| 词组 | quiz |
| 释义 | quiz Several critics feel that quiz is an informal word which, as Bernstein 1965 puts it, "is best restricted to the campus and the television screen." They particularly object to its use, both as a noun and as a verb, in reference to a formal investigation or examination, as in a criminal trial or by a legislative committee. Our evidence shows that such usage is extremely uncommon in running text (it may well occur more often in headlines, as the critics suggest). We have, in fact, only one bona fide citation for it: • ... the investigation into RFC lending policies, ... and currently the quiz on the extracurricular activities, if any, of Chairman Boyle of the Democratic National Committee —Christian Science Monitor, 10 Oct. 1951 We do have a few citations in which the verb quiz is used to describe close questioning in a police investigation, but not in a formal setting: • They quizzed the Forest Service lookouts in the area. Some suspicious facts emerged —Frank Cameron, Saturday Evening Post, 14 Aug. 1954 • ... he and Haquin went to quiz the crew of a patrol car who had radioed in the report —Michael Butter-worth, Cosmopolitan, January 1972 Such usage is entirely consistent with the verb's established sense, "to question closely." |
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