| 词组 | frown |
| 释义 | frown Of all the prepositions used with frown, upon and on are the most frequent, with upon a shade more frequent than on: • In a day of slipping labels ... such language is frowned upon —Jessamyn West, N.Y. Herald Tribune Book Rev., 30 May 1954 • Lotteries, a form of fund-raising now frowned upon in many quarters —N.Y. Times, 17 Jan. 1954 • ... the fact that he is frowned upon by some people —Roy Blount, Jr., Sports Illustrated, 23 Aug. 1982 • ... we tend to encourage rigid ideological unity ... and to frown on insurgent individualism —John F. Kennedy, N.Y. Times Mag., 18 Dec. 1955 • Music was not desired by Quakers, it was frowned on —Catherine Drinker Bowen, Atlantic, March 1970 Less often, frown is used with at: • ... turning his head to frown grotesquely at the man in the back —Terry Southern, Flash and Filigree, 1958 • ... she sat in bed frowning nervously at herself in the mirror across the room —Louis Auchincloss, A Law for the Lion, 1953 Occasionally, frown may be used with from or over: • ... the tacit admonition frowned from every corner that these treasures are displayed for study —Clive Bell, Art, 1914 • Bulky Georgian mansions frowned over iron fences —American Guide Series: Michigan, 1941 |
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