| 词组 | eligible |
| 释义 | eligible Eligible may be used with a complementary prepositional phrase, and for or to are the prepositions used most often. When the construction is eligible for, a noun phrase almost always follows it: • ... were eligible for the university —William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, 1960 • ... there's some standard [insurance] policy she's eligible for —James Gould Cozzens, Guard of Honor, 1948 When eligible is used with to, an infinitive usually follows, although occasionally a noun may follow instead: • He's eligible to start receiving benefits after the second week —Bill Moyers, Harper's, December 1970 ... membership in State and county organizations made one eligible to membership in A.M.A. —Current Biography 1950 elope, elopement People who elope don't necessarily get married, as Bernstein 1965 points out. In its original sense, still sometimes seen, elope describes the actions of a married woman who runs away from her husband with her lover: • ... his unfaithful wife had eloped with her latest lover —Harrison Smith, Saturday Rev., 20 Mar. 1954 It can also be used to mean simply "run away," with no implications of love or marriage: • ... she finally eloped to London, to try her luck in the theatre —Peter Quennell, The Marble Foot: An Autobiography, 1976 In general use, however, elope calls to mind strong images of young lovers stealing away to be married in the dead of night (often by way of an unsteady ladder leaning against the sill of an upstairs window). The associations that elope and elopement have with marriage are so strong that it is usually unnecessary to state specifically that two people who have eloped have, in fact, gotten married: • Defying her family, they eloped, built a crude cabin here, and lived happily the rest of their lives — American Guide Series: Connecticut, 1938 • When Hollywood's one genuine movie star eloped with soft drink king Al Steele last spring —Aline Mosby, Springfield (Mass.) Daily News, 8 Sept. 1955 When the marriage does not come off, on the other hand, it is a good idea to say so: • Sixteen-year-old Christine ... ended a two-week elopement without benefit of marriage with tears in her eyes —Springfield (Mass.) Union (UPI), 3 July 1957 |
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