| 词组 | prestigious |
| 释义 | prestigious It may come as a bit of a surprise to some readers to find that the only living sense of prestigious was aspersed by Follett 1966 and a panelist of Harper 1975 on the grounds of the word's etymological connection to prestidigitation and its early archaic sense relating to conjuring. The older sense has not been attested since the 1880s. The current sense, as far as we know, was first used by Joseph Conrad in his novel Chance in 1913, in which he referred to "the prestigious or desirable things of the earth." How the word got from Conrad into American journalism we do not know, but here are our next two earliest citations: • ... the most prestigious yearly salon of pictorial photography in America —Carnegie Mag., March 1937 • ... starred in such prestigious successes as Winterset — Time, 3 Jan. 1938 Its frequent appearance in Time during the 1940s and 1950s undoubtedly helped popularize the new sense. It is in reputable use in spite of a few doubters—many of whom, according to Howard 1984, are the sort who write letters to newspapers pointing out that the sense is not in the OED (the volume that includes the entry for prestigious was published in 1909). • ... journalistic awards more respectable but less prestigious than the Pulitzers —Simon 1980 • A recommendation from the Philological Society... must be counted as one of Webster's more prestigious recommendations —E. Jennifer Monaghan, A Common Heritage, 1983 The change in the meaning of prestigious was influenced by a similar change in the meaning of prestige that took place in the 19th century. |
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