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释义 out loud
      Out loud was once widely decried as an error for aloud, and it is still sometimes described as a colloquialism to be avoided in formal writing. Its first recorded use was in the early 19th century:
      Lord Andover in the presence of Lord and Lady Suffolk and speaking out loud —Maria Edgeworth, letter, 1821 (OED Supplement)
      Its heyday as an object of criticism came about a hundred years later, when American commentators such as MacCracken & Sandison 1917, Ball 1923, Wool-ley & Scott 1926, and Krapp 1927 routinely prescribed against it in their books. Its use continued to be common, however, and its notoriety eventually diminished. It now survives as a usage topic chiefly in composition textbooks for high school and college students.
      Our abundant written evidence for out loud shows clearly that it is not a colloquialism. We would agree that aloud is more likely in solemn writing, but in general use the two terms are essentially interchangeable:
      She read it aloud to my classmates —Russell Baker, Growing Up, 1982
      He was reading my words out loud to the entire class —Russell Baker, Growing Up, 1982
      ... being permitted to think aloud with friends and colleagues —Bruce Dearing, CEA Forum, April 1971
      ... afraid to let themselves or others think out loud —Nehemiah Jordan, Themes in Speculative Psychology, 1968
      A distinctive and exclusive use of out loud is in the idiom "for crying out loud!" It is also preferred to aloud following the verb laugh:
      ... Mazeppa makes him laugh out loud —Robert Craft, N.Y. Rev. of Books, 25 Feb. 1971
      He laughed out loud —E. L. Doctorow, Loon Lake, 1979
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