| 词组 | off |
| 释义 | off Off in the sense of "from" is disparaged in a few books: Opdyke 1939, Longman 1984, Trimmer & McCrimmon 1988. Mittins et al. 1970 put a sentence with "bought some tomatoes off" in their survey, and found it ranked very low in acceptability, but they were unable to find many commentators who mention it and were unable to discover any rationale for its disapproval. None of our sources provides any rationale either. The OED dates such use of the preposition from the middle of the 16th century, and adds "esp. with take, buy, borrow, hire, and the like." A handful of modern examples: • ... so I took the bike off Joe and we worked this stunt —Ian Cross, The God Boy, 1973 • ... taking a long draw off a bottle of light brew — Glenn Lewis, Houston Post, 26 Aug. 1984 • ... I figured that if two could live on eighteen hundred dollars a year three could struggle along some way on the income off one hundred and fifty thousand dollars —Ring Lardner, The Big Town, 1921 • ... were hunted on foot as well as off a pony —Rex Hudson, Shooting Times & Country Mag., 31 Mar. 1976 • ... eventually the government banned them off the radio stations —Michael Manley, quoted in Jamaica Jour., March/June 1973 • ... vidéocassette recorders, with which they can record shows off their cable systems or off the networks —Thomas Whiteside, New Yorker, 3 June 1985 Some of the uses here were undoubtedly not even thought of by the critics. There is nothing wrong with off in the sense of "from," although it is perhaps more often a speech form than a written one and to many people it will suggest uneducated speech. So, while the objection may have no rational foundation, you should at least be aware that it exists. For discussion of off of used in the same way and drawing the same criticism, see off of. |
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