| 词组 | fond |
| 释义 | fond Fond, when it is used with a preposition and has a sense involving affection, is most often used with of followed by a noun phrase or a gerund: • ... I do own that she's as devilish fond of me as she can be —W. M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, 1848 • ... a round, amiable, commanding man of whom he was very fond —Donald Barthelme, New Yorker, 3 May 1982 • ... critics are fond of comparing the American public high school with ... the British Grammar Schools —James B. Conant, Slums and Suburbs, 1961 • He is also fond of swimming, reading, and going to the theater —Current Biography, October 1966 In the past, fond in this sense was used with on, most notably by Shakespeare: • That he may prove More fond on her than she upon her love —Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, 1596 • And I, poor monster, fond as much on him —Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, 1602 In its sense "foolish," fond was formerly used with to and an infinitive, but this construction no longer occurs in contemporary writing: • I wonder he is so fond To trust the mockery of unquiet slumbers —Shakespeare, Richard III, 1593 • Should such a man, too fond to rule alone —Alexander Pope, An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, 1735 • ... I am not fond enough to hope that anything said here ... will unsettle any fixed habit of speech — Richard Grant White 1870 |
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