| 词组 | as good as |
| 释义 | as good as This adverbial phrase is disparaged by MacCracken & Sandison 1917 as an "undesirable colloquialism" for practically, and Shaw 1975 finds it "wordy" for practically. You can safely ignore both criticisms. Consider, for instance, Shaw's objection. As good as has eight letters and two blank spaces and has three syllables. Practically has eleven letters, three syllables in the most common pronunciation and four syllables in another. Practically has more letters and as many or more syllables. Here are several impeccably standard examples: • Goethe is quite explicit about this to Eckermann; he as good as says that a masterpiece is a gift from on high —Lucien Price, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead, 1954 • The floating laborer of our society ... is as good as unheard-of among them —A. L. Kroeber, Anthropology, rev. ed., 1948 • ... the Defense Ministry as good as admitted that most of the R.A.F.'s fighters are too slow —Time, 28 Feb. 1955 |
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