| 词组 | adjacent |
| 释义 | adjacent Adjacent is often followed by to: • ... the border region below the Bolovens Plateau and adjacent to the Highlands —Robert Shaplen, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 1971 • All I knew was the state—one adjacent to the state Beardsley was in —Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1958 • "... something adjacent to your talents and interests—commercial art, perhaps." —Lore Segal, New Yorker, 25 July 1964 Copperud 1970 reports some concern over the meaning of adjacent, emphasizing that it means "near but not necessarily touching." This information is readily available in dictionaries. Clearly adjacent—excluding its mathematical uses—sometimes means touching and sometimes not: • ... the academic speaker's strings of adjacent nouns —Stringfellow Barr, Center Mag., May 1968 • ... it is not likely that pure accident caused three adjacent windows to take a Spanish tone —Henry Adams, Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, 1904 • ... a line of separation between adjacent warm and cold masses of air —Dictionary of American Biography, 1929 • Adjacent events need not be contiguous —James Jeans, The New Background of Science, 1934 • On Cape Cod, on the adjacent islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard —American Guide Series: Massachusetts, 1937 • He despised the six field officers at the adjacent table —Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead, 1948 • ... through the piazza of St. Peter's and the adjacent streets —Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun, 1860 Other commentators (such as Flesch 1964 and Gowers in Fowler 1965) make various comments on adjacent, but there seems to be no serious problem in the use of this word. |
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