| 词组 | me |
| 释义 | me Everyone expects me to turn up as the object of a preposition or a verb: • "... He's not a damned show-off like me." —Ernest Hemingway, Green Hills of Africa, 1935 • Now he was going to show me something —Ernest Hemingway, Green Hills of Africa, 1935 But me also turns up in a number of places where traditional grammarians and commentators prescribe I. Many of these disputed uses of me result from the historical pressure of word position; language historians tell us that since sometime around the 16th century me has been appearing in places where I had before been regular—such as after as and than and the verb be— because those places are much like similar positions— such as after prepositions and transitive verbs—where me, or any other objective form, is usual. Thus we find me used after as and than: • ... a good deal older than me —W. Somerset Maugham, quoted in N.Y. Herald Tribune Book Rev., 5 Apr. 1953 • I had met a young man, barely older than me — Marya Mannes, Out of My Time, 1971 • LoPresti, who was a few years older than me —Tip O'Neill with William Novak, Man of the House, 1987 • ... proved that she was just as good as them at running —Steven R. Weisman, N. Y. Times Mag., 20 Apr. 1986 It is also common after be (there is more on this aspect of the subject at it's me): • ... and I will say, whether anyone calls it pride or not, that if he does get up and around again it's me that saved his life —Walt Whitman, letter, 30 June 1863 • In gratitude, Churchill rolled off a recorded message to the workers: "This is me, Winston Churchill, speaking himself to you, and I am so glad to be able to thank you in this remarkable way." —Time, 1 Apr. 1946 • I meant it was me that couldn't encompass but one bill of goods metaphysically —Flannery O'Connor, letter, 31 Oct. 1959 Me is also used absolutely and in emphatic positions in the sentence: • "Who, me?" said the lion —James Thurber, Fables for Our Time, and Famous Poems Illustrated, 1940 • "Why me?" I was going to ask —Simon 1980 • You should see us! Three baths!... And me with a valet!!! —Archibald MacLeish, letter, 7 Oct. 1926 • Me, I'll take the old sentimental shows —George Jean Nathan, The Theatre Book ofthe Year, 19461947 • Me, I am in transition from one college to another —Robert Frost, letter, 15 July 1943 All of the constructions so far mentioned are generally accepted by commentators as historically justified. You will note, however, that they are most likely to be found in speech and in writing of* a relaxed personal or conversational style. In more formal contexts you may want to use I after be and after as and than when the first term of a comparison is the subject of a verb. More problematical is what one of our correspondents dubbed "The Someone and I Syndrome" (this subject appears in another guise at between you and I and pronouns). While traditional opinion prescribes someone and I for subject use—I and someone seems a bit impolite—in actual practice we also find me and someone and someone and me: • She just walked along while me and Luke argued — William Saroyan, "The Sunday Zeppelin," reprinted in Literature Lives (9th grade text), ed. Hanna Beate Haupt et al., 1975 • Me and Enoch are living in the woods in Connecticut —Flannery O'Connor, letter, 1950 • ... you and me can shake the eye-teeth of both the Democratic and Republican national parties — George C. Wallace, quoted in Springfield (Mass.) Sunday Republican, 30 June 1968 Of these two constructions, me and someone does have the minor virtue of putting the me in the emphatic position, where it is slightly less noticeable. Both are speech forms, often associated with the speech of children, and are likely to be unfavorably noticed in the speech and writing of adults except when used facetiously (as in Flannery O'Connor's letter). Another me is the one used occasionally, especially in this country, as an indirect object where myself \\\\s more common: • But one day I bought me a canary bird —Oliver Wendell Holmes d. 1894, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1857 • ... I must get me a place just like it —Alexander Woollcott, letter, March 1938 • ... I have bought me some peafowl —Flannery O'Connor, letter, 17 March 1953 The OED Supplement says this is common in American speech; it does not appear to be much used in serious formal prose. Our final use is of me for my. Our evidence suggests that this use is chiefly associated with Irish dialect; it is used humorously by others as well: • "... wasn't me whole world lost?" —Paul Vincent Carroll, in 44 Irish Stories, ed. Devin A. Garrity, 1955 • ... I'll surely sleep through the day and I'll lose me job —Robert Gibbings, Lovely Is the Lee, 1945 • They are paying me well and unfortunately I have to earn me bread —Flannery O'Connor, letter, 2 Feb. 1959 |
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