| 词组 | check |
| 释义 | check The common English particles—up, on, over, into, for instance—are a frequent irritation to the usage commentator, who tends to suspect that they are often superfluous. But they are idiomatic and cannot simply be wished away. Check as a verb is used with a number of these. Copperud 1970, 1980 comments especially on the use of check into, which seems to have been a particular bugbear of Theodore Bernstein. Bernstein, in Winners & Sinners (23 June 1954) disapproved of these two examples: • ... is kept busy checking into developments —N. Y. Times, 11 June 1954 • He said he also had asked Mr. Carr to check into such rumors —N. Y. Times, 12 June 1954 (proof) Copperud points out that the into in each of these examples serves the purpose of disambiguation; without it check could be understood in the sense of "to slow or bring to a stop." This seems to be a reasonable point, and it is likely that the use of such idiomatic and "superfluous" particles often has the singling out of one sense of a multisense word as a main function. Let us, then, not worry about alleged superfluity or redundancy in these idiomatic combinations of check, but look at those that are in current use and see by example what sorts of contexts they are found in. Out seems to be the particle in most frequent use at the present time. You will note in these examples that check with out is not reserved to a single meaning: • ... try something on a small scale and check out the result —Richard M. Brett, Blair & Ketchum's Country Jour., February 1980 • ... her answer that evening, and I have checked this out with others, was, "What should I say? ..." — Alan Rich, New York, 3 Apr. 1972 • ... they stop visitors and question them, and check out parked cars —B. J. Phillips, Ms., March 1973 • Check it out with Gladys —Jamaica Weekly Gleaner, 13 Feb. 1974 • Instead, he began to check out Donohue's story — Anatole Broyard, N.Y. Times, 23 Feb. 1972 • ... there was no time to check stories out —Thomas Parker, Harper's, August 1969 • Be sure to check out the prettily embroidered place mats —Merrie A. Leeds, Town & Country, May 1980 • ... so we might as well go check out that crowd to see who we're going to be hanging out with —Carolyn Becknell Mann, Harper's Weekly, 16 May 1975 On is also common: • ... going to I Corps near Da Nang and checking on the Marines' progress there —David Halberstam, Harper's, February 1971 • Through the monitoring center, physicians can check on a patient from anywhere inside or outside the hospital —Psychology Today, March 1971 • Wilbur G. Kurtz, an artist and historian of the South, was retained to check on every matter of detail —Gavin Lambert, Atlantic, March 1973 Check up and check up on can also be found. Check up followed by a clause appears to be British; check up on is predominantly American: • Check up that the child has the means of obtaining any materials or books she may need —Ailsa Bram-bleby et al., A Handbook for Guiders, 1968 • ... I had got up to look out of the window to check up if there was going to be a frost —Ian Cross, The God Boy, 1957 • ... she planted herself in the front row of the House visitors' gallery to check up on the vote —James Egan, McCall's, March 1971 • One may work his head off or just think and loaf. No one checks up on you —Albert Halper, American Scholar, Winter 1981-1982 • ... told two flat falsehoods about what had happened in secret session where no reporters were present to check up on him —Elmer Davis, But We Were Born Free, 1954 And there are also over and around: • They asked for volunteers to check over the registration lists —Boy's Life, August 1952 • ... mothers who brought their babies in to be checked over by a city doctor —The Lamp, September 1953 • ... staying there just long enough to be checked over by Al Getman —Alexander Woollcott, letter, 2 Sept. 1940 • The White House people had quietly checked around and found ... —David Halberstam, Harper's, February 1971 |
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