英语词汇against的意思、翻译、用法及例句-英语用法大全

词组	against
释义	against 1. Conjunction. Hodgson 1889 censured the conjunction against ("Have it ready against I come") as a vulgar usage; Bardeen 1883 considered it disputable. Reader's Digest 1983 mentions regional use. The conjunction against was created by functional shift from the preposition back in the 14th century. It had perfectly acceptable literary use for several centuries: • And they made ready the present against Joseph came at noon —Genesis 43:25 (AV), 1611 • "I will be prepared, says he, against you come again." —Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, 1722 • Throw on another log of wood against father comes home —Charles Dickens, Pickwick Papers, 1837 (OED) As a standard locution, the conjunction is now archaic; it survives only in dialect (the Dictionary of American Regional English has examples) and in fiction representing archaic or dialectal speech: • One of the men ... called out, "Let 'em come on. They'll drive just like hogs against they get out on the pike." —Elizabeth Madox Roberts, The Time of Man, 1926 See also without. 2. The pronunciation \\\\a-'gin\\\\ represented by the spelling agin is generally treated as dialectal or rural (the Dictionary of American Regional English covers it generously under again). Lounsbury 1908 points out that this form, like others that survive among the less educated, represents the original form of the preposition in Middle English.
随便看	derogation descriptive genitive desert, deserts, dessert desideratum design, intend desirous desist despair despoil despondent dessert destined destroy destructive destruct, self-destruct detract, distract deverbal nouns deviate device, devise devolve diagnose dialogue diamond, diaper dice dichotomy

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