| 词组 | dominate, domineer |
| 释义 | dominate, domineer Dominate is used far more often than domineer. If either word is used intransitively with a complement, the preposition used is over: • ... he dominated over his party —Claude G. Bowers, Jefferson in Power, 1936 • ... a power ... which soon began to domineer over all orders and all parties —T. B. Macaulay, The History of England, vol. I, 1849 When dominate is used in the passive voice, the agent is named in a phrase beginning with by: • Farrell of course resented the fact that his reputation was dominated by "Studs" —Alfred Kazin, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 16 Sept. 1979 Domineer occurs most frequently now as its present participle, domineering, which has taken on adjectival status: • Servile and fawning as he had been before, he was now as domineering and bellicose —Jack London, The Sea-Wolf, 1904 |
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