| 词组 | burn |
| 释义 | burn Burn has variants in both past and past participle—burned and burnt. Longman 1984 tells us that burned is commoner than burnt for intransitive uses and burnt commoner than burned for transitive uses. Our evidence bears out this observation for British English: • ... the days burned into weeks and months —Samuel Selvon, A Brighter Sun, 1952 • Burnt my fingers defending an Old Boy —R. F. Delderfield, To Serve Them All My Days, 1972 • ... in danger of being burnt as witches —Phyllis Grosskurth, Times Literary Supp., 6 June 1980 In American English burned is the more common in both intransitive and transitive uses: • Yet he burned for retribution —Kenny Moore, Sports Illustrated, 29 Aug. 1983 • He also showed that carbohydrates are burned faster when consumed in the morning —Jane E. Brody, N.Y. Times, 11 Aug. 1981 Transitive burned and intransitive burnt are not unknown in British English, and transitive burnt is not rare in American English. We have no recent American examples of intransitive burnt. Burnt is the usual form in British English when the participle is used as an adjective: • ... ground magnesian limestone and its burnt equivalent —Fream's Elements of Agriculture, 15th ed., 1975 In American English both burnt and burned are used as adjectives: • ... blue sky showed through the charred skeleton of the burnt church —John Updike, Couples, 1968 • ... a large, sun-scorched, burned section —Nathaniel Nitkin, New-England Galaxy, Fall 1967 • I generally get burnt almond or chocolate chip — Edward Koch, quoted in Harper's Bazaar, February 1981 • ... I stopped off at various burned almond booths —Lillian Langseth-Christensen, Gourmet, December 1980 Our most recent evidence shows a few more examples of burnt than burned in straight adjectival use; the evidence gets more complicated when compounds like burned-out, burnt-out, burned up, burnt umber, burnt cream are considered. You may have to consult a reference book if you are unsure of some of these compounds. |
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