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本帖最后由 Littlebush 于 2016-5-31 00:57 编辑
大多数的解释似乎还是比较painful的，至少是laborious的，但是AHD fifth在usage里面明确对此给与了否定，认为是个mistake，认为改词主要还是取careful一意，规定主义认为不painful，而描写主义的认为还是比较painful的，你认为如何？
附AHD的usage：
Usage Note: Painstaking is a compound of pains and taking, though it often sounds as if it were made from pain and staking. A painstaking effort is one in which someone takes pains to do something right. The word is sometimes used to mean "arduous" or "difficult," almost as if it meant "painful," but this usage is widely considered to be a mistake. In our 2008 survey, 74 percent of the Usage Panel rejected the sentence Traveling by bus through such a huge country was a painstaking ordeal. |
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发表于 2016-5-31 00:55:01
