| 词组 | criticize |
| 释义 | criticize Bierce 1909 disparaged the common use of criticize to mean "censure." Jensen 1935 notes that the "censure" sense is the one most students associate with the verb and tries to rehabilitate it. He also notes that censure itself originally meant "evaluate, judge" and gradually became entirely negative—a point also commented upon by Brander Matthews 1921. Bernstein 1971 also takes note of the common understanding of criticize as "censure," and Copperud 1980 believes there is no use arguing (as Jensen tries to do) that it should be used only in its neutral sense. Bernstein and Copperud both point out that context usually makes the meaning clear but that there is no escaping the usual connotations of disfavor. It is probably the disparaging overtones of criticize that helped the revival of critique as a verb. See critique 2. |
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