| 词组 | wish |
| 释义 | wish Wish is commonly used as a transitive verb meaning "to want" or "to desire," often with an infinitive as its object: • I do not wish to pay for tears anywhere but upon the stage —Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puer-isque and Other Papers, 1881 • It is not that they wish to pretend that they are busy —Oliver St. John Gogarty, It Isn't This Time of Year at All!, 1954 • We may wish to cajole him, plead with him, try to change his tastes —Milton Friedman, reprinted column, 1969 In another typical construction, the object is a proper name or personal pronoun followed by an infinitive: • I wished Foster to go away —Robert McAlmon, There Was a Rustle of Black Silk Stockings, 1963 • I wish you to rejoice with me —Ira Remsen, quoted in Johns Hopkins Mag., April 1966 These uses of wish are not controversial, although two commentators (Flesch 1964 and Janis 1984) find them somewhat affected and express a general preference for want. The real point of dispute is whether the transitive wish should be used with a simple noun object. Several commentators have criticized such usage as a genteel-ism, typically offering some such sentence as "Do you wish some more coffee?" as an example of what not to say. The OED, which shows that the use of wish with a simple noun object dates back to Old English, called it dialectal in 1933, but our evidence does not support that label: • ... in days when not to have property, if one wished it, was almost a certain sign of shiftlessness —Van Wyck Brooks, The Flowering of New England, 18151865, rev. ed., 1946 • ... a majority of employees wished a union shop — Current Biography 1948 • When a visitor ... wishes a license to operate a rented car —Bert Pierce, TV. Y. Times, 14 Mar. 1954 Wish is certainly far less common than want or desire in such contexts, but it is also certainly standard. |
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