| 词组 | credit |
| 释义 | credit 1. See credence, credibility. 2. Bernstein 1965 and Evans 1957 believe that the verb credit should not be used to attribute something unfavorable or discreditable. Their view overgeneralizes what is usually done into what must be always done. Actual usage is more various and offers the opportunity to use credit in several ways. It is a good idea to remember that in many instances there will be two points of view about the desirability of the thing credited—as witness the frequent claiming of credit for bombings, killings, and kidnappings by terrorist groups. The possibility of two points of view may actually be emphasized by yoking credit with blame: • Historically, the quality of children's lives has been blamed on or credited to their parents —Carll Tucker, Saturday Rev., 15 Oct. 1977 • ... in his own era, Samuel Adams was often credited with or blamed for creating the Revolution all by himself—Carol Berkin, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 12 Sept. 1976 Moreover, credit can be and frequently has been used entirely neutrally: • ... a persistent but unsubstantiated legend credits a trader, La Ronde or Laland, with the operation of a sloop as early as 1731 —American Guide Series: Minnesota, 1938 • The ambiguity ... that few may credit to Tess — Robert B. Heilman, Southern Rev., April 1970 • Any differences were automatically credited to aging —Johns Hopkins Mag., Spring 1968 This use can easily apply to what is or can be interpreted as less than desirable: • "Our company was credited with hundreds of kills," Reid told a reporter —Seymour M. Hersh, Harper's, May 1970 • The great heart of the Atlantic has been credited with powers which make of it almost a sentient monster —William Beebe, The Arcturus Adventure, 1926 • ... was credited by the London Daily Express with scathing remarks on English prisons —Current Biography 1950 • ... some New York critics refused to credit Rauschenberg and Cunningham with much more than a bad practical joke —Current Biography, May 1966 . ".. the Republican National Committee in the canvass of 1880, was widely credited with having carried the State of Indiana by the use of money —Dictionary of American Biography, 1929 • ... overpopulation must be credited as a major factor in the vicious border war between El Salvador and Honduras —F. Herbert Bormann, Massachusetts Audubon, June 1971 In summary, then, credit is usually used to assign what is laudable, but not always. You may want to be credited with something I find reprehensible. And credit is also used for things that fall between the entirely laudable and the entirely blameworthy. 3. Simon 1980 seems to feel that with is the only preposition the verb credit is to be used with; he specifically objects to for. With is the most common preposition, but it is by no means the only one. The illustrations above show not only with but also (in different constructions) to and as. For is also in reputable use: • These procedures proved successful ... , and coupled with changes in agricultural practices, were credited for the success of control programs in a number of other tropical areas —Lloyd E. Roze-boom, Johns Hopkins Mag., Spring 1971 • Credit Mobil, its final sponsor, for not being nervous about sex after 40 —Judith Crist, New York, 10 Feb. 1975 |
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