| 词组 | invite |
| 释义 | invite The noun invite was formed by the same process—functional shift—that gave us the nouns command and request. It has been in use for more than 300 years—since 1659—and its users include Fanny Burney (in her diary) and Thackeray (in a letter), among others. It was first disparaged by Gould 1867, who mentions it in passing. Since then Bardeen 1883, Vizetelly 1906, Fowler 1926, 1965, Partridge 1942, Bryant 1962, Watt 1967, Copperud 1964, 1970, 1980, Irmscher 1976, Perrin & Ebbitt 1972, Phythian 1979, Janis 1984, and Barzun 1985 have all had at it; only Evans 1957 seems tolerant. It has been labeled (some of the following epithets have been reduced to adjectives from more elaborate invective) ignorant, vulgar, humorous, informal, slang, dialectal, barbarous, colloquial, unrespectable, incorrect, and ill-bred. Such a variety of opinion is uninformative about the nature of the problem, but it does suggest that the critics consider invite just a bit below the salt. You can make up your own mind about invite on the basis of these examples, which represent fairly the range of its usage. It does seem certain that some writers have used it in the speech of their less educated characters and that others have used it when being deliberately light or humorous. • Lyddy sot a good deal by her. She never had a quilting or a sewing-bee but what nothing would do but she must give Rachel Doolittle an invite —Francis Lee Pratt, "Captain Ben's Choice," in Mark Twain's Library of Humor, 1888 • "You sound like you didn't get no invite to the dance" —Richard Bissell, A Stretch on the River, 1950 • "What are you dressing up for, Nobby?" asked someone. "Didn't your invite say evening dress optional?" —C. S. Forester, Saturday Evening Post, 15 Nov. 1958 • Thanks for the invite —Flannery O'Connor, letter, 17 May 1961 • ... an invitation, mailed on May 12, to a reception at Maple Leaf Gardens to be held on May 14. Since I didn't get the invite until the 16th, I don't see how I can make it —Susan Ford, Sunday Sun (Toronto), 18 May 1975 • Charlie MacArthur said an invite of Woollcott's was like a call to the jury panel —Ruth Gordon, Myself Among Others, 1971 • ... a classy invite to an art gallery —Sally Vincent, Punch, 28 Nov. 1973 • I acted smug, Republican and nonchalent and waved my blackmarket ticket and invite —Joe Eszterhas, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 1973 • ... one Nobel Peace Prize nominator wants to call him with an invite to Oslo —Jonathan Cooper, People, 5 Aug. 1985 • Authorities gently (but oh so firmly) returned word that Mrs. Marcos just didn't rate an invite —People, 3 Aug. 1981 |
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