英语词汇as the crow flies的意思、翻译、用法及例句-英语用法大全

词组	as the crow flies
释义	as the crow flies Copperud 1970, 1980 reports two critics calling this expression a cliché and an archaism. This criticism is self-contradictory: if it is a cliché it is current, and if it is an archaism it is not current. Neither view seems justified with respect to writing; however, our evidence suggests this is a more common expression in speech than in writing. Bernstein 1965 finds the phrase battered and asks why not say "in a straight line" or "by air." But the replacement will not always work well, as you will see if you try either of those substitutes in this fairly recent example: • The main access route, Forest Service Road 99, takes you to Windy Ridge, within 4 miles as the crow flies of the crater's edge, for a view into the smoking maw of the volcano —Sunset, June 1983
随便看	whether or not which while whilom whiskey, whisky whither who else's whoever, whomever whole whom whose who's, whose who, whom whys and wherefores widow, widower will win -wise wish with with a view, with the view without without hardly with regard to with respect to

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