| 词组 | off from |
| 释义 | off from The OED notes that the adverb off is frequently used with from (as well as of— see off of). The OED treats this combination as if it were entirely standard but shows fewer examples of it than of off of. Other examples can be found in the works of Jonson, Milton, Swift, Defoe, and Blake. A few commentators—MacCracken & Sandison 1917, Lincoln Library 1924, Jensen 1935, Little, Brown 1980, Heritage 1982—object to the from in offfrom as redundant (as they do to the of 'in off of) in contexts where off can stand alone as a preposition. Watt 1967 calls it rare. He may be right, as modern citations for offfrom are very hard to find. In fact, we have none in our collection more recent than Melville's Pierre (1852): • ... which no flannel, or thickest fur, or any fire then could keep off from me ... The OED ends with a letter of Carlyle's (1871). Other combinations of off and from have never been subject to criticism: • Nor can China have taken with a light heart her decision to sheer off from the West and to side with Russia —Arnold J. Toynbee, London Calling, 18 Mar. 1954 • ... he cut himself off from friends and the public eye —Newsweek, 12 June 1967 An idiom considered standard by the OED and of apparently so little use now can hardly be a major worry. The OED notes a peculiarity of this idiom—it can be reversed: • Surreptitiously Miss Thriplow slipped the opal ring from off the little finger of her right hand —Aldous Huxley, Those Barren Leaves, 1925 |
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