| 词组 | out loud |
| 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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