“So few authors have brains enough or literary gift enough to keep their own end up in journalism,” Newman wrote,that I am tempted to define “journalism” as “a term of contempt applied by writers who are not read to writers who are”.
在前面那半句话里,end up 做什么成分呢?我觉得谓语应该是 have 呀,但后面的 end up 居然以其原型出现了。请专家老师解释解释,谢谢!
张老师:
keep one's (own) end up 精神饱满,不泄气;做份内的事,勉强对付。
如果我们看一下它的一个相似短语可能就明白了:
keep up one's (own) end 保持愉快和战斗的情绪,精神饱满地对付。
原来,这里的 end 为一个名词,而与 up 联系密切的不是 end,而是上文的 keep。