词组 | fugitive |
释义 | fugitive 1. When the noun fugitive is followed by a preposition, the preposition is usually from: • ... the character seems like a fugitive from a Molière comedy —Time, 20 Aug. 1951 • I stand before you today as a fugitive from a sweat shop —Adlai E. Stevenson, Speeches, ed. Richard Harrity, 1952 2. In its specialized sense "likely to evaporate, deteriorate, or change," the adjective fugitive may be followed by to: • ... good money value pigments are generally very fugitive to light —William von Fischer, ed., Paint and Varnish Technology, 1948 In other senses, fugitive is occasionally used with from or in: • ... poor Indians ... whose clothes were sometimes fugitive from better wardrobes —John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat, 1935 • ... colors were fixed in space and sounds were fugitive in time —Irving Babbitt, The New Laokoön, 1910 |
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