| 词组 | equivalent |
| 释义 | equivalent 1. When the adjective equivalent is used with a preposition, the choice is usually to: • It is also misleading to talk as if a mere liking ... for the ritual ... of one of the Christian churches were equivalent to a religion —Edmund Wilson, A Piece of My Mind, 1956 Much less often it is used with with: • A third additional trial would be equivalent with the first one made originally —J. Mi Wolfe, First Course in Cryptanalysis, vol. II, rev. ed., 1943 2. When the noun equivalent is used with a preposition, it is usually used with of: • In economics, the equivalent of a beautifully composed work of art is the smoothly running factory — Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited, 1958 Less frequently it may be used with to, and still less frequently with for: • ... the intellectual equivalent to a certain surgical operation —The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats, 1953 • ... France is almost without an equivalent for the old "newspapers of information" —Manchester Guardian Weekly, 10 Nov. 1944 |
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