| 词组 | on line |
| 释义 | on line Do you stand in line or on line? Twenty-five years ago on line would have marked a writer or speaker as a New Yorker. Bryant 1962 describes it as a regionalism peculiar to New York City and the Hudson Valley. A number of later commentators have repeated her. More recent commentators such as Geoffrey Nunberg in Shopen & Williams 1980 and Safire 1982 attest to the continued use of on line in New York. But Evans 1962 says his correspondents report it from many parts of the country, and he assumes that it is a regionalism that is spreading into standard use. Copperud 1980 complains that New Yorkers are foisting their provincialisms on the rest of us. Certainly on line has not replaced in line, and from our recent evidence it is not entirely clear whether on line is really spreading into other dialects, since so many of the national magazines in which we find it are themselves edited, and to some extent written, in New York. At the very least, however, on line is better known nationally than it used to be. • ... hates waiting in lines —Robert R. Harris, N. Y. Times Book Rev., 19 Dec. 1982 • Hundreds of them stand in line on campus to grab the 450 tickets passed out free of charge —Jorjanna Price, Houston Post, 30 Aug. 1984 • Hamden, Conn. (AP)—Many people get frustrated waiting on long lines at the Department of Motor Vehicles office —Springfield (Mass.) Morning Union, 3 Oct. 1985 • ... while waiting on line at our local movie theater —Joseph A. King, Newsweek, 14 Apr. 1986 • Just before leaving the stable or while waiting on line for inspection ... —P. Wynn Norman, Chronicle of the Horse, 11 May 1984 |
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