| 词组 | disregard |
| 释义 | disregard The noun disregard may be followed by for or of. At one time use of of predominated; now the two appear with about equal frequency: • ... the slave-owners' total disregard for the humanity of their workers —Times Literary Supp., 21 Aug. 1971 • ... his flip disregard for the consequences of his actions —Arthur Knight, Saturday Rev., 26 June 1954 • The disregard for Japanese interests shown in the way the President moved toward Peking —Leslie H. Gelb & Morton H. Halperin, Harper's, November 1971 • ... the disregard of the true shape of things themselves —Laurence Binyon, The Flight of the Dragon, 1911 • ... a disregard of the judicial system —Julian Tow-ster, Saturday Rev., 19 Dec. 1953 • ... the Administration's disregard of the realities of power —Richard J. Whalen, Harper's, August 1971 The phrases with disregard for, with disregard of are both quite common; however, when disregard is preceded by in, it is followed by of: • ... with contemptuous disregard of the rights — Robert Ellis Standen, Atlantic, October 1940 • ... with complete disregard of danger —Current Biography, February 1953 • ... with ruthless disregard for the exhaustibility of the resources they exploited —Joseph Kinsey Howard, Yale Rev., Spring 1947 • ... rears her orphaned nephew with a disregard for convention —Current Biography, September 1967 • ... he was like a flame burning on in miraculous disregard of the fact that there was no more fuel — Aldous Huxley, The Olive Tree, 1937 • ... can no longer pursue their destinies in disregard of others —Wyndham White, quoted in Time, 26 May 1967 Disregard has been used with to, but very infrequently: • ... a total disregard to the ordinary decencies — Charles G. Norris, Brass, 1921 |
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