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词组 bereaved, bereft
释义 bereaved, bereft
      The variant past participles of bereave—bereaved and bereft—have developed somewhat separate adjectival uses. Bereaved is the word most frequently chosen to mean "suffering the death of a loved one":
      ... he spoke ... as an unsuccessful and unhappy man might relate the biography of a successful and happy brother lately dead, for Kipling ... had very much the air of a man bereaved —Maurice Cranston, London Calling, 19 Aug. 1954
      When bereaved is followed by a preposition, it is of:
      ... orphans, spinsters and bachelors bereaved of their other relatives —Alice P. Kenney, New-England Galaxy, Fall 1970
      Bereft usually denotes the loss, lack or deprivation of something and is almost always used with the preposition of:
      Both players are instantly bereft of their poise — Albert E. Wier, The Piano, 1940
      ... the book is ... completely bereft of an index — Times Literary Supp., 27 June 1968
      Bereft of their independence ... —C. Vann Woodward, N.Y. Rev. of Books, 12 Aug. 1971
      These are hollow men, bereft of purpose —Clive Barnes, NY. Times, 4 May 1972
      Bereft is also used, although less frequently than bereaved, in the sense "suffering the death of a loved one":
      ... thinking of herself as a bereft daughter mourning here —Ben Ames Williams, Leave Her to Heaven, 1944
      ... the weeping widow, the bereft children —John Cogley, Center Mag., September 1968
      If a preposition is used, again it is of:
      ... why a young man so full of promise was cut off in his youth, why a woman was widowed ... why a country was bereft of one who might have served it greatly —Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country, 1948
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