| 单词 | privilege |
| 例句 | privilege noun 1.•senior students have certain privileges:advantage, benefit | prerogative, entitlement, right | concession, freedom, liberty. 2.•it was a privilege to meet her:honor, pleasure. 3.•congressional privilege:immunity, exemption, dispensation.WORD NOTE privilege Even though some dictionaries OK it, the verb to privilege is currently used only in a particular English subdialect that might be called academese. Example: •The patriarchal Western canon privileges univocal discourse situated within established contexts over the polyphonic free play of decentered utterance. (Yes: it's often that ghastly.) Contemporary academese originated in literary and social theory but has now metastasized throughout much of the humanities. There is exactly one rhetorical situation in which you'd want to use to privilege, to situate, or to interrogate + some abstract noun phrase, or pretty much any transitivized-verb construction that's three times longer than it needs to be—this is in a university course taught by a professor so thoroughly cloistered, insecure, or stupid as to believe that academese constitutes intelligent writing. A required course, one that you can't switch out of. In any other situation, run very fast the other way. — DFWConversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage. |
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