| 词组 | proved, proven |
| 释义 | proved, proven A lot of ink has been devoted to questioning the propriety of proven versus proved since the controversy started in the 19th century (our earliest comment comes from 1829). Proven is historically the past participle of preven, in Middle English the usual spelling of what has become prove. Proven survived in and descends to us from Scottish English. It apparently first established itself in legal use and has been slowly working its way into literary and general use. Tennyson was one of its first frequent users in literature; he seems to have used it for metrical reasons. Surveys thirty or forty years ago showed proved to be about four times as common as proven. But proven has caught up in the past twenty years; it is now just about as common as proved as part of a verb phrase; it is more common than proved when used as an attributive adjective. You can use whichever form you like. • I should hate to see Ezra die ignominiously in that wretched place where he is for a crime which if proven couldn't have kept him all these years in prison —Robert Frost, letter, 24 June 1957 • That theory ordinarily would never have had a chance of being proven even in the Republican Senate —David A. Stockman, Newsweek, 28 Apr. 1986 • The Peace Corps has proven over the years that it can survive —Robert Shogan, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 9 Feb. 1986 • But I had proved I could make money if I put my mind to it —James Thurber, letter, 27 Dec. 1952 • ... his amazing recuperative powers having again proved themselves —Robert Craft, Stravinsky, 1972 • What artist had ever really proved a reliable guide to the meanings generated by his work? —Dan Hof-stadter, New Yorker, 6 Jan. 1986 Although proven is more common as an attributive adjective, you can use proved too: • Richard Cork, a proven authority on the first machine age in its relation to British art —John Russell, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 2 June 1985 • ... a perfect knowledge of their own past record and proved capabilities —Roger Angell, New Yorker, 9 Dec. 1985 Some writers use both: • ... where they were known, where what they were did not have to be proved —E. L. Doctorow, Loon Lake, 1979 • He had proven not the sturdiest member of the expedition —E. L. Doctorow, Ragtime, 1975 Both forms are standard now. |
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