| 词组 | course |
| 释义 | course 1. See coarse, course. 2. Copperud 1970, 1980 finds course as used in such phrases as in the course of or during the course of redundant for during, at, etc. Phrases like these are often used for rhythm or space in a sentence—to keep the content words spaced out so they don't interfere with one another; content words can be too tightly packed to be immediately understood. In addition, these phrases add emphasis to the notion of duration. Let us look at a few examples to see when these phrases are unnecessary and when they are useful: • When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another — Declaration of Independence, 111 6 This example is perhaps unfamiliar to writers on usage. The phrase here helps build a stately and formal opening. The idea can be more briefly expressed: "when one people has to split from another ... ," but more than patriotic sentiment prevents us from seeing that as an improvement. • ... the Italian star Silvana Mangano, whom De Laurentiis married in the course of making the picture —Current Biography, May 1965 If the phrase is reduced to in here, only puzzlement would result. "During the making of the picture" is no improvement either. While would be idiomatic here but might import a ludicrous hint that they were married on the set. • ... was doing an article on Kim Novak and, in the course of it, met Miss Novak's personal PR girl — Cleveland Amory, Saturday Rev., 30 Oct. 1971 Is the phrase redundant here? If not, it is hard to think of a more concise equivalent. • During the course of the Early Horizon, region after region seems to have broken free from the Chavin influence —Edward P. Lanning, Peru Before the Incas, 1967 Here "the course of would seem omissible; it does no more than emphasize somewhat the length of the period and suggest a happening gradually. But if not at all essential, the phrase is at least harmless, and little is gained by its omission. • For, in the course of an exactly and beautifully written childhood narrative, Iduarte unobtrusively and unargumentatively writes of philosophical or moral uncertainties that afflict many people in many societies —Naomi Bliven, New Yorker, 17 July 1971 This seems to be a leisurely review. Avoidance of unnecessary words is no object here. You could undoubtedly put the matter more briefly, but the author didn't have to and clearly didn't want to. • Almost 500 million transactions were handled by our business offices in the course of the year — Annual Report, American Telephone & Telegraph Co., 1970 • ... were settled during the course of 1970 on a basis which the Company considers favorable —Annual Report, International Business Machines Corp., 1970 • ... both of which were merged into National Bank of North America in the course of the year —Annual Report, CIT Financial Corp., 1971 All of these seem to be abridgeable. • During the course of this meeting, she told him about her overload —AAUP Bulletin, December 1967 Academics are not notably terser than businessmen in their prose. We conclude that phrases like in the course of and during the course of can be useful as well as flatulent. You need not avoid them on principle, but you would do well to weigh their use. |
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