| 词组 | personality |
| 释义 | personality There is no cult of personality among usage writers. Several find personality in the sense of "celebrity" or "notable" overused and at least mildly objectionable (Harper 1975, 1985, Shaw 1987, Bremner 1980). The Harper panel of 1985 is more hostile than the 1975 panel. Gowers in Fowler 1965 looks at the use rather more dispassionately; he says that personalities are much better paid than personages. Harper believes the use to be recent, and Bremner says it came in with television. The new OED Supplement, however, dates it back to George Bernard Shaw in 1889. Virginia Woolf used it in 1919, carefully surrounding it with quotation marks to indicate she thought the use rather new. Widespread popular use perhaps began in the 1930s with "radio personalities." The alleged overuse is not reflected in our files. Here are two examples: • ... the best tactic to hide the lockjaw of his shrinking genius was to become the personality of our time — Norman Mailer, Advertisements for Myself, 1959 • In general, nobody speaks out. Public personalities confide their fear in private —The Economist, 1 Feb. 1975 |
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