| 词组 | solicitous |
| 释义 | solicitous It is possible to be solicitous about, for, or of something: • ... as if he were shy and solicitous about it, and wanted to protect it from us —Edmund Wilson, Axel's Castle, 1931 • Contracts ... are the objects about which the constitution is solicitous —John Marshall, Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 1819 • ... what naturalist with a microscope in his pocket, what scholar solicitous for the changing shapes of language —Virginia Woolf, The Second Common Reader, 1932 • ... no one solicitous for the future of American culture —Jacques Barzun, Saturday Rev., 9 Mar. 1940 • ... if only Pamela would try to be a little less solicitous of my welfare —Roald Dahl, Someone Like You, 1953 • ... parents solicitous of the moral welfare of their progeny —George Jean Nathan, Encyclopaedia of the Theatre, 1940 Much less commonly, solicitous is followed by toward: • For its part, the All England made sincere attempts to be more solicitous toward its athletic minions — Frank Deford, Sports Illustrated, 12 July 1982 And it has had some use with to and the infinitive: • ... an opinion which he had seemed solicitous to give —Jane Austen, Persuasion, 1818 • ... Middleton is solicitous to please his audience — T. S. Eliot, "Thomas Middleton," in Selected Essays, 1932 |
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