| 释义 |
concerned, ppl. a.|kənˈsɜːnd|
[f. concern v.]
1. a. Affected, interested, involved; troubled, vexed, anxious; showing concern.
1656Cowley Davideis iii. 766 With concern'd haste her thoughtful Looks she rais'd. 1672Sir T. Browne Lett. Friend xxii. (1881) 142 To see the heirs and concerned relations gratulating themselves. 1712Steele Spect. No. 504 ⁋4 Taking him aside with a grave concerned countenance. 1802M. Edgeworth Moral T. (1816) I. xv. 128 He was greatly concerned. 1832Southey Hist. Penins. War III. 877 The more concerned spectators were not without fear.
b. Used absol., and hence formerly with pl.
1755N. Magens Insurances I. 60 An Instance..wherein the Concerned agreed that the Goods..should be rated at first Cost. Ibid. I. 236 Arbitrators were fixed upon..Mr. N. M. for the Concerneds in the Prize.
c. (See quot.)
1949Friend 17 June 495/1 ‘Concerned’ in the Quaker sense really means being captured or consumed by the love of God, and directing that love towards some area of need among men.
d. Socially ‘aware’; actively involved in social or moral issues. Cf. caring ppl. a.
1961Mem. & Proc. Manchester Lit. & Philos. Soc. CIII. 59 J. K. Galbraith..looked forward to Kennedy and those associated with him as people who would be ‘concerned’ in the sense of deeply and compassionately aware that there are problems..which need to be met. 1970Time 13 July NY4/2 What of our idealistic, ‘concerned’ youth? Do we see them demonstrating and protesting against the inhumanities perpetrated by the Viet Cong..? No, sir, they are much too busy..finding fault with America's defense of democracy. 1971It 2–16 June 14/1 The group of citizens usually called ‘concerned liberals’..have in fact for years been consciously limiting the size of their families to no more than two children. 1978Detroit Free Press 5 Mar. (Parade Suppl.) 24/1 The flood of letters..represents all segments of the education and health communities—superintendents, principals, teachers, students, doctors, nurses and concerned citizens at large. 1983Times 30 Mar. 10/5 One which was new to me was the Association of Concerned Scientists, which views Reagan's plans with what can only be described as concern. 1986Times 30 Apr. 12/6 The people concerned are caring, concerned and aware—and you haven't the faintest idea what they're talking about.
2. concerned with (in) drink or liquor: having had too much to do with it; the worse for liquor; also simply concerned. Now vulgar or dial. (Cf. concern v. 11 b.)
1687Magd. Coll. & Jas. II (Oxf. Hist. Soc.) 71 Mr. Anthony Turner came to ‘the Lobster’ about eleven at night..much concerned in drink. 1723Swift Cook-maid's Let., Drunk or sober..Not that..his reverence was ever concern'd to my knowledge. 1731Wentworth Papers 3 Aug. (1883) 472, I had made a full resolution never to be concern'd in liquor again. 1752E. Murray in Scots Mag. Aug. (1753) 392/2 He thought the pannel was a little concerned with drink. 1834Sir H. Taylor Artevelde ii. iii. 3 (D.) She's a light-skirts! yea, and at this present A little, as you see, concerned with liquor. 1875Parish Sussex Dial. 30 Concerned in Liquor..one of the many expressions used in Sussex to avoid the word ‘drunk’.
3. U.S. slang. Confounded, deuced. Also adv.
1834Seba Smith Sel. Lett. Downing Pref. p. vi, The vetoe, which is a consarnt good thing. 1851Southern Lit. Messenger Mar. (De Vere), That's a concerned ugly fix, and how we'll ever get out of it is more than I know. a1852F. M. Whitcher Widow Bedott P. (1883) ii. 8 But that's the consarndest lie that ever was told. 1887M. E. Wilkins Humble Romance 405 I've always heard tell that there was two kinds of old maids—old maids an' consarned old maids. |