词组 | illustrate |
释义 | illustrate When illustrate is used with a preposition, it may be used with by, in, or with: • ... a large number of new behaviors to meet new situations are abundantly illustrated by the plight of the current group of European refugees —Ralph Linton, The Cultural Background of Personality, 1945 • How is this illustrated by the books in hand? — Thomas Caldecotte Chubb, Saturday Rev., 13 June 1953 • The rich diversity of his life is abundantly illustrated in the correspondence which flowed across the Channel —Dumas Malone, N. Y. Times Book Rev., 1 Aug. 1954 • The same competitive spirit was illustrated in Smith's coverage of President Kennedy's assassination —Current Biography, December 1964 • His portly hard middle hung over with a shirt illustrated with pineapples —Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March, 1953 • Mr. Tracey illustrates, with recordings, how drums are used for different purposes —London Calling, 18 Feb. 1954 Illustrate may occasionally be used with from to suggest a different relation: • ... then proceeded to discuss and illustrate these apophthegms from his own knowledge of books — Gilbert Highet, The Classical Tradition, 1949 The use of illustrate with these prepositions will most often call for the verb to be a past participle; however, as the Highet and London Calling examples above show, there are instances using other verb forms. |
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