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词组 level
释义 level
 1. Noun. Flesch 1964, Gowers in Fowler 1965, Follett 1966, Prentice Hall 1978, Bremner 1980, Howard 1980, and Bryson 1984 are all censorious of the use of level in the sense "position in a scale or rank." Several object at considerable length to this relatively innocuous term that writers and especially journalists find very handy. If you are inclined to be influenced by such epithets as automatic, vague, clutter, and avoidable, you may want to avoid this use of level; however, consider the following examples, and ask yourself if they would be substantially improved by revising to eliminate the word level:
      In fact, recent legislation passed at the federal, state, and local levels requires some participation by recipient groups in planning and monitoring health care —Carnegie Quarterly, Summer 1970
      Really funny writers are so rare that when they appear in quantity ... the general level of wit goes up around them —Calvin Tomkins, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 14 Dec. 1975
      Mr. Gardner writes at a fine level of sophistication, neither oversimplifying nor talking down —New Yorker, 3 Feb. 1973
      Their story of a young Baltimore lawyer harried to distraction by the demented unfairness of courts and judges is out of control. The decibel level is too high —Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Saturday Rev., December 1979
      But if the macho style can be killing on a local, domestic level, it becomes almost suicidal on an international scale —Pete Hamill, Cosmopolitan, April 1976
      At the White House level the Office of Budget Management has been working for two years on a new government publication —John Lear, Saturday Rev., 15 Apr. 1972
      Like to have, in the sense of almost or nearly, is common on the level of folk or Dialect speech —Harper 1975
      Given a more lucid style, this hodgepodge ... of precariously connected subjects could work on a kind of Vienna-guidebook-cum-People-magazine level — Caroline Seebohm, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 1 July 1979
      The complete avoidance of level in this sense seems hardly worth aiming for.
 2. Verb. The transitive verb takes at when it suggests aiming:
      The conduct of Harris so infuriated the men that some of them leveled their muskets at him —George V. Rogers, New-England Galaxy, Fall 1970
      ... echo the charges ... leveled at Surrealism — Annette Michelson, Evergreen, August 1967
      The intransitive sense "to deal frankly or openly" takes with:
      ... the girls in the office who leveled with him about what it means to work for a company riddled with brilliant men —Women's Wear Daily, 8 June 1972
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