| 词组 | concretize |
| 释义 | concretize Harper 1985 expresses horror at this term, complaining that dictionaries do not even recognize it as slang (and displaying at the same time an unusual notion of what slang is). Concretize is, they say, "a favorite of business administrators, bureaucrats, and other semi-literates," though the evidence suggests this view is more wish than fact: • ... are either poorly chosen or insufficiently concretized vehicles for the psychic content —John Simon, New York, 5 Apr. 1976 Copperud 1970, 1980, on the other hand, thinks the word is standard but concedes that it is subject to the sort of opprobrium that Harper has heaped upon it. The kinds of users that Harper believes are fond of concretize do not figure significantly in our citations for it. We find it most frequent in literary criticism and political commentary and in works on religion, philosophy, anthropology, and the like, where the terminology runs to sesquipedalian technicalities and the general tone is decidedly intellectual. We have extracted some examples from our files to show you how the word is used, just in case you are not familiar with it. These are, incidentally, among our most readable examples: • ... many of us will end his book still held more by the Idea of Huey P. Newton than by this particular effort to concretize himself —Murray Kempton, TV. Y. Times Book Rev., 20 May 1973 • Throughout there are references to individual cases which concretize their message —Albert H. Johnston, Publishers Weekly, 3 Feb. 1975 • ... a relatively simple policy statement is introduced for discussion. This is kicked around a bit, as the saying goes, ... until finally the original statement has been at once pointed up, toned down, ... concretized, amended, and resolved —Fortune, November 1950 • His fourth stanza will concretize, or "materialize," the act, by dwelling upon its appropriate ground — Kenneth Burke, A Grammar of Motives, 1945 • In Orlick is concretized all the undefined evil of the Dickens world —Dorothy Van Ghent, Sewanee Rev., Summer 1950 • ... a reality that derives from the history of Ireland's defeats and that is focused, concretized, in the very quality of the men of Dublin —James T. Farrell, The League of Frightened Philistines, 1945 • ... when H. L. Mencken said of this country and Poe, "They let him die like a cat up an alley," he was merely concretizing the hatred that literary artists have always felt in this society towards a citizenry that has found them ornamental rather than basic — Seymour Krim, Evergreen, August 1967 Concretize has been in use since the 1880s. You can use it in its proper sphere without concern. Most writers most of the time will not find it especially useful, however. |
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