| 词组 | immure |
| 释义 | immure When used with a preposition, immure is most often found with in. Immure is most commonly found in the form of the past participle, although occasionally other forms are found: • ... one cannot immure himself in an ivory tower — Gerald W. Johnson, New Republic, 14 Mar. 1955 • ... immured in the deep, dark, stony bowels of a pyramid —Walter de la Mare, Encounter, December 1954 • ... to be immured from birth in an unbreakable circle of private experience —Times Literary Supp., 8 Oct. 1954 In the same relation immure is used less frequently with behind or within: • ... accretion of objects ... behind which he seems to immure himself in order to feel at ease —Janet Flanner, New Yorker, 9 Mar. 1957 • He immured himself so closely within the walls of the old theocratic temple —Vernon Louis Parring-ton, Main Currents in American Thought, 1927 In other relations, immure has been used occasionally with at, against, and with: • ... she was taken off and immured at La Roche — Sir Basil Thomson, The Mystery of the French Milliner, 1937 • She is as wary of good fortune as she is immured against the bad —Walker Percy, The Moviegoer, 1961 • ... in the dingy office on lower Sixth Avenue where I daily immured myself with an intractable typewriter —S. J. Perelman, New Yorker, 1 Jan. 1972 |
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