| 词组 | various different |
| 释义 | various different This phrase has been criticized as redundant by those who do not recognize that its meaning is "a number of different," not "different different." Other critics have contended that it is incorrect to use various in this way to mean "of an indefinite number greater than one." Such use is actually well-established and is certainly standard: • The boy dreamed of saving the various nickels which he earned by hours of lawn-mowing —Sinclair Lewis, Introduction to Four Days on the Webu-tuck River, 1925 • ... the various press representatives were forced to share a single radio teletypewriter —Current Biography, December 1964 Even so, you may wish to steer clear of various different. Its meaning notwithstanding, it has the appearance of redundancy, and our evidence shows that it rarely occurs in edited prose. |
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