| 词组 | must |
| 释义 | must Use of must as a noun meaning "something essential" seems to have originated among American journalists in the late 19th century. The Dictionary of American English cites an 1892 article in Dialect Notes describing the journalistic must as follows: "An article marked with the word must is spoken of as a must, or emphatically—if there is absolutely no way of keeping it out of the paper—as a dead must." Must in this sense was slow to become established in general use, but by the 1940s it had begun to appear regularly in print, both as an ordinary noun and as an attributive: • ... its "must" legislation complete and a new Congress about to convene in six weeks —Time, 25 Nov. 1940 • ... it belongs at the top of the "must" book list of every prospective traveler —N.Y. Herald Tribune Book Rev., 21 Sept. 1942 • ... high-quality insulation is not a must in tube sockets —Radio News, March 1944 • ... among the few "musts" in any retrospective of film history —Hollywood Quarterly, January 1946 • ... make considerable psychiatric ability a "must" for all physicians —Diseases of the Nervous System, May 1947 These uses of must continue to be common. Usage commentators generally confine themselves to considering whether must should be set off by quotation marks when used as a noun and adjective. Copperud 1964 and Flesch 1964 say that it should not; Gowers in Fowler 1965 gives, with apparent approval, citations showing that it still is. Our own most recent evidence indicates that the quotation marks are now omitted more often than not. |
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