| 词组 | rejoice |
| 释义 | rejoice The next time something makes you feel like rejoicing, feel free to rejoice either in it or at it. In is the more common choice, but at is also idiomatic and far from rare: • We do not, I suspect, rejoice in force more than other nations —Stringfellow Barr, Center Mag., May 1968 • ... the young people who rejoice in such language — Franklin L. Ford, Harvard Today, Autumn 1968 • A layman can only rejoice at the legal subtlety and boldness —Robert Lekachman, New Republic, 29 Nov. 1954 Rejoice in is sometimes used to mean simply "have or possess": • One of the characters ... rejoices in the name of Sherlock Feldman —Bennett Cerf, Saturday Rev., 22 May 1954 • The higher parts of the mountains rejoice in an average annual rainfall of thirty inches —Oliver La Farge, N.Y. Times Mag., 15 Aug. 1954 Another preposition that occasionally occurs after rejoice is over: • I wish you to rejoice with me over the consummation of this great gift —Ira Remsen, quoted in Johns Hopkins Mag., April 1966 |
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