| 词组 | part and parcel |
| 释义 | part and parcel Although you will find this phrase denigrated in Copperud 1970, 1980, Shaw 1975, 1987, Evans 1957, and Bernstein 1965, critics seem not to understand its meaning or function very well. Evans believes the phrase is "now almost meaningless." Bernstein and Shaw consider it verbose and easily reducible to part in all occurrences. Part and parcel dates back to the time of Henry VIII. It appears to have been originally a legal phrase, perhaps, as suggested by a 1441 citation from the Rolls of Parliament in the form parcel and partie (OED), which goes back to law French. The purpose of the phrase was emphasis, part having essentially its present meaning and parcel meaning a part that is integral with a whole. This emphatic, intentionally somewhat redundant use of and parcel survives in modern applications of the phrase. Part and parcel applies not to what is just a part of something, but to what is an integral or essential part of something. You cannot simply omit and parcel, as Bernstein counsels, without losing a shade of meaning. Here are some examples: • Its phraseology has become part and parcel of our common tongue —John Livingston Lowes, Essays in Appreciation, 1936 • ... mannerisms that now seem old-fashioned but that were part and parcel of the virtuoso violin playing of the time —Winthrop Sargeant, Saturday Rev., 4 Oct. 1975 • ... the Carolingian legends had become part and parcel of popular Italian folk poetry —Robert A. Hall, Jr., A Short History of Italian Literature, 1951 • ... these are practically flaunted as part and parcel of the secret war —Hanson W. Baldwin, Saturday Rev., 6 Mar. 1976 • ... a will to succeed that is part and parcel of their religion —Robert Lindsey, N. Y. Times Mag., 12 Jan. 1986 • ... his expressive freewheeling illustrations were part and parcel of his genius —Joseph Kastner, Smithsonian, September 1981 |
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