| 词组 | partial |
| 释义 | partial 1. Partial is used with the preposition to when it means "markedly fond of someone or something": • "But if a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavor to conceal it, he must find it out." —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1813 • ... its large hearth, constructed for turf-fires, a fuel the captain was partial to in the winter season — Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, 1878 • We have become very partial to bean sprouts —Jean Stafford, The Mountain Lion, 1947 • Intellectuals have always been partial to grandiose ideas about themselves —Irving Howe, Partisan Rev., January-February 1954 • ... a Countess who is admired by both the Composer and the Poet, but cannot decide to which she is partial —Irving Kolodin, Saturday Rev., 24 Apr. 1954 The OED traces this sense of partial to 1696; it labels the sense colloquial (in the standard descriptive way of dictionaries). In the early part of the 20th century, some American commentators also used the label colloquial, but in the pejorative sense. Recent commentators accept the use without quibble. 2. A few commentators, MacCracken & Sandison 1917, Shaw 1970, 1975, 1987, and Phythian 1979, mention this adjective. Phythian merely gives the three standard dictionary definitions; MacCracken & Sandison are concerned about possible confusion between the "biased" sense and the "incomplete" sense, and that seems to be Shaw's concern too. An unexpressed purpose of these entries is to refer to the dispute discussed at partially, partly. |
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