| 词组 | character |
| 释义 | character Copperud 1970, 1980, Strunk & White 1959, 1972, 1979, Watt 1967, and Prentice-Hall 1978 all point out that character is often used for unneeded padding. How often, we cannot judge; we know it happens at least now and then: • ... that were partly economic and partly political in character—Collier's Year Book, 1949 • The measured dipole moment is about one-sixth of this value, suggesting that HCl is about 16% ionic in character —Ralph H. Petrucci, General Chemistry, 1972 But in the bulk of our citations the vagueness of the word seems to be useful, and it cannot easily be replaced: • ... wanted the furnishings to be mostly a traditional counterpoint to the open contemporary character of the house —Gary E. McCalla, Southern Living, November 1971 • Despite the increasingly political character of the movement —Jon Margolis, Esquire, March 1970 • But the character of these changes differed from one age to the next —W. F. Bolton, A Short History of Literary English, 1967 If character is sometimes used unnecessarily, it would seem to be a small matter and certainly no reason to forego use of the word entirely. |
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