词组 | dispense |
释义 | dispense When dispense is used with a preposition, with is the usual choice, since dispense with is a fixed expression with its own meanings, "to suspend the operation of and "to do without": • ... why the government is so vigorously asserting its right to dispense with warrants in national-security cases —Alan M. Dershowitz, Commentary, January 1972 • Miss de Momerie seemed ready to dispense with convention —Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise, 1933 When the verb is used in any of its senses involving portioning out or administering and the phrase denotes the receiver, dispense is naturally used with to: • We were in Yeats' debt because he dispensed some of his worthwhile sketches to his humble listeners — Fred R. Jones, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 16 May 1954 When it is used in the less frequent meaning "to exempt," dispense may be found with from: • ... claiming to dispense the clergy from obeying the very laws which as bishops they are pledged to enforce —W. R. Inge, The Church in the World, 1928 |
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