| 词组 | aversion |
| 释义 | aversion There has been less controversy over the years about the prepositions that go with aversion than about the ones that go with averse. Reader's Digest 1983 will admit to or for, Phythian 1979 to, from, and for, with to more common than from and for. Our files bear out Phythian's observation. There are a few prepositions of which we have in our files but a single example. Phythian singles out for censure a British public speaker's aversion of; we have no other examples with of. We do have a single against: • ... some particular word or expression against which he cherishes a special aversion —Lounsbury 1908 Lounsbury elsewhere uses to. And Boswell seems to have used at at least once: • He said that mankind had a great aversion at intellectual employment —James Boswell, London Journal, 1762-1763, ed. Frederick A. Pottle, 1950 When Boswell reconstructed Johnson's words for the Life, however, they came out this way: • Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labour —Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791 To is, as Phythian observed, the most common preposition: • But I have no aversion to the issues being discussed —Jimmy Carter, quoted in N.Y. Times, 14 Feb. 1980 • ... had an aversion to makeup —Garson Kanin, Cosmopolitan, March 1972 • And all aversions to ordinary humanity have this general character —G. K. Chesterton, in A Century of the Essay, ed. David Daiches, 1951 • Bill was consistent in his aversion to noise —Joseph Mitchell, McSorley's Wonderful Saloon, 1938 • ... their aversion to the split infinitive springs not from instinctive good taste, but from tame acceptance of the misinterpreted opinion of others —H. W. Fowler, S.P.E. Tract 15, 1923 • Nonetheless, I believe that my aversion to Studio 54 has deeper wellsprings —Carll Tucker, Saturday Rev., 28 Apr. 1979 From has the next greatest amount of use: • He felt an aversion from expressing his views — Angus Wilson, The Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot, 1958 • My aversion from the word "teach" —F. R. Leavis, Times Literary Supp., 29 May 1969 • ... she had an instinctive aversion from the past — Elizabeth Bowen, A World of Love, 1955 • ... a Puritan aversion from sex —Leslie A. Fiedler, Encounter, April 1954 • ... his aversion from pipes and increasing affection for after-dinner cigars —Howard Nemerov, Fede-rigo, or, The Power of Love, 1954 The use of for goes back quite a ways, but seems to be less common now than either to or from: • But, of all the names in the universe, he had the most unconquerable aversion for Tristram —Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy, 1762 • For society indeed of all sorts ... he had an unconquerable aversion —Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, 1903 • The aversion for boiled milk may be older than certain beliefs —Morris R. Cohen, The Faith of a Liberal, 1946 • ... it had a marked aversion for the notes of the new age, enthusiasm, mysticism, rapture —Van Wyck Brooks, The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865, rev. ed., 1946 Besides these, the OED shows that Bacon used towards in the 17th century (we have no modern examples with towards) and also has an example from Addison with against (like the use by Lounsbury quoted above). But in the 20th century, to, from, and to a lesser extent for hold sway. |
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