| 词组 | as long as, so long as |
| 释义 | as long as, so long as It is a little hard to understand the objection that some textbooks used to make to as long as; Evans 1957 says it is not used in formal prose with the meaning "since," but Bryant 1962 and dictionaries find it standard. • As long as they were there, they might as well be teaching —J. Kirk Sale, Change, July-August 1969 As long as and so long as are simply variants. Evans foung so long as much less common, but Bryant and our files show them to be roughly equal in frequency. So long as does not seem to be much used in the sense "since." The two are used pretty much interchangeably in the sense "provided that" and in the more literal sense "for the period of time that." • There was no reason why industry could not do the job as long as it realized the size of the job to be done — Time, 7 Jan. 1946 • But so long as allowance for this is made it forms an obvious starting point —Times Literary Supp., 14 May 1970 • As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable —Albert Einstein, Atlantic, November 1945 • I put it off as long as I can —William Faulkner, 5 June 1957, in Faulkner in the University, 1959 • So long as the wind blows the air away in the morning you don't have a pollution problem —Dr. Ruth Patrick, quoted in Smithsonian, August 1970 • And they'll stick around so long as sales of subsidiary rights ... bring in more money —Charles Kaiser, Saturday Rev., August 1981 |
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