| 词组 | make |
| 释义 | make • He [Samuel Johnson] found fault with me for using the phrase to make money. "Don't you see," said he, "the impropriety of it? To make money is to coin it; you should say get money." The phrase, however, is, I think, pretty current —James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791 Boswell was right. The OED shows, in fact, that the "gain, earn" sense of make has been "pretty current" since the 14th century. Johnson's objection to it is hard to understand, especially since he included it without stigma in his Dictionary (sense 17, "to raise as profit from anything"). His opinion may have played some part in persuading such critics as Vizetelly 1906 and Bierce 1909 that the "earn" sense of make was an error. For whatever reason, this sense has had some slight notoriety until fairly recently. Evans 1957 notes that it "has been stoutly opposed by the purists but it is now so common that it must be accepted as standard." It really has been common and standard all along. • Make all the money thou canst —Shakespeare, Othello, 1605 • "... how to make money—how to turn a good income into a better...." —Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814 • But making money, slowly first, then quicker —Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto xii, 1823 • "... the rest you can retail out at a premium, and so cure your cough, and make money by it " —Herman Melville, The Confidence-M an, 1857 • Dixie makes his money on two-bit gin —Langston Hughes, Shakespeare in Harlem, 1942 |
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