| 词组 | animadversion, animadvert |
| 释义 | animadversion, animadvert 1. Of these hard words Bernstein 1965 observes that the verb takes upon. Actually, both the noun and verb are followed by on or upon, as Simon 1980 says. The instance of animadversion to that he detected probably resulted from the writer's confusing animadversion with aversion, which usually takes to (but see section 2 below). A few examples of the usual prepositions: • There are quite a few animadversions, for example, on the plight of women —Anatole Broyard, N.Y. Times, 28 Aug. 1980 • I refrain from further animadversions on the quality of tone —Richard Franko Goldman, The Concert Band, 1946 • ... animadversions upon the shortcomings of his fellow biographers —Times Literary Supp., 21 Dec. 1973 • ... the justice of his animadversion upon his old acquaintance and pupil —James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791 • ... let us notice and animadvert on the vogue use of reiterate—Howard 1977 • ... had wearied of animadverting upon the late King's devotion to duty —Malcolm Muggeridge, Saturday Evening Post, 19 Oct. 1957 • ... to the extent of our animadverting upon his economics or his politics —John Crowe Ransom, Sewa-nee Rev., Spring 1953 2. The animadversion to detected by Simon 1980 may just possibly have been more than a casual confusion of aversion to with animadversion (up)on. We have some slight evidence of the use of animadversion as a longer and perhaps more impressive or emphatic form of aversion. Our evidence for this use is sparse, and so far as we know, it is recognized by only two dictionaries, Macmillan Dictionary (1973)—a high-school dictionary— and one of its derivatives for lower grades. William D. Halsey and his editors give as sense 2 of animadversion: "dislike or antipathy; aversion: He became a vegetarian because of his animadversion toward meat." We have no evidence of animadversion used with toward, but we do have one example with to: • It embarrasses me now that I ever could have questioned the ingenuousness of her Polish sentiments and suspected her animadversion to the U.S.S.R. of being simulated —Robert Craft, Stravinsky, 1972 It is possible that this sense is more common than our evidence suggests. If evidence continues to accumulate to the point that the meaning seems to have established itself in the language, it will have to go into dictionaries, so the puzzled can look it up. Then, if tradition prevails, usage experts will begin to lament the destruction of another splendid word and the decline of literacy. For now our judgment has to be that this sense is still nonstandard. |
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