| 词组 | appraise, apprise |
| 释义 | appraise, apprise No fewer than ten sources warn us against using appraise for apprise. The examples given suggest that the confusion occurs chiefly in speech; our files yield but a single example of the mistake in print: • ... had not properly appraised herself of Mrs. Mac-duffs nature —Rex Ingamells, Of Us Now Living, 1952 Even if you did not know the difference in meaning between these two words, you could tell them apart by their typical constructions. Apprise, which means "give notice to," usually occurs in the construction apprise one of: • "... Hitler ... had not bothered to apprise them of his thoughts —William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall ofthe Third Reich, 1960 • ... had kept him apprised of the high regard in which he is held —Hollis Alpert, in The Film, 1968 Sometimes the of phrase is replaced by a that clause: • ... in a guarded way which apprised him that she had been in touch with Renata —Marcia Davenport, My Brother's Keeper, 1954 Appraise, which means "evaluate," is used in neither of those constructions. The object of appraise is usually inanimate or abstract: • ... made it difficult for friends and foes alike to appraise his performance —Ronald P. Kriss, Saturday Rev., 11 Mar. 1972 Less often the object is a person: • John was conscious that Jabez Winkleman had been studying him with shrewd eyes, appraising him — Clarence Budington Kelland, Saturday Evening Post, 25 Dec. 1954 There is a verb apprize which means "appraise, value." It is quite rare. |
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