| 词组 | clad |
| 释义 | clad This participial adjective, from the irregular past participle of clothe, is denigrated as bookish, archaic, or affected by a number of commentators—Flesch 1964, for instance, says that clad is obsolete and the modern word is dressed. Flesch rather vitiates his argument by producing four examples of clad, apparently from contemporary newspapers, which would seem to demonstrate nonobsolescence rather conclusively. Just what the point of such objections is is hard to fathom. It is certainly easy enough to find bookish or old-fashioned examples: • In the vast forest here, Clad in my warlike gear—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Skeleton in Armor," 1842 • They were pitiably clad; like many farm-children, indeed, they could hardly be said to be clad at all — Hamlin Garland, Prairie Folks, rev. ed., 1899 • They are pretty; they are clad in very costly robes of silk —Lafcadio Hearn, Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan, 1894 • ... people going about poorly clad, or even without shoes and stockings —Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, 1903 • Her thin hands, clad in knitted woolen gloves — Louis Bromfield, The Green Bay Tree, 1924 But note that the use continues right through mid-century: • ... was meticulously clad in morning clothes with a red geranium as a boutonnière —The Autobiography of William Allen White, 1946 • ... elegant objects in themselves, though usually clad against the cold in thick rugs —Osbert Sitwell, Noble Essences, 1950 • The children, clad in bright snow suits —Grace Metalious, Peyton Place, 1956 Clad even appears at that time in publications for children: • ... went about in all weathers clad in a torn undershirt —Story Parade, September 1951 • Clad in furry hoods —My Weekly Reader, 3 Mar. 1952 • ... rather poorly clad —American Girl, March 1953 And regular use continues: • ... the new chancellor, who was clad in a ceremonial robe of midnight-blue silk —Current Biography, January 1966 • ... solemn strippers undulate scantily clad bodies well into the morning hours —The Changing Middle South, No. 3, 1970 • Virtually no one tells his guests how to be clad anymore —Raymond A. Sokolov, Saturday Rev., 16 Dec. 1972 • ... I appeared in that annual class picture clad as a cowboy —Dan Greenburg, TV. Y. Times Book Rev., 2 Jan. 1977 A common use of clad involves attaching it to a preceding noun to make a compound modifier: • The little cocker spaniel hurries to and fro about the vine-clad porch —Donn Byrne, A Daughter of the Medici, 1935 • ... upland plains filled with wild life, and snow-clad mountains —Tom Marvel, The New Congo, 1948 • This pretty grey stone ivy-clad world of Princeton — Randall Jarrell, letter, September 1951 • ... with her feet thickly wool-clad —Marcia Davenport, My Brother's Keeper, 1954 • ... row after row of magnificent ice-clad peaks —Sir Edmund Hillary, National Geographic, November 1955 • ... a mysterious jean-clad fraternity man —Susan Walters, Women's Wear Daily, 19 May 1975 • ... or a hillside of hard maple and birch, or one oak-clad ridge —TV. Y. Times, 3 Oct. 1976 By now you should be persuaded that clad has been in regular use all along and that its use does not make contemporary writing sound bookish, archaic, or affected. |
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