| 词组 | acquiesce |
| 释义 | acquiesce Around the turn of the century acquiesce began to receive attention from usage commentators. Vizetelly 1906 seems to have begun things with a prohibition of with after the word; he prescribes in. Krapp 1927 prescribes in and censures to; so does Carr & Clark, An ABC of Idiom and Diction, 1937. Similar views are expressed in Follett 1966, Bernstein 1965, Harper 1975, 1985, Macmillan 1982, Ebbitt & Ebbitt 1982, Reader's Digest 1983, and Chambers 1985. Dictionaries are less dogmatic; Webster's Third states "often used with in, sometimes with to, and formerly with with"; Heritage 1982 concurs in this assessment. The OED shows that acquiesce has been used with several prepositions—from and under in senses now obsolete, and in, to, and with in the current sense. In and to are of equal antiquity, both having been used by Thomas Hobbes 1651, who is the earliest user of the modern sense cited in the dictionary. The OED marks to and with obsolete, but in fact to has continued in use, although in is used considerably more often. Here are a few samples of the construction with to: • ... to have Carrie acquiesce to an arrangement — Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie, 1900 • Some abundance within herself would not let Theodosia acquiesce completely to the hour, to any hour or to any experience, as being sufficient —Elizabeth Madox Roberts, My Heart and My Flesh, 1927 • ... had, just before Kalgan's fall, acquiesced to Marshall's proposal for a ten-day truce —Time, 21 Oct. 1946 • ... political sociologists today are often reluctant to acquiesce to Michels' law —Lewis S. Feuer, Jour, of Philosophy, 11 Nov. 1954 • Man's freedom must at last acquiesce to the inhibiting claims of his fellows and to the melancholy necessity of death —Theodore Roszak, The Making of a Counter Culture, 1969 None of these examples is incorrect or nonstandard. But acquiesce in is the predominant construction: • ... no organism acquiesces in its own destruction — H. L. Mencken, Prejudices: Second Series, 1920 • ... it was wrong to acquiesce in the opinion that there was nothing to be done —Compton Mackenzie, The Parson's Progress, 1923 • He discreetly acquiesced in the election of one of the principal assassins —John Buchan, Augustus, 1937 • To acquiesce in discrepancy is destructive of candour —Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World, 1925 • ... a pose which was accepted and acquiesced in by Delacroix —Sacheverell Sitwell, The Dance of the Quick and the Dead, 1936 • ... the general intellectual tendency is to acquiesce in what one no longer feels able to change —Irving Howe, Partisan Rev., January-February 1954 • ... one should not on that account acquiesce in it — Bertrand Russell, London Calling, 1 Apr. 1955 • Dr. Brown's refreshing refusal to acquiesce in certain current fashions —Times Literary Supp., 10 July 1969 |
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