| 词组 | embark |
| 释义 | embark Embark may be used with a number of different prepositions, but by a large margin the usual choice is on or upon, the former being more common: • ... its avowed intention to embark on unconstitutional action —J. H. Plumb, England in the Eighteenth Century, 1950 • ... they embarked upon a thoroughgoing rediscovery of their Englishness —Oscar Handlin, The American People in the Twentieth Century, 1954 Embark is used with for when the object denotes destination: • Clark embarked most of the party ... for the Three Forks —Bernard DeVoto, The Course of Empire, 1952 And we have a few citations for embark from to indicate the point of departure: • ... four companions, embarking from Floyd Bennett Field, circled the globe —American Guide Series: N.Y. City, 1939 At one time, embark in was a fairly common construction; however, it seems to have been dropping out of use during the last 40 years or so, as travel by ship has decreased. |
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