| 词组 | rid |
| 释义 | rid Rid is now almost always used with of: • ... I set out to rid myself of a sneaky city prose style —Garrison Keillor, New Yorker, 18 Sept. 1971 • ... distinguished people who simply could not rid themselves of the notion that Europe was the home of the arts —Edmund Wilson, A Piece of My Mind, 1956 • ... had not yet completely rid itself of the stillness of night —Hamilton Basso, The View from Pom-pey's Head, 1954 The past participle is common in the idiomatic phrases get rid of and be rid of: • ... a desire of serfs to get rid of the feudalism that has held them in a vise —William O. Douglas, Saturday Rev., 23 Apr. 1955 • The liberals wished to get rid of sectarian injustices —Conor Cruise O'Brien, N. Y. Rev. of Books, 6 Nov. 1969 • ... were willing to sacrifice everything in order to be rid of slavery —Henry Seidel Canby, Walt Whitman, 1943 • ... desired nothing in the world so much as to be rid of us —Katherine Anne Porter, The Never-Ending Wrong, 1977 At one time rid was commonly used with from, but this combination now seldom occurs: • ... the most effective combinations for ridding sandflies from houses —Experiment Station Record, August 1939 In this context, rid essentially means "to remove completely." The more likely construction in current English would be "ridding houses of sandflies," where rid means "to make free; relieve." |
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