| 词组 | die |
| 释义 | die From as far back as Ayres 1881 there have been varying pronouncements as to which prepositions may be used with which objects after the verb die. Sometimes disapproval is expressed of one preposition or another; Vizetelly 1906 and Copperud 1964, 1970, 1980 do not like from, and Ayres 1881 and Jensen 1935 do not like with. Since as many specifically approve these two prepositions as object to them, there cannot be much of a question of propriety here. But there is still the question of idiom. Here we have some sample contexts in which prepositions are used with die in various senses. Of seems to be the most commonly used: • ... dying of kidney disease —Dr. C. L. Mengis, National Observer, 10 Mar. 1973 • Otherwise, like many another self-congratulatory society, they would have died of too much love — Robert K. Merton, Columbia Forum, Spring 1968 • ... I die of horror at what we're doing —Marya Mannes, quoted in Harper's Weekly, 11 Apr. 1975 • For years his mind had been dying of inanition — Van Wyck Brooks, The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865, rev. ed., 1946 • Diddloff is a dandy who would die of a rose in aromatic pain —W. M. Thackeray, The Book of Snobs, 1846 • ... nearly died of starvation —Current Biography 1947 From: • ... Alexander died from an infection —Current Biography 1947 • Plans for community projects died from lack of enthusiasm —Jack Hamilton, Town Jour., January 1954 • ... suspicions... which had withered and died since from too much doubt —Louis Bromfield, The Green Bay Tree, 1924 For: • It died for lack of support —James O. Goldsbor-ough, N. Y. Times Mag., 27 Apr. 1980 • Men die from time to time, ... but not for love — Lewis H. Lapham, Harper's, November 1971 • They had not come to the colonies to die for a creed —Edith Wharton, The Old Maid, 1924 • ... I was dying, yes, dying for someone really to care for me —Mary Deasy, The Hour of Spring, 1948 • He may be dying for a cigarette, but he has been taught to wait —Emily Hahn et al., Meet the British, 1953 • ... to do and die for the company —Clyde Haber-man, N.Y. Times, 16 Jan. 1984 With: • Odalie and Bizette had died with pneumonia —Lyle Saxon, Children of Strangers, 1937 • ... she, the children, and her father all died with the cholera —Raymond W. Thorp, Bowie Knife, 1948 In some religious contexts, to is used: • ... that we might die to sin —1 Peter 2:24 (RSV) • ... to be lost to all created things, to die to them and to the knowledge of them —Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain, 1948 And a few others appear less frequently: • ... where the penal laws were dying through non-enforcement —Dictionary of American Biography, 1929 • ... at roll-top desks that were to die over —Cyra McFadden, The Serial, 1977 Many other prepositions are possible when the phrases are adverbial ones of location. Since these are not a matter of idiom with die, we have not included any here. In addition many varying older combinations can be found in the OED. |
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