| 词组 | please |
| 释义 | please 1. At one time, the imperative please was quite regularly followed by to and an infinitive: • "... Now tell me, Brandon, and pray do speak in answer to my questions, and please to forget you are dealing with a woman." —George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, 1859 • Please to thank the Lady. She is very gentle to care —Emily Dickinson, letter, 9 June 1866 However, by the beginning of the 20th century the usage was being questioned: • Please To or Please? The imperative "please" may or may not be followed by "to" before an infinitive. Milton's "Heavenly stranger, please to taste these bounties" is of course more formal, less colloquial, than our everyday "Please taste this." —Ladies' Home Jour., October 1901 Our evidence indicates that while this usage has not entirely disappeared in the U.S., it is more likely to be found in British English: • "What I did was very bad. Please to forgive me, Shane." —Harry J. Boyle, The Great Canadian Novel, 1972 • "Please to shut up!" cried Syd Parks, endearing landlord of The Bull —Alan Coren, Punch, 3 Oct. 1973 Outside of this imperative use, please is occasionally found with to and an infinitive in both American and British English: • ... I can easily find some one who will take care of you as long as you please to stay —George Bernard Shaw, Cashel Byron's Profession, 1886 • ... an able man, licensed by the times to do pretty much as he pleased, and pleasing to do some strange and lawless things —James H. Hanford, N. Y. Herald Tribune Book Rev., 25 Apr. 1954 • This is not because I think that national governments will ever please to ratify them —W. Warren Wagar, Center Mag., September 1968 2. When please is used in the passive voice or when it takes a direct object, it is often followed by to and an infinitive: • "I'm always pleased to meet a new member of the Company." —James Jones, From Here to Eternity, 1951 • ... have ceased to lie to themselves, ceased the pretense we are pleased to label sanity —Richard Schickel, Harper's, April 1971 • ... it had pleased her to pay me out in this manner —W. H. Hudson, Green Mansions, 1904 • ... mindful of the state of life into which it had pleased the Prime Minister to call me —Noël Gilroy Annan, AC LS Newsletter, January-February 1969 Also found quite frequently with the passive pleased are prepositional phrases beginning with with, about, or by, and clauses: • "... if you expect your family to be pleased with your marriage...." —Mary Austin, Starry Adventure, 1931 • He gets more pleased with himself with each new film —Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Saturday Rev., 1 Apr. 1978 • I am very much pleased about what you have done with the manuscript —Flannery O'Connor, letter, 3 Feb. 1949 • ... were more irked than pleased by these signs of progress —Virginia Douglas Dawson & Betty Douglas Wilson, The Shape of Sunday, 1952 • People in Britain are pleased that Sir Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden are meeting the President — Hugh Gaitskell, N.Y. Times Mag., 27 June 1954 |
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