| 词组 | personally |
| 释义 | personally The objections raised to the use of personally approximate those made to personal; they are concentrated on a narrow spectrum of use, probably more oral than written, in which the use of personally (especially in conjunction with I) is called redundant, gratuitous, a meaningless emphasis, or the like. The use of personally with l in print seems rather to be the mark of an informal conversational style: • To date I personally haven't seen a flake of snow — Robert Frost, letter, 25 Dec. 1912 • Personally I have found it a good scheme to not even sign my name to the story —Ring Lardner, Preface, How to Write Short Stories, 1924 • Personally, I am never happy when I am away from my beloved books —Myles na gCopaleen (Flann O'Brien), The Best of Myles, 1968 • Personally, I am most grateful to Mr. Hibben for his salvation of the gazelles —John Fischer, Harper's, October 1971 • Admittedly, these usages are not precisely parallel ... and I personally couldn't care less —Robert Claiborne, Our Marvelous Native Tongue, 19'83 We suggest that you limit your use of this construction to such deliberately informal contexts; to use it in a passage of serious discussion may leave you open to criticism. Personally is, however, used in serious contexts where it emphasizes personal contact, or the doing of something in person that might have been delegated, or the exclusion of considerations other than personal ones. Here are some examples of such uses: • Palmer was at pains to get the oldest and most doddery doctors ... with whom he was personally on friendly terms, to sign the death-certificates of the victims —Times Literary Supp., 27 Aug. 1971 • ... would probably strike us as pleasant if we met him personally rather than in a movie —Hollis Alpert, Saturday Rex., 10 Jan. 1970 • ... excellent on the problems of which he was personally in command —John Kenneth Galbraith, Saturday Rev., 6 Nov. 1971 • ... which President Carter planned to tour personally to determine the extent of the devastation — Wayne King, N.Y. Times, 22 May 1980 • ... the idea that a customer would pay $200 more for a dangerous car that would deteriorate more rapidly being personally offensive —David Halberstam, Harpers, February 1971 It is also used to mean "as a person": • ... with a look of being personally unusual —Ivy Compton-Burnett, The Last and the First, 1971 • Sympathetic to New Deal purposes, he disliked the New Dealers personally —Edwin M. Yoder, Jr., Harper's, February 1971 |
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