| 词组 | complete, completely |
| 释义 | complete, completely Complete is one of those words some people think are absolute adjectives— adjectives that cannot be logically modified by more, most, or less. It is, for instance, on the huge list of such adjectives compiled in Partridge 1942. For a discussion of these, see absolute adjectives. Complete itself does not upset many commentators when modified; the usage panel of Heritage 1969, 1982 finds it acceptable, as do Harper 1985 and Bryson 1984. The pointlessness of worrying about the modification of complete can perhaps be illustrated by these quite ordinary examples: • Today the separation is even more complete —John Fischer, Harper's, March 1971 • Yet even after the most complete victory in history —Denis Brogan, Esquire, March 1970 • His technical ignorance had proved even more complete than he thought —Norman Mailer, Harper's, March 1971 • The composer with whom he was in closest and most complete sympathy —Times Literary Supp., 16 Apr. 1970 • ... taking special pains to give an impression of completest normalcy —Saul Bellow, Herzog, 1964 The adverb completely is similarly modified, despite occasional objection (as by Sellers 1975): • But if Swift was ... let in to all their secrets (more completely than has usually been thought) —Bon-amy Dobree, English Literature in the Early Eighteenth Century, 1700-1740, 1959 |
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