convince能用作不及物动词吗
2024-12-23 09:50:54 学考宝 作者：佚名
问题描述
But he (the writer) has his reward, for he is trusted and convinces, as those who are at the mercy of their own eloquence do not.
选自文章 The Cardinal Virtue of Prose.
这里的 convinces 是什么用法？convince 不是及物动词吗，不可以这样用吧？
老师答疑
曹老师：
But he (the writer) has his reward, for he is trusted and convinces, as those who are at the mercy of their own eloquence do not.
这个句子中的convinces显然是不及物动词。意为“令人信服”。后面没有宾语。
You must be convinced if you are to convince.想要别人相信，自己就得相信。
Beachy老师解答中引用了惠特曼Walt Whitman(1819-1892）《草叶集》中诗句，Song of the Open Road 第10节末尾的句子：
I and mine do not convince by arguments, similes, rhymes, We convince by our presence.
尽管现在的词典中查不到convince作为不及物动词的用法，但以上三句中的convince显然却都是不及物用法，而且作者用错的几率不大。
我认为这可能是较早期的英语中convince可用作不及物动词，现代英语中convince已经没有不及物用法了，因此词典不再收录不及物用法。
建议将这种用法当作特例对待，了解句子意思即可，不宜模仿。
