbs, 1961 • Interestingly, Young thinks the Atlanta experience is essentially national —Richard Reeves, New York, 12 July 1976 • Interestingly, Weinberger once served as a young captain —Hedrick Smith, N.Y. Times Mag., 1 Nov. 1981 It occurs commonly with enough: • Interestingly enough ... , the students who have the most trouble ... —John Coyne, Change, March 1973 • Interestingly enough, these handbooks... are bound in the manner of real books —Erik Sandberg-Diment, N.Y. Times, 20 Mar. 1984 The sentence-modifying interestingly is somewhat similar to the sentence-modifying hopefully (which see), but no usage commentator that we know of has so far criticized it. |
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