| 词组 | never |
| 释义 | never A couple of handbooks, Scott Foresman 1981 and Colter 1981, would restrict never to the meaning "not ever, at no time" and disapprove its other chief meaning, "not in any degree," which is used like an emphatic not. The objection can be found as far back as Gould 1867. But just what is wrong with the typically spoken usages they give as examples is not made explicit. The use in question is quite old: • Thou canst not say I did it. Never shake Thy gory locks at me.—Shakespeare, Macbeth, 1606 Many uses of never seem to hover between a simple negative meaning and "at no time": • ... the fly ash ... is trapped and never enters the atmosphere —Annual Report, Virginia Electric & Power Co., 1970 • You never go through that kind of experience ... and come out the same —Mary Vespa, People, 16 May 1983 • ... holding onto a bag—probably popcorn that Naomi never finished —Johanna Kaplan, Harper's, March 1971 Such uses are standard. |
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