| 词组 | attitude |
| 释义 | attitude Attitude is generally followed by the prepositions toward, towards, and to. Toward is the most frequent in American English: • ... corporate attitudes toward day care —Anita Shreve, N.Y. Times Mag., 21 Nov. 1982 • ... a new attitude toward sex —Marcia Seligson, McCall's, March 1971 • ... his attitude toward almost all of his close collaborators —William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, 1960 • Thackeray's fruitfully ambivalent attitude toward his own class —Clifton Fadiman, Holiday, October 1954 Towards is found chiefly in British English: • ... a mental attitude towards the quality —George Bernard Shaw, Harper's, October 1971 • ... this cavalier attitude towards the established practices of his profession —The Observer, 29 Sept. 1963 (in Current Biography, July 1965) • ... his pugnacious attitude towards other geckos — Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals, 1956 To is more common in British than in American English. • ... similar attitudes to the Middle East crisis —The Times (London), 17 Nov. 1973 • ... the attitude of these boys to everyday honesty — Times Literary Supp., 26 Mar. 1970 • ... St. Gregory's attitude to the slave trade —Angus Wilson, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes, 1956 • His intensely ambivalent attitude to his father — Anne Fremantle, Commonweal, 6 Dec. 1946 About has some use, usually spoken, in American English: • Some of them have an attitude about it —Janiece Walters, quoted in Fortune, 11 Nov. 1985 • I'll tell you his attitude about those dangers —Joe Garagiola, radio broadcast, 14 Feb. 1974 • ... for not having a sufficiently serious attitude about his work —Current Biography, June 1953 Compound prepositions are sometimes used in what we may call wordier contexts: • ... compensate for the failure of the inventionistic approach to justify anticipation by taking up a conventionalist attitude as regards the universal truth of inductive conclusions —Georg Henrik Von Wright, A Treatise on Induction and Probability, 1951 • The fear of a specific object is an affect. The attitude with respect to this affect —Abram Kardiner, The Individual and His Society, 1939 |
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