| 词组 | eager |
| 释义 | eager When eager is used with a preposition, the preposition is usually to and it is followed by an infinitive: • He himself was eager to have the Cathedral begun — Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop, 1927 • ... members of the public eager to understand those principles—Quintin Hogg, Times Literary Supp., 22 Jan. 1970 Although in the past eager was used with a variety of prepositions besides to—among them about, after, for, in, of, and upon—the Merriam-Webster files attest to the continuing use of only for and in during the last 100 years. And while eager for is frequent in contemporary writing, eager in is much less often used: • ... all were eager for more trips —Ruth Saberski Goldenheim, Barnard Alumnae, Winter 1971 • ... as eager for human companionship as a spaniel pup —Phil Stong, in The Aspirin Age 1919-1941, ed. Isabel Leighton, 1949 • ... he was less learned than swift and eager in his reading —Horace Gregory, The Shield of Achilles, 1944 |
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