| 词组 | conservative |
| 释义 | conservative Bierce 1909 and Fowler 1926 objected to what was in their time a new use of conservative meaning "marked by moderation or caution" and applied especially to estimates. Gowers in Fowler 1965 noted that it had become established in the U.K. Howard 1977 also notes the use in British English and says it sounds odd to some British ears because of the connection of conservative with one of the major British political parties. The sense is an early 20th-century Americanism that has spread to British English. It is standard in American English, and now that it is entered without stigma in the OED Supplement and other recent British dictionaries (as Longman 1984), it is presumably standard in British English too. • Assuming that only 30 per cent of the men and 10 per cent of the women want and need jobs—a conservative estimate —Abraham Ribicoff, Saturday Rev., 22 Apr. 1972 • By the most conservative estimates, half a million children of survivors are alive today —Joan Barthel, N. Y. Times Book Rev., 29 Apr. 1979 • With in-depth counselling, neither of these boys would have been operated on. This is the reason we are so conservative and insist on long periods of observation —Dr. Jon Meyer, quoted in Johns Hopkins Mag., Summer 1971 |
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