| 词组 | abstract |
| 释义 | abstract The verb abstract, in most of its senses, takes the preposition from, if it takes one at all. The usual pattern is to "abstract a thing from something else." Occasionally we find that "something is abstracted by something else" or "something is abstracted into something else." These last two patterns are much less frequent than constructions with from. Here are some examples of the usual construction: • With the nail of his right forefinger he abstracted a string of meat from between two teeth —Liam O'Flaherty, The Informer, 1925 • Immediately afterwards he was abstracted from the scene, and has not been heard from since —H. J. Muller, Saturday Rev., 4 Dec. 1948 • ... the logical impossibility ... of wholly abstracting this knowledge from all reference to the matter contained in the form —Bertrand Russell, Foundations of Geometry, 1897 • ... an apparition, rather insubstantial and eerie, abstracted from time and space —Edmund Wilson, New Yorker, 22 Nov. 1952 • ... the Romantic project was to abstract from religion its essential "feeling" and leave contemptuously behind its traditional formulations —Theodore Roszak, The Making of a Counterculture, 1969 • ... basic esthetic criteria and standards he has abstracted from long intimacy with time-tested masterpieces —Aline B. Saarinen, NY. Times Book Rev., 1 Nov. 1954 • Nor can it be doubted that some kind of social picture can be abstracted from literature —Rene Wellek & Austin Warren, Theory of Literature, 1949 • ... the large illustrated Rabelais which she had abstracted from the library —Robertson Davies, Tempest-tost, 1951 And an example of each of the rarer constructions: • ... these together do not supply more material to the soil than is annually abstracted by the extensive roots of trees, of bushes, and by the fern —Richard Jefferies, The Open Air, 1885 • ... conscientiously and with great purity made the uncompromising effort to abstract his view of life into an art work —Norman Mailer, Advertisements for Myself 1959 |
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