| 词组 | dwell |
| 释义 | dwell 1. Although there are two spellings, dwelt and dwelled, for the past tense of dwell, the original form dwelled has steadily lost ground over the centuries. Dwelled is still used, but dwelt is found far more often: • ... the great-hearted ... sufferer who dwelt behind the hulking and lugubrious facade —William Styron, This Quiet Dust and Other Writings, 1982 • ... it was on Roelf that her eyes dwelt and rested — Edna Ferber, So Big, 1924 • He dwelled on his own sensations and liked to talk about them —E. L. Doctorow, Ragtime, 1975 2. Some language commentators warn against using dwell when (to them) the more everyday word live is meant. The commentators were contending as far back as the early part of this century that dwell had given way in use to live. While live may be the more common usage, dwell has by no means disappeared: • ... now dwells within a half-mile of a subway — American Guide Series: N.Y. City, 1939 • ... less [people] than had dwelled in his own town —C. S. Forester, The Sky and the Forest, 1948 • ... I learned that she dwelt at 16 Charlotte Street — Samuel Flagg Bemis, New-England Galaxy, Fall 1969 3. Dwell may take any of any number of prepositions. In addition to behind, on, within, in, and at (shown in the quotations above), dwell is used with among, beneath, outside, over, under, upon, and with: • ... God ... taking flesh and coming down and dwelling among us as a man —Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, 1903 • ... "by my twin soul which dwells beneath the banana plant, will I do it!" —Charles Beadle, Witch-Doctors, 1922 • ... elements of the society which support but dwell outside the campus —Anthony Lambeth, Change, Summer 1971 • It is useless to dwell over the sufferings of these heroic men —John Buchan, The Last Secrets, 1923 • He could not hinder himself from dwelling upon it —Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, 1895 • ... divert attention from the sorrow and prevent the sufferer from dwelling upon it —Edith Sitwell, I Live Under a Black Sun, 1937 • Yet Goldsmith has a peculiar reticence which forbids us to dwell with him in complete intimacy — Virginia Woolf, The Captain's Death Bed and Other Essays, 1950 ed. To judge by the evidence found in the Merriam-Webster citation files, dwell is used most often with on, followed by in and upon. The other prepositions are used less frequently. |
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