| 词组 | friend |
| 释义 | friend The preposition used with friend is most often of • ... known in Boston, where she was teaching, as the inexhaustible friend of all good causes —Van Wyck Brooks, The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865, rev. ed., 1946 • ... was an official and congressional friend of the same company —C. Vann Woodward, Reunion and Reaction, 2d ed. rev., 1956 Less often, friend is used with to: • ... the young, the oversensitive ones, and the displaced ones, do not need it, and it is no friend to them —Edna O'Brien, Cosmopolitan, February 1973 Friend may also be used with with; this usually occurs in the idiomatic phrases be friends with or make friends with: • Whitman could be friends with anyone who was genuine, not a snob, not a prig —Henry Seidel Canby, Walt Whitman, 1943 • Yet many a man is making friends with death Even as I speak, for lack of love alone —Edna St. Vincent Millay, in Time, 17 Nov. 1952 Be friends to has been used in the past, but there is no 20th-century evidence in the Merriam-Webster files: • ... the widow's been good friends to me sometimes —Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer, 1876 friendly • Not all general officers were insensible to the advantages of a press friendly to them personally —James Gould Cozzens, Guard of Honor, 1948 • ... she had always been extremely friendly to me and to my work —Eric F. Goldman, Harper's, January 1969 Less frequently, friendly is followed by with: • "His Grace is never very friendly with anyone "—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, 1904 • "... we must keep smiling faces and be friendly with him no matter how repulsive it may be" —Jack London, The Sea-Wolf 1904 One might expect to find friendly toward or towards paralleling the use of friendly to; however, there is only a little evidence in our files for either preposition: • Congress is friendly also toward giving the board responsibility only to decide cases —Nation's Business, June 1953 • This would have been unfair of me because towards myself Thursby was always unusually friendly — Horizon, December 1946 Friendly is used with for infrequently: • Grateful for this relief, Dost Mohammad ... kept Afghanistan friendly for Britain —G. M. Trevelyan, British History in the Nineteenth Century, 1922 |
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