| 词组 | deal |
| 释义 | deal 1. Deal belongs to a class of weak or regular verbs including feel, creep, kneel, and mean in which the past and past participle have a short vowel contrasting with the long vowel of the infinitive. Some of these (see kneel; creep) have variants. Deal seems always to have dealt: • He dealt with them out of his constant sorrow —E. L. Doctorow, Ragtime, 1975 • It seemed everybody I knew either did drugs or dealt drugs —J. Poet, Rolling Stone, 17 July 1975 We have a citation postulating dealed in uneducated black speech from a novel about drug dealing. We do not know if the form is actually used. 2. Whipple 1924 thought deal was a bit vulgar; he advised using arrangement, transaction, or agreement instead. A half century later Himstreet & Baty 1977 were still warning against deal, although they did not use the word vulgar. A number of college handbooks, too, from Jensen 1935 to Prentice Hall 1978 and Mac-millan 1982, express reservations about various uses of the word. Almost every use objected to is an original Americanism, mostly from the 19th century. Whether relating to business or to politics, these uses are all now standard in general use. Here are some examples: • And the company could lose perhaps as much as $2 million on a deal with Jimmy Ling —Forbes, 1 Dec. 1970 • ... travelled to California, where the big drug deal was arranged —Publishers Weekly, 2 Feb. 1976 • ... is offering to buy your stock in it at a price that may or may not be a good deal for you —Sylvia Porter, Ladies' Home Jour., October 1971 • Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher faces almost certain defeat in her belligerent campaign to win a better deal for Britain from the European Economic Community —R. W. Apple, Jr., N.Y. Times, 29 Nov. 1979 • Surely the government must be entering into secret deals with Israel or the Arab states —Lewis H. Lapham, Harper's, January 1972 3. When the intransitive verb deal means "concern oneself or "take action," its usual preposition is with: • To deal with that new movement, quite obviously it will be necessary to develop a really new criticism — Leslie A. Fiedler, Los Angeles Times Book Rev., 23 May 1971 • It deals with the illusions of youth —Paul D. Zimmerman, Newsweek, 4 Dec. 1972 • This was a state of mind, or point of view, which many of the anxious friends from another class of society found very hard to deal with —Katherine Anne Porter, The Never-Ending Wrong, 1977 When deal is used in relation to selling—literally or figuratively—the usual preposition is in: • Specializing in ancient coins is like handling old masters: you have to be educated to deal in them — Bruce McNall, quoted in Money, January 1981 • ... never known to have actually dealt in the drug —Dan Rosen, N.Y. Times Mag., 15 June 1975 • ... the liberal arts deal in symbols and universal ideas —Scott Buchanan, "So Reason Can Rule," 1967 |
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