| 词组 | pander |
| 释义 | pander 1. Pander, panderer. Copperud 1980 says panderer is more common in the newspapers, but pander is the original noun. Pander is a 16th-century noun; panderer is a 19th-century word derived from the verb. Our files show no particular difference in frequency between the two nouns at the present time. Both are seen decidedly less often than the verb. Both nouns are also used in the figurative sense: • ... at 50 he decided ... that he was nothing more than a pander to people who had nothing better to do with their time than read —E. L. Doctorow, N. Y. Times Book Rev., 25 Aug. 1985 • Basically he was a panderer, out to seduce, or amuse, or thrill his public —Harold C. Schonberg, N.Y. Times, 2 Apr. 1972 2. The intransitive verb pander is regularly used with to: • ... the public interest could be served without pandering to idle curiosity —E. Pendleton James, Business Week, 19 Apr. 1982 • ... which panders to the frustrated, inarticulate ambitions of the illiterate lower middle classes — Robert Pattison, On Literacy, 1982 • ... a mercenary who has used his brilliant gifts to pander to popular taste —Hubert Saal, N. Y. Times Book Rev., 13 Mar. 1983 |
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