| 词组 | you know |
| 释义 | you know The repeated use of you know as a filler in hesitant speech is a great source of irritation to many people, including most usage commentators. It is typically seen as a characteristic of the speech of relatively inarticulate young people, such as athletes being interviewed on television, and it is easily parodied: "Well, you know, I was, you know, lookin' for the ball out over the plate, you know, and I just, you know, went with it." The threat to the language posed by such post-game hemming and hawing does not appear to be, shall we say, major-league, but its capacity to grate on sensitive nerves is obviously considerable. Note that you know is not a problem in writing. The phrase is actually quite old, being attested in the OED as early as the 16th century, and its use in informal writing, as in a letter, can be perfectly appropriate: • You know, I've been sitting here with my dreadful pipe, trying to get straightened out —E. B. White, letter, April 1922 • You know Plato virtually says himself two thousand years before Freud that... —Robert Frost, letter, 5 July 1925 • I'm sure he'd like to see you. He's a pretty lonely guy you know —Archibald MacLeish, letter, June 1934 • We farmers are always behind, you know —E. B. White, letter, 28 Jan. 1942 You know suggests a certain intimacy and mutual understanding in such contexts. Its occurrence in casual speech is also blameless, of course, except when it occurs three or four times in a sentence. Then it is apt to become annoying. See also fillers. |
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