| 词组 | attend |
| 释义 | attend 1. Raub 1897 tells us that to follows this verb when it means "listen" and upon when it means "wait." There is a bit more to the matter than that. When attend suggests application of the mind, the attention, or care, the intransitive regularly takes to: • You must attend to words when you read, when you speak, when others speak —Barzun 1985 • ... Sarah Shepard had always attended to the buying of his clothes —Sherwood Anderson, Poor White, 1920 • He walked along towards home without attending to paths —Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, 1878 • How difficult it is to attend to the argument —F. R. Leavis, Revaluation, 1947 • ... has business to attend to outside —Martin Levin, Saturday Rev., 8 Jan. 1972 When attend is used to mean "to be ready for service" or "to be present," upon is most common, while on and at are occasionally used. • The Nemesis that attends upon human pride —G. Lowes Dickinson, The Greek View of Life, 7th ed., 1925 • ... how he attended upon Wishart when the latter preached in Haddington —Kenneth Scott Latour-ette, A History of Christianity, 1953 • Byron, George Eliot, Tolstoy—did the valet attend on them? —Times Literary Supp., 22 Oct. 1971 • After all, we constantly attend at music that is presented second-rate or worse —Stark Young, New Republic, 26 Jan. 1942 2. In the past participle, says Bernstein 1965, attend takes with for things and by for persons. The real world is not so tidy. While with is indeed used for things, it is not so frequent as it may have been in the past, and by is now being used for both persons and things. • The use of metals in this rude state was attended with two very considerable inconveniences —Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776 • ... always attended with a certain degree of risk — George Fielding Eliot, Harper's, November 1939 • ... the qualification which enables him to do so may be attended with a disadvantage —F. R. Leavis, The Common Pursuit, 1952 • He was attended by a half-dozen servants —Lloyd C. Douglas, The Big Fisherman, 1948 • ... battalions, attended by all their baggage and artillery —T. B. Macaulay, The History of England, vol. I, 1849 • ... fifty broad-wheeled waggons, attended by a hundred men —Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776 • Attended by heron, tern, cormorant, and gull, these adorable mammals ... —Doone Beal, Gourmet, August 1980 • ... any resolution of it is bound to be attended by risks —Charles Frankel, Columbia Forum, Summer 1970 • I was much happier here ... attended by smokey Scotch —Larry L. King, Harper's, July 1969 • ... this may become inflamed and be attended by pain —W. A. D. Anderson, ed., Pathology, 1948 • ... his few efforts have been attended by instant failure —John Buchan, Castle Gay, 1930 |
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