| 词组 | interface |
| 释义 | interface Interface, like input, is a word given wide currency by the computer revolution, and as both noun and verb it is viewed with alarm and distaste by the usage panel of Harper 1985, as well as by Bremner 1980, Bryson 1984, Phythian 1979, Longman 1984, Cook 1985, Howard 1977, Mitchell 1979, and Janis 1984. It is treated a bit more cautiously by Sir Bruce Fraser in Gowers 1973, and a correspondent quoted in Safire 1984 assures everyone that it is passé in business management. The word has also been roundly cudgeled in the press. Our evidence, however, suggests there is not much reason for alarm. Unlike input, interface has not made much headway in general edited prose. Many of our examples from newspapers and magazines comment on the word rather than use it. A great many other examples are direct quotations from people using it in speech: • ... the question of how the C.I.A. interfaced with the Presidency —Senator Howard H. Baker, Jr., quoted in N.Y. Times, 28 Feb. 1975 • In this technological century, we need an interface between science and the public —Carl Sagan, quoted in People, 22 Nov. 1976 • In a recent speech he gushed with an adman's grandiloquence ...:"... to establish, at a single moment in time, eyeball-to-eyeball interface with the man in the street on a global scale...." —Jeremy Bullmore, quoted in Wall Street Jour., 22 Mar. 1982 We also find it in the help-wanted ads: • ... the ability to interface at various management levels —advt., New Orleans Times-Picayune, 26 Sept. 1979 • This indiv will interface with the patient, staff & physician —advt., N.Y. Times, 25 Jan. 1987 And we find it used tongue in cheek at times: • ... had calluses on his pen hand and his chair interface —C Biologies, 15 July 1977 It occurs in edited prose in serious contexts, too, but not with great frequency: • ... represented in medieval times a physical, economic and cultural interface between the Indian Ocean and western Pacific —A. D. Couper, The Geography of Sea Transport, 1972 • ... will find its greatest use at the school-university interface —C. A. Stace, Nature, 19 Dec. 1984 • ... cutting out much of the interface problem between management and computer personnel — Michael Stewart & Graham Bond, in Handbook for Managers, vol. 3, ed. Malcolm E. Levene et al., 1975 • Today, it's the computer wizards who are interfacing with the lexicon —Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, October 1983 It is perhaps significant that three out of four of these examples are British. Our evidence shows that in American English interface is found in technical contexts almost all of the time; it does not appear to be catching on in ordinary prose. |
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