| 词组 | portion |
| 释义 | portion Richard Grant White 1870 and Ayres 1881 claimed that portion was misused to mean "part"; Flesch 1964 objects to portion as a more formal synonym for part; Partridge 1942 wants to distinguish the two words. Whether these views are ultimately connected we do not know. Bernstein 1971 explodes the myth of misuse, however, noting that the sense meaning "part" has been in use since the 15th century. It is standard. • ... the portion of human experience that is most absent in the Ariel poems —Irving Howe, Harper's, January 1972 • ... a portion of the Lao people has absorbed the heaviest aerial attack in history —Jonathan Mirsky, TV. Y. Times Book Rev., 20 May 1973 • In geometry, the term is used chiefly to denote a portion of a circle —Robert W. Marks, The New Mathematics Dictionary and Handbook, 1964 |
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