| 词组 | absolve |
| 释义 | absolve Bernstein 1965 observes that when absolve is followed by a preposition, the choice is from or sometimes of. Before 1965 from was certainly more frequent than of, but since then the proportion of of to from has increased noticeably. Both prepositions are in current good use. • By this device I am absolved from reading much of what is published in a given year —Lewis H. Lapham, Harper's, May 1984 • ... his subjects were absolved from their allegiance to him —Arnold J. Toynbee, Center Mag., March 1968 • Having thus absolved himself from the duty of making the essential discriminations —F. R. Leavis, The Common Pursuit, 1952 • ... to absolve you from your promise —Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop, 1927 • ... in order to establish their independence and absolve the guide of any responsibility —Jeremy Bernstein, New Yorker, 30 Oct. 1971 • ... the 1965 pronouncement by Vatican II absolving Jews, as a people, of guilt in the death of Christ — Cyril E. Bryant, Christian Herald, December 1969 • ... arrested but later absolved of any complicity in the plot —Current Biography 1953 • ... in return, Dollar was absolved of personal liability for the line's debts —Time, 27 Nov. 1950 A less frequent, but still current, construction uses for: • ... the manner in which Chicago police were absolved for the brutality they visited on the young —Donald McDonald, Center Mag., July/August 1970 • We may perhaps absolve Ford for the language of the article—it seems somewhat too academic for his unassisted pen —Roger Burlingame, Backgrounds of Power, 1949 |
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