词汇 | its |
词源 | its. There is a tale of literary ratiocination involving this little word. Before the 17th century its wasn’t used to indicate the possessive case, it and his serving this purpose (e.g., “For love and devocion toward God also hath it infancie . . .”; “Learning hath his infancy . . .”). When he was only 16, English poet Tho- mas Chatterton (1752–70) wrote a number of poems purport- ing to be the work of an imaginary 15th-century monk, Thomas Rowley. These poems were published after the destitute, de- spairing Chatterton committed suicide by drinking arsenic, and they were hailed as works of poetic genius. But critic Tho- mas Tyrwbitt later revealed that the poems were forgeries, find- ing, among other errors, that one of Chatterton’s lines read: “Life and its goods I scorn.” See also it. |
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