| 词组 | accuse |
| 释义 | accuse The usual preposition used with accuse, to indicate the charge, is of; it has been the usual one at least since John Gower in the late 14th century. But from time to time other prepositions have come into use with accuse, and grammarians and commentators have been at pains to correct them. In 1762 Bishop Lowth corrected these two well-known writers for using for: • Ovid, whom you accuse for luxuriancy of verse — John Dryden, "Essay on Dramatic Poesy," 1668 • Accused the ministers for betraying the Dutch — Jonathan Swift, The History of the Four Last Years ofthe Queen, 1758 Evidence in the OED shows for with accuse to have come in around the middle of the 17th century; the latest citation with for is dated 1809; the OED calls it obsolete, along with in and upon (of which no examples are shown). The occasional use of with seems to have originated in the 20th century. Our earliest evidence is from Lurie 1927, who corrects this example from an unnamed newspaper: • Jeremiah Jenks, having sold butter for more than the market price, was accused with being a profiteer. Lurie supposes with to have come from confusion of charged with and accused of (see syntactic blend). Bernstein 1965, 1977 also criticizes the use of with, and' concurs in Lurie's theory of its origin. Aside from the examples provided by Lurie and Bernstein, Merriam-Webster editors have gathered only one additional citation: • In 1947, the FTC accused Monarch and Stolkin with "misrepresentation...." —Newsweek, 3 Nov. 1952 Most examples are from journalistic sources (one is quoted speech, however, and Reader's Digest 1983 cites Louis Nizer's autobiography). Accuse with seems to appear seldom and sporadically. The usual constructions are accuse + object (noun or pronoun) + of + noun, which is the older one, and accuse + object + of + gerund. The first goes all the way back to Gower's Confessio Amantis (1393). The construction with the gerund turns up in Swift's sentence with for, the OED shows none earlier. Evidence in the Merriam-Webster files suggests that the gerund construction is somewhat more common in current use. Here are a couple of examples of each: • ... two Negroes who had been accused by a federal grand jury in Jackson, Mississippi of perjury —Current Biography, July 1965 • Niebuhr accuses secular social thinkers of these erroneous beliefs —Ralph Gilbert Ross, Partisan Rev., January-February 1954 • If you accuse me of being a gross optimist —Melvin M. Belli, Los Angeles Times Book Rev., 23 May 1971 • Carlyle has been accused of making a habit of this shifting of the phrase modifier in his writings —Margaret M. Bryant, Modern English and Its Heritage, 1948 |
| 随便看 |
英语用法大全包含2888条英语用法指南，基本涵盖了全部常用英文词汇及语法点的翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。