| 词组 | abut |
| 释义 | abut Bernstein 1965 opines that the intransitive verb abut takes against for a wall and on for a line; Krapp 1927 allows upon or against for Bernstein's walls and upon for his line. Both of these commentators are partly right. Evidence in the Merriam-Webster files shows that on is the preposition of choice when something conceived of as having chiefly lateral extension is in mind: • The England of the later Middle Ages ... abutted on Scotland —G. M. Trevelyan, A Shortened History of England, 1942 • ... important and populous states that abut on the Great Lakes —Harold L. Ickes, New Republic, 12 Feb. 1951 • The northeast and southeast arms of this cross abut on Ninth Avenue —Lewis Mumford, New Yorker, 19 Apr. 1952 Upon is occasionally used: • ... a lot which abuts upon a public or private alley —Zoning for Truck-Loading Facilities, 1952 When the thing abutted is conceived of as having a vertical as well as lateral extension, against and on are both used: • ... a partition abutted against a window —Hugh Morrison, Early American Architecture, 1952 • ... the Nechako Plateau, which abuts against the Rocky Mountains —Canadian Geographical Jour., September 1952 • The Whitney abuts at right angles on the Modern Museum —Lewis Mumford, New Yorker, 15 Oct. 1955 Other prepositions are occasionally used: • Here a retaining wall is to abut into a rocky hillside —Clarence W. Dunham, Foundations of Structures, 1950 • On the Soviet side of Potsdamer Platz, which abuts on to West Berlin —Time, 29 June 1953 The transitive abut sometimes admits of a prepositional phrase after the direct object; various prepositions are used: • Sparks, abutting Reno on 1-80 east —Dodge News Mag., February 1972 • This Caroline Ridge province abuts the Philippine Sea along the southern side of the Mariana Trench —Alfred G. Fischer et al., Science, 5 June 1970 • Owners with two-story brick houses were permitted to abut their piazzas to the sea wall —Hugh Morrison, Early American Architecture, 1952 • A good diagnostician abuts the whole of himself against the whole of the patient —Encore, January 1947 |
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