| 词组 | honor |
| 释义 | honor 1. When used with a preposition, the verb honor may select by or with, the former occurring a little more frequently than the latter: • ... would honor its obligation to provide equal treatment to the would-be Negro attorney by establishing a law school —Harry S. Ashmore, Center Mag., May 1968 • ... the only American of Norwegian birth honored by a statue in Oslo —American Guide Series: Minnesota, 1938 • In 1945 the Museum of Modern Art honored Strand with a widely praised one-man show —Current Biography, July 1965 • ... the only Englishman in all history that the world honors with the surname of Great —Kemp Malone, Emory University Quarterly, October 1949 Honor is used less frequently with for, at, or in: • ... was honored for excellence in teaching —Emory & Henry Alumnus, Summer-Fall 1970 • ... has been honored at half a dozen public luncheons —Joe Alex Morris, Saturday Evening Post, 10 July 1954 • ... this principle has been honored in the original allocation of powers —Scott Buchanan, Center Mag., September 1969 Very occasionally, honor may be found with through: • The creators were honored through association of their names with their achievements —Lawson M. McKenzie, Science, 25 Dec. 1953 2. Honor in the breach. This phrase has continued in use since Shakespeare: • It is a custom More honour'd in the breach than the observance—Hamlet, 1601 • Perhaps these provisions are most honored in the breach —Yale Rev., Winter 1944 • ... even this requirement is often honored in the breach —James B. Conant, Slums and Suburbs, 1961 • ... titles are more honored in the breach than the observance —Charles Trueheart, Publishers Weekly, 24 Sept. 1982 |
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