| 词组 | antidote |
| 释义 | antidote 1. The OED and other dictionaries note that antidote can be followed by against, for, or to. Evidence in our files shows that all three are in use for both literal and figurative senses. Of the three, to is the most commonly used at the present time, for next, and against the least. A few examples: • An antidote against nerve gases —Time, 19 Mar. 1956 • ... no surer antidote against the dull monotony of travel —Douglas Carruthers, Beyond the Caspian, 1949 • ... the first effective antidote for PCP —N. Y. Times, 11 Feb. 1980 • ... hate may be the only antidote for despair — David Black, New Times, 11 July 1975 • ... an antidote to the arsenical blister gases —Russell L. Cecil & Robert F. Loeb, Textbook of Medicine, 8th ed., 1951 • ... the grim reality of life in Kiev acted as a strong antidote to romantic notions —Glenn Plaskin, N. Y. Times, 6 Feb. 1983 2. A few commentators warn against confusing antidote with anecdote. The likelihood of this malapropism would seem to be low, but it has happened: • ... if I could tell an antidote about self-incrimination —Police, September-October 1967 If you have tell before or about after, antidote is clearly not the word you want. |
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