| 词组 | veritable |
| 释义 | veritable The adjective veritable has raised the hackles of some commentators—most notably Fowler 1926, who found nothing at all to like about it: • ... its appearance in a description has always the effect of taking down the reader's interest a peg or two, both as being a FORMAL WORD, & as the now familiar herald of a strained top note. Such criticism seems excessive for so inoffensive a word. It is clear, in any case, that the assertions made in 1926 (and repeated by Gowers in Fowler 1965) do not hold true today. Far from being a "formal word," veritable is now most often used to stress the aptness of a metaphor in contexts having a somewhat humorous tone: • The delay this time was two hours and 13 minutes, as a veritable monsoon swept across the Busch Stadium carpet, transforming it into another Great Lake —Ron Fimrite, Sports Illustrated, 1 Nov. 1982 • ... he was a man who twitched with sociability, whose conversation was a veritable memo pad of given names, connections, ties, appointments — Mary McCarthy, Partisan Rev., February 1948 • ... a philanthropist advertised ... that he would pay a penny each for toads delivered to him alive.... The toad fancier turned out to be a veritable mother lode for a couple of hundred boys —Ted Smiley, Sports Illustrated, 8 Nov. 1982 • The Fat Man was a veritable Iron Mike with a fungo bat. He could pound the ball —Joe Piscopo, Inside Sports, March 1982 Veritable is perfectly at home in such contexts. It poses no apparent threat to the reader's interest. The use of veritable in its literal sense, "actual," occurs less commonly, but it too seems unobjectionable: • The only guts that are mentioned in this story are the veritable entrails of fish —Mark Schorer, New Republic, 6 Oct. 1952 |
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