| 词组 | love |
| 释义 | love Many of us remember being taught when we were young that it was not proper to use the verb love in the sense "like." This is an old controversy, limited to the United States. Bache 1869 thought no one could properly love food (how wrong he was!); Richard Grant White 1870 wanted love reserved for a deeper emotion—his thoughts echoed as late as Evans 1957; Ayres 1881 thought women misused love; Jensen 1935 termed the use a vulgarism (using food as one of his examples). The OED tried to draw a distinction, listing without stigma the sense "to have a strong liking for; to be fond of; to be devoted or addicted to" but stigmatizing the use that is simply synonymous with like as a frequent vulgarism in the U.S. However, their examples of unstigmatized use include people loving sleep, a fat goose, grapes, and bread and butter with their tea, so it is a little difficult to see just how strong one's fondness must be before the use escapes the charge of vulgarism. Happily, all this nonsense has blown over. You can still achieve varying degrees of intensity any time you want ("I like spinach but I love pizza"), even with food as an object. You can use love for trivial occasions ("I'd love to go bowling but I have to do my income tax") or important ones ("I love my wife") without confusing or revolting anyone. Let's be glad that this issue seems to have died. |
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