| 词组 | out of, out |
| 释义 | out of, out A few commentators observe that the of is superfluous most of the time, or sometimes—depending on whose opinion you are reading—when out is used with verbs of motion. The observation, however, is not especially useful, for out and out of are interchangeable only in a very few restricted contexts; out simply cannot be substituted for out of in most cases. Out is used much more often as an adverb than as a preposition. When used as a preposition, it seems most often to go with door or window: • We went out the door and got into the car —Paul Ernst, Redbook, March 1964 • ... old budgetary guidelines have gone out the window —Jerry Edgerton, Money, March 1980 • ... permits prevailing west breezes to carry warm greenhouse air out the door —Glenn Munson, Blair & Ketchum's Country Jour., January 1980 • He stares out the window —John Corry, Harper's, February 1969 With window, out of is about equally common: • ... who stared blankly out of a window —Emmanuel Bernstein, Psychology Today, October 1968 • ... upstairs his fat wife leaned out of the window — Bernard Malamud, The Magic Barrel, 1958 With nouns that designate places or things that can be thought of as containing or surrounding, out of is usual: • You never need get out of your car —Eileene Cof-field, Ford Times, November 1967 • I would have done anything to get out of that kitchen —William M. Clark, New-England Galaxy, Fall 1969 • A bathtub is, at best, a makeshift place to take a shower. It's hard to get into and out of gracefully — And More by Andy Rooney, 1982 • ... the fellow who, before being ridden out of town on a rail, remarked that if it wasn't for the honor of the thing, he'd prefer to walk —Robert Bendiner, N.Y. Times Mag., 13 June 1954 Out has been used this way, but it sounds not quite part of the mainstream: • "Father! father!" exclaimed a piercing cry from out the mist —James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer, 1841 • Dock Knowital he Snuck Out the room an' Disappeared —Frank W. Sage, D.D.S., Dental Digest, November 1902 • The woman came out the bath house —Flannery O'Connor, Partisan Rev., February 1949 We conclude that out is much more likely to be an adverb than a preposition. The prepositional out has a narrow range of application. It can seldom be idiomatically substituted for out of |
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