in.tu.it
v.tr.(及物动词)in.tu.it.ed,in.tu.it.ing,in.tu.its 【用法疑难】 To know intuitively.凭直觉知晓
来源:Back-formation from intuition 源自 intuition的逆构词
The verbintuit is well established in reputable writing, but some critics have objected to it.Only 34 percent of the Usage Panel accepts it in the sentence 动词intuit 在规范化写作中已被完全确定, 但是一些评论家却一直反对它。只有百分之三十四的用法专题使用小组成员接受它用于句中 例句:Claude often intuits my feelings about things long before I am really aware of them myself. 在我自己真正意识到之前,克劳德通常能凭直觉知道我对事物的感觉。
This lack of acceptance is often attributed to the verb`s status as a back-formation fromintuition, but in fact the verb has existed as long as other back-formations, such asdiagnose and donate, that are now wholly acceptable. The source of the objections most likely lies in the fact that the verb is often used in reference to more trivial sorts of insight than would be permitted by a full appreciation of the traditional meaning ofintuition. In this connection, a somewhat greater percentage of the Panel, 4' percent,does acceptintuit in the sentence Mathematicians sometimes intuit the truth of a theorem long before they are able to prove it. See Usage Note at enthuse 这种观点上的差异通常归咎于这个动词作为源于intuition 的逆构词的地位, 但是事实上这个动词的存在时间与其他现已普遍接受的诸如diagnose 以及 donate 等逆构词的存在时间一样长。 反对的原因很可能在于这个动词常用以指.较差的洞察力.,而此意义是被intuition 传统意义的充分理解所禁止的。 在这方面,小组百分之四十六之多的人,确实接受intuit 用于句中 数学家们能在某些定理被证明以前凭直觉知道定理的正确性 参见 enthuse