| 词组 | write |
| 释义 | write The standard surviving principal parts are past tense wrote and past participle written. Lamberts 1972 notes that write and bite are in the same class, but when their old four-part inflection was reduced to our modern three-part one, write kept its singular preterite wrote, with plural writ dwindling into dialectal use, while bite kept the plural preterite bit. For the past participle, wrote was acceptable well into the 18th century: • ... he had wrote to hinder it on some pretence or other —Thomas Gray, letter, 12 Sept. 1756 But it has long since dropped out of mainstream use. Another old past participle, writ, probably derived from the even older ywritte, is kept alive by the phrase writ large and by writers who use it when being deliberately or playfully literary or dialectal: • For two months, dear Bang, I have rotted a dry rot. I have read nothing, writ nothing, dreamed nothing —Archibald MacLeish, letter, 30 July 1915 • Write me what you want writ in them and I will write it —Flannery O'Connor, letter, 1 Mar. 1960 • (And, yes, Little Eva, the foregoing sentence was writ deliberate.)—Kilpatrick 1984 |
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