| 词组 | orientate |
| 释义 | orientate Orientate, first attested in 1849 in the same issue of the same journal that first used orientation, has been under critical fire since 1945; the frequency of criticism seems to have increased in recent years. After you have weeded out the ill-considered or uninformed commentary, the criticism comes down to this: orientate is three letters and one syllable longer than orient. That would seem like a rather trivial concern, but the word seems to draw criticism for no better reason than that. You will have to decide for yourself how important that consideration is in your writing. Here are some examples from writers who obviously saw nothing wrong with orientate: What parting gift could give that friend protection, So orientated, his salvation needs • The Bad Lands and the sinister direction?—W. H. Auden, New Republic, 25 Nov. 1940 • When they come to London, colonials orientate themselves by Piccadilly Circus —Ngaio Marsh, Death of a Peer, 1940 • ... the propaganda of the period has to orientate itself in relation to these landmarks —Aldous Huxley, The Olive Tree, 1937 • ... a poet already strongly impelled, and already definitely orientated —F. R. Leavis, New Bearings in English Poetry, new ed., 1950 • ... the behaviour of the suppliant is carefully orientated in respect to this mysterious undesirability — Margaret Mead, Coming of Age in Samoa, 1928 • She was only standing there to catch her nervous balance, to orientate herself —Tennessee Williams, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, 1950 • In modern terms the modistae were theory orientated, and the adherents of classical literature and Priscian's grammar as it stood were data orientated —R. H. Robins, A Short History of Linguistics, 1967 • ... France and Italy, where the conservatives tend to be clerically orientated —Times Literary Supp., 26 Apr. 1974 • I don't want to suggest that Chinamen are less aesthetically orientated than I —Robert Morley, Punch, 25 Dec. 1974 • ... the struggle in Greece to promote the classically-orientated Katharevousa —Randolph Quirk, Style and Communication in the English Language, 1982 We have omitted scientific and technical uses that would be beyond the purview of usage writers. You have probably noticed that most of the writers cited are British; orientate is much more frequently used in British English than it is in American. Orient is indeed shorter, and it seems to be the usual choice in American English. |
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