| 词组 | adjust, adjusted |
| 释义 | adjust, adjusted 1. Copperud 1970 notes that prices are "adjusted"—upwards, as a rule—in his discussion of euphemisms. See euphemisms. 2. Bernstein 1965 says adjusted takes to. This is true, as far as it goes, but the participial adjective is more often used without a complement than with one. When there is a complement, to is the most common preposition: • ... a program ... as dramatic and as sound and as adjusted to today and tomorrow as the programs of 1933 —Leon H. Keyserling, New Republic, 8 Feb. 1954 • ... factory in which the workers are perfectly adjusted to the machines —Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited, 1958 This characteristic of the participial adjective merely reflects the behavior of the verb: • ... account of one man's addled efforts to adjust to his own obsolescence —Jane Clapperton, Cosmopolitan, March 1976 • ... a delightful girl who could adjust to any confusion —James A. Michener, Report of the County Chairman, 1961 • ... was trying to adjust to being the head of my family —Mrs. Medgar Evers, Ladies' Home Jour., September 1971 • ... had no difficulty in adjusting to more than a million dollars —Hamilton Basso, The View from Pom-pey's Head, 1954 Adjust is also used with for. • ... is altered when we adjust for the predisposition —Stanley L. Payne, The Art of Asking Questions, 1951 Adjust for tends to occur in financial contexts. Thus it would not be out of the ordinary to read of figures "adjusted for inflation." |
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