| 词源 |
finalize. Finalize, despite the objections of many critics, is recognized by most dictionaries and has been current in both American and British English for about half a century in both formal and casual writing. Such formations as neutralize, mini- mize, and generalize don’t seem to bother people, but finalize rankles many, perhaps because most critics believe it is a pre- tentious bureaucratic synonym for “to complete.” But it has a meaning different from “complete.” It means “to put into a final form a set of conclusions that has been agreed upon roughly through a preceding series of discussions or actions.” |